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Are you all serious?

posted 19 years ago by oroonocross
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This was a lame movie with no continuity, no direction, no heart, and no fear. I laughed my way through this atrocious mess of stereotypes, cheap camera tricks, and ambiguous plot twists while qouting lines from E.T. and Almost Famous. Evidence of the poor production values can be seen in the story that makes no sense, the title that has nothing to do with the movie, and the ending that was a mess of cliches. Even Patrick Fugit comment that the plot made no sense. The entire production felt like a joyride thrown together by a bunch of Hollywood outsiders that wanted desperately to claim to "be in the movie business".

[–] jmbwithcats 19 years ago

Your trolling post I give a D.

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[–] toskisen 19 years ago

yeah

[–] jmbwithcats 19 years ago

I mean I respect the fact you wrote a well-articulated bashing, but I mean why did you even post? I tend to steer clear of the boards for movies I dislike, and engage in conversation with those for films i do like. Seems to be a good idea.

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[–] baahlzebub 19 years ago

Maybe it was so bad he had to tell everyone... Why do you have to write then?

[–] jmbwithcats 19 years ago

My intention is to engage in conversation with meaning. The kind that can go someplace. A bashing is really just an opinion on a closed circuit. It doesn't want a discussion, it wants to be heard.

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[–] reiki_david 19 years ago

I so much wanted to like this movie that I kinda-sorta *did* like it without engaging my brain...it was the atmoshphere that thrilled me rather than the lack of plot/charaterisation/logic, etc. - the Lovecraftian(?) overtones just thrilled me, mainly the shambling figure in the corn that may or may not be the lost friend of one of the gunfighters sticks in my mind as pure Culuthou (er, how do you spell it again?) ditto the scarecrow - and the guy shows HORROR whilst clutching the straw that has replaced his body...excellent. I take those experiances away with me and mark this as an enjoyable movie, just as I had with another mess that springs to mind, "Ravenous." That too seemed to have an over-inflated sense of its' own importance, yet contained two thrilling set pieces that made me say 'mmmkay, this provoked a reaction and therefore I enjoyed it.'

I waited until the credit's rolled before turning my brain back on.