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Complete trash

posted 18 years ago by eye-sea
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Ever since Blair Witch Project, movies with little or no plot use a documentary style to fill up the 1 and a half hours they're given by the film company.

This piece of trash is no exception. It starts off well - the first five minutes - drops into this very tiresome documentary mode, full of crap interviews, laced with painfully unfunny "humour" and "wit".

Avoid it, it's awful. I couldn't get passed twenty minutes without whizzing through to the end, occasionally catching glimpses of it, until the end.

Dire. Zero.

[–] StickySixx 17 years ago

I'd respect your opinion, even if I disagreed w/ it, if you had at least WATCHED the whole movie. "Occasionally catching glimpses as you whiz through it" does not qualify as an informed opinion. Just sayin'......

[–] mthecw 17 years ago

I mostly agree. However, it's not just pseudo-documentary style "horror" films that are trash... It's modern "horror" films in general. Half-assed "suspense" does not make a thriller or horror film.

Sure, there are plenty of movies with little to no plot that I like... New York Ripper, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, Lizard in a Woman's Skin, Blood Feast or far too many exploitation, gore, giallo, mondo or horror films to count.

I watch a full movie before I judge it... This movie makes me want to rethink that process.

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[–] Sword30 13 years ago

"The guy hosting the documentary is annoying enough with what sounds like a fake British accent."

I just wanted to mention that the character, Albert Bodine (reporter), is played by actor Cary Elwes, who was born and raised in London until he was in his 20's.