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Shouldn't the title be 'PAST the Door of Darkness'?


Maybe the spelling makes sense in the context of the movie, but it seems grammatically incorrect.

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That's the first thing I thought when I saw the title in Fangoria. Not a good sign.

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yea, it's like i asked for the carrots, but someone passed the door of darkness.

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The title is a warning. This is not a bright flick.

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Maybe it's a test, like passing the bar exam.

"Oh, I heard he passed the Door of Darkness."

:D

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"He took in the whole room and then passed the door of darkness." It's an allegory of a s hitty situation :)

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you guys should all go back and listen to the very last line in the movie..spoken by MacCasey..."passed" IS correct!

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Nothing but NOTHING will make me sit through any part of this movie again.

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Agreed. It was a very crappy movie. So many things were wrong about it:

1. The annoying junior detective.
2. The cringe-worthy philosophical musings of the senior detective.
3. The unnecessarily dark lighting.
4. The overblown tension between the two detectives.
5. The unnecessary subplots involving the senior detective and his daughter, the junior detective and the daughter, and the senior detective's illness.
6. The ridiculously confusing scene where the two detectives are arguing about God knows what in the middle of the street.
7. The scene where the guy's holding his son's head and he says, "You! I tried!" is laughably horrible.
8. The second half where the annoying detective gets with the daughter feels like it would work better in a daytime soap than a gory rip-off of Se7en.
9. The ending makes no sense whatsoever.

I actually watched this movie from beginning to end without fast-forwarding once. And in the end, I still didn't get any of it. I was angry at the waste of my time. But then I found the "Behind the Scenes of Passed the Door of Darkness" on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpI_wG8hvb0

I watched this and couldn't stop laughing. They were interviewing the director, cinematographer, producer, the detectives, and the daughter, and they all sounded so hyped up about the movie. They were talking about how they thought the movie was gonna be a big hit with audiences. They were saying stuff like, "I took the role because I thought the character was interesting and a lot like me." And stuff like, "I know there are gonna be people who are really into this story."

I couldn't stop laughing at this stuff. It probably wasn't that funny. Maybe I just wanted to laugh at the people involved with this movie after hating it so much. I just think it's stupid how they make it seem like the story is something fascinating.

EDIT: after posting that youtube vid, I checked the related videos section and saw other stuff by the guy who played the junior detective. Here's a trailer for some wanna-be Office Space-type movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptEDz_uGQ84

Here's a demo reel showcasing his performances in other media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KivDCEtvUr8

Man, this guy is a terrible actor. I honestly don't want to bash this guy but he truly should give up his desire to act. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because Passed the Door of Darkness was a movie with terrible lines, and maybe he wasn't inspired enough. But no, his acting in other movies are actually even worse.

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you got a real hard-on for hating on this movie,
i think the main problem with this movie is the lighting/cinematography/shot-on-video look it has,
if it had been shot on film or with better digital cameras and good post-processing the movie wouldn't look so amateurish and most of its dialogue or acting problems would disappear


Lee's Daniel's' THe Butler'

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You really think that all they need to do is fix the lighting, camera, and cinematography and voila! the other flaws disappear? Is that how movies work now? What about:

--the fact that the police station consists of three rooms and three officers?
--the second half is nothing more than a drama/romance subplot that is completely different from the first half, which is a murder/horror mystery?
--the cringeworthy dialogue?
--the fact that the entire movie, including the ending, doesn't make any sense?

Will a change of camera and cinematography fix all that?

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the way a movie looks can really immerse the audience in its world, & this movie's "look" is garbage...
with the fixes i brought up this movie could be somewhere close to another "se7en" ripoff called "resurrection" with chris lambert,
albeit a more claustrophobic and isolated type of movie,
certainly flawed, but interesting and entertaining,
and i really liked a lot of the dialogue,
your criticisms of the film are valid but are really just small potatoes compared to the "look" of the film

Lee's Daniel's' THe Butler'

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