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Summary: Beware of the Mothman
Review: Being a fan of supernatural thrillers (an interest dating back to the first years of X-Files), the trailer of "The Mothman Prophecies" immediatelly caught my attention. When a friend of mine mentioned that the film's director (Mark Pellington) was also the director of Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" videoclip, my curiosity got even bigger.I was not disappointed.
The film gets most of the pieces of the puzzle right. The screenplay, which is loosely based on real events, has all the right twists and achieves in keeping the viewer restless on his/her seat. Ok, at some points it gets pretty predictable, but the ending's climax is without any doubt satisfying.
The music really helps in enhancing the movie's atmosphere, giving us a few good scares, too.
As for the direction, Pellington borrows some videoclip tricks (grainy images, perspective shots, strange angles) but uses them masterfully, keeping the tension high to the last scene.
I intentionally left the acting last. Many people may have objections over the use of Richard Gere for the leading part. I found him more than adequate. As for the supporting cast, I liked Alan Bates, who plays a former professor having some valuable information to share. Will Patton is also solid in portraying a man being haunted by the Mothman. Concluding, "The Mothman Prophecies" is surely a movie I recommend.
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Summary: The only time to read the book before seeing the movie.
Review: As I said in the title, this is the only time that I would recommend reading the book before you see the movie. If you do it any other way, the film is just B-rate kitsch. After doing the homework, the movie takes on a terrifying dimension. Richard Gere in the beginning is Richard Gere and overdramatizes his part, but the director more than compensates with great close-ups and a minimalist tone in the movie. It would not have been nearly as effective had they shown us the monster.
The writers ignored some of the earier and interim events at Point Pleasant, which were equally terrifying. However, it makes the story more tightly knit and the ending pan more effective. Even the author himself was not disappointed with the movie. He was surprised that it had "an X-Files kind of feel" to it, "in spite of the liberties" they took with it. I have seen "Psycho", "The Shining", all of your Robert Mitchum movies, and all that standard fare. None were as effective as this two-hour meltdown.
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Summary: One of the years best
Review: I thought that this is one of the best films that i have seen in a long time. I live somewhat close to the area in which these events took place... and after seeing the movie, i am curious to visit these places! I may only be in high school, but i know an excellent movie when i see one!
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Summary: Decent Thriller if you don't mind lots of unexplained stuff
Review: In this movie, Richard Gere plays a journalist whose wife dies mysteriously after some bizarre entity strikes their car. Two years later, still grieving, he is driving from Washington to Richmond one night but finds himself mysteriously transported to the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. There he finds the town in an uproar over bizarre sitings, the suggestion being that they are encounters with an entity not unlike what led to his wife's death. There he meets a small-town cop, played by Laura Linney. Their interaction is at first quite hokey. She's utterly paranoid that he will stereotype her as a country bumpkin, deeply resenting what she suspects. In so being and doing, she stereotypes him at least every bit as much as she's suspecting him of stereotyping her. Fortunately they get over that potential impasse in time for the movie to have a lot of suspense and drama as the polt unfolds. In the process we learn some about the title prophetic entity. The characters face some dangers and there is a struggle over who will survive the rampage of "Mothman". Otherwise little about that being is made clear, but what does happen, once the action gets wound up, is entrtaining.
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Summary: Scary at an intelligent level
Review: This film is great! It starts out quite calm introducing the characters. Richard Gere plays a successfull Washington Post reporter who due to tragic "coincidence" loses his beloved wife.
Then "Fate" drives him to the small town of Point Pleasent V. Va. which has lately been haunted by a series of strange paranormal phenomenons.
What makes this film so great is its trustworthy environment and character development and its ability to keep a constant creapy mood practically without the use of any blood or violence. The photography is beautyfull and the clipping uses a lot of fancy effects which contributes perfectly to the all ower creapy feel of the movie. Definitely Richard Gere's best movie!
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Summary: The Mothman Prophecies
Review: This is the best movie I've seen in a while, and definitely the most suspenseful. Great performances by Will Patton, Laura Linney, and Richard Gere. I am not a Gere fan and still thought he did a great job with this role. I would recommend this to anyone who likes supernatural/UFO type entertainment. X-files fans will love it for sure, as many of the incidents in the series were drawn from this story. After seeing the movie I bought the book and read it. I remember when this happened as I live within 100 miles, and it was big news. This one will have you looking over your shoulder for a while after you see it.
