seanotron
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I don't think that not giving the audience a hint of the twist is necessarily a bad thing in this case. I think that in High Tension, the intent was to give you a feel of what the main character experienced, one of the elements being confusion, and there would be no way to give the viewer confusion and tell them what's going on at the same time. I think that you could say the same about some of David Lynch's works like Mulholland Drive, which simply wouldn't work the same if the viewer hadn't experienced some confusion at some point throughout the movie.
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Yeah, but it's not like Lynch's films make sense and then suddenly get weird in the last 5 minutes. You know what you're getting in a Lynch movie. You know some thought has gone into it, regardless of whether those thoughts make sense. High Tension just didn't know how to end and so they go for a twist that comes out of nowhere and completely nullifies everything you've seen up until that point. It just doesn't work for me.
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Wes Anderson does this a lot, and I'm pretty sure he got it from Buckaroo.
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Ugh, I hope they don't do Indy 4. Everything that can be said about that movie has already been said a thousand times.
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I voted for Troll 2, because it's a classic, and somehow We Hate Movies and The Flop House haven't covered it yet.
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Agreed on both counts. I don't ever want to see Indy 4 again, not even to make fun of it.
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Anyone that doesn't like this movie is bad and they should feel bad!
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Ok, now that does shock me. I thought she was really bad. Flat and emotionless.
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Oh it's definitely racist. It's just that it has always been racist, so there's no room for trying to wiggle out of it. It's racist, it's always been racist, stop using that word. Easy!
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Oh Holy Weller, forgive him for he knows not what he says.
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And I'm probably being too soft on it. My tolerance for bad movies is fairly high.
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It definitely wasn't universally panned
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/oz_the_great_and_powerful/
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Not that we haven't had some well-reviewed movies on HDTGM. Devil's Advocate had a 66%, after all.
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Yikes... maybe this is TOO terrible to have them sit through though? There's gotta be a limit to what Paul, June and Jason can endure.
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Yeah, this honestly just looks plain old horrible, not fun horrible.
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That was a movie based on a PBS cartoon made for children. This is a 200 milion dollar blockbuster w/ decent stars and Raimi behind it... Kind of hard to compare. But, I don't think this film deserves the HDTGM treatment.
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I'm not comparing the two, I'm just saying that movie almost killed me. Even my niece was bored. Especially sad since it was the last thing John Ritter worked on before he died.
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Maybe I just see too many movies, as this was nowhere near one of the 'worst mainstream movies I have seen'.
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Thanks to my niece, I once had to endure this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%27s_Really_Big_Movie
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It's hard to judge anything harshly after that.
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I will note, to contextualize my statement, that I love the Sleepaway Camp twist, and think it's actually a brilliant movie. I have loved it since childhood though, so that might be sentimentality speaking.
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The thing is, Sleepaway Camp actually lays a foundation for that ending. Yes, the movie is ridiculous but they clearly had that ending in mind all along. Same with Sixth Sense or Usual Suspects, etc. High Tension, on the other hand, gives the audience absolutely no opportunity to suss out this ending, as it goes against every single thing you see in the movie up until that point. That's why it bugged me. It was a cheat.
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I agree Kunis was awful, though I really didn't think Franco was that bad. He was supposed to be insincere, so it worked for me. Franco is Franco.
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90% of the "effects" were characters pretending to walk in front of greenscreens with watercolor,paintings on them.
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This describes pretty much any movie with CGI. I didn't see anything here that was especially bad. The China Girl, for example, was pretty freaking great in terms of visual effects.
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I dunno, it's a kids movie, and as far as kid's movies go I really didn't find it that egregious.
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I think this could make for a fun episode, despite it being a movie I like. No one can deny the non-acting of Roddy Piper.
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I was thinking of Ray Liotta, Claire Forlani, JK Simmons, etc. They may not be A-listers but they are certainly not of the Tara Reid/Clint Howard variety.
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Zardoz is so crazy it might actually break some people.
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I feel Jane was engaging in classism/regionalism by assuming I have a Whole Foods available to me.
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Yup, anyone who had to read The Merchant of Venice will remember that Shylock lived in the Venetian Ghetto.
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Hell, you could just do a simple Google doc to keep track of votes. Don't need anything especially fancy for that.
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RE: Uwe Boll, I have often wondered how he gets otherwise decent actors to work in his stuff. Surely they know his history and what they're in for?
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I heard someone say once that numerology was science for imbeciles.
Pretty much spot on.
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Calling it 'science' is being far too generous.
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Really? I saw this yesterday and while it had problems, I don't think the effects were an issue (other than the fact that they were overdone). Mila Kunis was indeed quite bad, but otherwise it really wasn't too terrible. The kids in the theater loved it.
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And I have to say, flying baboons are terrifying regardless of whether they are CGI or dudes in costumes.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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They were actually planning on making a sequel but it never came together. I think MGM owned the rights, but then they went into bankruptcy so who knows. I doubt they could make anything as good and weird as the first one so it's probably for the best.
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Buckaroo actually reminds me a bit of Doctor Who, they both kind of drop you off into the middle of the story and assume you can catch up.