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Agreed. I think the part was tailor-made for Logan Marshall-Green. He finally had a character with a legitimate reason to be rude and disagreeable. I liked the movie overall. It had a realistic-bent imo but not a mundane realism and some of the twists were welcome and new.
Lol. I noticed that too. Even the game where Dodd gets checkmated sounds improbable and the type of game played by patzers.
I agree with you which is a shame since I liked the use of chess in the plot and characterization of both characters. Too bad the actual chess was bs.
I preferred Saw II. I had a dislike for Saw when it first came out as I had just seen Se7en on dvd and I thought it a weaker treatment of a similar idea but I've come around to think that Saw 1 is decent to good. I don't think Saw 1 is some powerhouse but it has a cool structure and mystery element to it and I liked Danny Glover.
I like the films as well for this reason as well as Josh Stewart's Arkin.
Kill someone with only one witness and no cameras. Lawyer up or plead the fifth and wait for the witness to die from the curse.
I saw Never Sleep Again and it seems that Wes Craven's intent in 1 was for it all or mostly all to have been a dream (meaning no one died). They also based 3 off of Wes Craven's script and by that point Wes was going with everything up until the Mom being burned in her bed as being real. As a horror fan I would on my own interpret everything up until the mom dying as being real and the part where the Dad goes back downstairs as the start of Nancy finally from exhaustion and beginning to dream. The part where the Dad decides to leave the room feels too surreal to be real imo.
Michael Eklund
When Rose listens to the recording you can hear the demon whispering "Rose" so if that wasn't a hallucination while she had the headphones on I take it as a clue that the demon has some influence over the watcher before the suicide takes place.
Definitely. I 100% agree with you
Only Holloway was cringe in my opinion but it might have been intentional in-universe as her character was supposed to be a loner conspiracist type.
She was in one of the best New Outer Limits episodes titled "Quality of Mercy." The episode was somewhat like Cube. Anyways I liked her acting there and in Cube.
I remember being worried for Richie when he takes Tedzu's granddaughter into the barn but it turns out that their supernatural abilities were quite limited and the scene with the daughter's super-hearing was more for eerie atmoshere purposes imo. Also if they were that overpowered then they wouldn't have been huddling together all scared after she shot a hole in Billy's hand while Billy was cursing the camp.
I'm not sure if I'd compare this to the all-time great Cube (1997) but I think I prefer the melodrama in this film as it would have been a worse final product if played straight imo. The melodrama (particularly the way many of his friends and loved ones are unsupportive) makes the atmosphere more urgent, sinister and surreal to me. For similar reasons I also like Silver Bullet.
I think this detail might have been what test audiences hated and so the ending was changed. I also think that killing Richie would have been bad for the Romany since he was mob and that would not have been the end of it and would have made things worse for them.
I thought about this too. I came to the conclusion that the driver was on the mob's payroll and knew what he was delivering and to whom. He just looked the other way similar to the drivers who got carjacked in Goodfellas and were in on it.
In any case I liked the detail due to the surreal quality it adds to the rest of the movie.
I think it was indeed elevated. It also felt cautionary and fatalistic almost like a New Outer Limits episode.
The idea of her taking an antipsychotic like she asks for at the beginning was an interesting angle in my opinion. I would like to have seen if the demon could overcome the sedative and antiaggression effects of such a medication or if it would have been like Freddy Krueger versus hypnocil. It also makes me think she'd have had a better chance being committed and sedated by her supervisor.
I've seen this film more times than I can count but I recently have ascribed to the Quentin-was-really-a-prisoner theory. He knew who Wren was and he was proud of his ability to size someone up in an instant which is skill that seasoned prisoners are supposed to have.