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12-13-2007, 11:08 AM
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I agree with it being the best horror movie to come out of 07, no idea why a lot of people didn't like it.
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12-13-2007, 12:31 PM
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SPOILER FOR THE TWIST.
For those who missed it... the twist was, that the main character's father - who we see him interacting with repeatedly through the course of the film, always around his female partner (he is on a wheelchair and it is assumed he needs her assistance in even the simplest of tasks.) - is actually dead, and being controlled like a puppet. The female partner has gutted him, and stuck a stick in the back where his spine would be located, which moves his jaw. Not only did this has very little to do with the plotline, minus the fact that the movie had something to do with puppets, but it was also tacked on to the ACTUAL ending, VERY VERY VERY poorly. It's like... you read a novel and you have a beginning, middle, and end, and then all of a sudden you there is an additional 7 pages that feels like a misprint, because the fucking thing already ended the way it should have. It's like, the movie ends in a somewhat satisfying manner, and then... it's not actually over. You get a 1.5 minute little "twist" scenario coming out of NOWHERE. It feels like an epilogue more then a continuation. It's just poor film-making. Again, it's as if they decided last minute to add this twist ending. "The film's not good enough to go to theatres. *shelves*" "B-but... I added this!" "Oooh. Twists = ticket sales! SEND OUT THE PRINTS! Oh, and reference SAW in the promotional material." It ruined the whole film for me, it was just a cop-out.
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12-13-2007, 12:59 PM
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Honestly, I thought that the movie was pretty poor from the get-go.
Then again, honestly, I'm not that much into investigative horror, but I thought that the scares weren't that great, the dialogue was TERRIBLE, all of the characters were charicatures, not people. You have THE COP. THE RICH FAMILY. THE SMALL TOWN. THE MORTICIAN. Not to mention, the acting was poor, and the use of the doll was just, well, more cheesy than effective. I really liked the concept of a small-town children's fairy tale coming to life... And I thought that some of the visuals were definitely powerful and chilling (the flashback to her stageshow, pretty much all of the scenes in the mortician's house, not to mention the "deserted" amphitheater). But I never really thought that the concept really came into fruition. And I agree with Josh... The "twist" was really really terrible. As if we didn't have enough reveals, this contrived ending was capped on, simply out of nowhere, that took the level of cheesiness to a whole new extreme (because, at THIS point I realized that the movie was taking itself VERY seriously and that this was supposed to truly be High Art and, you know, "intellectual" - Guess you didn't see THAT coming! boy oh boy). Dead Silence is one of those films in where its spectacle is outweighing function... It's too over-the-top to the point where I simply can no longer suspend my belief. I mean, I realize it's essentially a ghost story, but you have to be able to suspend your belief to REALLY get into a ghost story... And this one just seemed ridiculous to me.
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12-13-2007, 02:47 PM
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I agree Dead Silence was more than a tad ridiculous, and I don't think it was one of the best of the year. But I also don't think it was one of the worst. I actually enjoyed it more than I expected to, considering I am NOT much of a Saw fan (I actually feel Saw is one of those films guilty of thinking it is far more clever than it really is, and taking itself far too seriously). I didn't care for some of the special effects, and a lot of it was cheesy, but I actually found myself having fun with it.
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12-13-2007, 06:26 PM
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okay,
i was disappointed (bigtime) with dead silence as well, and i wasn't even expecting much. to its merit, however, (since plenty of cons have been addressed) i thought that the mood and atmosphere of the movie were both really well-done. very creepy and foreboding, despite copious cheese. it had a very-old fashioned horror movie feel to it, and i really appreciated that. another thing i appreciated was the fact that it had an overtly reoccurring musical theme. horror movies seem to have gotten away from this and i liked seeing that. those are about all the redeeming qualities i can think of, though.
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12-13-2007, 06:32 PM
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Dead Silence was a good time-killer, but it was too boring to keep up with. I don't think that much happened. As to the ending, I actually liked that. I'm not going to ruin it, but it did catch me by surprise (not a Saw surprise, but a surprise nonetheless). I owuld pick it up if it was on the 4 for $20 deal at BlockBuster, but that's about it. Nothing to get excited over. Now, 1408 on the other hand, was a great one-man show, and had some creepy moments to it. And the ending was classic!
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12-13-2007, 07:03 PM
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spoilers below, just in case.
i only saw the theatrical ending, but was impressed with it. i liked the fact that they heard his daughter on the tape recorder, and the devastating explosion of emotions that must have conjured up in the both of them, and you can see it on their faces, then it's over. i really liked that. the movie to me was so-so. nothing spectacular. i don't envision myself ever really wanting to watch it again, but i guess it was fun to see on a date.
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My boyfriend and I had a discussion, though, as in What was the theatrical release like? It manifested from me asking, "HOW did 1408 get such good reviews??" because, honestly, while it started strong, I thought that it really got boring. I'm wondering if maybe there was a LOT left in the Director's Cut that was just tripe that might have been cut out of the theatrical release, making the release a better movie. Now I'm kinda curious too.
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