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(Spoilers) So, when you found out what happened to Diane...

posted 9 years ago by ashleybrownmedia
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...Was anyone a little underwhelmed?

Don't get me wrong, being buried alive must be awful, but throughout the film there was so much intrigue and suspense generated that I really thought there was going to be some really unusual, mind-twisting fate.

When Jeff Bridges kept mentioning that romance should be secret I even thought that he was keeping her there as some kind of secret mistress.

Also Rita kicked ass, as many had said if Jeff had got her to help earlier on all would have been sorted!

[–] Synthia7 9 years ago

I expected Diane to be a kept mistress as well. I half expected her to be still alive in a romance dungeon.

But being buried alive is a terrible way to go.

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[–] SoAudreyHepburn 9 years ago

No I don't think that it was underwhelemed, as the others said it was a sick, twisted and cruel way to be murdered. To know that you are trapped, buried alive in a coffin without any way to escape or to let your boyfriend know what happened.

[–] justKryptonite 9 years ago

Yeah I was left feeling like it could have used a twist. It would have been super cheesy but so was Rita! The evil dude was into playing it up as if it was something that the boyfriend wouldn't understand and then all it was was that he murdered her. So basiclly the bad guy thought Jeff was a complete and total moron.

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 7 years ago

No I wasn't underwhelmed. Being buried alive is one of the worst things to happen to a person.

[–] Faridah (1325) 5 years ago

I agree that I also thought she was being kept prisoner for his own twisted mind. I was shocked her was killed.

[–] Trev (850) 4 years ago

See that's the thing right... She was killed. Yet Barney made this whole big thing about what he did was worse than killing her, worse than murder... Yeah no though.. you just buried her alive, which is killing her / murdering her. lol.

[–] Wuchak (8077) 5 years ago

The 1988 movie ends on a decidedly downbeat note. And this is why I appreciate the newer 1993 version (both done by the same director): While it is also downbeat, and evil wins to a point, the changes in the final act show good triumphing over evil, not to mention perseverance over intellect and love over absence of love. The subtext is all about freewill – (1) freewill to kill for no good reason and (2) freewill to kill for good when absolutely necessary. The theme of the 1988 movie is limited in that it drives home the first point whereas this 1993 version drives home both, and is the better for it.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5947) 2 years ago

The '88 version seems to have higher ratings. Wonder why that is.

[–] Wuchak (8077) 2 years ago

No doubt because it's the original version (whereas the American remake came out five years later and seemed old hat by that point). And perhaps because it's more nihilistic, as Euro versions usually are.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5947) 2 years ago

Just watched (on youtube) the Siskel & Ebert review of the two. Wow are they ever in favor of the original.

[–] Shibez (887) 3 years ago

I first saw this when I was like 8 and it always stuck with me...being buried alive... there's just something super creepy about it.