movie-The Descent[views:9469][posts:33]______________________________________ [Aug 5,2006 11:12pm - vomitthesoul ""] Anyone here seen this yet? Im gonna be seeing it tomorow.What are your opinions if you have seen it? |
| _____________________________ [Aug 6,2006 2:07am - OCR ""] it was ok it's no alien though |
| _____________________________ [Aug 6,2006 8:05am - nick ""] i downloaded this like two weeks ago expecting it to be awesome, but this movie was a little above mediocre, dont buy into the hype. the best part is the sense of claustrophobia you get when the cave collapses. you really dont get any feelings for any of the characters they are all pretty much interchangeable besides the spanish girl. i didnt get the whole part about the daughter and the birthday cake. the reasoning the main character has for turning on the spanish girl is completely unbelievable, and the homage to the movie 'carry' (however its spelled) was cute but unnecessary. the monsters are kind of gay looking and its pretty unbelievable that they hunt outside at night (or day? since they cant see), im pretty sure a bear would own like 20 of those things in the woods while they were hunting for food. the gore was cool though, the ending was gay. go see dog soldiers its way cooler. LOL SPOILERS. |
| ____________________________________________ [Aug 6,2006 9:57am - DrinkHardThrashHard ""] I saw the film, it was pretty good but it's probably not as good as critics are saying. I didn't take it that the movie was actually about the creatures in the cave though. For me, that wasn't what "The Descent" referred to, and I appreciate horror movies with subtext. I figured out the birthday cake, but I'm not going to say it here, too much of a spoiler. |
| ______________________________ [Aug 6,2006 12:06pm - blue ""] i thought it was pretty lame. the acting was uber sub par, the only decent thing was the gore. |
| ____________________________________________ [Aug 6,2006 2:26pm - DrinkHardThrashHard ""] I don't know, it's not really the type of film where actors get to shine... |
| _____________________________ [Aug 6,2006 3:17pm - nick ""] i think for a horror movie to have any impact there really needs to be at least one or two sympathetic characters that you can connect with. this movie didnt have that. |
| _________________________________ [Aug 6,2006 7:40pm - litacore ""] Wolf Creek freaked me out. That spine-severing scene--ICK! and there I was thinking she was gonna get away. How silly of me. |
| _________________________________________ [Aug 6,2006 9:24pm - Notorious_D.U.G. ""] I fucking loved it! It was so much fun. Yeah some of the scares were predictable but some of them got me good. The characters could've been a bit more fleshed out, but from the get go you knew that all you needed to know about was Juno and Sara. The daughter/cake thing was because the last thing she talked to her kid about was her birthday. As for Sara turning on Juno, it was completely apparent and believeable as to why she did it. The gore was great, the score was moody and fitting, the acting was tight enough for a bunch of relative unknowns. It was no Aliens, but it was top notch as far as horror goes these days. Neil Marshall is going to become the next big horror filmmaker. |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 6,2006 11:07pm - vomitthesoul ""] Just saw this a few hours ago.It was better than I thought it would be.The Saw 3 trailer looked SICK.It was so cool when Jigsaw said "Hello Boston,wanna play a game?" |
| ____________________________________ [Aug 6,2006 11:11pm - Hoser_NLI ""] Was a GREAT book. |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 6,2006 11:26pm - Chad Kroeger ""] The daughter/cake thing was because the last thing she talked to her kid about was her birthday. As for Sara turning on Juno, it was completely apparent and believeable as to why she did it. i actually just watched it again and yeah youre right its believable, i guess i missed the whole deal with the husband and juno when i first watched it hahaha. |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 6,2006 11:59pm - vomitthesoul ""] What you people think of the Wicker Man? The preview looked weak to me.And the preview for the Covenant looked even weaker |
| ____________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 12:10am - Kinslayer ""] This was based on a book? By whom? |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 2:02am - Y_Ddraig_Goch ""] The movie will join dog soldiers as one of my favorite creature horrors |
| _________________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 6:16am - Notorious_D.U.G. ""] I hope Neil MArshall actually makes his dream zombie movie soon. Outpost. It's a zomedie that takes place on an oil rig in the ocean or some shit. |
