The Eye

this movie was the most over-rated of this year.

How so ?

I thought this was good not as good as alot of the hype would have you belive and anything after the "My chair" sequence just didnt scare me. The ending was really sweet thou!


Now try one of Ju-On's or Uzumaki Or Just go balls out and get one of Guinea Pig's series (which is a diffrent kind of horror, ooooooooo) films, if that's what you want to call it...

I commented on this one in the dvd thread (lost somewhere in the shuffle). Not the most over-rated film of the year, but the hype that preceeds this film is too strong for its own good.

The Pang Bros. have a definite vision and voice. They're storytelling, however, is predictable and the third act "investigation" (ala The Ring) felt out of place. All of the sequences with the ghosts were skin-crawling, that's for sure.

the potential this had is undeniable.. thats for sure

but the last act didnt just "fall out of place" .. it fell apart altogether.
its one thing to maybe confuse the pacing of the flick and elicit a few yawns from the audience; but to lose them completely in the final act of the movie is a bit much. it was plodding, predictable and cliched. i dont even remember what happened in the end, except that i didnt care either way.

thats the kind of thing that relegates the movie from the "decent" category, into the "failed" category. i dont think its even recommendable. As an exercise in studying horror movies or something, perhaps.. or to watch the ghost sequences, which were indeed undeniably scary, but if youre expecting a complete and satisfying movie experience? i dont think so.

and the hype this had? i dont get it. cruise-wagner bought the rights? thats hype, man. if youd only seen the first half.. sure.. id be raving myself.. but the ending was bad enough to make you immediately forget any clever bits earlier on.

I also commented on this in some of the disappeared threads...

Put me in the "underwhelmed" category too. While no one (well, almost no one) will deny the creepiness of the ghost scenes (my favorites were the first apparition, when her eyesight is still blurry and she has no way of knowing whether it's a real person or not, and the woman and her child at the food stand ), it really lost its steam at the end for me and became a ver "western" movie, in a bad way imo.

But it's a long standing problem I have with many ghost story movies, that once the "mystery" of the haunting is solved it pretty much defuses all of the tension that had built up till then. Sure, there's the big slam-bang ending, but for me it lacked punch and disappointed the promise of all that had come before.

And I must be the only person on the boards who wasn't that bothered by the elevator scene. I guess I just figured by that point that the ghosts weren't going to hurt her, so the tension was, as I say, defused.

There's some good stuff in the movie, and I'm interested to see more from the Pang Brothers, but for me this one rates a solid "eh."

Exactly. And even if the suspense is drawn until the film's final moments it's a 50/50 chance that the conclusion will even be able to equal all of the build-up.

That's one of the things that Ringu/Ring did oh-so-right, imo. You THOUGHT the tension was defused, and then...

I definitely thought the ending was the weakest part. I felt like the previous ghost scenes had built great suspense until the ending - then I ALMOST lost interest in how it concluded. Basically, it felt like they had a fantastic idea but no ending - and then someone from outside gave them a tack on conclusion.

You said it better than I could.

Which is exactly why I am sending you the Ju-On movies. Heh...you aren't going to get any relief from the tension there.

Yea Ju-on (and the like) is terrority I am hesitant to walk into. Because I will just freak the heck out.

I figure I will watch it with others but I will need a R1 version for that...

Be my Valentine.

Before you say that, you are aware that I have birthed the anti-christ right?


PH33R!!!


*ahem*

...and now it's time for my Ju-On impression.

Person: "I've figured out the cause of your torment!!"

Ghost: "Yeah...that's great...now fucking DIE!"

Thank you, thank you *takes a bow*

You can see the end of the world as we know it through the looking glass of his eyes...

Third act felt weird. It's like a different movie.

third act felt like Mothgere Prophecies.

... and that movie would be The Mothman Prophecies

I love The Eye even though I hated the ending. As it's been said a million times before, it just felt very tacked on and out of place. However I enjoyed the rest of the movie enough that I am perfectly willing to overlook that.

The blurred vision scenes in the hospital is stuff literally straight out of my nightmares so that obviously had a pretty good affect on me. In the majority of my nightmares (the ones that I remember anyways) I am looking for or trying to get away from someone or something, but I can't because I can't see. Everything in these dreams looks exactly like her blurred vision in the beginning.

Edit: Damn you Disciple! I step away for just a couple of minutes while writing this to test one of my burns and you beat me to it.

Yoinks! you snooze, you lose.

It definitely does feel a lot like Mothman though. Too much similarity to be coincidence. But I don't know which was made first, Eye or Mothman. Imdb says both were 2002...

Well, the incident at the end of The Mothman Prophecies actually occured and the books been in print since the 70's so any claims of its infringing The Eye are probably moot. That said, as it's a factual incident, it's fair dibs. Although you can also see similarituies to the inferno through NYC at the start of Independence Day's second act.

Both Mothman... and The Eye are special to me. Good, solid fun.

I'm a big fan of The Eye (soggy third act and all). I love the first two thirds of the film and I am happy with the final "disaster". Yes, the film is a Sixth Sense clone with a Mothman ending. It just is. However, it is so well made and effective up to and just after the Thai trip that I forgive it those transgressions.


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It's, like, metaphorical and symbolic, man...

I hate seeing The Eye compared to The Sixth Sense. Yes they are both "I see dead people" movies, but that is, to me, where the similarities end. They go in two completely different directions from there. The Eye is far superior as a horror film...especially considering that The Sixth Sense isn't scary...at all. The story for The Sixth Sense was tighter, but overall I think that The Eye improved upon their shared basic premise.

The difference being, The Sixth Sense's story wasn't about the child seeing dead people per se, it was about Bruce Willis, hence the immense irony of the ending.

Great movie, but see my ghost story gripes above.

I'll keep pimping this till everyone has seen it:
Ghostwatch .

Worth going region free for, by itself alone.

I don't know, sure the overall impact is lessened, but like The Haunting, it's still got some superbly horrifying moments that rely on solid visual and audio mastery who's impact never lessens, for me.

God damn...what more do you want from me boy?

Sign yourself up for a copy of The Woman in Black in the other topic. Good, creepy ghost story right there. There is an incredible trapped and isolated feeling that lends a lot to the mood. I could send you another movie mentioned a couple of posts back too...Ghostwatch.

I'll agree with The Haunting . But of course it doesn't have the "explain-it-away" diffusion I was complaining about.

That movie just rocks faces. Scariest G-rated movie EVAR.