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Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:04 pm
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Good review. Hmm... darn I was hoping this was going to be solid. The trailers look great. Perhaps i'll walk out at the 50 minute mark haha. I'll probably go see John Carter instead!


Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:09 pm
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I saw a midnight showing of this film. The ending of this movie is absolutely ludicrous, making the whole film seem like a vehicle that was designed to deliver scares rather than a well-conceived story. I'm willing to go into detail if anybody wants.


Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:38 pm
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jadedmoviegoer wrote:
I saw a midnight showing of this film. The ending of this movie is absolutely ludicrous, making the whole film seem like a vehicle that was designed to deliver scares rather than a well-conceived story. I'm willing to go into detail if anybody wants.

Please do. I was really intrigued by the premise of the this movie and I'm less than delighted to see that it doesn't deliver on its concept.


Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:22 pm
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Pedro wrote:
jadedmoviegoer wrote:
I saw a midnight showing of this film. The ending of this movie is absolutely ludicrous, making the whole film seem like a vehicle that was designed to deliver scares rather than a well-conceived story. I'm willing to go into detail if anybody wants.

Please do. I was really intrigued by the premise of the this movie and I'm less than delighted to see that it doesn't deliver on its concept.



Before I go into detail, I will say that SILENT HOUSE is only worth seeing in theaters so that you can hear the reactions of the audience. The danger is that your audience, like mine, will be a bunch of douche bags who will be disrespectful towards the movie. A few people in my audience actually smoked weed, which made the theater reek. With that said, I'm going to put my explanation in spoilers:

[Reveal] Spoiler:
So, the climax of the movie reveals that the attackers are actually Sarah's (Elisabeth Olsen) hallucinations. By now, this twist has become really overused. I've actually made a list of all the films I've seen where this trope is employed. I'm not sure which of them you've seen, so I won't list them here. Just try to remember all the films you've seen where large sections of the film or secondary characters are actually projections of the main character's troubled psyche. Even if this twist wasn't a cliche, it is contrived in such a way that all the events that take place before the reveal make no sense. Seriously, how can Sarah imagine she is being chased by home invaders and also incapacitate her relatives, who are in different parts of the house? Though the camera hovers close to Sarah, there is an argument to be made that we are witnessing the events from Sarah's unreliable point-of-view. However, unlike other, more effective psychodramas, there is very little evidence in the way this movie is shot that would indicate Sarah's perceptions are distorting reality. It isn't until the last 10-15 minutes that the filmmakers conjure up fantastical imagery, probably because they felt that they needed some of these types of shots to justify the reveal. Oh, by the way, I haven't even gone into the exploitative motive behind the attacks against Sarah's relatives, which is a topic for a different discussion.


Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:52 pm
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jadedmoviegoer wrote:
Pedro wrote:
jadedmoviegoer wrote:
I saw a midnight showing of this film. The ending of this movie is absolutely ludicrous, making the whole film seem like a vehicle that was designed to deliver scares rather than a well-conceived story. I'm willing to go into detail if anybody wants.

Please do. I was really intrigued by the premise of the this movie and I'm less than delighted to see that it doesn't deliver on its concept.



Before I go into detail, I will say that SILENT HOUSE is only worth seeing in theaters so that you can hear the reactions of the audience. The danger is that your audience, like mine, will be a bunch of douche bags who will be disrespectful towards the movie. A few people in my audience actually smoked weed, which made the theater reek. With that said, I'm going to put my explanation in spoilers:

[Reveal] Spoiler:
So, the climax of the movie reveals that the attackers are actually Sarah's (Elisabeth Olsen) hallucinations. By now, this twist has become really overused. I've actually made a list of all the films I've seen where this trope is employed. I'm not sure which of them you've seen, so I won't list them here. Just try to remember all the films you've seen where large sections of the film or secondary characters are actually projections of the main character's troubled psyche. Even if this twist wasn't a cliche, it is contrived in such a way that all the events that take place before the reveal make no sense. Seriously, how can Sarah imagine she is being chased by home invaders and also incapacitate her relatives, who are in different parts of the house? Though the camera hovers close to Sarah, there is an argument to be made that we are witnessing the events from Sarah's unreliable point-of-view. However, unlike other, more effective psychodramas, there is very little evidence in the way this movie is shot that would indicate Sarah's perceptions are distorting reality. It isn't until the last 10-15 minutes that the filmmakers conjure up fantastical imagery, probably because they felt that they needed some of these types of shots to justify the reveal. Oh, by the way, I haven't even gone into the exploitative motive behind the attacks against Sarah's relatives, which is a topic for a different discussion.

Man I hate those types of endings, that sounds like something you'd expect Shyamalan to pull out of hiss.


Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:57 pm
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Vexer wrote:
Before I go into detail, I will say that SILENT HOUSE is only worth seeing in theaters so that you can hear the reactions of the audience. The danger is that your audience, like mine, will be a bunch of douche bags who will be disrespectful towards the movie. A few people in my audience actually smoked weed, which made the theater reek. With that said, I'm going to put my explanation in spoilers:

[Reveal] Spoiler:
So, the climax of the movie reveals that the attackers are actually Sarah's (Elisabeth Olsen) hallucinations. By now, this twist has become really overused. I've actually made a list of all the films I've seen where this trope is employed. I'm not sure which of them you've seen, so I won't list them here. Just try to remember all the films you've seen where large sections of the film or secondary characters are actually projections of the main character's troubled psyche. Even if this twist wasn't a cliche, it is contrived in such a way that all the events that take place before the reveal make no sense. Seriously, how can Sarah imagine she is being chased by home invaders and also incapacitate her relatives, who are in different parts of the house? Though the camera hovers close to Sarah, there is an argument to be made that we are witnessing the events from Sarah's unreliable point-of-view. However, unlike other, more effective psychodramas, there is very little evidence in the way this movie is shot that would indicate Sarah's perceptions are distorting reality. It isn't until the last 10-15 minutes that the filmmakers conjure up fantastical imagery, probably because they felt that they needed some of these types of shots to justify the reveal. Oh, by the way, I haven't even gone into the exploitative motive behind the attacks against Sarah's relatives, which is a topic for a different discussion.

Man I hate those types of endings, that sounds like something you'd expect Shyamalan to pull out of hiss.[/quote]

I actually saw a really good foreign film last year that executed this twist really well.


Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:52 pm
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