For those that have, I am sure once you get past the 'Tales From the Dark Side' style cheesy/corny first 30 minutes, I thought it started getting interesting. Once I saw the tenticales from the mist I was really hoping it was about Cthulhu - no such luck... anyway as the plot developed with the Christian overtones and the references to Jimmy Jones and the other such fevers was enthralling...
but what really got me was when the few 'escaped' and where in the truck... and then I heard...
Lisa Gerard.
Dead Can Dance.
My jaw dropped. My eyes where stuck to the screen. I have a naked passed out piece of ass on one side of me - a savory plate of breaded chicken wings on the other side me - a glass of Shiraz in my hand... but all I could pay attention to was Dead Can Dance, my eyes transfixed on the screen... shots fired... the agony ... the music... the visual... wow.
Lisa Gerard's voice does that to me I guess 4 OUTA 5 STARZ I SAY!
I thought the ending was exceedingly stupid. There weren't even any freaking monsters around. The sucker could have at least waited a few fucking hours. Or tried to find another vehicle.
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Thrash wrote ...
I thought it was, well, ok at best ... I didn't like the ending, it was weak ...
Weak? They explained earlier on that the 'military' or whatever opened the gate... for the characters we where following everything looked bleak, like it was never going to end, so instead of being ripped apart by trans-dimensional giant bugs, they would rather be shot, then EVIDENTLY it seemed the same said organization closed the gate... leaving our hero to live in his own personal hell after killing his child... not a happy ending. I loved it. Best un-happy ending since Romeo is Bleeding (nutha post)
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I watched this again 'cause my girl hadn't seen it - and I stick to my first review. Maybe I just have a hard-on for Dead Can Dance (music at the end) but she agreed with me.
they never explained how they opened 'the gate' so they didn't have to explain how it was closed - by the hazmat suits and the flame throwers.... it is understood that they are exterminating whatever remnants of the creatures are being destroyed... that wasn't the story however... the story was how humans (people) react under pressure and unfamiliar or perilous situations, and the decisions they make - I found it compelling,
That and the whole Dead Can Dance thing. God I love her voice
so, there's two different kinds of sci-fi. one type goes to great lengths to make the science "work". they usually spend at LEAST one monologue explaining a plausible set of tracks for the movie to run on. Think of the film @ the beginning of Jurrasic Park, and the comments made by the DinoDoc throughout the film.
Then, there are other movies that don't worry about it. They set a sciency premise, and it's up to you to make it work if you care about it.
Sounds to me like this movie falls into the second variety.
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Absolutly. Current generations have access to information about anything via the largest reference library on this planet that they forget that watching a film or reading a book is about entertainment and story telling, and they have lost the suspension of dis-belief. If the ancients had the internet there would be no myth today.
