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openstorage — 19 years ago(August 17, 2006 09:42 PM)

Each miserable and tragic event was so utterly contrived, but for some reason you simply cannot hate the film for this! It is beautifuly horrific, totally joyless, soul sapping and depressing, but you cannot help but appreciate the film as a whole.
After watching I felt like I'd just stepped off the most violent gutchurning rollercoaster ride.
This is not entertainment, it's a unique experience, and essential viewing at least once in your lifetime.

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I loved every last nightmarishly horrible minute of this startling film. It's such a potent and unsettling cinematic meditation on death, mortality, and the tragic fragility of uncertain human existence.
I'm a totally bitchin' bio writer from Mars!

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I enjoyed enough moments in the film to stick with it, but no, it's not even close to being a great movie. The Gothic heavy handedness is tolerable and occasionally endearing, but there just weren't enough reasons to care about the characters, and as so often happens in movies like this, the filmmakers play all their cards too soon, squeezing the ambiguity out of the characters and reducing them to simplistic horror parodies. That said, the interactions involving Dolphin, the brother and the sheriff seemed surprisingly genuine, and the film could easily have salvaged itself with a better ending.

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Typical lame IMDb reply #703.
Anyone got anything
worthwhile
to add to the discussion?

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"It's not a great film"
Ok if you say so. Some people just don't get it.
I'm sure there are plenty of great films you can watch. Ever seen Police Acedamy 12?

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it's not a great film. What a horribly pretentious joke of an ending screaming up at the sky for what was that, about a full minute? Sheeeeeeeeeesh

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It gets you like that. Thats what makes it a truly great film. It's beautiful and horrid in the same moment. Brilliant.

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It was on TV last night quite late, and being a fan of Viggo I started watching it. My initial reaction was to also hate it, but gradually it started to get under my skin and I had to really force myself to go to bed about halfway through ( I need my sleep, lol!). Now I regret not watching the whole thing! What a strangely beautiful film.
Such drama! Are you sure you're not Greek?

  • Queen Diana (Roar)
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You described my reaction to the film exactlyI HATED this movie when I first rented it from the video storebut I still made a copy, thinking maybe I just didn't get it
More than a decade later, I watch it again and I LOVE itlike you loved playing with a loose tooth as a kid: the almost sweet pain, the sickly-sweet taste of your own blood

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I'll never watch a film like that again

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