Kevin's Watch

Going to see this on Tuesday - I'd never even heard of it until yesterday. I'm trying not to raise my expectations as its been a while since I have seen a good monster film done well!

i thought it was agreat movie. (not a great film.) i thought it presented very well. i enjoyed the monster, the parasites. i enjoyed seeing a lot of NYC that i recognized. i loved the fact that not everything was explained. i loved the military being shown ina very positive light. the army guys are attacking this things with laws and machine guns? incredibly brave of them. i loved that it didn't turn out to be easily defeated.

F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

Cail wrote:F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

Haha. I loved that too! Same thing in No Country. The people walking out are priceless.

I saw an Austrian film called The Hotel one night at a film festival. Really good horror movie, which deliberately never explained itself, and ended very ambiguously. Loved it. I think I was the only one in the whole audience who did. On the way out, I overhead a million: "huh? I don't get it...that sucked," comments. I walked home feeling very smug and superior, contented in my film snobbishness, that night let me tell you.

Cail wrote:F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

I was warned that there would not be a traditional ending, and my wife, knowing I'm kind of traditional, worried that I might not like it. But this was so well done, I couldn't do anything but love it.

The ending fit with the motif. I mean, they presented the movie as a recovered recording. How else was it supposed to end? To do anything outside of the recording would have destroyed the film's premise.

i am sure a sequel will destroy the brilliant ending.

sgt.null wrote:i am sure a sequel will destroy the brilliant ending.

I pray to the Movie Gods that they don't make a sequel, even IF there IS talk about it.

I did hear some talk. At the scene on the bridge there is a moment when the cameraman captures another guy with a camera and thay stay on eachother for a second before moving on. If there is a sequel, then it would be a movie from the second cameraman's viewpoint.

Spoiler

the bridge scene i could not make out. do we see the brother die? i will have to rent this one when it comes out.

Mod edit-For the love of God, if you're going to spoil the film, use spoiler tags!

Spoilers, people. The ending has been revealed for me.

Montressor wrote:I walked home feeling very smug and superior, contented in my film snobbishness, that night let me tell you.

Why does that not surprise me?

Balon wrote:

Cail wrote:F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

Haha. I loved that too! Same thing in No Country. The people walking out are priceless.

I like to walk out of a movie making fun of the people who are making fun of the other people walking out, thinking they are priceless . . .

With so many opportunities for smug superiority, sometimes I can't decide who to make fun of next. Sometimes I even make fun of myself. That's the ultimate superiority high, when you're to cool for yourself.

I think that makes you the smuggest bastard ever, when you can look down at your own smugness.

Malik23 wrote:

Balon wrote:

Cail wrote:F*cking brilliant! Cailette and I loved it. It was even more fun making fun of the knuckleheads in the theater walking out halfway through, and the ones bitching about the "lame" ending.

Absolutely excellent.

Haha. I loved that too! Same thing in No Country. The people walking out are priceless.

I like to walk out of a movie making fun of the people who are making fun of the other people walking out, thinking they are priceless . . .

With so many opportunities for smug superiority, sometimes I can't decide who to make fun of next. Sometimes I even make fun of myself. That's the ultimate superiority high, when you're to cool for yourself.

I bow to your reposte, mighty one.

Malik23 wrote:

Montressor wrote:I walked home feeling very smug and superior, contented in my film snobbishness, that night let me tell you.

Why does that not surprise me?

I hope you felt some smug satisfaction with that.

sgt.null wrote:i thought it was agreat movie. (not a great film.)

Okay, I let this go for 4 days now, hoping someone would come along and explain this. So, I'm asking you, in this context, what's the difference between a folm and a movie?

I've seen the previews and I don't think I can stomach the shakiness of the film. I hated the Blair Witch Project for the same reason. There is no excuse for anyone to film that shaky.

So sayeth the Camera Wielding Jenn!

I think the "shakyness" thing is part of the film's marketing. It looks exactly like it should look (like a half-drunk halfwit is holding a cheap camcorder as he is running through NYC while a giant monster destroys the city).