Tracy ,'The Message'
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She makes a good mermaid?
I watched that movie all the time when I was little. I liked it so much. Although I thought they made a mistake in making her tail orange. I thought it should be pink, or at least green, if it couldn't be pink. Orange is so ugly.
First full frontal nudity I ever saw. I was, like, six. Mess you up.
My apologies to everyone for my being an ass, by the way.
I'm not sure it's fair to say that The Grudge is being universally panned. That's a perfectly reasonable score - mediocre, sure, not as good as The Ring got, but not all that much worse. And definitely better than, say, Surviving christmas. Plenty of (not professional critic) people I know didn't like The Ring, either, and the critics' score seems to reflect that it's not for everybody - people that don't scare easily or don't LIKE being scared aren't going to like the movie. Personally, it scared the bejesus out of me, and that's what I wanted out of the movie, so I loved it. If I get that out of The Grudge then it, too, will have done what I wanted it to do.
My personal score for The Ring? 7/10, maybe. Because, despite scaring the crap out of me, it failed to grab me enough that I have any intention of buying it, ever. It wasn't The Shining, you know? So I understand where the critics were coming from on that, and maybe The Grudge is from the same place. Which doesn't stop me from wanting to see it. Soon.
t /Professional Critics Defender
It wasn't The Shining, you know?
The Shining is overrated. Ooh, buckets of blood. Ooh, kid on a trike. Scary.
The Shining is overrated.
I'm gonna pretend you didn't say this.
Even if you don't find it scary - which I, frankly, cannot comprehend, but I've got lots of "I first saw it in second grade and it gave me nightmares that recur to this day" history there - then it's STILL a fantastically directed, written, and acted film. With a killer score.
And Scatman Cruthers.
Not sure of the spelling on his name there.
it's STILL a fantastically directed, written, and acted film.
I thought Jack Nicholson's performance was overrated. He went from zero to crazy in two seconds. There was no nuance.
Are you sure we watched the same movie?
all work and no play makes Polter-Cow a dull boy...