First, I want my 2 hours back. Then explain how 2 girly "men" (and I use that word loosely) do what they did. And what was with that reversing with the remote. Pure BS. What a steaming pile of crap this was.
shareWatch the movie again to understand the message. Basically, it's about our need/passion to see violence and death on screen.
shareBeing to simpleminded must wreck a lot of films for the op. The good news is that they made transformers for you kind of people.
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They are trying to create dysentery in the ranks
What is your occupation, genius? Just curious.
shareI think that this movie is for the simple minded. I understood it and the message of voyeurism. Transformer on the other hand. I had no clue what I was watching. Not only was it a steaming pile, I just had no clue what was going on.
"Never eat yellow snow"
You dind't catch the whole thing.
There are hints to Peter and Paul's 'powers' throughout the film. Paul speaking directly to the audience, directing the night's events to be like your standard horror movie formula, etc. When they are on the boat near the end of the movie, Peter is talking about this theory that people can 'fall' into fictional, alternate realities from their 'real' realities. The person would be unaware of this.
So, taking that, we can conclude that:
1) Peter and Paul are from a 'real' reality and this is why they can control the fictional one
2) Peter and Paul are from a culture similar to ours, where violence and mayhem is glorified in movies and other entertainment
Think about it. If you were thrown into a reality where you could control everything, what would you do? It probably wouldn't be legal. Would you kill? Steal? Rape? I can't think of much more terrifying than giving a young person from today, where The Walking Dead is the most-watched show and almost every videogame involves killing of some sort, and giving them control over reality.
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I believe that both are from a real reality but only one is aware. But to each his own.
shareWho cares about the clever meaning if it wasn't presented well? The movie was not at all entertaining and every genre of movies and tv shows all come down to entertainment. This movie was pure BS. It showed 4 minutes for ann to help that pussy bastard george up on his feet. When the kid died, it was like, oh well, lets just save ourselves. How the *beep* is this a 6.5. I would give it 5 at max. Its not always about having a clever storyline because any idiot can think of a clever and interesting story, it comes down to how well its told and cleverly explained. Why did I watch this *beep*
shareWho cares about the clever meaning if it wasn't presented well? The movie was not at all entertaining
It showed 4 minutes for ann to help that pussy bastard george up on his feet. When the kid died, it was like, oh well, lets just save ourselves.
Its not always about having a clever storyline because any idiot can think of a clever and interesting story, it comes down to how well its told and cleverly explained.
I would give it 5 at max.
Why did I watch this *beep*
This.
"And then they woke up and it was all just a dream."
I HATE movies like this. Luckily I just DVR'd and was able to fast forward to the end.
The only possible "moral" of this story just might be: ladies, don't marry a wimpy girly man. When it all turns to shinola he's worthless...
The only possible "moral" of this story just might be: ladies, don't marry a wimpy girly man. When it all turns to shinola he's worthless...
There is a vast difference between being a girl - and a wimpy girly man.
Can you not think of anything the husband in this movie could have done in this situation except meekly accept his fate?
I also don't think all that highly of girls and women that merely meekly accept their fate. I prefer the ones that fight back always and viciously or merely sneakily.
Of course the whole modern "feminization" of the liberal West is the joke.
I am curious, but do you know what percentage of women when polled anonymously, report having "rape fantasies" as their number 1 sexual fantasy? (That's BEING RAPED - not raping someone else.) It's a very big number and pretty much leads the list - why in the world would this be???
I was amazed too by the reaction of the parents to their son being shot and killed right in front of them.
Only one time does either of them talk about or look at the boy in sorrow is when the father places a table cloth over his body.
Shrugs maybe the movie was a statement of some kind.
Maybe i missed the whole meaning and wonderful acting.
I just did not care for the movie. Felt I had wasted time watching.
Seeing a 6.4 on ImDb decided to give it a try. I enjoy suspense movies horror.
I don't want to call anyone names for enjoying the movie. The biggest problem was the lack of any compassion or reaction of any kind for their dead son laying dead from a gunshot.
Peace out.
No reaction? What the hell was all this crying and wailing and vomiting all about then? You wouldn't expect people that are half-numb with shock - plus already emotionally exhausted by hours of preceding abuse - to run around wringing their hands and screaming like hyenas.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan
this movie is not for closeminded people,also is not for entertainment
Then explain how 2 girly "men" (and I use that word loosely) do what they did.
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One of the best movies I have ever seen.
shareThis movie was terrible. I base movies on how interested I am during watching. Even if i disagree with the direction of a film, as long as I'm sitting at the edge of my seat, i try not to hate. This movie was a joke. If i open the trunk and see my dead dog just flop out of the car, i doubt I'm just going to casually walk back into my home with the dog killer himself. In that seen she was about 30 feet away, thats when you take off running towards the neighbors or even just jump in the water and swim down the lake, river, ocean, whatever. Also the husband was such a softy, embarrassing, laugh out loud, terrible.
They kill your son in front of you, then leave and the first thing the mom does is spend 2 mins trying to stand up, then turns off the tv right next to her blown away son? And then after she frees her own hands she doesn't bother to go over to her son? But instead console her loser husband?
Over all this movie was a complete joke. Honestly, it should have been listed as a comedy.
sadly and ironically, the movie was aimed at people like you. too bad you did not get it, which kinda makes the movie ABOUT you as well.
share"They kill your son in front of you, then leave and the first thing the mom does is spend 2 mins trying to stand up, then turns off the tv right next to her blown away son? And then after she frees her own hands she doesn't bother to go over to her son? But instead console her loser husband?"
You are obviously not married with children.
You are obviously not mature enough to realize they knew that they were in a life and death situation.
They had both just saw their child blown away. Talk about a shock!
They had all been through hours of "games" with these two little shits and their nerves were shot as well.
Her husband was not a loser. Even if he was, she still loved him and shared in his pain.
You obviously didn't see the same movie I saw.
Did the OP see the 1997 Austrian original?
shareI just watched it last night, and I had mixed emotions about it. It certainly didn't grip me like I was hoping it would, and I spent way too much time cursing out the characters for being idiots lol
But, like with just about every thriller/suspense/horror movie, if the protagonist had a gun, the movie would be over before it started.
But I digress.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who was annoyed at how impossibly long it took her to get up from the floor. She made it wayyyy harder than it needed to be lol
Then there's this discussion of what the parents did after the bad guys left and the kid was dead.
They say that the bad guys could be back any minute (which is why she turned off the TV, btw, to listen for their car leaving), and yet once they hobble to the kitchen, they BOTH turn their backs to the front door, and neither even attempts to arm themselves with, ya know, a fucking golf club or knife or meat tenderizer or literally anything at all.
That was one of the many things that I found impossible to believe.
And I wish they'd used someone besides Tim Roth. I was initially assuming we'd get some kind of performance from him, but he had so few lines, save for things like, "Clearly I'm a shit parent and husband who doesn't care to protect my family, so go on, bad guys, have at it!" And, "Sorry, wife, for exploiting you and getting our son killed. Please forgive me."
The only reason I'm giving that a slight pass is because I can only assume that the original movie had that storyline.
The kid was the only one that had any balls at all! He ran upstairs, yes, but he then climbed down the lattice, got to the neighbor's house, and eventually pulled the trigger on the sadly empty gun.
His parents were just wastes of space.
However, I'm also assuming that the parents are the type that have (for some reason) had their heads in the sand as if bad things could never happen to them.
Still, that's no excuse for not protecting your family.