movies like this generally are a waste of time, although the trailers looked creepy so i thought it might be decent. NOTHING is worse than cloverfield. thats right. i said it.
The worst movie ever is Corrupt, I am dead serious it's with Ice T and some other rapper. I bought it with semi hopes and it was even worse then life itself. If you want a good laugh and don't mind wasting like an hour and a half of your life i suggest watching it.
1. lol @ u if you expect anything significant from a horror movie in 2008.
2. Gummo was awesome. I will not be contradicted on this point.
3. I hereby hijack this thread in the name of MST3K:
The Strangers was a towering pile of shit. ONLY good things about it were that the bad guys got away with it and "Why are you doing this to us?" "Because you were home." In other news, Gummo is like a sacred epiphany from Sweet Father Below. A pox upon any who slander it! ... and now back to our MST3K thread
If I ever need to drop 10 lbs I'll audition for Leprachaun 47.
I'll discuss this movie real quick because I wasn't entirely un-impressed with it, but a lot of things bothered me about it, and by the half way point I was no longer scared, or really interested.
The exposition was done nicely. I liked that it wasn't some happy couple on their honey moon. It was an awkward situation that set an easy mood from the beginning. I thought they did a great job setting things up with that girl coming to the door randomly. For me the scariest part of the movie is when she comes back, asks for Tamra again, Liv Tyler tells her she already came by, and the girl says in a perfectly creepy inflection "Are you sure?". Very subtle, but that coupled with the banging on the door, and that big thick door muffling her voice made it a very well done scene.
What irritated me beyond belief about this movie (and I'm sure it's a staple for most horror movies) is that this situation would never happen. Psychotic masked killers or not, scary dark house alone in the woods or not, 90% of people have enough survival instinct to ride something like that out ESPECIALLY if they have a gun.
When they shot Dennis from Always Sunny in Philadelphia the first thing they should have done was drag his corpse into that little room they were in, take his cell phone off him, call for help and wait it out. To me that just makes more sense than making a break for the rickety old haunted tool shed by scrambling around on the ground out in the open. I don't know anyone who would have done that.
In other news, Gummo is like a sacred epiphany from Sweet Father Below. A pox upon any who slander it!
100% agreed. Best movie ever. I show lots of people this movie and they see me later and say "I saw some Gummo shit today". Its real life. I've been getting into Gus Van Sant lately, Elephant and Paranoid Park are two good pieces of realistic filmmaking. As far as worst, I saw that Zohan disaster, I was suckered in. DON'T GO, YOU WILL WANT YOUR $ BACK!
post by thuringwethil at Jun 7,2008 1:01pm edited Jun 7,2008 4:41pm
I've NEVER seen the whole thing of "Gummo"
I just switched it on during during that bathtub eating scene and just about puked up everything I'd eaten in the last 48 hours
my roomie has it, though, I'd better watch this. After fasting for a while
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first sentence corrected after what, five hours? oops.
