My rating is 4/10
My rating is 4/10!
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GOD IS LOVE
I'm curious as to why it's a 4/10 for you.
Can't stop the signal.
because that is her or her opinion a simple fact you cannot seem to wrap you big dumb head around.
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Shh. Adults are talking.
Can't stop the signal.
Thank you, Rinzzler, for saying the same thing I keep thinking. It doesn't make someone dumb and an imbecile with no taste just because they don't find this movie interesting. 4/10 was my rating, too. It just didn't feel like the plot was able to really carry itself well for the full time it ran. I found it interesting, but not scary.
Applause for you, my friend!
I am with you, although my rating will be a little bit higher than a 4. I haven't fully decided but probably a 6 or 7.
I'm going to give it some points for being such an old film and either being the 'first' to do certain things, or among the first. The 'first' (or close) horror film...the 'first' (or close) twist ending...the first (or close) Expressionist film. For those reasons, I think it deserves a few nods it wouldn't get if the same exact film was made in, say, 1950.
Having said that...the film itself is not the greatest thing ever, I agree with you. I can't see me watching this again. Maybe 10 years down the road, idk. But I can't imagine me on a rainy day saying "man I really want to fire up Caligari right now!" It's just not that gripping of a film. Important, sure. Groundbreaking - perhaps. Great theater/drama? No. I'm glad I saw it, but that's about it. (As opposed to, say, "Nosferatu" - I can watch that over and over.)
Caligari was done too much like a play, in fact it felt like that's what it was. Not just with the 'acts' but the sets/scenery. Yes I know they were going for the Expressionist style, but it was also incredibly and unbelievably cheap, it could have been a high school play, it was so bare-bones. And there was a plot hole to me before the 'twist ending' - I couldn't figure out why this one character was the only one who recognized that the director was Caligari - wasn't the whole town going to the fair? Surely someone else would have recognized him too. He was out there on the platform yelling to the crowd. And how did he carry out his dastardly plot when the fair was in other towns? Did he travel around with the fair and take long leaves of absence all summer? Or did he just suddenly insert himself into the 'lineup' when the fair came to this town? I was asking myself how all of this was possible when the 'twist ending' suddenly appeared on screen, making me then say 'oh so maybe that's why this wouldn't make sense' lol.