Crimson Screens witnesses "The Descent"...
Crimson Screens witnesses "The Descent"...
I was pretty excited to see this movie, as I have read some positive things about it in the last few months. So it came out today and I went to see it...
It is about a group of six women who are heading out on a cave explortation trip. I guess it is supposed to be a bonding trip or something since one of them loses their daughter is a nasty car accident that opens the film. Well off they go into the cave. Soon enough they hear weird noises and see strange things and before you know it, they are stuck! Oh shit! It turns out that one of the women has made a huge error in judgement and now being stuck is even worse than they thought. And then strange creatures appear and things just get worse.
Ok, first, I would like to say whoever has been comparing this movie to "Alien" is a fucking retard. Just because a movie features a group of people stranded in a remote area, does not warrant comparisions to "Alien". I think every dumb asshole who works for a movie company wants to hurry up and throw another movie title on the poster so people are like, "Oh man, it's the new Alien! I have to see that!" Well only a moron would fall for that. How about letting a movie stand on it's own?
Anyway, the first hour or so of this movie is a build up to the inevitable arrival of the creatures. There is a lot of attempted character development too, so I guess you are supposed to care about the characters a lot when the bad stuff starts happening, but I really did not.
Once the chaos begins, the women are attacked by leech looking creatures that seemingly eat everything in their way. The creature designs are really cool, not too over the top. There is a lot of gore and splattering blood, but since the carnage takes place in a cave, it is minimally lit, so sometimes, someone may be dying horribly, but it doesn't neccessarily mean we will see it very clearly. There is a lot fo screaming and thrashing around too. Ha. Some of the gore highlights include throats ripped out, a neck slashing, a gross broken leg, eyes gouged out, climbing tools in the neck, climbing tools in the leg, climbing tools in the head and lots more.
The acting here is not bad, but it isn't amazing or anything. The lead actress looks a lot cooler covered in blood and rampaging through the cave than she does as a normal person, thats for sure.
The movie is paced pretty well, with not too many slow spots and there are actually a few decent scares throughout the film.
The one thing that pisses me off the most was one of the characters is revealed to be a total piece of shit, completely fucking over everyone (watch and you will see) and we wait the whole movie to watch her die and then when that times comes, we don't even get to see it! What the fuck?!?!?! We hear it, but no see. Stupid. She was annoying, shitty and a complete backstabber. I would have paid an extra $5 just to see her die.
My only other qualm with this movie is that at the very very end, there is a stupid "oh shit it's not over!" thing tacked on and those ending bug me, so I will deduct a few nice point for that slap in the face. I mean, the movie ended just fine, and then they have to go and put that on, like they are saying, "Hey asshole! You suck! Thanks for watching and we hope you loved this dumbass ending!"
But besides those two things, the movie isn't terrible. Hell, at least it isn't rated PG-13. I was going to give it a B, but now it get's a C, for the two things I talked about.
Not bad, but not good and there are much worse things you could do with your time. You know the deal...
Next update will include an angry Miami Vice review and some more horror stuff. Stay tuned...
I was pretty excited to see this movie, as I have read some positive things about it in the last few months. So it came out today and I went to see it...
It is about a group of six women who are heading out on a cave explortation trip. I guess it is supposed to be a bonding trip or something since one of them loses their daughter is a nasty car accident that opens the film. Well off they go into the cave. Soon enough they hear weird noises and see strange things and before you know it, they are stuck! Oh shit! It turns out that one of the women has made a huge error in judgement and now being stuck is even worse than they thought. And then strange creatures appear and things just get worse.
Ok, first, I would like to say whoever has been comparing this movie to "Alien" is a fucking retard. Just because a movie features a group of people stranded in a remote area, does not warrant comparisions to "Alien". I think every dumb asshole who works for a movie company wants to hurry up and throw another movie title on the poster so people are like, "Oh man, it's the new Alien! I have to see that!" Well only a moron would fall for that. How about letting a movie stand on it's own?
Anyway, the first hour or so of this movie is a build up to the inevitable arrival of the creatures. There is a lot of attempted character development too, so I guess you are supposed to care about the characters a lot when the bad stuff starts happening, but I really did not.
Once the chaos begins, the women are attacked by leech looking creatures that seemingly eat everything in their way. The creature designs are really cool, not too over the top. There is a lot of gore and splattering blood, but since the carnage takes place in a cave, it is minimally lit, so sometimes, someone may be dying horribly, but it doesn't neccessarily mean we will see it very clearly. There is a lot fo screaming and thrashing around too. Ha. Some of the gore highlights include throats ripped out, a neck slashing, a gross broken leg, eyes gouged out, climbing tools in the neck, climbing tools in the leg, climbing tools in the head and lots more.
The acting here is not bad, but it isn't amazing or anything. The lead actress looks a lot cooler covered in blood and rampaging through the cave than she does as a normal person, thats for sure.
The movie is paced pretty well, with not too many slow spots and there are actually a few decent scares throughout the film.
The one thing that pisses me off the most was one of the characters is revealed to be a total piece of shit, completely fucking over everyone (watch and you will see) and we wait the whole movie to watch her die and then when that times comes, we don't even get to see it! What the fuck?!?!?! We hear it, but no see. Stupid. She was annoying, shitty and a complete backstabber. I would have paid an extra $5 just to see her die.
My only other qualm with this movie is that at the very very end, there is a stupid "oh shit it's not over!" thing tacked on and those ending bug me, so I will deduct a few nice point for that slap in the face. I mean, the movie ended just fine, and then they have to go and put that on, like they are saying, "Hey asshole! You suck! Thanks for watching and we hope you loved this dumbass ending!"
But besides those two things, the movie isn't terrible. Hell, at least it isn't rated PG-13. I was going to give it a B, but now it get's a C, for the two things I talked about.
Not bad, but not good and there are much worse things you could do with your time. You know the deal...
Next update will include an angry Miami Vice review and some more horror stuff. Stay tuned...
posted by Crimson Screens at 11:40 AM
2 Comments:
Normally I'd agree with you about the tacked on ending, but in this case it worked for me. As I read the film, the whole subtext is about the main character working through her grief over the loss of her child and husband, and coming to terms with her backstabbing friend. I don't think the final "gotcha" was meant to imply that the horror wasn't over in a literal sense, but that the main character would have the backstabber's death weighing on her conscience despite more or less coming through everything else victorious.
My only real beef with the movie is all the action/violent scenes are shot in that 'Braveheart' "you are there" kind of style which I guess is supposed to heighten intensity or something. I just find it annoying. Still, overall I liked this movie a lot.
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