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Title: The Mothman Prophecies and trailers
Post by: Coredweller on January 26, 2002, 04:13:35 PM

I saw the movie The Mothman Prophecies today, and I was very impressed with it.  I enjoy stories like this that depict supernatural occurances in a more subtle, believable fashion.  Rather than using all sorts of wild optical effects and computer graphics to convey the unknown, they do it the old fashioned way.  They used suspense, uncertainty, and confusion to heighten the tension.  It\'s much scarier to hear a character describe something terrifying than it is to actually show the audience some fake CGI sequence using the same visual technology we\'re used to seeing in television commercials.  I also really like Laura Linney, and she plays an interesting character in this film.  I would recommend it to everyone.  What do you all think of it?

Before the film, they ran a trailer for the Resident Evil movie.  At first I didn\'t know what it was, and I thought, hmmm this is interesting.  A deadly virus is released within a top secret lab, etc. ... this story looks sort of like The Andromeda Strain or something, which is cool.  Then I saw some shots with Milla Jovovich, and I thought, wait a minute, I\'ve seen this before.  Overall, it seems like a dumb story, but it could be a good action film.  It all depends... who knows.

They also ran the teaser trailer for Blade 2, and it kicked ass as usual.  I think Wesley Snipes has finally found his perfect franchise.  I\'m looking forward to that one.

Title: The Mothman Prophecies and trailers
Post by: SER on January 26, 2002, 06:10:04 PM

Sounds cool, I wanted to see this movie too, but I read some reviews saying it was just an "OK" movie.. 7 bucks is hard to come by now you know. :)

Title: The Mothman Prophecies and trailers
Post by: Delphian on January 26, 2002, 08:19:30 PM

Wait, is it actually a good movie? Or were you impressed by it just because it wasn\'t quite as horrible as you originally feared it to be?

Title: The Mothman Prophecies and trailers
Post by: Coredweller on January 26, 2002, 08:38:01 PM

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Originally posted by Delphian
Wait, is it actually a good movie? Or were you impressed by it just because it wasn\'t quite as horrible as you originally feared it to be?

Which one are you talking about?

Title: The Mothman Prophecies and trailers
Post by: Delphian on January 27, 2002, 07:35:08 AM

er...Mothman. I have no hope for RE...or Blade for that matter.

Title: The Mothman Prophecies and trailers
Post by: Coredweller on January 27, 2002, 09:21:17 AM

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Originally posted by Delphian
er...Mothman. I have no hope for RE...or Blade for that matter.

Yes, The Mothman Prophecies was actually good.  I did not have any lowered expectation about it, and it was still good.

Title: The Mothman Prophecies and trailers
Post by: Samwise on January 28, 2002, 02:38:25 AM

Cool, thanks for the tip. I love movie tips from people whose opinion I can respect. :)

Title: The Mothman Prophecies and trailers
Post by: GmanJoe on January 28, 2002, 06:10:15 AM

It was like a long version of X-Files. Not a bad movie. Not everyone will like it though. It\'s based on a true story. I remember reading about the movie\'s ending (won\'t spoil it for you guys).

Title: The Mothman Prophecies and trailers
Post by: GmanJoe on January 28, 2002, 06:22:01 AM

BTW, the true story had "men in black" that were seen in the town of Point Pleasant during the "mothman" sightings. The movie is dated around the present time. The actual event was in 1967.

I read about it (mothman sightings) from those crazy UFO sighting books and stuff back in the 80\'s.