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Summary: The Scare of a Little Border Town
Review: This movie is based on true events of Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
For all you thriller-type people, I highly recommend this movie for the suspense. For all you regular moviegoers, wait until this movie comes out on video or DVD.
When his dieing wife leaves behind mysterious drawings of a winged-man, Washington Post journalist John Klein (Richard Gere) must solve the mystery of the Mothman Prophencies in order to find love again.
Richard Gere plays the spotlight role as John Klein. Richard Gere is very passionate in the love scenes, but does not create the feelings of the horror scenes. He is able to create suspense, but not to fulfill the scare of the Mothman. However, in the end of the story, he does develop as a character and finds a new love relationship.
This movie is very suspenseful and keeps you on the edge of your seat, waiting to see what happens next. Throughout the movie, the picture of the Mothman and sightings of him turn up creating this figure but not knowing what he looks like. The movie creates suspense of who is going to be the next victim, but not it does revealing whom it is until all the clues are revealed. There are no blood and guts scenes, so this is nice on the stomach for all you girly girls.
The best part of the story is the development of the plot. After an unexplained accident, John finds that his wife Mary (Debra Messing) has a fatal tumor. She dies a few days later, but she leaves behind a notebook of mysterious pictures that have a black figure with wings and a glowing red light behind him. This is where the plot of the story begins and the prophecies start. After his wife's death, John examines the front of the vehicle they were driving the night of the accident to discover the imprint of a figure. Next, we find him mysteriously in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the middle of the night, and the story goes from there. All and all, there is no strict plot, and the story can be confusing at times, but this how the Mothman Prophencies were in real life.
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Summary: A satisfing thriller.
Review: "The Mothman Prophecies" was defintly a satifing thriller. I went to see it back in Jaunary the first day it came out with a couple friends and we enjoyed it> Now most thriller/horror movies
look good but are only usually only okay. But not this! I was really happy it. The movie was well acted. Richard Gere (who is good) turned it a good perofrmance and made you belive that he was really seeing these things and Will Paton also made it beilvable. The director defintly did a good job of thrilling & chilling you. This is defitnly a DVD I'm going to be picking up.
7/10
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Summary: Delightfuly Mysterious and Eerie
Review: I honestly do not have any prior knowledge of the events that took place in real life, but as far as the story and the acting is concerned, it was EXTRAORIDINARY!!! ALL TEN FINGERS UP!!! This movie is one of my top ten thrillers of the century, totally blowing away Don't Say a Word (Michael Douglass), Unbreakable (Bruce Willis), and I am convinced that it has way more replay value than The Sixth Sense (Bruce Willis). Don't get me wrong I loved these three flicks the first time around, especially in the dark huge theater, but the second times for these three made me snooooooooooooozzzzzzzzzzzz. The second time watching Mothman still intrigued me and I saw things I never saw before, it was a whole new experience the second time around.
The basic plot is: a series of events refuse to let a Newspaper Writer (Richard Gere) leave a small town where a lot of wierd things are going down. I can't say ANYTHING about this film that wouldn't ruin it, especially if you do not know anything about the Mothman, except that IT ROCKS, it is a definite heartstopper with plenty of shock value and it raises some very interesting questions. The ending was absolutely mesmerizing and totally blew me away BIGTIME. This is one ride you won't want to miss. If you don't believe in things like Bigfoot and Leprechans, have no fear. This movie is not a Hoky little representation involving a camping family hiting a hairy basketball player. This movie has some intense themes and really takes you to the edge of curiosity and back. Could the rumors be true, are there higher beings here on Earth? ENJOY.
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Summary: freaked out!
Review: This was about the scariest, freakiest, movie I have ever seen in my life. The whole story was so scary that every scary seen i would jump out of my seet and scream. Richard Gere was amaizing. I dont think anyone else could have done a better job. The scariest seen i have to say was when he woke up and saw his wife in his bed. I almost jumped into my friends seet. I would not recomend this movie for people under 12 because of scary seens. I hate moths now!
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