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Two reviews in a row where I actually liked the movie!




Read my review of The Descent at Blood Blade and Thruster.

Comments

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

The Descent was great up until the end - though I watched a special version that wasn't the original ending, which I heard was worse. Much, much, much better than The Cave!

[smallerdemon.livejournal.com]

I was one of the few that didn't care for The Descent. I saw it back, wow, a long time ago, about six months before it hit the US release at BNAT7 (wow... 2005?!). We were showing the original British release (with the not happy ending). Frankly, I found it loud and boring. I am a big horror movie fan, but this feel flat for me for various reasons, but the biggest one being that it bored me. You do not really realize how important location is until every location is the same place over and over with nothing really in between but pretty much the same location. Monster and Girl Enter larger cavernous area, one leave. Repeat. I just didn't feel any real emotion toward the characters, which wasn't helped by the one girl who lies to them about something so incredibly stupid.

It wasn't terrible, mind you. I have seen MUCH worse horror movies, but overall I just didn't find it compelling. However, I also do not suffer from claustrophobia. :) Harry Knowles' dad had to leave the theater when it showed. He almost died in caving accidents twice in his life, so he wasn't exactly willing to sit through it. :)

Great review, though.

[g-weir.livejournal.com]

"Harry Knowles' dad had to leave the theater when it showed. He almost died in caving accidents twice in his life, so he wasn't exactly willing to sit through it. :)"

It's strange when that happens- when a person's own experience changes the impression a film makes to a huge degree. My dad was a Marine and made an amphibious landing under fire at Inchon, so his reaction to 'Saving Private Ryan' was much different than my own. It's almost like the filmmakers are trying to engender the same kind of trauma in the audience as people who had survived the thing they are depicting.

--G