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Rosswarren (Rosswarren)
Username: Rosswarren

Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 217.39.69.169
Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 03:29 pm:   

Saw this last night and found it to be unbelivably poor. Unitentionally hilarious at times it was pretty mundane and boring.

I was shocked to see THREE writers credited at the end!
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 03:40 pm:   

Thanks, mate. That'll be saving a few spondoolies.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 03:40 pm:   

be me (I meant)
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Jamie Rosen (Jamie)
Username: Jamie

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 99.240.203.201
Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 03:40 pm:   

In my experience, more writers leads to shakier scripts, because it indicates how dissatisfied the filmmakers were with the initial script.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 04:17 pm:   

Weird... the review I heard yesterday, from a critic who normally hates this stuff, waxed lyrical, claiming it to be intensely disturbing and unsettling, and well worth watching....

(This same critic, btw, claimed the opening sequence - whatever it is, he wouldn't say - in Clint Eastwood's new film HEREAFTER, was the greatest opening sequence he'd seen in a film ever! He didn't even praise the movie as much as PA2, and said that. Okay... there's a gauntlet thrown down....)
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 06:20 pm:   

Which is why I'd be wary, mate. But then again, as much as everybody told me Shrooms was awful, I thought the photography was remarkable. It reminded me a lot of east Asian film photography. Not that I'm saying this excuses the fact it wasn't any good.
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Mbfg (Mbfg)
Username: Mbfg

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 82.6.94.181
Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 07:04 pm:   

I seldom ever go to see anything wth a 2 after the title (except of course, if the 2 is part of the title or the film is part of a series). The words "milking it" spring to mind. I mean, the first or original film is usually a complete idea, a one-off flash of inspiration (or mediocrity). A follow-up film is born of that oh, this worked lets keep flogging it till the horse is dead philosophy.

For example, too tired to get off the sofa and go to bed last night, I ended up watching he opening half hour or so of "Saw 3" (God, not just a 2, a 3!). I quite appreciated the nasty cleverness of the first film and its unbearabley bleak ending. What I saw of number 3 was overwhelmingly awful, clumsy, sledehammer blunt crap. A lot of money's been made out of the idea, but precious little else.

So 2 gets a miserable zero out of me.

Cheers - grumpily
Terry
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 07:20 pm:   

Terry - I agree with everything you just said, not because I don't have an opinion of my own, but because you you hit that nail squarely on the head.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.131.34.237
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 - 02:20 pm:   

We watched this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's good seeing Ken Loach dipping his feet into such unexpected waters.

Just joking. These film's aren't high art - they're just a ghost train in your living room, an attempt to remind us when we used to be scared of chairs falling over and such like, and people did use ouija boards. I found it less clumsy than the first, in fact I really liked it very much.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.131.34.237
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 - 02:22 pm:   

Craig - the opening scene of Hereafter is one of the most stunning things you'll see - followed by one of the most irritating and dull 'stories' you will ever watch. Clint's most pedestrian film to date.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.131.34.237
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 - 02:23 pm:   

Yes - Shrooms was a bit of a coffee table film. Soooo boring.

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