| _____________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 10:36am - PryoryofSyn ""] There's an amazing book called THE DESCENT by Jeff Long. I didnt see the movie but the book is nothing like it, it's much better, both characterwise, storyline, and just the whole scope of it. Also it has real, live SATAN in it, but he's not like those silly cinematic Al Pacino satans we see in movies. Those are gay. yeah, that was the scariest book I've read. if you like some Stephen King stuff, etc., check it out. |
| _____________________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 11:48am - DrinkHardThrashHard ""] Notorious_D.U.G. said:I hope Neil MArshall actually makes his dream zombie movie soon. Outpost. It's a zomedie that takes place on an oil rig in the ocean or some shit. That's actually a pretty good idea. Now, if he could only enlist Steven Seagal to arrive and kick the zombie terrorist ass. |
| _________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 1:14pm - duff138 ""] I saw the UK version a few months ago on DVD-R I thought it was decent. I wonder if there's any difference from the US release? Anyone know. |
| _________________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 3:29pm - Notorious_D.U.G. ""] Spizoiler yall. the ending is different in the US release. Right when Sarah sees Juno's ghost in the car it ends where in the UK it was a dream and she's still in the cave the the crawlers around her in the dark. |
| ____________________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 4:23pm - DrinkHardThrashHard ""] I have the UK version and it's far cooler. |
| _________________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 6:05pm - Notorious_D.U.G. ""] the extra 30 seconds at the end make it that much cooler? |
| __________________________________ [Aug 7,2006 11:32pm - Dankill ""] Saw it Sunday night. I liked it a lot and gave the shock factor a lot of credit. I think while they could have done more with the characters, they did a good job later on with Sarah and Juno. Both characters did stuff you expected,, then didn't expect and were filled with irony. Both were not as good or as bad as you expected. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 26,2009 1:16pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/ on syfy. want to watch, but I'm going to either find my DVD or download it. I used to do caving almost like what they are doing. |
| _________________________________ [Dec 26,2009 6:15pm - reimroc ""] the alternate ending was better than the theater ending. or is it the theater ending is better? i forget which one is which but one is definitely better than the other. |
| _________________________________________ [Dec 26,2009 8:34pm - TheRidersofDoom ""] Also, part 2 comes out soon in the UK |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 28,2009 6:04am - the_reverend ""] 1/2 way through it now. I've fallen asleep to it. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 28,2009 6:15am - the_reverend ""] whoah... the first enconter scene was shocking to say the least. |
| _______________________________ [Dec 28,2009 10:35am - Yeti ""] supposedly when the girl sees the creature for the first time her reaction is genuine. i guess when the script was offered to the actresses they were never told there were creatures in the cave, they thought it was about a group of lost explorers. this was a pretty cool movie, the DVD ending is fucking stupid, but i've heard the alternate ending is way better. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 21,2012 2:56pm - trioxin245 ""] watching this now. Characters are awful so far, nothing to them whatsoever, but the claustrophobic feel is definitely there. |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 21,2012 4:48pm - Randy_Marsh ""] There's a The Descent 2. So dumb. The tagline to it was something stupid like "They're going back in...Again" |
| ________________________________ [Oct 21,2012 5:02pm - KEVORD ""] I love the Descent. I actually bought a used dvd of it at a Blockbuster video in Scotland before it came out in the U.S.. I was pissed that they had changed the ending. Never saw the Descent 2. I should probably check it out. |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 21,2012 5:18pm - Randy_Marsh ""] I didn't like how the monsters were so humanoid looking. They could have made them so much more badass but instead they made them look bland and unoriginal. I will give it some credit that they create a good atmosphere within the movie but as I said the monsters were uninspiring. |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 21,2012 5:19pm - Randy_Marsh ""] Or it would have been cool if the monsters were undead Tony Lazaros |