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Summary: Not your average haunted house movie!
Review: I recommend watching this movie before reading the reviews! I had no insight to the movie or its plot and just started watching it one afternoon, but it seemed a little slow-moving so I decided to stop watching and pick it up later, at bedtime. So here I am covering under the sheets in the middle of the night, watching this movie! The acting is very good, and as a mother myself I felt sympathetic for both the mother (Nicole Kidman) and her children in the movie as they were being frightened. Loved the twist at the end, makes the seemingly slow pace of the movie worthwhile.
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Summary: That arnt many Others as good around.....THE HORN
Review: this is a pretty good movie, i watched it with my GF over X-mas break and we both enjoyed it. I wouldnt put it up there with the great scary movies of all-time (wishmaster1, valentine, Picture perfect starring AL from Home Improvment) but it does have its upsides. Not as rad-tacular as a lot of movies but decent if your board or what to see spooky crud in a old house. Ok peace out ma nizzle. Go Mel Kipper, Lavernous Coles and T-Boz. G-Dawg
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Summary: One of the most BORING movies ever
Review: Let me first say that I love horror movies and I love Nicole Kidman. Let me then say that I hated this movie. This was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. The acting was good, the storyline was good. The script and direction were terrible. The pace moved slower than most of the slowest movies I've ever seen. It is not scary at all. This saddens me because it had the potential to be superb.
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Summary: Classic Ghost Story!
Review: Fantastic ghost story with a clean, sharp edge and great cinematography...the film is worth keeping!!!
Great seller too...:)
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Summary: Scary movie leftovers, with an added touch...
Review: First off, this film is mainly driven by Nicole Kidman's performance. The rest of the movie relies on the creepy setting along with some truly creepy scenes. I enjoyed watching this movie in the end, but it's a little long for me, and relies on some re-hashed ideas that have been done before. But, Kidman makes up for a lot of ground with her acting, and the fairly surprising end is truly a saving grace, even though it might be a little familiar to scary movie patrons.
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Summary: Predictable and mostly boring
Review: I knew what the big twist at the end was going to be within the first few minutes of "The Others." Honestly, I don't know what anyone sees in this movie. I found it to be a mostly dull movie with only a few (a very few) startling moments. There was nothing unique or thrilling/scary about this movie, so if that's what you're looking for, please skip this one.
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Summary: Nice and scary
Review: Very beautiful movie. Nicole Kidman is not only beautiful but also extremely talented.
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Summary: Surprisingly good
Review: I was surprised at how much I liked this film. The manic slightly claustrophobic anxiety to the whole thing. Nicole Kidman is an actress I enjoy because of her versatility and the fact that she always seems to have something going on underneath her performances. Like someone who is intelligent but may be too wrapped up in one focus. Thats how several of her performances have struck me. Which is a good thing. Conveying both intelligence and life of character as well as a sub-mood is very skilled. The twist here again is that her and her family are ghosts who haven't accepted death, much like the Sixth Sense but this movie goes a little further in the characters being disturbed.
I think that there tends to be a trend in consciousness or idea-streams in movies. Lately it's been about consciousness---The Sixth Sense, the Matrix, Vanilla Sky, Minority Report, big movies about the reality of existence, of what is alterable and what isn't. I read somewhere that Hollywood/films are a projection of teh masses consciousness-------so when there are more violent movies and so on thats what we as a culture are experiencing on a level. I think this can be seen with the proliferation of war movies and their ilk and at the same time these films about metaphysics, the ones that ask existentialism questions are fascinating as well. I enjoy them because it does seem like there is challenge to them, a challenge to be more than just cookie cutter films.
Also what I will credit this film with is that it completely avoids being gorey, all of the violence is languaged/explained, not shown, which ratchetts up the tension even more. We've all seen the horror pics of blood and gore, but psychological tension is much harder to create and maintain and pull off satisfyingly.
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Summary: A Perfect Setting
Review: I just finished watching The Others, a movie that had been sitting on my shelf, borrowed from my parents collection, since around the time of Thanksgiving. The sky outside was overcast, the lights all off in the apartment, leaving enough grey illumination to see by. The chill of the tail end of winter permeates the house, convincing me to pull myself under a blanket, and the cats have chosen to sleep. This, I imagine, has to have been one of the perfect settings in which to watch The Others. Without anyone else around, your breath matches to that of the characters on screen, and you get wrapped up in the tightly ritualized life in the house of Grace (Kidman) and her two children, Anne and Nicolas. The entire family has been stricken by the bizarre allergy to sunlight, although it is only the children that are directly injured by the rays. The movie develops at its own pace, a slow patterning as new layers are added to the mystery, and new inklings of terror are hinted at. It is a movie to be watched when one in unconcerned about time in the real world, so that one can fall into the pendulum of the film's own cadence. Excellent.
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Summary: Classy Thriller
Review: THE OTHERS is an elegant, minimalist thriller from the European director Alejandro Amenábar (the man behind the succesful movie, OPEN YOUR EYES- which was remade in Hollywood as VANILLA SKY). Amenábar's economical direction elevated this movie into a noteworthy, decent film of the horror genre, and the absence of expensive special effects in the film was highly effective. Here, Kidman gave an outstanding, graceful performance (her best work so far), that earned her both the Golden Globe and the BAFTA "Best Actress" nominations. Fionnula Flanagan, as the lead housekeeper, also gave an impressive performance in this well-crafted film.
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