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How could you not like collection if you LOVED collector ?


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I am observing that people who enjoyed the 1st one blame this one for lack of...how can i put it....lack of being exactly like the first one. Because yes let's admit the first one independently was better. BUT...

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If you are emotionally connected to the hero and still remember how he went back for the little girl you can do nothing else but praise and yell in the last 10 minutes like a dog seeing his master after 2 weeks. Screaming "Kill him" in the meantime.

What i wanna say is that I laugh at people who find this "ridicilous" and "ripoff" etc. If you are such big critics watch a classical Hitchcock movie. Watch David Lynch. Watch Bergman. Watch flawless japanese horror (i like only some of them). Hollywood horror is something else. And this movie was exactly that. A GREAT Hollywood horror movie where a little girl breaks a man's arm in order to escape BUT forget to blow out the wick of the upcoming explosion. A movie that they do not take the machine guns of the dead. A movie where the only unarmed man leads the way with a torch (!). A movie where the villain accidentally his own dog. As i was saying a GREAT GREAT hollywood hoorror movie.

"*beep* you! *beep* you! *beep* YOU! "

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I didn't hate it and it's still got one of the most likeable protagonists I've found in a horror/thriller, but The Collection fell into the same trap many horror sequels do: They overestimate the attraction of gorn, scary traps and invincible villains by amping these aspects up from the original to the point where it becomes borderline comedic.

The opening at the rave-party is one of the most ridiculously OTT scenes I've seen, and it practically removed all possibility of taking this movie seriously. Sure, the Collector was definitely a dangerous guy in the first movie, but that opening (+ his "disciples" and his gigantic torture mansion) makes the character into some otherwordly freak god! That's the sort of series-escalation that both the Saw and Final Destination series suffered from. Sometimes less is more.

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The collection is 10 times better than the collector. This is more nicely done.

*DieHardRRatedOrNoDieHard!*

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