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Cursed
(2004, PG-13)
OH COME ON PEOPLE! WHY DO YOU EVEN BOTHER WITH THIS SLOW BROW PIECE OF F**KING DOG SH... ok thats enough.
But seriously, not only does a modern day film fail in standards of special effects but the dull, slow paced, cliche, aggravating, overly stretched, predictable, ideotic, non-sensical, poorly directed and down right simple minded MTV style production going on for 1.5 hours isn't even worth 10 minutes... and while waiting for something better took away 45 minutes of my life I'm never getting back!
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Awww come on? How could you not like it on some level? It has so many. It's no masterpiece or key stone in special effects film but by Jehovah it's a classic cheesy fun flick. If you've ever seen modern backdrop monster movies then notice that this embodies all the conventions despite being the 20th film of it's genre. You've got the unoriginal male hero who despite his neglected background excesses in all there is to know about finding and fighting monster... for no given reason. There's also the female nurse esc character who OF BLOODLY COURSE screams in the heroes arms in almost every scene and yep, it's got all the predictable character: our ignorant boss figure, overlly retarded press, unhelpful public who just get in the way, the farmer whos looking for his lost dog but finds the monster and the good old clumsy military who can't aim and fire for shit... and the monster? Well I'm not sure what it is but does it matter? It came from Venus, "the planet Venus?", YES THE F**KING PLANET! So it doesn't have to make sense. Also notice that the monster only attacks when pissed off so in theory, if all the predictable above didn't do anything, it would of lived by humans in peace... sad...
In conclusion, this is the defination of retro monster movies, got to love the animation and of course the cliche unoriginal plotline. One of the very few films worth seeing despite it's poor quality.
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This teenage actoing lead film is simply just a poor atempt to pull in the MTV generation to the realms of complex twist based stories. However it results in a dull unoriginal build up simular to that of a 70s slasher flick but leaves the gore right out. Whats more by the end its got to have atleast 4 different twists, one on top of another which I'm sorry is not smart, just trying to hard. Maybe if this was shown to someone who loves film with rappers and wreslers as the leading role they MIGHT of thought it was smart, but no just predictable.
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Well I give this film a zero... but since it doesn't allow me to grade it that low, I'll just put a "Not Interested". Not only is the plot and character development cliche beyond predictable, the whole "doomsday" scenario completly lacks any scientific realism and is TO "Hollywood" for Hollywood.
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When every modern horror film comes out these days, you get little suspense, lack of realistic phobias and of course an overlly action Hollywood cast... and The Cave is no exception. Not only is the dialogue and character substance flat and generic, it has got to be the most predictable and cliche story line in the most recent years. I'm not kidding when I say if you've seen enough typical horror/action films then you will PERFECTLY foresee every single coming detail, whether that being the ending or order of characters' deaths...
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Leaving the dreaded video tap concept and choosing a poorly portrayed look at child abuse with an unoriginal twist, it still fits the genre and style of the first, as it can be so called, but further goes down a long slow path of non engaging dialogue and pittful scare tatics, leaving the viewer completly left out of the horror sense and feeling tired enough to make one feel like they've been injected with a heavy dose of elephant tranquilisors before hand.
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The good old "back in the days" films where extreme overuse of editting was heavily present instead of modern day special effects. Despite how it comes off market wise its sadly not a classic stop motion animation monster flick but instead on the tight budget an overlapping of frames so instead we see a real life tarantula walking over footage of "50s pleasentvile" town people screaming and running away from nothing. And the black and white monster dialogue inbetween the "poor editting action" is as cliche and untought of as ever... BRILLIANT! Yet there is an extent where one can be forgiving... not so much...
And you've got to love that poster!
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With a plot line so conventional and predictable, the viewer is left with little tension or suspense until the very end considering you'd have to be brain dead not to foresee how this would end. Past this major down fall, it held enough ground to pass the "watchable film barrier" with its random selection of characters involving odd outbursts of rage towards one another and a slight chance for some to get a minor chuckle or two... however its overlly Hollywood with an unoriginal backdrop.
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If you're expecting another Gladiator then turn elsewhere... not only does the dialogue run thin and unimagnative but even the so called epic battles are few and full of so many short shot durations and overlly done frame rate make it hard to structure. However the moral message is clear... religion does cause more problems than it helps.
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Bruce Willis still stands tall for his best played style of character... but the remaining cast brings down this film to the levels of poor psyco acting attempts and cliche children lead roles that makes this a one stand watch.
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Leaving out the horror of all the original monsters' films, packing in a low brow cast with flat dialogue, not to mention a story that butchers the classics... the CGI pretty good but not enough to hold water.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... Ok, I'm done... Aaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... but seriously, poor story, cliche dialogue, cheesy special effects and a cast that you'd want to perform fatalities on.
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