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Glad you liked it as well, Chrono. I thought it was very well done for the modest budget it was filmed in. The climactic climax was a bit predictable (but then seasoned horror fans should have a clue as the film progresses) but overall it's a nice little flick that deserves a bit more attention than it has gotten till now.
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Totally agree.
I've been so frustrated lately as I page through all of the horror movies on Comcast On Demand - How incredibly derivative they are
... Group of teenagers going into the woods...
... Troubled family movies into a new house....
Those two scenarios cover about 90% of horror movies available on Comcast On Demand right now - scanning through them gives me a headache.
Really wish that more filmmakers would be more original, more daring - And a movie like
The Caller shows that you don't need a lot of money to do it.
I have a few movies in my Netflix queue that I'm pretty hopeful about, and I'm hopeful about some of the trailers you've posted (
The Innkeepers to name one off the top of my head), but FUCK there's a lot of awful stuff out there...
The Caller was so refreshing!!!
...
Cars 2 (2011)
I really liked the first
Cars. I was shocked, actually, because when they advertised it in the theater I was absolutely not interested at all - I figured it was going to be a stupid salute to Nascar fans and an ultimate flop a la
Ricky Bobby. But then I watched it and found it utterly charming, despite of myself. It was cute, it was funny, and it was really sweet.
As for Cars 2, I don't want to rag on it too much, but I found it ultimately unnecessary - The story was not great and mostly boring and it focused more on Mater than the full cast of characters whom I had grown to love in the first film. Bruce Campbell made a great little cameo which made me smile, but for the most part I would have preferred to see Pixar put out something new. I absolutely loved
Up and
Wall-E. Let's get something new out there.
2.75/5.
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The Pack (2010)
Ugh. This movie went from mind-numbingly boring and derivative to potentially interesting to... just plain stupid.
What pisses me off about this movie is that the trailer actually makes it look interesting. I had to sit through about a half an hour of derivative backwoods girl-in-a-cage crap before finally seeing the cool, creepy monsters that the trailer promised me and they were absolutely LAME.
There's some environmental subtext in there but, to be honest, about 40 minutes in our heroine makes stupid decision after stupid decision that I just couldn't take it anymore. Also the editing was bafflingly bad. And the second half of the movie I spent wondering, "WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING THAT?!" Characters make dumb move after dumb move. I was baffled at the absurdity of how nonsensical it was.
Ultimately awful little movie. I want my 84 minutes and $5 back.
2/5.