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That Phonebooth was awesome doesn't mean this will be any good. It could just rape the memory of that fine film and totally sully it's name by comparing itself to it.
@HD - when I watched Event Horizon the first time it was at home VHS, and it totally freaked me out. One of my favourite s-f films ever. I'm envious you went to the movies to see it.
DEVIL - New M. Night Shaymalalama film What's the twist this time?
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 12:19 PM
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 02:15 AM
H.D., on 01 September 2010 - 09:18 AM, said:
Sixth Sense = Awesome.
Unbreakable = Good.
Signs = Waaaaaaaa? Awesome until the end.
Weird water movie = ???????
The Village = I liked it. And still do.
Tha Happening = Bad vibrations: come on, come on , come on!
Unbreakable = Good.
Signs = Waaaaaaaa? Awesome until the end.
Weird water movie = ???????
The Village = I liked it. And still do.
Tha Happening = Bad vibrations: come on, come on , come on!
Ask yourself this...is The Sixth Sense awesome upon a re-watch? Answer: Nope. It becomes a meandering mess with static ten minute conversation shots...and when you know the twist the movie is BOR-fucking-ING.
M. Night's fave thing to do is set up the camera on a tripod twenty feet from his actors and let it roll while they jibber jabber....it's effing annoying and nearly makes me as mad as Paul Anderson's (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) long half hour tracking shots. Fuck, filmmakers need to stop screwing with pretentious camera tricks and give us GOOD films again. Sigh.
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 02:30 AM
I enjoyed The Sixth Sense during a rewatch. The little kid seeing ghosts is terrifying at times.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 02:32 AM
H.D., on 02 September 2010 - 02:30 AM, said:
I enjoyed The Sixth Sense during a rewatch. The little kid seeing ghosts is terrifying at times.
Meh. For me it really takes away to know the twist in that film....juxtaposed against something like Fight Club where knowing the twist makes it all the more awesome. To each their own I guess.
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 05:34 AM
Well, Fight Club is a whole clase above 6th Sense.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 03 September 2010 - 10:29 AM
Sigh.....and the third of this new trilogy that starts with DEVIL.....is UNBREAKABLE 2? Double sigh. I take back what I said about M.Night's involvement.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46377
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46377
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Posted 09 September 2010 - 06:38 PM
QuickTidal, on 31 August 2010 - 09:28 PM, said:
Let's be more clear here.
This is based on a STORY by M. Night....it's written by Brian Nelson (the guy co-wrote Hard Candy and 30 Days Of Night), and directed by John Erick Dowdle (who directed Quarantine)...making it have nothing in common with an M. Night film....he is only producer and likely gets a story credit. That's it. Which gives me hope it could be good as it WON'T be an M. Night film....a man whose films I have officially sworn off.
Apt, you might want to amend the title as it's not a new M. Night Shaymalan film.
That said. The elevator beeps that are pretty much the only sound as the end of the trailer plays are nicely creepy.
This is based on a STORY by M. Night....it's written by Brian Nelson (the guy co-wrote Hard Candy and 30 Days Of Night), and directed by John Erick Dowdle (who directed Quarantine)...making it have nothing in common with an M. Night film....he is only producer and likely gets a story credit. That's it. Which gives me hope it could be good as it WON'T be an M. Night film....a man whose films I have officially sworn off.
Apt, you might want to amend the title as it's not a new M. Night Shaymalan film.
That said. The elevator beeps that are pretty much the only sound as the end of the trailer plays are nicely creepy.
Brian Nelson: Good
Dowdle: Meh
M. Night. Shamlamalama ding dong: Horrible!
So this movie should be at least Meh, if Good and Horrible! cancel each other out...right?
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