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The Descent, 2005 And some quick thoughts on The Descent 2 2009.</div>
Want
to start off first by saying that I'm not a big horror movie fan there
are a couple dozen films that I really like.Night of the Living Dead,
the shining, the first Halloween, several Japanese titles:
Ringu,Ju-on:the grudge & Honogurai Mizu no soko kara,AKA, Dark
Water. Just to name a few.So I'm not coming to the horror genre
completely out of left field. The reason I watched these two is because
I've seen several reviews on them and wanted to see for myself what I
thought.<br />
I would do a full synopsis here but you can just run over to Wikipedia and get the gist of the story so I'm just going to go right into talking about what I like and dislike<br />
<br />
<span class="null">First ,The Good. I
love the atmosphere of the film great cinematography! the claustrophobia
of being in the cave was presented well and made you believe
that they were really in danger.annnnd that's about it on the Good of it.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="null"> Things I didn't like? The
characters really are not developed enough for me to care if they die.
That's a big thing for me.The </span><span class="null"><span class="null">Husband & daughter of </span></span><span class="null"><span class="null">Sarah Carter (played by Shauna Macdonald) are
killed in the first 4 minutes of the movie, well ...OK I guess I feel bad
</span></span>for Sarah, <span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426870998677=250a78c5845d0360598.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426870998677=250a78c5845d0360598.2:0.0.0.0.0.0">But
I was never really given time to get to know the characters so they
seemed more like window dressing, something to just move the plot along.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="null"><span class="null"> </span> I just wasn't really sold on the fact that
these women over a period of one day turned into these hardened killers I
just didn't buy it. In one scene you have a character Beth who has been
mortally wounded asking </span><span class="null">Sarah to kill her. I guess so the
underground creatures will not eat her alive anyway,what does she do? After
about 5 seconds of hesitation she picks up a rock and smashes her head
in... What?! The transition between being terrified & turning into
these hardened killers, at least for 2 of the characters </span><span class="null"><span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426871177363=2ca962978b8b2cf7f41.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426871177363=2ca962978b8b2cf7f41.2:0.0.0.0.0.0">Seems almost instantaneous</span></span>! Its like,"Ok lets start poking out eyes, smashing heads,</span><span class="null"><span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426871382942=2cf25e784a2681b0261.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426871382942=2cf25e784a2681b0261.2:0.0.0.0.0.0">Killing with climbing equipment!" Sorry,i don't buy it.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="null"> </span><br /><span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426871585682=28dd48279dbb4a3a618.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426871585682=28dd48279dbb4a3a618.2:0.0.0.0.0.0">And
ooooh The close up shots and the Shaky Cam during the kills, was
killing me! my argument is and always will be I don't think Hollywood
knows how to film action . maybe I'm spoiled by my many years of
Asian film watching with well choreographed action/fights.</span></span><br />
<span class="null"> But my first experience with this type of Camera work was probably Daredevil and that kind of poisoned the water for me on the style. I'm
sure there are good ways of using it but shaky cam ,tight shots with LOTS of quick cuts during
fights for me just spoil the Action.</span><br />
<span class="null"><span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426871815243=28dd4827945d0360530.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".2c.$mid=11426871815243=28dd4827945d0360530.2:0.0.0.0.0.0">There is a scene where they have a fight in a cavern with a lot of the underground creatures and it went something like this.</span></span> tight close ups of head
smash cut, random stab on some part of the body cut, poke eyes out of
creature cut and wide shot of everybody standing around covered in blood. smh, sorry I
just don't like these types of scenes.</span><br />
<span class="null">Enough on the first film, moving to the second, I
really didn't enjoy the Second film at all!The</span><br />
<span class="null">Directors were different so that had somthing to do with it. The first Film was directed by Neil Marshall the second was directed by john
harris,</span><span class="null"><span class="null"> different style and approach to the subject matter is obvious</span> . The second film made nowhere near as much money as the
first film did. 57 million for the first, 2nd film made 13 million, big difference. </span><br />
<br />
<span class="null">My problem with the second one is that it was pretty much telling the story all
over again! </span><br />
<span class="null">woman from the first film </span><span class="null">Sarah Carter (Shauna Macdonald) escapes, somehow and she is
found but she is traumatized and doesn't remember what happened to her
or her friends while in the hospital the police come to see her to ask
what happened. she says she doesn't know, so they take her from the hospital
and call a rescue crew so they can go back into the caves to find Her
friends, and guess what happens!? Everybody gets killed... Again!! The
end.</span><span class="null"> I have to admit I kind of zoned out on this one just because I felt
like I was watching the same movie again didn't help that I was
watching them back to back either. Was only mildly interested in the
first one and felt it was ok. The Second Film I was thinking ,why did they
make this!?</span><span class="null"> </span><br />
<span class="null">Well that's it for me. I'd say go watch
them yourself and you can make up your own mind what you think don't
always just take someone's opinion on a Film and decide to watch or to
not watch based on what they think they could be right or they could be
wrong. you can make up your own mind what you think of them. Talk at you
guys later!:-)</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15822495936324880261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504577220084154768.post-62529682446376626232013-09-18T10:15:00.001-07:002013-09-18T10:15:34.627-07:00Lazerhawk - So Close<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lEpGtjXwQtg" width="459"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15822495936324880261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504577220084154768.post-67494645611498830462013-09-18T10:14:00.001-07:002013-09-18T10:14:35.931-07:00Miami Nights 1984 - Ocean Drive<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nLzjm9E1hwg" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15822495936324880261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504577220084154768.post-22342310963383608922013-09-14T10:20:00.001-07:002013-09-14T10:20:09.088-07:00Time Shift - Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RiwObVhyoc8" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15822495936324880261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504577220084154768.post-14163489136938560502013-09-14T10:19:00.001-07:002013-09-14T10:19:00.597-07:00Time Shift - Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/F6vkPr-YE_g" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15822495936324880261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504577220084154768.post-74212511350975956452013-09-13T15:15:00.001-07:002013-09-13T15:15:03.604-07:00DOOMED! 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