Went to see White Noise

the grudge was better

Saw it yesterday and with the exception of the usual morons with cell phones and idiotic teens laughing at stuff that should be laughed at, I enjoyed it. *grumbles* I swear one of these days I'm going postal in the theater.

Hey we need to get together and go on a kill rude theater goers spree. LOL

One time when I went to see a movie there was this man and woman sitting about a row down from me. They were talking, well, pretty much constantly so about half way through the film I go down and say, "Excuse me, but could you please stop talking. I'm trying to watch a movie and I don't like hearing you talk. Please stop."

Then the woman says, "I'm sorry but my son here is slightly mentally handicapped and can't control when he talks sometimes."

The bitch pulled a guilt trip on me and I said I was sorry and walked away. They quieted down but still. If the guy can't control his speech and he's going to keep talking then why come to the movie? Why sit near people? WTF?

i really hate people.

Why do movies like the Grudge and White Noise Draw the worst crowds? I was trapped in a theater full litttle Teens running around with there little girlfriend/boyfriends. Why can't they just sit down, shut up and watch the dam movie?!?!? I have never seen so many people have to get up and go to the bathroom in my entire life. I swear this group of 4 people in front of me must have went to the bathroom at least 8 times.

Then the little bastards decided to play with Cell phones the remainder of the time. (between bathroom breakes of course) Picture this, about five little bitch ass Teens sitting right in front of you, the one on the far end writes a mesage on his new Motorola X34838434834582345832945 or what ever the fuck it is. He then passes it down the the line for the others to read. The one on the other end then writes a mesage and sends it back. This went on for far too long.

Count me in on the rebelion against the savage movie goers!

You went to see White Noise too? I'm sorry.
I had an old crusty guy sit next to me who I thought was going to die of a heart attack the whole time. He turned to me at one point after the 23 millionth jump scare and said, "That'd fill your britches wouldn't it?" It was the only point in the movie where I enjoyed myself. Well, the credits at the beginning were cool.
Oh well....at least we have Alone in the Dark to look forward to.... *cries*

Chuck

... and the snowball rolls and grows


I'm not even sure what WHITE NOISE is rated, but this group of poeple we're talking about have become the target audience for all the shit horror being released ....... They don't care, they are ignorant and immature and they can get in to a PG-13 film ....

Now, I have nothing against PG films or films with subtle / nongraphic violence ( ie TOURIST TRAP, PSYCHO ) however, it is a REALLY bad sign when a film is made with this target audience in mind .....

I long for the days when a film like MANIAC could reach a local theater ........

Not all horror is good

lol.. you're from philly? which theater was it? haha.. most of them.. you probably should've had a gun.

I don't know.. between the small screens & commercials at the beginning & now some theaters actually make you sit in assigned seats.. & $9/$10 a pop.. fuck it.

my story: I was going to see boogie nights at the ritz 12.. which is actually an arty theater around philly/south jersey. some jocks show up & are totally shouting/cackling over the beginning of the film.. like dogs locked in a car or something.

so I take it for awhile.. but i'm getting madder & madder. finally I turn around & i'm like "shut the fuck up motherfuckers". most of them shut up surprisingly.. but this one dude gets in my face.

both our girlfriends are like: "stop, stop".. so we both cool down. watch the rest of the movie without incident.

now it's dark in the theater obviously & I saw these guys were wearing lettered jackets.. but I really couldn't see them. not clearly.

so anyway.. when the lights come on at the end & i'm leaving I see it's like 4 guys.. & they were like linebackers or defensive linemen or some shit. just huge motherfuckers.

so haha.. I nearly wrote a check I couldn't cash. good thing I/he decided to shut the fuck up (I mean.. good thing for me).

sean

It has nothing to do with what the movie is rated, I've been to R-rated movies that are the same and G-rated movies that are not as bad. I went to see the Dawn of the Dead remake and had to get up and move because the "adults" sitting right behind me wouldn't shut up.

So seriously how is White Noise?

saw and the grudge are better

I still haven't seen the movie (i'll probably go next weekend), but I know what you guys mean about annoying people in theaters. I remember going to see I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (yeah, I know....) and having to put up with constant talking. This one guy kept talking and talking, amusing himself and the two girls he was with. Finally, someone asked him to shut up, and he said, "Why? This movie is so bad that I have to find another way to entertain myself." Well, he'll get no argument from me that the film sucked, but why couldn't he have just left if he was that bored? That pissed me off.

