Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by sjb (A) on July 27, 2005 at 19:38:27

In Reply to: Lots seized on the women part of my commentary which was just posted by tinear on July 27, 2005 at 18:51:27:

And the reason the aliens were so dull/simple when we finally saw them was to drive the home the idea that the technology of killing, the ability to do it in such a detached way, can turn even the docile into remorseless killers.

That said, I thought it pretty much sucked in it's execution but not because of those things (in fact those things are what gave it the potential to be interesting and maybe even provocative). It sucked because it was sooooooo unreal in ways that could've and should've been more real if we were going to identify with the one person and feel the threat of our own technology without being taken out of the movie.

Things like the turbines of the crashed jet still spinning the next morning (or of a commercial jet flying the day after the whole world has been EMF'd and attacked by aliens). Like the son going over the hill and having the whole hillside blow up like the tree line in Apocalypse now but he gets to Boston before them. Like thier finding a clear path through every bit of highway littered with conked out cars and hysterical people (or through the jet crash debris). I mean, at least make it an off road vehicle and have them use it that way. I also never felt like TC was really those childrens' father. Never felt that bon. And the capper of ridiculousness was the mother's family coming to the door of the pristine street in Boston like they wer just about to sit down to a Sunday night lamb dinner. I mean the whole world is in flames except for one street in Boston where nobody even seems shaken up.

There were several more things like these but thankfully I've forgotten them.

Anyway, it seems like you're picking on the movie for the wrong reasons.

"Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"