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VERY BAD movie !! an insult to the viewer


I will give you six quick reasons to NOT watch this rubbish ...

1 - Acting and actors itself were a joke
2 - Pure cliche
3 - Pure mediocrity
4 - The plot seems to be written by a bunch of retards
5 - A non-sense twist at the end
6 - A ultra stupid final (as expected)

The movie left me with a feeling of anger, because it's an insult to the viewer.

Enough said, you have been warned.

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I have to agree, this was very bad. Hannah must need money horribly or is friends with someone involved.

Here's a perfect example of how dumb this movie is: (spoiler-Ha)

5 friends come back to their RV that is parked in an opening in the woods. As they get close it starts up . One character has the keys. So they stand there like it's the scariest thing ever. Then, instead of going to the RV and maybe asking why someone is in THEIR camper, they all start running away so the nimble 35 foot RV doesn't run them over in the field. Again, there are 5 of them! Well they need to cut away because there is NO WAY to explain how one of the idiots manages to get wedged between the RV and a tree, with the mystery driver hitting the gas! Oh the horror! Instead of the 4 of them maybe going into the RV and maybe stopping this nonsense, they stand around being freaked out. Then they run way as mystery guy gets up and we watch his scary shadow lumber towards the door. Then the four of them watch as he chops clumsy tree girl with his only weapon, an old machete. 4 of them still able-bodied. But the guy WAS scary, what with the ski mask and all. And there are plenty of other hysterically bad scenes in this one.

Sometimes picking apart what characters do in these movies is pointless because people do stupid things under stress, but this movie the "killer" may have well have been armed with a goldfish and some twine for as competent as the fodder was.

Man this was bad.

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Ohmygod, this move sucked for so many reasons.

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"the "killer" may have well have been armed with a goldfish and some twine for as competent as the fodder was"


OMG....quick!! Someone start writing "Macgyver: The Slasher Movie" right now!! lol, I'd love to see someone get killed but a goldfish and some twine in a horror movie. It'd be like the paper clip scene in Student Bodies, but 10 times weirder.






Deeeeeeep hurting!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD! YOU CAN'T KILL BECCA

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even worse was when machete guy chases the rest of them into the woods. then he appears again and suddenly has a shotgun and shoots one of the girls. he goes to finish her off, but one of the victim guys surprises him from behind and slams him in the head with this huge branch, which knocks the guy over and makes him drop the gun. so what does he do next? he immediately DROPS his huge branch and starts running, then immediately trips and falls directly on top of the dropped gun on the ground, but doesn't pick it or his branch up, despite them both being right under/next to him. he just gets up and starts running again leaving the guy to immediately pick up the gun and start shooting at him.

even for a horror movie that's pretty damn stupid.

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Insult to the viewer is right!

I just watched this on pay-per-view. All I wanted was a good, mindless horror movie that I hadn't seen before. I would've been better off watching some of the made-for-TV junk they're always showing on Syfy.

Some of the incredibly stupid things in this movie, most of which could have been easily fixed if anyone even cared:

- A gas-station attendant, Billy, is supposed to be a defective redneck but has better teeth than most news anchors.
- Billy's hooks (in place of hands) are obviously being held by his real hands inside the tied-up sleeves of his coveralls.
- The gas station that one of the characters calls "a real piece of history" looks like it was built within the past 20 years. It's also supposed to be in the middle of nowhere but is fully stocked with shelves of soda (Coke and Sprite, evidently) in nice fresh 1.5 liter plastic bottles.
- It's supposed to be mid-November in rural Pennsylvania, but the trees are still covered with green leaves. (Also, another gas-station attendant says it's "five or six hours" to Bangor, Maine, but even the northeastern-most part of PA is over 9 hours from Bangor.)
- Nobody in the entire movie owns a cell phone.
- The two guys among the victims are the wimpiest college kids imaginable -- as someone said above, they're frozen with fear by an idling Winnebago and then just stand watching while the guy who was driving it kills one of their friends with a machete.
- The victims find a recently buried body, and instead of leaving immediately to get the police, they spend the rest of the day digging up more bodies.

On top of that, the editing is self-consciously choppy in a lame effort to create suspense. The acting is mediocre at best. The dialog has no motivation. There does not seem to have been any art direction.

Bad, bad, bad. Rent some classic horror instead of watching this.



"What I got don't need pearls." -- Linda Darnell (1923-65)

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Ill give you 5 reasons not to listen to the OP:

1 - Thread and poster itself were a joke
2 - Post is cliche(weve seen it a 1000 times on IMDB)
3 - Thread is cliche(again seen ot a 1000 times)
4 - The post seems to be written by a bunch of retards
5 - OP didn't get the ending so of course its a plot hole

I could poke holes in these posts all day, but for the truth its just a mediocre film aimed at genre fans, not a film for everyone. Its not the worst or the best. No need for theatrics.

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