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In Reply to: "Wasn't even remotely scary" posted by clarkjohnsen on February 19, 2002 at 07:21:24:

Common Clark, do you really think that movie was scary? In what way? There wasn't one scene that could be remotely thought of as scary. Ok maybe the end but they just throw this guy into the wickerman and light it on fire? I don't know maybe I am thick skinned but my wife also didn't think it was scary at all.
Maybe I disliked this movie so much because I thought it was going to be scary and disturbing. The movie itself was just barely ok in my opinion. I didn't fall asleep and watched till the end but that's it. The only thing in it that was interesting was the naked dance by the daughter.:-)
To each his own.
Mr Vinyl

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Re: "Wasn't even remotely scary" - mikenyc 00:02:50 02/25/02 (0)
It is one of these films that was "scary", in the cerebral sense of the word. I found it very subtle, in creating the atmosphere of horror, sometimes is enough to work...sometimes not. It takes alot of things to come together, to have it work effectively.
It's one of them there "intellectual" films, like "Farenheit 451", "THX whatever the number is", "Collosus..The Forbin Project", "Day of The Dolphin", "Rage", etc.. Remarkably short on slash and blood and gore, heavy on making you use your noodle...
sometimes too much.
Depending on a person's threshold of what Horror is, sometimes this cerebral stuff is enough to put you under the sheets faster than Freddy Kruger ever could !!!
"Do you really think that movie was scary?" - clarkjohnsen 09:08:24 02/19/02 (4)
Is Hamlet scary?
What's with the need here to have a movie be scary? Or are you a teenage boy?
In film art, as in literature, one must put oneself into the position of the protagonist and experience the action on his behalf. So, was *he* scared? Plenty! Did his faith overcome his fear? Well...
And yes, I find Hamlet scary.
clark
- Re: "Do you really think that movie was scary?" - Mr Vinyl 10:07:51 02/19/02 (3)
  No need to have a film scary at all. Maybe I misunderstood but I thought someone listed this as the scariest movie they had seen. If it wasn't supposed to be scary then I misundersood. I will check out the archives.
  After 8 years of Clinton very little scares me anymore.
  Mr Vinyl
  - The difference is, after 8 years... - AuPh 00:09:18 02/21/02 (0)
    ... Clinton haters are still building straw men.
    NOW THAT'S SCARY! ;^)
    Audiophilander
  - Re: "Do you really think that movie was scary?" - chris 14:58:16 02/19/02 (1)
    Not to get too political here, but the scariest events of the past decade seem to have happened over the past 6 months.
    - You're absolutely correct! - AuPh 10:14:07 02/20/02 (0)
      This link from Outside says it all! ;^)
      Really bad Hobbits one should avoid.

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