RE: THE GRUDGE: VERY VERY VERY SCARY!!
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Oct 24, 2004 20:47
Your crazy.
Moronic Quotes by Ebert:
" I' m not sure how this scene fits into the rest of the movie, but then I' m not sure how most of the scenes fit into the movie."
You have to wonder if he ever watched the end of the movie based on the above remark.
" It loses intriguing opportunities to contrast American and Japanese cultures, alas, by allowing everyone to speak English"
First, its an American remake, second, there is a fair amount of Japanese subtitles which once again makes this remark rather confounding.
" This woman' s hair, which sometimes looks like seaweed, appears in many scenes, hanging down into the frame as if it dreams of becoming a boom mike."
This comment is by far the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I swear he must have just watched the trailer because this is the most asinine thing I have ever read.
" Various cops and social workers enter the house, some never to emerge, but the news of its malevolence doesn' t get around. You' d think that after a house has been associated with gruesome calamities on a daily basis, the neighbors could at least post an old-timer outside to opine that some mighty strange things have been a-happening in there."
Wait, heres something more asinine! Ebert obviously is senile and dementiated because THEY WERE THE FIRST FAMILY IN THE HOUSE SINCE THE MURDERS! All the deaths take place in a matter of days.. Its not like the house has this huge long history of killing dozens of people over the years. The investigator deaths were still being investigated... It was all explained. (once again towards the end of the movie where I imagine Ebert was either sleeping or not watching)
" The fragmented time structure is a nuisance, not a style. The house is not particularly creepy from an architectural point of view, and if it didn' t have a crawl space under the eaves, the ghosts would have to jump out from behind sofas."
First off, the " fragmented time structure" was hardly fragmented, I would call it more like a few flashbacks. Yea a few, it wasnt a nuisance, it was tied into the movie quite well, and unlike Ebert I think most people could very easily follow what was goin on. Oh and sorry the house wasnt " creepy" enough for Ebert (who complains that the movie is too much like other horror movies early in his review but now complains that its not enough like all the other horror movies). Lastly, the ghosts didnt have to jump out from anywhere, which they really didnt. Im convinced that Ebert reviewed this movie off a trailer because the attic space really placed a very small part of the scares, as a matter of fact most of the really good scares didnt even occcur in the house!
If you agree with what Ebert said (which is contained in most of the above quotes) then I guess the responses apply to you as well.