The Descent: Questions

[Roderick Usher]

Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

The US release ended with the bloody-eyed Juno in the passenger seat (very J-horror) and not the Brazil-esque ending the rest of the world saw.

***AHEM***

[The STE]

Ah, Juno. I watched The Descent again right after I saw it so I could just beat off to Juno whenever she was on screen.

[The Mothman]

Originally Posted by omcdave

what else are you going to watch ? have you seen crank yet ?

no i havnt but i plan on seeing it.

Originally Posted by The STE

Ah, Juno. I watched The Descent again right after I saw it so I could just beat off to Juno whenever she was on screen.

yeah she's definetly the hottest one in the bunch

[ManicOne]

Originally Posted by The Mothman

Ya. its right Up there with The Hills Have Eyes remake in my favorite film of the past 5 years.

Exactly the same here. The Descent was not only fantastic, but a pleasant reminder of one of the greatest films ever, Carpenter's The Thing.

[The Mothman]

Originally Posted by ManicOne

Exactly the same here. The Descent was not only fantastic, but a pleasant reminder of one of the greatest films ever, Carpenter's The Thing.

how did it remind you of the thing?

[ManicOne]

Unrelenting tone, from start to finish; sense of isolation and claustrophobia. Not to mention the musical score, which almost owes Ennio (edit: and Carpenter) a spot in the credits.

[slayer666]

Originally Posted by The Mothman

you cant be serious. What the hell was there to dislike about this movie?

Plenty, but I'll keep this brief and simply point out that the monsters were not even mildly scary and ruined what was an otherwise promising film. I could relate to the characters and feel their building terror about being trapped in a cave. I was really getting into the flick, but once the silly monsters appeared, the atmosphere was ruined. The terror of being trapped underground was replaced by something that just wasn't scary.

As I said in one of the many other threads on this film, The Descent was the biggest disappointment since the monster in Jeepers Creepers was revealed. In both cases, an initially promising flick went downhill fast and never recovered.

[The Mothman]

I thought the mosnter was pretty damn awesome...

[XtRaVa]

Am not really sure about the fuss over this movie. It's okay but nothing great. I dont know any people (in real life i.e. in England) that thought it was anything over 3/5. Everyone that seems to love it dont seem to be from England, which is weird because you'd think it would be the other way around.

I think I've said somewhere before that maybe thats why foreign countries enjoy it more, because its a bit more of a novelty I guess. 28 Days Later and Dog Soldiers to me were both just "okay" and once again people from US etc seem to think they are great.

I guess its like how I love asian cinema even though I'm from England, its new and unique to what I'm used to and it could be the same for this for you guys.