So, I've just been to see 'The Devil Inside', and what a big steaming pile of disappointment that was. Now, I already knew before going to see it what I was in for. Just another one of those stupid Exorcist films that get released every so often and I also sort of had an inkling, that this one, would be just as bad as the last one I had seen (The Last Exorcism). Nevertheless I went to see it just because horror films are fun to see in the cinema with all the unnecessary screaming and flailing of popcorn.
It started off as your typical 'found footage' films with a bit of unnecessary banter and a small bit of history of the characters and of course in case we hadn't seen it before, some history on the devil and exorcisms. Fine you need to put that in because some people mightn't have seen the last twenty exorcism movies.
So yes, we do get to like the character of Isabella, sort of, and we feel for her because she is basically an orphan because her mother is demented. we get that. Then the camera man character IS THE EXACT SAME AS ANY OTHER CAMERA MAN ON ANY OF THESE TYPES OF FILMS. Hes annoying and arrogant and basically doesn't give a shit. The two priests are basically portrayed as vigilantes and of course there's weak one and a strong one and ooh the church is BAAD! Fine I enjoy that because I don't like church but still, come on, too much of that is boring.
It's set in Italy and I found it kind of racist.. well maybe not racist but it showed the Italian people as being very uncaring towards everyone and as if they hated the foreign Americans coming into their country and trying to figure out something that they have a hold of or something. It really never escapes the Americans when they make a movie, that everything is about them and how good and caring and useful their country is. 'We yanks are the heroes' all the frigin time even if they don't succeed they always try to. So Italians are all distant and don't give a shit whereas the protagonists are just trying to save the world. Good for them!
Inevitably they perform exorcisms with the cameras watching. those parts in the film are fun. frightening for some people. Good effects and I have to say very good acting. The characters are all very convincingly frightened. first off they do an exorcism on someone the main character doesn't know. thats fun and creepy. Then they exorcise the mother and it seems then that the 4 evil spirits that are in the mother are 'transfered' to the other characters. Now i thought this was a kind of cool idea where they had so much potential to muck around with different people being possessed. For the end of the film I thought that they could have come up with some kind of back story for the English priest and voiced it. Instead all they said was that 'you wanted your uncle dead'. Now this could mean one of many things and It would have been a great thing to elaborate on to make the ending good. They could have said his uncle was possessed, the possession they were dealing with was his uncle, he himself was possessed and his uncle tried to excorsise him, he still is possessed... I don't know something fun and different, they could have had him take over Italy for all I care and it would have made for a better ending. But I suppose they didn't want to make it too un-realistic because they were still stuck on the idea of the whole 'found footage' thing. But the un clarity just didn't work in the case of this film.
I have to say I really did enjoy the film. It was boring at parts but I laughed and my brain was working all the time thinking of different ways that it could end. But because I had heard that there was a crappy ending I was always thinking ''oh they're just gonna end it now and I'll be disappointed''. Throughout the movie I was thinking that and also thinking of all the fun and cool or even stylish ways they could end it. BUT NO. they ended it with a car crash and no proper explanation and thought it was alright to leave it like that. Gobshites. They had potential there to do quite a lot because of the stories they subtly brought up and also because of they're good use of special effects, but no, they decided it was better to ruin their ending. But what can I say, they have already made so much money in the box office that, I think, they know what they're doing. With all the terrible reviews that they're getting I think maybe people like me are going to see the movie so they can prove the reviews wrong. But to be honest. This time the reviews are right. WORT ENDING EVERRRR!
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
John Carter - film review
I went to see John Carter the other day.I was all excited for a bit of action and Disney fun. I thought it was going to be great because the guy who made 'Nemo' and 'Wall-e' was doing it. Turned out that it was boring and just, not a good movie. It started off just kinda confusing and an hour in I was still so confused I had to leave. Staying for the full 2 hours and a bit would have been a mistake because I would have got so annoyed or even more confused (if thats possible) and I would have talked through the rest of it.
The old story goes that John Carter is a Civil War Vet and he is in search of gold. No one believes he can find the gold he is looking for and knows exists and then for some reason, I missed if someone can fill me in, they arrest him. Suddenly he finds a thing that transports him to mars. On Mars he meets these alien dudes with four arms and a princess and yadi yadi yada.. the tale unfolds as such.
