S4doll

I still have to hear it, but they have dropped so much in the last few years that I'm expecting a disaster.

The House of 1000 Corpses is to me a steaming pile of shit, the Devil's Rejects is ugly but already better... I trust that Rob is on the rise and I will probably see this too,

one of Ridley's peaks

Played the first one to exhaustion centuries ago, the bastard of the bar where we were kept it at the highest difficulty level (level 8, I think), so we spent heaps of 500-lira coins. A maniac friend bought a Neo-Geo back then mainly to enjoy it to the fullest... at the modest price of $300 per game! Well, years later, I remember messing around with the 2 and catching a glimpse of the X, then the arcades closed, I grew up, and SNK went bankrupt. Never seen/heard/touched the subsequent ones, I only know that Playmore bought the whole thing about ten years ago.

Aside from the fact that the film is European (Spanish, to be precise) and has very little to do with Hollywood, it definitely has its flaws but, in my opinion, it still achieves its goal of being unsettling. The premise is debatable but not to be dismissed (at least there's a tad of originality, which is a rare commodity in contemporary horror), the build-up is good and the climax from the halfway point of the film is solid: the ending might disappoint, that leap into the void hinted at something good like in the vision, but instead, it resolves in a very questionable way (as if Tim Burton had taken over the direction in the last 10 minutes -_-). It's true that many clichés are present (the psychologist is a human cliché), but the criticism of the CGI is unfair, as it is done quite well, essential, and functionally monstrous. Still, it's a watchable film, and anyone approaching it should understand right away from the poster what they're in for.

good reception actually

mediocre, for some reason every time I hear it mentioned, there's talk of "re-evaluating a good film," which has very little beauty to it.

there are no more funny trolls

"The plot itself is funny" great argument... "so that the average viewer (teenager)" what arrogance, what does a kid who knows nothing about the internet know that V for Vendetta was written in the '80s and that its audience is at least in their thirties or forties when the movie comes out... "Is it a coincidence that Moore (the comic book author) didn't want his name in the credits?" Moore associated his name with that crap "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and since then he has wanted nothing to do with it, not even with the good Watchmen. When you get burned like that, it's understandable. That the adaptation of V diverges from the comic is undeniable, especially the ending, but as a film in itself, it's definitely more than decent. The review seems like a troll and I hope for your sake that it is.

I love reviews where the writer tries to downplay the film by throwing clichés about the audience. "The movie is overrated," but by whom, by those who buy into the marketing? What kind of person pays attention to the nonsense that idiots say? The movie was a huge flop instead, and calling it a cult is a load of crap. However, it remains more than watchable.