Jennifer Sky's love scene
Added 1/12/2010
This is for the special edition r2 pal. What you all realy want to know is about her nude scene. The multi angle mode durring the "interactive" view is the only way to see the entire scene. However unlike other movies that show the alternate angles "full screen", it is shown in a small screen to the left of the preview thumbnails. Zoom was disabled on my machine too so that is not an option either. They would have done better to just shoot a complete "B" movie type sex scene. Not impressed. Waste of time. Don't know if the ntsc version is any different. It is too bad I had to buy it to find out. People! the plot synopsis is a useless review. We need "extensive" info on the dvd it's self. Extra's ect.
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Predictable and not so compelling
Added 8/13/2009
Basic flick about a bunch of 20-somethings who agree to participate in a reality-internet show with the goal to stay in a house for 6 months and win a prize. Not surprisingly, the seeming innocuousness turns to sadistic/voyeuristic side of human nature quickly. All in all, the movie is at best average. The concept isn't all that creative, and the production values are subpar (but this is partly due to the footage that is supposed to be from webcams). The acting is ok though, and the character development is surprisingly decent. I just didn't find the story to be particularly compelling or interest-maintaining.
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I still don't know if I liked it.
Added 7/28/2009
My Little Eye (Marc Evans, 2002)
Derivative, and yet somehow gripping, movie. At least, it is until the last ten minutes, when everything goes to hell in a handbasket. I've read Jodi Picoult novels with subtler, more surprising ending plot twists. And it does take a bit of time to really get going. So we'll say the middle seventy-five minutes are well worth watching.
Plot: five twentysomethings are part of a reality webcast: Matt (Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Sean CW Johnson), Rex (Ginger Snaps' Kris Lemche), Danny (Penny Dreadful's Stephen O'Reilly), Emma (Dead Silence's Laura Regan), and Charlie (Shallow Hal's Jennifer Sky). They have to live in a secluded house in the woods in the dead of winter for six months, at which point each of them who hasn't left will get a million bucks. We open a couple of days before the end of the period. Tensions are high, but the end is in sight. Everything is jeopardized by the arrival of a stranger in their midst, Travis Patterson (Bradley Cooper, recently of The Hangover and The Midnight Meat Train). Patterson unwittingly plays on the existing tensions, as well as answering questions from the cast that lead them to believe that things may not be as they seem, including Travis himself.
The original cut of the movie, according to IMDB, was over four hours long, and I'm actually kind of interested to see it; the middle seventy-five minutes are handled well enough that I wonder if they could pull it off. There's a good chance, though, that at least part of the two and a half hours cut are of the interminable setup; the first ten minutes of this movie seem longer than the rest of it.
Oh, and then there is the ending. Every possible bad decision that the scriptwriter could have made is showcased in the final ten minutes of this movie. Imagine the silliest ending you possibly could for this movie. You'll either get it, or you'll get something even scarier. (Or, better, you could just imagine the ending to Ring Around the Rosie grafted onto this ending. It's actually better, which is the most disturbing thing I can think of to say about this.)
I'm still not exactly sure how to rate this. I hated the first ten minutes. I hated the last ten minutes. But the seventy-five in between worked in every way. What can you do with something like that? I give it the gentleman's C, and will let the viewer decide. ***
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Definitely better than some of these high budget horror films. Enjoyed it the two times I've seen it.
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Something beginning with aaargh!
Added 4/21/2009
Blair Witch meets Lord of the Flies meets Videodrome meets Big Brother. Phew! quite a hootenanny. The first hour of this movie is more psychosocial study than horror movie. The group of damaged young people living in the isolated house in the hope of sharing a million dollar prize get on each others' nerves, bicker incessantly, and lust unrequitedly. This part of the film is less successful than the final half hour in which the mayhem finally kicks off. It's during the last week of their six-month incarceration that the true reason for their being there is revealed, and during which the nastiness rapidly escalates. The audience's viewpoint alternates between the numerous webcams inside the house, including night vision cameras, and the conventional camera of the film maker. This technique is effective at producing an intimacy and urgency to the drama. Unfortunately the final resolution is something of a letdown. But this is still quite entertaining and should at least moderately satisfy most fans of the genre.
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Jennifer Sky's love scene
Added 1/12/2010
This is for the special edition r2 pal. What you all realy want to know is about her nude scene. The multi angle mode durring the "interactive" view is the only way to see the entire scene. However unlike other movies that show the alternate angles "full screen", it is shown in a small screen to the left of the preview thumbnails. Zoom was disabled on my machine too so that is not an option either. They would have done better to just shoot a complete "B" movie type sex scene. Not impressed. Waste of time. Don't know if the ntsc version is any different. It is too bad I had to buy it to find out. People! the plot synopsis is a useless review. We need "extensive" info on the dvd it's self. Extra's ect.
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Predictable and not so compelling
Added 8/13/2009
Basic flick about a bunch of 20-somethings who agree to participate in a reality-internet show with the goal to stay in a house for 6 months and win a prize. Not surprisingly, the seeming innocuousness turns to sadistic/voyeuristic side of human nature quickly. All in all, the movie is at best average. The concept isn't all that creative, and the production values are subpar (but this is partly due to the footage that is supposed to be from webcams). The acting is ok though, and the character development is surprisingly decent. I just didn't find the story to be particularly compelling or interest-maintaining.
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I still don't know if I liked it.
Added 7/28/2009
My Little Eye (Marc Evans, 2002)
Derivative, and yet somehow gripping, movie. At least, it is until the last ten minutes, when everything goes to hell in a handbasket. I've read Jodi Picoult novels with subtler, more surprising ending plot twists. And it does take a bit of time to really get going. So we'll say the middle seventy-five minutes are well worth watching.
Plot: five twentysomethings are part of a reality webcast: Matt (Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Sean CW Johnson), Rex (Ginger Snaps' Kris Lemche), Danny (Penny Dreadful's Stephen O'Reilly), Emma (Dead Silence's Laura Regan), and Charlie (Shallow Hal's Jennifer Sky). They have to live in a secluded house in the woods in the dead of winter for six months, at which point each of them who hasn't left will get a million bucks. We open a couple of days before the end of the period. Tensions are high, but the end is in sight. Everything is jeopardized by the arrival of a stranger in their midst, Travis Patterson (Bradley Cooper, recently of The Hangover and The Midnight Meat Train). Patterson unwittingly plays on the existing tensions, as well as answering questions from the cast that lead them to believe that things may not be as they seem, including Travis himself.
The original cut of the movie, according to IMDB, was over four hours long, and I'm actually kind of interested to see it; the middle seventy-five minutes are handled well enough that I wonder if they could pull it off. There's a good chance, though, that at least part of the two and a half hours cut are of the interminable setup; the first ten minutes of this movie seem longer than the rest of it.
Oh, and then there is the ending. Every possible bad decision that the scriptwriter could have made is showcased in the final ten minutes of this movie. Imagine the silliest ending you possibly could for this movie. You'll either get it, or you'll get something even scarier. (Or, better, you could just imagine the ending to Ring Around the Rosie grafted onto this ending. It's actually better, which is the most disturbing thing I can think of to say about this.)
I'm still not exactly sure how to rate this. I hated the first ten minutes. I hated the last ten minutes. But the seventy-five in between worked in every way. What can you do with something like that? I give it the gentleman's C, and will let the viewer decide. ***
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