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The Believers *meh spoilers* - GeraldRice - 06-23-2008
From one of the minds that brought you "The Blair Witch Project" this movie has "surprise twist ending" written all over it. It's not bad acted, or directed or written, it just *isn't* what it wanted to be. [SPOILER]For the ending to have the punch Daniel Myrick wanted it to, let's just say he should have made it before Frailty.[/SPOILER] Trust me, in the first ten minutes you will know exactly how the movie will end.
My other complaint is what exactly is this movie trying to be? It's not horror as there's nothing horrific in it. The "bad guys" are generally nice, peace-loving people, a little inattentive, but accomodating and the head baddie has severe allergies and doesn't like contact with people. If they don't know they are bad, how am I supposed to know?
The Believers *meh spoilers* - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 06-23-2008
GeraldRice Wrote:From one of the minds that brought you "The Blair Witch Project" this movie has "surprise twist ending" written all over it. It's not bad acted, or directed or written, it just *isn't* what it wanted to be. [SPOILER]For the ending to have the punch Daniel Myrick wanted it to, let's just say he should have made it before Frailty.[/SPOILER] Trust me, in the first ten minutes you will know exactly how the movie will end.
My other complaint is what exactly is this movie trying to be? It's not horror as there's nothing horrific in it. The "bad guys" are generally nice, peace-loving people, a little inattentive, but accomodating and the head baddie has severe allergies and doesn't like contact with people. If they don't know they are bad, how am I supposed to know?
Well, Gerald, maybe the writer(s) and director were making a subtle post-phenomenonological existentialist point: the viewer pays the coin and enters the theater with the expectation of seeing some cool bad guys. When the characters onscreen turn out to be not-so-bad at all, he's disappointed.
So who's the real bad guy here?
(And Gerald, if =you= can sling some plausible happy-horseshit like the above, =please= share it with the gang!:xd:
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The Believers *meh spoilers* - GeraldRice - 06-23-2008
Lessee, perhaps they were going for the horror that would go on in one's mind after not seeing it being displayed onscreen. Yes, my mind did terrible things to itself anticipating something to happen. :Yawn:
The Believers *meh spoilers* - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 06-23-2008
GeraldRice Wrote:Lessee, perhaps they were going for the horror that would go on in one's mind after not seeing it being displayed onscreen. Yes, my mind did terrible things to itself anticipating something to happen. :Yawn:
Maybe "Why did I spend $10 on this nonsense when I could have been home pondering my grim fate? Where the popcorn's cheaper too?"
The Believers *meh spoilers* - phoenix rising - 06-23-2008
Seen many a movie like that. Happily not this particular one. Ghostship comes to mind though.......
The Believers *meh spoilers* - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 06-23-2008
phoenix rising Wrote:Seen many a movie like that. Happily not this particular one. Ghostship comes to mind though.......
GHOSTSHIP was a fine, spooky flick! Except for one unsolvable logic problem at the beginning...:nono:
The Believers *meh spoilers* - phoenix rising - 06-23-2008
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:GHOSTSHIP was a fine, spooky flick! Except for one unsolvable logic problem at the beginning...:nono:
Eh, logic shmogic....I had the plot twist figured out before the first ten minutes was up.
The Believers *meh spoilers* - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 06-23-2008
phoenix rising Wrote:Eh, logic shmogic....I had the plot twist figured out before the first ten minutes was up.
Well, that's natural, ain't it? Weren't you the First Mate aboard that hellbound ship?
The Believers *meh spoilers* - phoenix rising - 06-23-2008
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Well, that's natural, ain't it? Weren't you the First Mate aboard that hellbound ship?
That was supposed to be my little secret:crossedlips:
The Believers *meh spoilers* - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 06-23-2008
phoenix rising Wrote:That was supposed to be my little secret:crossedlips:
Oops!
