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/
