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It's not that bad

posted 16 years ago by mmw-2
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Given the era and budget, it was surprisingly interesting. Not a lot of CGI (none, of course) and not a non-linear plot (i.e., Michael didn't suddenly attack her in the last 3 minutes, etc.). Evaluated against 2008 movies, it might rank very low ... or not.

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[–] stargazer1701-1 15 years ago

This film was brilliant. By the way, I love your name…. ReVerse_OsmOsis. My imput to this conversation is…

1)When spending a night in the woods, take a knife It’s what campers do in real life.

2)Visiting an old friend that you haven’t seen in years is exactly what friends do in real life.

Smoke me a kipper. I’ll be back for breakfast

[–] chet19 14 years ago

It's not a terrible film. Starts off too slow, and too many upbeat love songs thrown in over long hiking montages. It does pick up and you start to get the creeps as soon as the baddies show up.
But, the ending leaves you scratching your head. No revenge. No pent-up rage coming forth. Bad guy #1 got pushed into the mud. Bad guy #2 got his leg cut. Huh? Where's the justice??

[–] Moondrop_C 14 years ago

It's not a terrible film. Starts off too slow, and too many upbeat love songs thrown in over long hiking montages. It does pick up and you start to get the creeps as soon as the baddies show up.
But, the ending leaves you scratching your head. No revenge. No pent-up rage coming forth. Bad guy #1 got pushed into the mud. Bad guy #2 got his leg cut. Huh? Where's the justice??

Not a great film either. :) The music...ugh. I'd downloaded this from archive.org, IIRC, and played those montages at double and triple speed to get past them and even *that* didn't make that awful 70s music bearable.

The ending makes me wonder what on earth they were going for. If it was supposed to be a revenge flick (I Spit On Your Grave, Last House on the Left, even Straightheads, etc.) it certainly got it wrong.

If it was supposed to be a love story, why'd we need the drooling hillbillies?

If it was supposed to be an anti-violence movie, the new boyfriend didn't get violent enough to learn a lesson about it.

Re: the poster who said that people visit their friends, blah, blah, blah. They don't usually show up unannounced, especially when they haven't seen the friend in question in who knows how long and don't know if he's even still alive. It wouldn't have been out of line to contact him first and make sure he was still out there. 'Course, since they wrote him off the grid, getting in touch with him would have made the movie even longer, and those hiking scenes were certainly long enough.

Felt like I was watching the worst possible outcome of the Brady Bunch episode where they went to the Grand Canyon.

[–] FascistAnarchist999 10 years ago

70's music was a lot better than the stupid rap crap in movies nowadays.

[–] BruceLi19 8 years ago

Dis moovie was g reat.

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[–] Xcalat3 14 years ago

The whole plot and the way the story unfolded was terribly done. That guy in the store basically saying "You HAVE to take this knife here or you'll be in trouble". Down to the whole idea of 'Let's go see our friend, who we haven't seen in years, having no idea if he even still lives where he lives, and he lives in the middle of the woods!'. Just plain bad.

indeed

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[–] Boats_Gilhooley 10 years ago

Do even realize the utter inanity of saying "not a lot of cgi" in a film made maybe 20 years before there was ANY cgi?

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement. FZ

[–] nxgn_not_not 7 years ago

so so so there 4 u

witch is why this & so so so nyo
manny manny more need remakes

if this had the advantages of CGI & nyo
stuff

this coulda been huge
YYYyuuuuuugh

o & hootie is so so so hawt

Xo - - 0X