We saw it in the theater and enjoyed it. It wasn't water-tight, but they actually put thought into it, which puts it way ahead of many movies.

Out of, I don't know..... sickness, morbid curiosity.... Thomash and I just sat through about three minutes of From Justin to Kelly.

There was a dialog exchange that, while supposedly spoken in English, contained not a single phrase I could understand or parse.

I think I need to go bash my brains out now.

I think I need to go bash my brains out now.

It only has that effect on people who actually have brains.

The writer of Frailty just called me a liar!

Okay, I don't think I got all the twists -- I missed Fenton is a demon. But I got all of the rest, simply by watching the movie as if everyone was telling the truth, and seeing what felt most interesting.

I don't count it against the movie -- in fact, I really liked that.

Still, he's a meanie.

I think the only scarier "reality" of the movie than that they (son and dad) were just psychotic was finding out that the son was telling the truth.

I had it in a couple layers -- what if the victims were guilty. But then, what if the dad was really getting visions? And what if Adam was really seeing them too? And, dude, if they were from God, for true?

Not to mention the creepiness of the wrong brother sitting there, and it wasn't going to be just a narrated tale, but that the peril was continuing. And since they seemed to have been clear that he was the only surviving member of the family, how does he become a threat?

And such a great ending. It all worked for me, too.

Anyone seen They? (It's on in few minutes.)

It stars Marc Blucas.

Now see, I could respect the thought and effort that went into Frailty -- one of the few movies I've seen that showed, e.g., how frightening it is to be delusional (even if that does turn out not to be the case, it allowed the dad not to be a villain from the get-go). But I still got to the end and thought to myself, "Self, you know how much you hate it when the cool people get away with shitty behavior just because they're cool? That goes double when the cool person is God."

I thought it sort of undercut itself, by casting a young Fenton who was so convincing, and then throwing him away as an adult. I guess the movie didn't persuade me that his adult outcome would actually happen, and by setting up that adult outcome, the movie invalidated all of that painful thinking and hard work that had gone into his youthful outcome.

Not to spoil things too terribly.

So, I guess, a well-made film, based on a script I hated. If such a thing is possible.

I saw part of They, but it failed to catch my interest sufficiently to watch til the end.