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Originally posted by The STE
But if there are no rules in the movie then it doesn't matter what happens in it. And if the point is just to have cool deaths, then have cool deaths. The deaths in the movie either go on forever or are lame and predictable. And almost all of them are contrived. The spiders, the conveniently placed acid, the fall from the improbably wide scaffolding, the super-predictable dog attack. They all suck.
They don't even say WHAT the omnipotent evil is. It's just that something is making this happen. Okay, something's doing it. What? It's the kind of thing you can't keep from the audience. Just give me something. Even if it's lame, just give me SOMETHING.
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actually the acid wasnt conveniently placed at all .. it was quite a distance away .. that scene drove me nuts.
Fulchi had a limited budget ,, he had some ideas to do some fun little kills so he shot them and losely wove them together with this doorway to hell idea. - at least thats what it looked like to me.
to me it felt like a high budget student film .. a bunch of ideas thrown together. Its easy to go back and say 'its not supposed to make any sense'
I bet the guys that made Ishtar would like to use that excuse.
"it wasn't supposed to be funny'
I can appreciate that there is some nice camera work, some good lighting, etc .. but the whole tossed salad approach didnt work for me at all.
and the thing is .. i like surreal abstract films .. i just didnt get any sense of the atmosphere in this film that most people rave about.
i get the impression that the reason people praise this film so much .. is the little girl getting her head blown off .. its the one constant people keep mentioning in all of the fan sites as the coolest thing in the film.