God, why?

I liked this movie.

Just call me "Orange Lightning" ZA-ZA-ZA-ZING!

DUDE!!!
surously...i love Michael Bay hes flippin awesome at making movies so idk what the hell ur talking about

LOVE not war

Although this movie was lacking and is purely fictional, I think it's light-years better than the snooze-fest that is the original. I agree with Margot Kidder's assesment of the original film, it's a "dreadful movie".

I haven't seen this movie and I didn't know the ending, and then, in the first sentence, you spoiled it for me.

Thanks for the warning, by the way. The nonexistent warning you gave me.

Original poster clearly didn't pay attention in the movie, the little girl wasn't trying to kill off the new family, she was friends with the daughter, and thought the mother was a good mother. The bad things she did were due to the doctor in the basement, remember the daughter tells the mother "he makes her do bad things", and in one scene shes trying to warn Ryan Reynolds when he goes and finds the doll in the closet, but the doctor is holding her to the ceiling and she can't say anything, and at the end he pulls her through the floor.

And anyway, who cares about the original family, they're dead. This movie has no obligations to honour anyone's memories, it's a horror movie, not a documentary. We watch it to be scared, not to be educated.

I lack the knowldge of all the backstory behind this film and story. I never read the book, never watched the original, and never knew the story, but this movie was pathetic. Absolutely atrocious

They did it for the money. Oh, wait, now I remember. That's why they call it the movie biz. All movies are made to sell tickets, popcorn and sugar water (the obesity is free). Wait a minute. Obesity and diabetes cost us billions of bucks a year in health care costs. So that means we pay for the diabetes through ever escalating premiums and deductibles and. . .wait. . . so if the movies were free, no, wait. That can't be right. The movies cost millions because of the CGI effects and the super rich people overpaid to make them. I know I can figure this out, just give me a minute. . .

I haven't read the book, and I have no recollection of seeing the original film, but this remake still bored the pants off me. There was no coherence whatsoever. The jumps of logic from one scene to another were sometimes hard to follow. The film was full of cringe-worthy, mildew-ridden tropes (evil preacher! murdered indians! torture items! rotten people looming around! bleeding walls! dead children in the closet!) but not one of these potentially scary things was explored in depth, just randomly shoved onscreen for cheap scares. The pace was choppy - iunno if it was the directing or the editing, but it definitely did not work - it was not slow but not fast enough either to work in any way. It felt like a movie directed by a one-year old: every time they picked something up in their hand to examine, something new and shiny stole their attention and they dropped whatever they were holding at the moment to gleefully waddle after *the new thing*. Literally, it felt like the director had difficulties to hold their attention on anything for more than what time it took to make a cheap jump scare.

I won't dwell into the story, because I don't know the original story. I liked the kid actors, but I was left feeling their talents and presence were left underused. Instead we got RR who was vague and the mother, who was okay.

I like my horror movies; I like many horror movies a lot. This, however, was dull, uninspired and a bit overdone at the same time (how does one even manage at that), drab, boring and irritating. It made me want to howl my frustration at the screen. Two thirds of the film gone, I knew I was wasting my time, but somehow still waiting for the resurrection that never came. It was just a long, slow, sticky slide to disappointment. One thing must be said for the film though: it made me feel things enough to want to write a bad review of it, just to save someone else from wasting a perfectly good couple of hours.

~ it may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to act as a warning to others ~