Not to mention amazingly boring with no payoff at the end. Not the worst I've seen, but pretty bad. That theme song they felt the need to play over and over and over again every other scene...
shareAgree, terrible movie
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I pretty much agree with you. I saw this yesterday and was highly disappointed. That music was especially annoying. Acting was pretty bad too.
shareacting was bad? It was superb. The sisters 'fessing up to each other during the meditation scene, tearing up--maybe not your cup of tea, but these actors, from the sisters to the cops, was what saved this movie from being a piece of dreck.
Don't you know by now that actors are the most competitive lot in Hollywood, and that is why the acting always far outstrips the writing, script or even direction of most movies? Saying the acting was bad is like complaining about cinematographers or costumes--also usually far outstripping the story/script/direction, and in this case, the repetitive dull music!
The chunky redheaded girl couldn't act for *beep*
shareThat frickin' cop was awful. I liked the movie. I thought the sisters were good. But man, those cops. I hate movies that cast guys just out of college as hardened detectives. Gives it a film school vibe. One of the cops looked like a 20 year old with a mustache. The writing was only bad when the cop came in to interrogate Daniel about his wallet and the animal bones. Just bizarre. And not in a good way like the majority of the movie.
I liked the movie overall... but I'm glad someone else thought the interrogation scene was bizarre and poorly written. I understand the detective couldn't have been too thrilled with Daniel returning because of his love interest and all...but there was nothing believable or logical about that interrogation scene.
The man was obviously mentally disturbed, and the doctor had even mentioned that he had suffered physical trauma. He had obviously gone through some torture and/or traumatic events, and probably needed rest and a psychiatrist. Yet for some reason everyone else in the room seemed fine with this cop yelling at him for having his wallet and eating some animal bones, and wearing the same clothes as when he had gone missing... as if these things somehow explain that he is at fault for having gone missing, and as if nobody there is the least bit concerned about the man's mental state. If anything, the animal bones show he was either desperate to survive or forced to eat things due to some kind of torture. The clothes could be the same and wallet be there still if he was locked and/or trapped somewhere...the fact that the cop researched the clothes that Daniel had worn and then got mad about it before asking questions is weird enough. The scene was unbelievable and took me out of the movie. Don't get me started with the other cop...
Funny, when you PAY ATTENTION to the gist of a movie, you don't tend to get annoyed or even notice background stuff. If you didn't like the film, MOVE ON!
shareI can watch a local film school production and get the "gist of it" but that doesn't mean it was well made or well acted. Your retort adds nothing helpful. You are basically saying "If you ignore the bad parts and focus on what they MEANT to do, instead of what they actually did, then it's like there are no bad parts at all. Herp a derp derp."
What a sleeper of a movie. As in: It put me to sleep!
Agreed, the music sounded like a funeral parlor...stuck in LP skip mode. The anguished look of Courtney Bell made me want to just kick her face in. I watched about 3/4 and couldn't wait to return it. I could care less about what happened.
The film was too slow. It just dragged and dragged... and the "music" sounds like somebody with very little music experience wrote the score with two fingers and a Casio keyboard. The same two notes... over and over and over. Except later, of course, when he introduces a new music piece, which is - and I'm not kidding - one note, over and over.
Hell, you can get better music for free online.
I thought the writing was alright, and the acting was above average for a low-budget indie flick, but the director is in love with every one of his shots and slowed the film to a crawl.
"I've seen things that would make you want to write a book on how to puke."
I'm actually at the one note part now. Starts in the hospital. I thought the music was an of choice during the date scene just beforehand. Like mystery music when it should have been uplifting, then leading into something mysterious when the body guy comes across the street.
Yeah, the composition was bad.
i watched the whole movie just to see this *beep* "underverse" lol but the chick was shooting heroin the whole film so who knows what she was seeing...alot of loonies see bugs and *beep* lol
sharei think i get the point of this movie, the movie is called absentia
and theres an absence of any real plot, and especially an absense of good music...
dooooooooooo booooooooooo x 400
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