On 05/30/2013 02:09 PM, Duveyoung wrote: > I watch so many of these films with "this ending." Hard to suggest that it > should be watched unless I know the person enough to firstly see if they've > acquired the taste for this OMG-what-if genre. > > But yeah, nicely done flick, and it handles the "why don't the white people > leave the house when shit like this is coming down?" issue pretty well -- for > my needs. I don't like to suspend too much disbelief in these paranormal > fictions.
The film I didn't like along this genre was "Sinister" a project in which these folks were also involved. I didn't find it scary at all. The opinion was really split on whether it was scary or not. I rent these films because they are only $1 for the DVD or $1.50 for the BD and I have 11 kiosks within 2 miles so I can usually always find a copy. I dropped my disc subscription from Netflix because to get a good deal out it you literally had to watch the disc the night it came and return it the following day. Many of the more obscure titles eventually made their way to their streaming service anyway. And I often get a coupon for a discount at Redbox and sometimes even a freebie. I find Asian supernatural films more satisfying. They often deal well with the cultural lore of the occult which US films do poorly (since we don't have much of a culture of that I guess). Indian films however are a bit lacking in the genre. I suspect some avoided my post "The World's End" because they probably thought it was about the end of the world. Of course it was the name of a pub some guys set off to visit in the UK. And it is also the title of the comedy about that made by the same folks who made "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz". And it has it's sci-fi elements too as can be seen from the trailer. i will be watching to see if Roland Emmerich's "White House Down" is a hoot for audiences or not and how bad is "World War Z" since it has been in the news lately as a train wreck production. One or both might be "renters". Oh well, better that sitting around reading the Gita over and over again by candlelight. :-D > > > OTOH, Cabin In The Woods should've rattled me out of the immersion we seek in > film with its wild-ass impossibilities-until-the-core-secret-is-revealed, but > it used other tools to make one "forgive" the "liberties taken" that were > effective also. > > And, John Dies In The End fits right in with the above -- well done but ya > gotta love the conceits to stay inside the film's POV. > > Edg > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: >> The movie "Dark Skies" is now available on video. I rented it on Bluray >> and watched it last night. It's about a family who find strange going >> ons in their house. This is NOT one of those "found footage" movies >> though the producers did make the first Paranormal Activity movie. They >> opted for a narrative and even mentioned in the commentary they found it >> easier to do a traditional narrative than a "found footage" film. It >> features Keri Russell playing the mom and I kept wondering why she >> didn't contact her KGB handler for an answer to what was going on (fans >> here of FX's "The Americans" will know what I mean). The film is rated >> PG-13 though probably too scary for Buck. I liked the film and thought >> it was well done in spite of the PG-13 rating. >> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2387433/ >> > >
