[quote]Natural Nate wrote:
Hills is something we haven’t seen in a long time:
A bloodbath with a good script. A damn good script. I’m serious.[/quote]
You must be joking. A bloodbath, yes. The pickaxes and the “flaming Tree of Woe” were a very nice touch. A damn good script? Please. That was one of the stupidest scripts I’ve ever had to sit through. The script was so bad it made watching the movie a chore. The movie WAS NOT scary. The movie seemed to get it’s jollies from torturing the audience. It was like watching violence porn or something.
Usually you count on the stupidity of the characters to get them into the predicaments that cause their demise, but even for a horror movie this takes the cake. I mean the level of stupidity of this family was epic - especially if you consider the fact that the father was a 15 year detective police veteran - and he’s going to take directions from some sketchball? Please.
Everything from there on was pretty much an insult to the intelligence. And, as a horror film junkie, I’m setting a pretty low bar for the characters’ intelligence to begin with. But this movie was just ludicrously stupid. I mean, you could see the shit coming a mile away.
It was so fucking stupid that it killed any suspense that the death scenes had. Sure they were gory as hell and generally well done. But they weren’t scary at all. Not good, and IMHO a complete failure as a movie.
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1st act has your usual mood setting but also some good characterization.[/quote]
Dude, not even. The characterization is paper thin. Hell, half the characters don’t even last long enough to get “characterized”. It’s one long testament to how stupid and cowardly people can be, if that’s what you call characterization.
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It’s incredibly violent, of course. And has your usual “scare” moments when the soundtrack suddenly spikes. But it isn’t as bad as with other movies (The Grudge, etc.)[/quote]
This movie is not scary at all. It is very violent and the degree of the graphicness in some of the death scenes is very disturbing - but it’s not scary. The director seemed to have forgotten that.
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Here’s where it gets interesting. I actually started to care about the characters. I was actually rooting for someone. [/quote]
I was cheering for the pansy son and the dickwad son-in-law to die already so the interminable movie would end.
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I can honestly count the number of times this has happened to me with a movie on one hand.[/quote]
Dude, you need to watch more movies if you actually thought this movie was well made.
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So go see this movie.[/quote]
Don’t waste your money. Go see V for Vendetta when it comes out this week instead. Wait for it on DVD. Nah, wait for it to come out on cable.
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If you’ve got kids, bring them too. They need to be desensitized at some point.[/quote]
Now, you’re talking!! This movie needed some fucking chainsaws!!