Now I'm not wrong in saying that the film is a confusing one because I've read elsewhere that it confused people. One hilarious thing I heard from a critic was that because it was such a strange mixture of outer space travel and period drama from the American civil war it was too confusing and it made you feel ''like your head was being baked into one colossal loaf of white bread'' how brilliant is that statement.
I never really care if a film is a flop in the box office. I never listen to the figures, in fact I don't understand the figures AT ALL, but everyone is raving how its a flop, it's confusing, its boring, they were just showing off how much money they had to spend, the story didn't make sense and so on... I normally like to give the filmmakers a chance and see past the reviews, but whoa they were right, just like they were right with 'The Devil Inside' having the worst ending ever they were right on the money that I was going to be confused and sort of want my money back. Now I didn't get my money back but I won't be buying the DVD.
It wasn't all bad. The little creatures were cute and of course Taylor Kitsch is really hot, but that wasn't enough to keep me in my seat. I had to leave before I started talking and annoying people around me. The bit where Carter gets arrested at the start was funny when he kept trying to escape and they kept catching him, but I really don't think kids would get that and it would just confuse them. When Carter lands on Mars he can't find his bearings and keeps falling, that has potential to be so much funner and funnier than it was. It wasn't long after he met the aliens and the girl that I left.
Now maybe I should have stayed till the end in fairness but I just couldn't. The film started with some random voyage and then shot back in time to John Carter and then forward to the kid from spy kids who was supposed to be John Carter's heir, I couldn't help but see Kitsch as a child throughout the film because of his role in FNL as a teen which didn't help with my confusion either. I just didn't know what was going on and because I didn't sit through the whole thing I never found out any of the answers. Feel free to give out and inform me what the fuck was going on please?!
Sorry Disney and Andrew Stanton that I left the movie. I couldn't sit there someone would have killed me for moaning or talking too much. Better luck next time. And basically people, wait for it to be on TV.
The old story goes that John Carter is a Civil War Vet and he is in search of gold. No one believes he can find the gold he is looking for and knows exists and then for some reason, I missed if someone can fill me in, they arrest him. Suddenly he finds a thing that transports him to mars. On Mars he meets these alien dudes with four arms and a princess and yadi yadi yada.. the tale unfolds as such.
Now I'm not wrong in saying that the film is a confusing one because I've read elsewhere that it confused people. One hilarious thing I heard from a critic was that because it was such a strange mixture of outer space travel and period drama from the American civil war it was too confusing and it made you feel ''like your head was being baked into one colossal loaf of white bread'' how brilliant is that statement.
I never really care if a film is a flop in the box office. I never listen to the figures, in fact I don't understand the figures AT ALL, but everyone is raving how its a flop, it's confusing, its boring, they were just showing off how much money they had to spend, the story didn't make sense and so on... I normally like to give the filmmakers a chance and see past the reviews, but whoa they were right, just like they were right with 'The Devil Inside' having the worst ending ever they were right on the money that I was going to be confused and sort of want my money back. Now I didn't get my money back but I won't be buying the DVD.
It wasn't all bad. The little creatures were cute and of course Taylor Kitsch is really hot, but that wasn't enough to keep me in my seat. I had to leave before I started talking and annoying people around me. The bit where Carter gets arrested at the start was funny when he kept trying to escape and they kept catching him, but I really don't think kids would get that and it would just confuse them. When Carter lands on Mars he can't find his bearings and keeps falling, that has potential to be so much funner and funnier than it was. It wasn't long after he met the aliens and the girl that I left.
Now maybe I should have stayed till the end in fairness but I just couldn't. The film started with some random voyage and then shot back in time to John Carter and then forward to the kid from spy kids who was supposed to be John Carter's heir, I couldn't help but see Kitsch as a child throughout the film because of his role in FNL as a teen which didn't help with my confusion either. I just didn't know what was going on and because I didn't sit through the whole thing I never found out any of the answers. Feel free to give out and inform me what the fuck was going on please?!
Sorry Disney and Andrew Stanton that I left the movie. I couldn't sit there someone would have killed me for moaning or talking too much. Better luck next time. And basically people, wait for it to be on TV.
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