Did anyone else happen to see this film? I am eager to hear what others have thought about this movie.

When I rented it last night, the guy at Blockbuster said, "I want to give you advance warning, this movie sucked." Which I would have appreciated had the advanced warning come prior to me paying and walking out the door.

So I watch the movie thinking it is going to suck. Well to my delight I happened to enjoy it very much.

It is different, but then again arent all indies? The film is pretty scary and based loosely on a true event.

The film is relatively short, I believe only like 80+ minutes but had it been any longer the film would have ventured into the boring stage, the writer knew exactly when to end the movie.

But don't watch the movie as a shark movie like the advertisements want you to believe it is. There are sharks but that is not the MAIN focus of the film.

This movie, IMO, was very well done and kept me on the edge of my seat.

I get the impression that a lot of my fellow forum denizens have seen this series of films.

Can someone explain to me whether they view these three films as having any real continuity? Didn't Ash burn the Necronomicon at the end of the first film? If so, why is it there in the second film? Also, why would he go back to the cabin?

At the end of EVIL DEAD II, didn't one of the other characters read from the book? If so, why does ARMY OF DARKNESS show Ash reading from it?

Just a few of my questions.

Sean

On a previous thread, someone threw out that Sister Act 2 was a bad sequel. That got me to thinking- what funny people does everyone not find funny? I'm pretty sure Jim Carey is going to get a lot of votes, but let's dig deeper, get to the core of the issue (I happen to like Jim myself). Here's my meager list:

Whoopie Goldberg- she's weaved a magic spell over America and to paraphrase Sam Kinison, "It's like everybody in America agreed not to hurt her feelings."

Fred Willard- he's the comedic equivalent to naked pictures of my grandmother, POST mordem.

Lisa Kudrow- I'm not that familiar with her career outside of Friends, but I thought Phoebe was just annoying.

Pauly Shore- C'mon, that was easy, buuuddy.

Eddie Murphy- Sadly, he's not for adults anymore...

Yakov Smirnoff- Whoa. Where'd that name come from?

Bob Hope- Sorry, I can't remember laughing. Ever (maybe it's a generational thing).

Rasalom uses anagrams when he changes his identity. He appeared as Sara Lom and Jack seemed to not catch on to the anagram (I am willing to bet this has been discussed in the past).
Well, in CrissCross, the name Maria Roselli seemed to have a lot of familiar letters. This is what I came up with:

I Rasalom lier

It is as if he is saying that Maria is really Rasalom, and that he is a liar. And I guess a really bad speller, too.
I was reading too much into this I know, but did anyone else play around with this?

EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) is the means by which the dead communicate with the living. By using the white noise from every day electronics such as television, radio, or while watching this film, A giant yawn the living can hear the voices of those that have passed on.

The theory is interesting, and I had read a lot about this (Interesting one has the voices of the dead communicating through a krupps coffee maker on Maryland's Eastern Shore)

The problem with EVP is that when listening to recordings, any noise can be a voice. And the minute you think you know what is being said you tell someone, "Listen to this, the voice says 'behind you', it's right here." Then of course everyone is listening for the words "behind you" and lo and behold they hear it because they are now open to the power of suggestion.

According to the commercials, the voices of the dead are all around us. Well I find it hard to believe that none of them attempted to communicate to me to stay away from this piece of shit.

It makes the Exorcist 4 seem like an Academy award winner. I wasn't expecting much from it honestly, and good damn thing because that is exactly what I got. Nothing.

It isn't scary, it tries to be atmospheric like The Ring but only manages to pull off one good scare and it is a cheap shot that the viewer sees coming from a mile away and it only causes a jump because seconds before it happens the viewer gives the director too much credit. (Surely he won't put a jump scare here, it is too obvious.)

Another thing the dead need to divulge is why they sent Michael Keaton back from their side. Clearly his career as of late could have spoken through my dishwasher,so why did he choose this vehicle to break his hiatus?

He sleepwalks his way through this film and has a range of emotion equal only to a can of EZ CHEEZE. I never considered him a great actor, but clearly he has some bills to pay.

The setup of this little yarn is cliche and again we see it from the moment the opening credits end and the movie begins. His wife dies and lo and behold he starts hearing her through his tv, radio, phone, computer...etc.

I can't divulge too much about this turd in a film can, not because of the abundant twists and turns but because I sat through the 1 hour and 43 minute running time and cannot make heads or tails out of what it was that I had seen. Even now, two days after seeing it I am still unsure if I even saw the movie.

It has some twists and turns, but none that make any sense and by the climax the writer has thrown so much bullshit at us that he himself realizes that he cannot figure out how to end the film and so he just does. No explanations, no resolution, a half-assed attempt at a twist and Lord only knows what the last ten seconds of the film was about.

Do yourself a favor and skip this one. Do others a favor and tell them to do the same. I will do myself a favor and get a labotomy because that is the only way I will stop trying to make sense of this movie.

Tony (AsMoral as Gene Siskel, only...alive.)

This thread is from a tangent discussion in the EQUILIBRIUM thread -- which was a GREAT movie. You can read that thread and see how we got into this discussion, but so far people have listed the following as sequels that should never have been made:

The Hidden 2
Highlander 2
Species 2
The Sting 2
Ghostbusters 2
Caddyshack 2
Indiana Jones 2 (Temple of Doom)

I think I got them all.

I'm interested in additional comments and nominees for the list!

Sean

In the last chapter of Reprisal FPW is telling the story of Lisl driving herself home and then he jumps to a paragraph about Gleaken and how he likes Jack because jack is a warrior. No where else in the book is jack mentioned. After this short paragraph FPW jumps back to Lisl but she has arrived home. Did anyone else notice this?...I have not read Nightworld though I am starting it tonight so this might be explained in there.

Is there really a mistake in the book?

See chapter 30...about 8 paragraphs in...

As of one day ago, the other baddest-assed Jack on the planet is back in action, shouting, shooting and being violently sane in an insane world.

I apologize in advance if this has been discussed before.

Does Jack have a last name? In Hunted Air, they said Kate's last name is Irving, but is it her last name or the last name of her ex-husband?

Thoughts, comments, concerns?

I found out this site.

http://homepage1.nifty.com/ta/sfw/wilsonfp.htm



This is FPW's books list in Japan. Still, I'm searching for FPW's short stories, but his short stories were published in anthology books. So those stories are hard to find....

Slasher
Face
Dreams
To fill the sea and air

Those stories are included in Barrens and Others? Do you have plan to publish it in Japan?