>>>>Personally, I thought it was a major snore.
>>>>
>>>>I had the ending figured out about 10 minutes into it.
>>>
>>>I don't remember exactly the time, but it was quite early as well -
>>>but I am pretty sure that all the comments / efforts to "hide" a surprize made it easy -
>>>clearly this was the only possible "big surprize" possible by the setup.
>>>Not so sure it would have been this evident if I had seen the movie without any info.
>>
>>I guess I am among the slow-witted here. It wasn't until the famous scene with Malcolm and Cole at the hospital, the immortal line, that I knew.
>
>...which I forgot. Nice movie, and actually the first one we went to see, within a couple of months after getting to the US. It was a nice surprise - a movie about "I can see dead people" which doesn't try to scare the viewers. Did I say I hate horror? Well, hate is maybe too strong a term, it's rather that I don't have the patience.
>
>And I got the surprise about two minutes before the character got it on screen. I just enjoyed the leisurely pace and didn't bother to think of the plot as a mystery, just let it take me wherever it wanted.
>
>>Maybe I didn't want to know. Movies are a form of pleasant escapism for me and I am happy to suspend my disbelief.
>
>Pleasant escapism? That's Hollywood, not movies. But then, where would you see different movies?
>
>And I don't suspend any disbelief. I just jump in the scene and enjoy being there for as long as it doesn't do anything stupid. Copouts like deus-ex-machina, too many cliches, predictable plots and, worst, predictable endings do kick me out. It's more like a game to me - you get in and play for as long as the game is fair. Once the rules of the game change for sake of author's (producers, lawyers et al included) comfort / incompetence / pocket, I'm out.
Most of my favorite movies are foreign made. I'm not being snotty about it but in general they seem to have more heart. They don't seem corporate.
That said, I like "The Sixth Sense" a lot. And "The Departed."
Previous
Next
Reply
View the map of this thread
View the map of this thread starting from this message only
View all messages of this thread
View all messages of this thread starting from this message only