What brought me into this picture: Dennis Quaid.
What impressed me: the message.
What surprised me: Paul Dooley.
Who scored big: Pucci.
What bothered everyone: we could all guess the ending, sort of.
I have to say this, and I haven't seen every movie Dennis has made, but I keep hoping to see Dennis back in his "crazy as sh*t" jockey movies like The Right Stuff, and Inner Space. That was too long ago but I'm addicted to that and keep looking for it.
It completely fascinates me that there is this much discussion being blogged on this picture. Apparently, a lot of horror freaks were disappointed at the level of action/gore that wasn't. This really isn't scary, this is an "emo" movie -- but that's not a bad thing. I think it addresses a real issue. Sorry it freaked some of the more queasy among you. Yes, the story is unrealistic -- it couldn't have happened -- but let's be honest, okay, very little that we see on screen can and you didn't pay for reality you paid for something different.
One or two, I didn't read past the 3rd page of reviews, complained of "Christian message". Yeah, the movie-makers were very good at keeping true to the words of the bible and Paul Dooley did a very passable priest. Don't know why I don't give that actor more credit than I do, must be previous movies like Strange Brew.. I DO like how centered Dooley was in his role. I could see where Pucci's character could be focused on that message, and I liked how the priest could drive the nail in about love. This is a movie about love and priorities.. it's a movies for parents, not children, and not single people who are not thinking about being parents. I'm surprised no one by the end of the 3rd page of reviews got that: it's obvious the movie-makers did. And since comparisons with Se7en have been made, the latter being slightly more believable, the premise of that movie was crap. Religious nuts aren't that sophisticated. No, this is not a religious movie. Just a movie with a significant message.
The funny thing, to me (talking about movie-making), was that the first body was real but still managed to look like a mannequin (but, then, pictures of shark attack victims rarely look real to me). One reviewer thought it was fake. The movie was shot twice and still wasn't perfect like, say, Deliverance was. I can't put my finger on it, the movie possibly would have been more visceral on the big screen and with the presence of a large audience around the viewer.
Peter Stormare's character could have been developed more, including interaction with Zhang's character. I really don't understand why the outtakes were taken out. But, other than that, I can't say that there was not enough character development -- I do suspect, however, that a grumpy Dennis Quaid (and there are too many movies like this) tromping endlessly around does have somewhat of a nullifying effect. Needs more light, says this cook.
What impressed me: the message.
What surprised me: Paul Dooley.
Who scored big: Pucci.
What bothered everyone: we could all guess the ending, sort of.
I have to say this, and I haven't seen every movie Dennis has made, but I keep hoping to see Dennis back in his "crazy as sh*t" jockey movies like The Right Stuff, and Inner Space. That was too long ago but I'm addicted to that and keep looking for it.
It completely fascinates me that there is this much discussion being blogged on this picture. Apparently, a lot of horror freaks were disappointed at the level of action/gore that wasn't. This really isn't scary, this is an "emo" movie -- but that's not a bad thing. I think it addresses a real issue. Sorry it freaked some of the more queasy among you. Yes, the story is unrealistic -- it couldn't have happened -- but let's be honest, okay, very little that we see on screen can and you didn't pay for reality you paid for something different.
One or two, I didn't read past the 3rd page of reviews, complained of "Christian message". Yeah, the movie-makers were very good at keeping true to the words of the bible and Paul Dooley did a very passable priest. Don't know why I don't give that actor more credit than I do, must be previous movies like Strange Brew.. I DO like how centered Dooley was in his role. I could see where Pucci's character could be focused on that message, and I liked how the priest could drive the nail in about love. This is a movie about love and priorities.. it's a movies for parents, not children, and not single people who are not thinking about being parents. I'm surprised no one by the end of the 3rd page of reviews got that: it's obvious the movie-makers did. And since comparisons with Se7en have been made, the latter being slightly more believable, the premise of that movie was crap. Religious nuts aren't that sophisticated. No, this is not a religious movie. Just a movie with a significant message.
The funny thing, to me (talking about movie-making), was that the first body was real but still managed to look like a mannequin (but, then, pictures of shark attack victims rarely look real to me). One reviewer thought it was fake. The movie was shot twice and still wasn't perfect like, say, Deliverance was. I can't put my finger on it, the movie possibly would have been more visceral on the big screen and with the presence of a large audience around the viewer.
Peter Stormare's character could have been developed more, including interaction with Zhang's character. I really don't understand why the outtakes were taken out. But, other than that, I can't say that there was not enough character development -- I do suspect, however, that a grumpy Dennis Quaid (and there are too many movies like this) tromping endlessly around does have somewhat of a nullifying effect. Needs more light, says this cook.