The worst, though, is when young teenagers discover some of their friends have gone to see the same movie. They always make a big deal about it, and there have been a few times where I've seen them call each on their cell phones during the movie! Ugh!

It speaks volumes that this picture's thread has more people talking about the audience han the picture itself.

This movie is awful. Unspeakably bad. Not "okay", not "I've seen worse". Terrible.

Oh it's well made, but that fact belies the absolute contempt the filmmakers have for yor intelligence and the craft of stoytelling.

Posted this on the "main board" (for those who don;t know, some distant galaxy where pictures are talked about and mused upon with candour (and ebb!)):



This could well be one of the Top 10 worst pictures I have ever seen. I'm deadly serious. Something more than likely only compounded by the fact that it was, as Nick points out, quite well made with a few good shocks and good (if utterly defeated) work by Keaton and Unger.

What makes it rank as atrocious is it's complete lack of structure and story which, given the competency of the production, is unforgivable and surely a sign that this is the lowest form of "marketing gimmick as movie" since Only The Strong. It contemptable.

I yearn to see Devin and Davis' take on this.

Someone please explain how it all tied together ? And by all I mean the 4 or 5 different story strand that were liberally littering the running time (suspicious death of wife; meddling with EVP and consequences; becoming a ghost-assisted vigilante...etc etc etc), none of which came to fruition, none of which took centre stage and all of which left the most non-sensical, deus ex machina packed plot begging for some kind of non-halfhearted resolution.

- There was no antagonist -- some mischievous spirits ? Bad story telling

- Why were "they" after these folk, just "because" ?Did they only come after those who dabbled in Raymond Price's EVP experiment ? Why ? Why not other psychics ? Bad story telling

- How were they visually predestining deaths in the white noise that hadn't already happened - since when are malevolent spirits predictive ? Bad story telling

- The old lady who told the girl to smile -- she didn't die bizarrely, so why was her friendly message associated with the three malevolent spirits in the script and Keaton's investigation ? It didn't fit into any logical narrative progression. Terrible story telling.

- Unger didn't die in her fall so how did the EVP premonition of her happen ?

The Strange Case Of The Construction Worker:

a) kidnapped Keaton's wife ? why ? no back story or logic to it.

b) had an identical set up to Keaton's audio/visual equipment. why ? The spirits are already there, he doesn't need to contact them through white noise.

c) Keaton's wife now decides to come back as a ghost ? Hateful bitch.

d) if point a) is predicated on "the spirits telling him so" and all this was to lure Keaton to his death, to stop him meddling in their mischievous ways - since he didn't start meddling with EVP until after his wife disappeared, why did the construction worker get told by the spirit trio to go after Keaton's wife ? Cart two miles before horse. Awful story telling.

Awful.

- And Unger's little "twisted man in the room!" exclamation at the end -- was this the first time she mentioned this fact/premonition, was some mention of it cut out during clumsy editing ? Foreshadowing in this type of picture can work to great effect (witness the "feathers" in Stir Of Echoes for instance) but this was ludicrous to the point in insulting anyone who went in for anything other than cheap shocks.

- I assume 2:30am was when Keaton's wife actually died ? Was it part of the spirits plan to kill him at exactly the same time from the outset ? For what reason exactly ?

- If the spirits can wrestle him to the ground (for a moment I had an awful feeling that he was going to slam the ghost against the pillar and knock it out) and rip his legs askew, why not just come to his house like they did Raymond The Fat EVP Expert and kill him ?

- I could go on, but this made The Forgotten look like Citizen Kane, Exorcist: The Beginning relishable and Van Helsing positively watchable.

The fairly talented crew should be ashamed of this abomination of a tale. I sincerely doubt we'll see a worse example of storytelling this year.

Note for your cultural future: aim higher.

Django 2.0

Hell, I'm personally glad this movie was made just so I could read this hilariously snarky and sarcastic review. It's truly worthy of Edmund Blackadder!

As for the film: haven't seen it, it looked bad, was mildly interested because of Keaton. I hear he's an active father. Maybe this is the only film that actually shot in California instead of Vancouver this year.
Thanks Strax, that was the best laugh I've had in quite some time.

Srew a movie where the main character sits in front of a TV or computer screen for more than half of the dam movie. It was interesting for about three minutes the rest of the time it got irritating.