So I went to the theaters to set the Christmas mood with a scary movie only to be disappointed by the poor excuse for a film "Darkness". I have been eyeing the commercials of it and had wanted to see it for awhile, but it doesn't live up to anything. In fact the movie was so terrible as the film ended young adults bellowed out their opinions in the form of booing ,and " That movie sucked" , " That’s the worst movie I have ever seen." It is rare for me to find people without searching to agree with me that a movie is bitterly horrible.
I will admit that it did have a good story-line along with it but it was entirely drawn out to the point of annoyance and the worst part was the ending. It was one of those endings that came all the sudden while you think you are in the middle of the movie. The "Ghosts" and sorts don't show up until the near end of the movie. The actors played their parts well so I blame the director and story writers fully for helping me waste $5.00 and 116 minutes of my time. I chose to watch "Darkness" over "Blade:Trinity" because I thought I'd watch Blade after it comes out on DVD & VHS and I regret the decision. Normally when a movie is bad I would recommend putting it aside from the Movie Theaters to watch something good and wait for it to come on VHS but I even recommend just ignoring it entirely, just pass it by once you see it on the shelves.
Scary stories will have to make up for the movie tonight. I want some chills.
~Text/GL
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 Dec 25 2004, 5:25 pm
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I saw "Finding Neverland". It was actually pretty good :)
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Every single horror movie that has came out in the past five years have been horrible. Want to know why? Well, the answer is simple. We are running out of ideas! Ideas are being used over and over again! For example, the person far away in another house starring at you through a window, that has been used forty-something times in every single Holloween movie, and movies trying to do the same thing. It is just not scary anymore. Also, the whole "close the mirror/medicine cabinet draw in the bathroom to find a monster/enemy in the reflection of the mirror on the cabinet when it closes" bit. That has been used too many times and is so damn predictable. Also, the whole "friend putting his hand on my shoulder and only showing the hand making it look like an enemy with a split-second horror sound" bit is getting kind of old and I stopped jumping from that years ago.
It seems every horror movie is based around ghosts nowadays, and ghosts just are not scary anymore. I think "The Ring" had an awesome/original storyline (I know it was taken from a Japanese film, but please, work with me here) but it was played out horrible. The director did a horrible job. Freddy Krueger used to make me jump quite a few times, but they made about twelve movies starring him and it got so damn old and repetitive. Now they are starting to add lots and lots of humor to horror movies slowly turning it into a non-horror movie and more into a comedy, sort of like Freddy V.S. Jason. If you ask me, there are no more horror movie ideas left, and they should just stop trying.... | |
I'd be satisfied if more movies were advertised as action or drama with the supernatural just being an element. That's all I watch them for anyway.
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I think the best horror movie(s) would be one(s) that are realistic to the point that it makes you think about the way you act towards everything in general, and in the end leave you saying "Wow..." over and over again. Some psychological thrillers do this and some of them i would classify as horror movies as they scared me pretty badly
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This is why I watch foreign movies. If the movie is good enough to be translated in america, it's probably going to at least be a mediocre movie. Though, none of those huffy french movies. Formula 51 wasn't bad. Parasite Eve wasn't bad. I watched this one sci-fi japanese movie about a war between aliens that was pretty cool --turns out, humans were the cause of the war, not the aliens, as the film led you to believe. I also saw 28 days later, and this african movie about the apartheid that was really neat.
The funny thing about asian movies, the bad guy wears a white suit and has spiked up light coloured hair --usually has a chrome pistol, and a big pair of sunglasses on all the time too. Plus, if they lift up the glasses, they are missing an eye. =D. Parasite Eve was the first sci-fi movie I'd ever heard the word "uterus" used in... Odd, isn't it? | |
People said M nights shamalans(sp?) The Village was bad but I saw it and loved it man it's w/e floats your boat or flied your kite or w/e. Some people like different movies.
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Repiv wrote:
I've been hearing bad reviews for Darkness for a long time, so I steered clear of it. Hah, the sad part is the advertisments for the movie.. "Cridicts Love it, Made me jump out of my seat, Best Horror film ever". I wonder if they were given somthing to smoke while watching the film. You should have seen The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It is a great movie. I might do that. | |
GokuDBZ3128 wrote:
Every single horror movie that has came out in the past five years have been horrible. I liked The Others. eXistenz was a great movie too IMO, although never widely advertised and im not sure I'd call it horror. The Ring (original japanese version, have never seen the crapified American version and don't have any plan to) was nice. | |
I liked the Freddy Movies, tho they were kinda budget, but they had some Funny and parts that grossed me out. I do agree they became repetitive, But the NExt one called Freddy vs Jason vs Ash should be a interesting one.
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Any ghost movie scares me, because it beats on my phobias, though I think the problem is people who make the movies don't know what scares an audience.
The best way to test this, is WITHOUT ANY VISUALS OR AUDIO AT ALL, read the story. If the story sends shivers down your spine rapidly, then you have yourself a good horror movie, as long as it has a good director. Visuals usually make me laugh hysterically. They make me jump, and I automatically start laughing. "Situations" and "ideas" are what gets you. The scariest movie I have ever seen, wasn't actually a horror movie, but it had an extremely scary situation: The Butterfly Effect. It kept me on the edge of my seat thinking "I hope he survives", and that one kid in the movie was one helluva lot scarier and evil-looking than any horror movie character. I haven't seen "Saw," but I'm thinking it will be a great horror movie released recently, but I think I heard that it was on the verge of becoming a classic, but bad acting or a few plot holes blocked it out. | |
I agree, The Butterfly Effect was... well, perhaps not scary as such (at least for me), but certainly very disturbing. The things he does, knowing that if he pulls them off it won't matter how he did them... not to mention the way he went into seizures and had blood pouring out of his noise whenever he changed something... ewww. That has to be right up there amongst the most disturbing movies of all time. Great writing, though.
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Did you ever notice it was PG-13? It wasn't expected to be scarey; It's a movie for the 13 year olds to go see and get scared. :/
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You should have seen The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It is a great movie.