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DVD Review: The House of Usher

post #1 of 10
6/17/08 at 2:37pm
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http://chud.com/articles/articles/15...HER/Page1.html
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post #2 of 10
6/17/08 at 4:26pm
Nice work, once again. Thanks again for taking yet another one for the team. I re-read "Fall of the House of Usher" about a year ago, and was surprised at how short a story it actually was. Much shorter than I remembered it from my first childhood reading. If it were written today, with economy of language more prevalent over flowery, romantic era prose, it would be even shorter. I can't really imagine anyone making a feature length film out of this and not having it feel strained and laden with tacked on scenes to get it to the proper length.
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post #3 of 10
6/17/08 at 5:23pm
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Thanks, Ig. Appreciated, as always.

Honestly, this film is awful. It's just so listless, and it drags on for what feels like an eternity. At about 10 minutes in, I thought to myself, "Man...this is going to be a rough one." Then I looked at the clock on my DVD player and saw that I still had well over an hour to go, and a little part of me died.
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post #4 of 10
6/17/08 at 5:42pm
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post #5 of 10
6/17/08 at 5:45pm
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Nice one, Minsky. I really wanted to go with an Usher joke in the review, but couldn't come up with anything good. Next time, I'll know to contact you.
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post #6 of 10
6/17/08 at 5:49pm
That was supposed to be a "GUESS THE MOVIE!!" puzzle. I guess it's kind of obvious in hindsight.
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post #7 of 10
6/18/08 at 2:03am
I thought I recognized this and sure enough... http://chud.com/articles/articles/11...THE/Page1.html. And you're right... forgettable
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post #8 of 10
6/18/08 at 9:45am
Wow, this sounds pretty bad. I remember when I was 12, for whatever reason, they showed us the original Vincent Price Fall of the House of Usher in school, and it always stuck with me.
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post #9 of 10
6/18/08 at 10:53am
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Originally Posted by Starving Dog View Post
I thought I recognized this and sure enough... http://chud.com/articles/articles/11...THE/Page1.html. And you're right... forgettable
Wow...your score was WAY more forgiving than mine. This was just interminable for me, and I found almost nothing redeeming in this film.
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post #10 of 10
6/18/08 at 4:23pm
Yeah, I already got rid of the DVD if that tells you anything about how I ended up feeling about it. I thought the acting was decent and I love Beth Grant in almost everything she does. The story was eh...

I think it got a better rating than it deserved because some of what I reviewed around it was HORRIBLE - Boy Eats Girls, Dorm of the Dead, Feast of Flesh, Severed Head Network - Anything looks good compared to those DVDs.
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