Warner's ruining horror spree.

There was a time I used to look forward to a Warner Bros Horror film. Those days are over. I should have known after One Missed Call that their spree of messing up horror had begun. The best I can hope for is generally from Dreamworks, Lionsgate or IFC.

After watching The Apparition disaster I decided to see The Rite thinking you can't go wrong with Anthony Hopkins. I was wrong. The movie looks great and was shot well, the director and performances were great, but the script was lacking in innovation. We don't need to see this story told this way again (especially from Warner's). I rated this 4 stars, all of them for Anthony Hopkins but then again, he could turn an order off the McDonald's dollar menu in to an Oscar winning performance!

Wasted
I just think the location and actors were wasted. The journalist was not used to her full potential. The school Michael was in. And Father Lucas' exorcisms. I like that they kept the vfx to a minimum, but they could have built more in to the characters.

Please Warner, there are plenty of writers with original, innovative ideas, please take the time to option material that will please the audience. Robert Shaye, please remember your roots, y'all were fine before you got involved with WB. now look at you. I love horror films and I've seen far too many indie films with great concepts that suffer because of low budgets, and then I see something like those multi-million dollar circle jerks The Apparition or One Missed Call and it makes me sick.

And in the immortal words of Julianne Moore: "Shame on you, shame on both of you."