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Old 07-20-2007, 10:17 PM
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Felt like a music video that went on too long and had no purpose
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Old 07-20-2007, 10:22 PM
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I watched Rejects once and enjoyed it, but I have never felt like rewatching it.
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Old 07-20-2007, 10:29 PM
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I liked House, not nearly as good as Rejects, but anyway, I enjoyed the movie, particularly Otis and Spaulding.
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Old 07-21-2007, 12:21 AM
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this movie lost it's way half way through. i didn't find it gripping over the duration of the movie which is an absolute crime in a slasher. TCM, haute tension, halloween etc. all build a little story and a lot of tension. i guess the directing and writing fall down here. what it lacks in story and tension it more than makes up for in it's characters. it's one redeeming feature is, IMO one of the great horror characters, capt. spaulding. i would've prefered it if he'd been one of those bad goodies like william muni or T2:D ps. glad to see EH didn't take too much of a beating.
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Old 07-21-2007, 05:52 AM
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I thought House of 1000 Corpses was just an over-dramatization of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Most of the characters were too loud and simply annoying.
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Old 07-21-2007, 07:55 AM
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I do agree with most of the points raised. Excellent bashing, folks!!:D

Ok, many of you absolutely LOVE it, but some of you HATE it and call it over-rated...but why does


The Shining


share such bipolar attitude with the audiences?

Bring on the bashing!
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Old 07-21-2007, 08:25 AM
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Old 07-21-2007, 08:37 AM
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No hatred here.

NO BEER,NO TV, MAKE HOMER...SOMETHING,SOMETHING.

Exactly, on spot, sir.
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Old 07-21-2007, 08:55 AM
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I do agree with most of the points raised. Excellent bashing, folks!!:D

Ok, many of you absolutely LOVE it, but some of you HATE it and call it over-rated...but why does


The Shining


share such bipolar attitude with the audiences?

Bring on the bashing!
I don't hate it, I have lots of love for Kubrick as a filmmaker and it is a solid, smart horror film. BUT it is definitely not my favorite Kubrick film. Its just because the book is so well loved. And it was very much Kubrick's The Shining, and not King's. Normally, I wouldn't have had a problem with that, I want directors to put their own spin on things......but in the novel, Jack seemed like a regular guy that had anger management problems, and a drinking problem, but he wasn't crazy.....it was a slow descent into madness, and the problems that he already had made him particularly susceptible to the evil of the place. In the movie he just seemed to start out nuts and he was hard to identify with. In the novel, Jack was very easy to identify with (you didn't always like him, but you "got" him), which made it all the more frightening. It just wasn't as scary or as effective as the book was, in my opinion.
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Old 07-21-2007, 09:15 AM
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Watching a crazy man going crazy is not an exciting passtime for me. Jack Torrance has shreds of normalcy that Nicholson doesn't pull off. And of course, Kubrick, consummate auteur, consummate egotist decided that an artist going mad was much more interesting than a child exploring a world of danger created by a parent's loss of sanity and grounding. I definitely agree with Jenna that the book worked better. It was also too sterile for me. The Overlook felt like a hospital.
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