Mal ,'War Stories'
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So what --
do the park rangers terrorise the community to keep them on the property? And for gods sake HOW did these people manage to stay so closed off and protected??? I have other questions but I don't think any of them will be answered with any kind of satisfcation.
Then what is the point of the movie? Is the whole movie the buildup to the twist? Or is there a lot of wacky/suspenseful post-twist stuff?
Don't ask me. I haven't seen it, just interviewed reeling, shellshocked victims of the film.
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Now that I think about it, I'm leaning towards giving it a 'good Bad Movie'-type review. Some of it is hilariously bad. There's a lot of stuff about 'The Shed We Must Never Go In', 'The Ones We Do Not Speak Of' and, perhaps my favourite exchange:
Blind Chick: "Do not fear. We have Magic Rocks ."
Random Guy: "Oh yeah? So why have we not heard of these Magic Rocks before now?"
I'm not spoiling myself; I'll judge for myself how I think the twist is. My current pondering is how M. Night managed to work himself into a cameo, cause an Indian guy'd be pretty out of place in nineteenth century rural America.
Better still:
"The shed was my favourite bit. The monsters, incidentally - and I have difficulty even typing this without giggling - the monsters are actually the Village Elders in homemade monster suits. "
And in fact:
"They keep the monster suits in The Shed Which We Do Not Go Into. "
Huh. This might be worth seeing even though I'm spoiled.
Maybe when it hits the cheapie theaters.
Oh dear.
I should also note that this has to be the biggest nature preserve in the world, if these poor dumb villagers never see airplanes far overhead, never find trash in the woods, and don't get muscled in on by illegal loggers. Actually, wait -- this whole movie is a live-action Ferngully, isn't it??
Funniest spoilage I've had in a while. Thanks, Jim, and my consolations to your acquaintances who saw the movie unspoiled.
I'm requesting more details. two of them have already self-administered lobotomies, though.
Wow.
Just...wow.
That sounds almost ridiculously bad enough to be a must-see.
On the other hand, I already put myself through Catwoman, why do it again?