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Is this an English version of a Japanese original, similar to The Ring?
Not quite. Apparently it is specifically the fourth in the set - just the first made in the US. And from what I understand it's not the kind of series where plots and characters roll on - there's a setup and it rolls across unrelatd characters.
Heh. I'm about midway through the Salon article on Donnie Darko, and all I can think is that the thing is all about Hypertime!
It's no Hackers.
I still need to see that.
I liked it, but I'm a comics geek.
I loved it before I became a comics geek.
After reading the secret ending to The Village, I think I'll have to pass on it. Maybe I'll watch it if it's on TV or something. M. Night Shyamalan has just gotten worse with each film.
His movie with the little boy and Rosie O'Donell was really good. I don't remember the title; I think it was Wide Awake or something like that.
The Sixth Sense was pretty good.
Unbreakable was okay. It had it's moments of brilliance, as well as weakness.
Signs was pretty bad. Probably one of the worst movies I've sat through in theaters.
And from what I've now heard about The Village, I think it might go down as one of the worst movies of all time.
I still need to see that.
I'm teasing, though I did enjoy Hackers in all of its cheesy glory. It's beautifully datestamped now.
I'm about midway through the Salon article on Donnie Darko, and all I can think is that the thing is all about Hypertime!
Bwah! I enjoyed the film, but after reading what the writer/director says it was about as opposed to what was actually evident on screen, I think he should be checking to make sure his meds aren't placebos. Worst failure to communicate the creator's ideas that I've ever seen.
Worst failure to communicate the creator's ideas that I've ever seen.
The new version communicates most of it pretty well.
Most of it.
the thing (and I haven't yet read the Salon piece) is that the half-assed scifi he was trying to make wouldn't have been an eighth as good as the lynch/hughes hybrid DD ended up as.
I thought HB was great in the Dandridge bio-pic. Really. But she's not Storm and she's not Catwoman.