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DUMB DUMB DUMB + BOOOORING!!!

posted 16 years ago by hdsjkingtut
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Just suffered through 90 minutes I'll never get back This POS isn't worthy of MST3K. Every cliché is trotted out let's name a few (umm, spoilers) I'll try to save you 90 minutes of your life:

1-pretty girl accepts ride from slightly creepy college boy/stranger
2-slightly creepy stranger boy becomes creepier by the minute
3-creepy middle of nowhere rest stop/gas station with generic weirdo behind counter (can anyone say Identity, Vacancy, Breakdown, Psycho, etc.) (all good movies btw)
4-oh yeah, creepy customer at rest stop who leers at pretty girl just before she gets locked in foul restroom
5-all three creepy dudes are feet away yet none respond to her screams while locked in restroom
6-wrong turn down snowy creepy back road (the requisite shortcut)
8-mandatory crash/now stranded in the middle of nowhere
7-various bogeymen threaten from dark snowy woods (evil ghost cop, undead monks who look like Pinheads and belch eels straight out S. King's Dreamcatcher, flashback scenes/nightmares, etc.)
8-original creepy boy now seems to be just a nice friendly well meaning weirdo/stalker (with low rent philosophy spewed during "stuck in car" scenes like "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" lol...barf)
9-girl actually starts to like stalker college boy
10-girl becomes heroine/Sarah Connor while weirdo boy in car dies of frostbite or whatever
11-friendly rescuer tow truck dude (who looks ominous) shows up to save them, while delivering backstory that vaguely explains the ghosts(?)
12-real bad guy kills friendly rescuer
13-and yep, it happens: What idiotic movie wouldn't be complete without the heroine jumping into a vehicle that won't quite start as nasties close in?
14-ghost of college boy/stalker turned nice guy leads girls through woods back to rest stop and real safety
15-girl (wrapped in mandatory blanket) looks sad/cry's as movie cuts to credits

You just watched the whole movie in your head. THE REAL TERROR: Don't view or you'll run screaming from this movie's awfulness.

[–] lrkwilliams 16 years ago

THE REAL TERROR: Punctuation, apparently...

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[–] iLoVeMuchAdoAboutNothing 15 years ago

I thought this movie was fantastic. Its been a while that a thriller has been able to hold my attention. And I agree, a movie doesn't need guts and gore in every scene to make it a good thriller or horror movie. While I do think the Saw movies are alright [but more in a hilarious kind of amusing way and less scary], this movie actually has scenes to make you jump, think, and that are moving. Its not just a horror movie, its a thriller, ghost, romance movie all in one... if you don't understand the plot then that's your own fault.

[–] mamamiasweetpeaches 15 years ago

SPOILERS Im STILL stumped? Who was The Killer????? END OF SPOILERS

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[–] freakyfelix 15 years ago

I'd agree it was a bit on the dumb side, but I wasn't extremely bored by it. No more than most normal video movies.

[–] Buddafliez 15 years ago

I enjoyed watching it, so that says something, but now that's it is over, I think it sucked... And I still don't completely get the plot with the dead people, mostly the Priests... I get the bad cop part.

[–] reinhart_menken 15 years ago

The real terror for me is that someone who sounds like a dumbass (Sarah Connor? This isn't the end of the world and there wasn't any guns. Pinheads? All they were guilty of were being too white, and wore black overcoats. They didn't even have pins!), and can't use punctuation, actually got most of the points right.

What is this world we live in?

For what it's worth, I didn't think the movie was so bad, even though some things were stupid (taking a wrong path, complete with the female lead yelling to turn back and the male lead resisting, and then *beep* happens). Some plots were indeed incoherent, but I've grown accustomed to certain things not making sense in this genre. I suppose it wouldn't be a horror movie if everything were nice and logical.

[–] freakyfelix 15 years ago

You have some good points.
If you think about it, the plot is kind of stupid.

Why would she car pool with a total stranger in the first place? I can't get past that, first of all. If I can't buy that set up, then it's very hard to believe anything that follows. Also, I don't believe she would react so casually when she found out he was a stalker.

Another thing that really bothered me was that those ghost people were scary the first time you see them, and then you see them so much that they just start to look fake and stupid.
Not the worst video movie I've seen, but not that great either. It had potential, but for some reason it just didn't deliver.

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[–] crooked_spoons 14 years ago

The only good thing about this film is the score. I thank Clint Mansell every time I pass this freaking movie.

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[–] Carson_PP 14 years ago

It wasn't really boring but not my favorite movie by a long shot.