Amanda's Amovies--The Unborn
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xarx , you don't get to participate though since you know it. :p
Gov. Bill Richardson's coming to the library in a couple hours to give a press conference. Some of you out-of-staters might even know him since he's currently embroiled in scandel and got booted out of Obama's cabinet. Nobody seems to know what for though and it was only set up yesterday...hm.
Anyways, saw The Unborn last night. I'll try not to be real spoilery, but it's going behind a cut nonetheless.
So, I will say that I probably would have enjoyed this movie, had the primary driving force behind the plot not been a huge flaw. If you've seen the previews, you can probably guess that some freaky ghost boy is after lead girl, so I'll try to keep it that vague. He wants to be reborn into her. Okay, I can deal with that. But then, as the movie progresses, this entity possesses no less than 5 people, at least. So they make a big deal about this girl being a doorway, but then, never explains why this thing can go into other people and just, I don't know, STAY THERE! I mean, when it's in the body of a big black guy who can punch through walls, why not just stick with that?
AND the bitch steals a library book that was probably available as a checkout and in English, so that she wouldn't have to go make asshole demands of poor Gary Oldman. Why he's even in this movie is beyond me cause he plays a rabbi and is like not my idea of Jewish, but then neither was anybody else in this.
The scary stuff was actually pretty well done, when it was there. The imagery reminded me a lot of Silent Hill and the story almost got to Fatal Frame level of fuckedupedness, but then they didn't quite know where to go with it. Unfortunately, the scary stuff was gone way too quick and too sparse in between the exposition. It was a real interesting premise, partially based in real folklore and events, and I'm very sorry that they didn't do more with it, since I think parts of the plot could have been done very well in better hands. Or in a video game.
The other big problem I had with this movie was that weird sexualization of the lead girl. I know to expect random boobs in horror flicks, but it's winter in Chicago and she's wandering around the house in her underwear, but then the camera would just sit there on her ass for the longest time and at the end there's an exorcism scene where they put a block of wood in her mouth to keep her from biting her tongue(?? never heard of that in exorcisms performed), but it's this weird black gag that makes her look like a blowup doll while she's strapped to a gurney. It was pretty icky. And of course everyone else is in winter coats and she's in a bloody tanktop. And after looking at the wikipedia entry, the underwear in front of the sink shot is also the movie poster. Gross.
Oh and the last thing that irked me was that all these kids are rich, I guess, in college and at least 21 cause they're drinking at a club (which by the way, had bathrooms cleaner than our library), though they still live w/ their parents in these giant houses, which whatever. But the girl's mom's in an institution taken from the 1950s or Silent Hill or something, like couldn't they have afforded to put her in something nicer? Metal beds, peeling paint, empty room. The girl was only like 8 when this went down. But then the old folks home is this ginormous mansion with a massive library and like 3 flights of stairs and so...how do these old people with canes and wheelchairs even get around? One other funny thing we got a laugh out of is that her medicine cabinet keeps shaking and I turned to my mom and said "Maybe she just has cats in her wall, too". That got a good laugh from us.
Anyways, there's other stuff like that, that you can mutter to your friends about, so I recommend seeing this with other people. So I say it's worth watching once, since it is a decent horror pic if you don't think too much about it. Oh and I did get to dream of drowning the creepy ass neighbor boy last night so I guess it did it's job in that regard, too.
xarx , you don't get to participate though since you know it. :pGov. Bill Richardson's coming to the library in a couple hours to give a press conference. Some of you out-of-staters might even know him since he's currently embroiled in scandel and got booted out of Obama's cabinet. Nobody seems to know what for though and it was only set up yesterday...hm.
Anyways, saw The Unborn last night. I'll try not to be real spoilery, but it's going behind a cut nonetheless.
So, I will say that I probably would have enjoyed this movie, had the primary driving force behind the plot not been a huge flaw. If you've seen the previews, you can probably guess that some freaky ghost boy is after lead girl, so I'll try to keep it that vague. He wants to be reborn into her. Okay, I can deal with that. But then, as the movie progresses, this entity possesses no less than 5 people, at least. So they make a big deal about this girl being a doorway, but then, never explains why this thing can go into other people and just, I don't know, STAY THERE! I mean, when it's in the body of a big black guy who can punch through walls, why not just stick with that?
AND the bitch steals a library book that was probably available as a checkout and in English, so that she wouldn't have to go make asshole demands of poor Gary Oldman. Why he's even in this movie is beyond me cause he plays a rabbi and is like not my idea of Jewish, but then neither was anybody else in this.
The scary stuff was actually pretty well done, when it was there. The imagery reminded me a lot of Silent Hill and the story almost got to Fatal Frame level of fuckedupedness, but then they didn't quite know where to go with it. Unfortunately, the scary stuff was gone way too quick and too sparse in between the exposition. It was a real interesting premise, partially based in real folklore and events, and I'm very sorry that they didn't do more with it, since I think parts of the plot could have been done very well in better hands. Or in a video game.
The other big problem I had with this movie was that weird sexualization of the lead girl. I know to expect random boobs in horror flicks, but it's winter in Chicago and she's wandering around the house in her underwear, but then the camera would just sit there on her ass for the longest time and at the end there's an exorcism scene where they put a block of wood in her mouth to keep her from biting her tongue(?? never heard of that in exorcisms performed), but it's this weird black gag that makes her look like a blowup doll while she's strapped to a gurney. It was pretty icky. And of course everyone else is in winter coats and she's in a bloody tanktop. And after looking at the wikipedia entry, the underwear in front of the sink shot is also the movie poster. Gross.
Oh and the last thing that irked me was that all these kids are rich, I guess, in college and at least 21 cause they're drinking at a club (which by the way, had bathrooms cleaner than our library), though they still live w/ their parents in these giant houses, which whatever. But the girl's mom's in an institution taken from the 1950s or Silent Hill or something, like couldn't they have afforded to put her in something nicer? Metal beds, peeling paint, empty room. The girl was only like 8 when this went down. But then the old folks home is this ginormous mansion with a massive library and like 3 flights of stairs and so...how do these old people with canes and wheelchairs even get around? One other funny thing we got a laugh out of is that her medicine cabinet keeps shaking and I turned to my mom and said "Maybe she just has cats in her wall, too". That got a good laugh from us.
Anyways, there's other stuff like that, that you can mutter to your friends about, so I recommend seeing this with other people. So I say it's worth watching once, since it is a decent horror pic if you don't think too much about it. Oh and I did get to dream of drowning the creepy ass neighbor boy last night so I guess it did it's job in that regard, too.
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Date: 2009-01-14 09:09 pm (UTC)The point is supposed to be showing the boy in the mirror, the could of easily done that shot from the girls waist up!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets irked by these things!
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Date: 2009-01-14 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-14 09:28 pm (UTC)