Dehydrator
09-21-2001, 03:00 AM
I watched this movie last Night in rather stoned mode and then again, two hours ago. I've heard so many good things about this one, a friend of mine even had the guts to say that it's the best 90's teen slasher, after SCREAM of course. Having watched it now twice, I gotta disagree :
SPOILER ALERT!
How to Hell gets the Killer to choose his Victims? How does he know who's a Virgin and who not? If you wanted to deflorate your Girlfriend and you know her Parents are strictly against it, would you try it 2 meters from their house? When they are at home? When you have a car? Come on!
Jody doesn't reckognize the Killer when he/she's chasing her through the empty high school ( and WOW...that's one big and long highschool floor), even when he/she's standing right before her? How can that be?
I know he has that goofy hairpiece that makes him look like Joey Ramone but fuck ya, this is just impossible to ALWAYS hide his face, since he's gotta see something as well.
-I hated the fucking soap-oparistic moments of what the filmmakers thought of being "typical teen dialogue". What's up with Jody first turning down on Danny and then...Then he turns her down??? Where's their fucking problem? Scenes like that made me want to throw something on the Screen.
-This movie has way too many "nods" to other movies for my liking. Just to name a few : "Evil Dead" ( when the Sherrif walks down the stairs into the cellar, very similar), "NOES" ( a LOT of fuckin' nods, the most appearent being the confession of Jody's Mother about the Past beings ), or "Psycho" the weird, "I'll dress up like my mother tha make ya all Bastards paaaaayyy"-motivation. The Characters weren't that involing either. Who is Marc again? What's up with the guy who thinks this is all "somehow cool"? WTF??? I don't get it. I also don't get why the Students run away from the Killer at the Orgy since he's only armed with a Knife and there are like Hundreds of them. Should be a pretty easy match. Instead they rather kill themselves in mass-panic. Whatever...
But there were some things about the movie that I liked as well:
The Scene of the Sherrif investigating the old House in West Virginia...brrrrr! I loved the payoff of this scene, even though it leads the movie nowhere but it's one hell of a creepy scene. The scene where the Cops describe to the Sherrif how the first murder happened. Nailed Alive....brrr! The Teens at the school were fun, their battlecry before the Orgy had me howling. The Slut's monologue was GREAT! And some of the Dialogue kicked ass too : "What's in that crate?" - "Your Father! Or..... Mine, whatever...".
All in All, I expected way more. Maybe it's better that I haven't seen Urban Legends 2. How would I bitch about a movie of THAT quality if I can't even appreciate a movie like Cherry Falls? What did you think of it?
4/10
SPOILER ALERT!
How to Hell gets the Killer to choose his Victims? How does he know who's a Virgin and who not? If you wanted to deflorate your Girlfriend and you know her Parents are strictly against it, would you try it 2 meters from their house? When they are at home? When you have a car? Come on!
Jody doesn't reckognize the Killer when he/she's chasing her through the empty high school ( and WOW...that's one big and long highschool floor), even when he/she's standing right before her? How can that be?
I know he has that goofy hairpiece that makes him look like Joey Ramone but fuck ya, this is just impossible to ALWAYS hide his face, since he's gotta see something as well.
-I hated the fucking soap-oparistic moments of what the filmmakers thought of being "typical teen dialogue". What's up with Jody first turning down on Danny and then...Then he turns her down??? Where's their fucking problem? Scenes like that made me want to throw something on the Screen.
-This movie has way too many "nods" to other movies for my liking. Just to name a few : "Evil Dead" ( when the Sherrif walks down the stairs into the cellar, very similar), "NOES" ( a LOT of fuckin' nods, the most appearent being the confession of Jody's Mother about the Past beings ), or "Psycho" the weird, "I'll dress up like my mother tha make ya all Bastards paaaaayyy"-motivation. The Characters weren't that involing either. Who is Marc again? What's up with the guy who thinks this is all "somehow cool"? WTF??? I don't get it. I also don't get why the Students run away from the Killer at the Orgy since he's only armed with a Knife and there are like Hundreds of them. Should be a pretty easy match. Instead they rather kill themselves in mass-panic. Whatever...
But there were some things about the movie that I liked as well:
The Scene of the Sherrif investigating the old House in West Virginia...brrrrr! I loved the payoff of this scene, even though it leads the movie nowhere but it's one hell of a creepy scene. The scene where the Cops describe to the Sherrif how the first murder happened. Nailed Alive....brrr! The Teens at the school were fun, their battlecry before the Orgy had me howling. The Slut's monologue was GREAT! And some of the Dialogue kicked ass too : "What's in that crate?" - "Your Father! Or..... Mine, whatever...".
All in All, I expected way more. Maybe it's better that I haven't seen Urban Legends 2. How would I bitch about a movie of THAT quality if I can't even appreciate a movie like Cherry Falls? What did you think of it?
4/10