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Summary: Good Movie
Review: What Lies Beneath is a very good suspense / horror movie. Director Robert Zemeckis does a good job of making you jump of your seat throughout the film. Michelle Pfeiffer gave a mesmerizing performance as Claire Spencer. Diana Scarwid is great in her supporting role as Claire's friend Jody. Harrison Ford is believable as Dr. Norman Spencer, however, this is not one of his better roles. The music and atmosphere really add to the feel of this movie, and it really gets you anxious for what is going to happen next.I don't want to spoil the story for you, however if you enjoyed movies such as the Sixth Sense, Stir of Echoes, or Cape Fear you will likely enjoy this movie as well.
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Summary: absolutely hitchcockian!
Review: i appreciated this one so much! it was really well directed and harrison and michelle totally deserve an oscar for their acting, as does the one who studied the lightening! perhaps the way of filming was more hitchcockian than anything else. of course there are many references to many hitch's pictures, but not only that: it would have been too conventional... the ending was not ridiculous, i considered it as a logical one, i mean it is said that somebody, before death, sees something most important in his life. perhaps it was the case here? i shall add it is not a mere picture, it is complex and mature and goes very deep into human feelings and powers. the beginning was excellent: slow to make you feeling totally at ease! please forgive my mistakes, my english is not my native language.
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Summary: WHAT LIES BENEATH ...
Review: What lies beneath this garbage is an incredible bad movie, that I can't figure out how people get saying it is a masterpiece of suspense ! I can't figure why Ford is accepting this lousy productions ("SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS", etc .. ). Let's see the history ... THe movie spent all the time giving you false clues in parallel plots that has nothing to do with the history. But I beg the people who said this is a good movie to think with me: Have you ever watched the final sequence ? Can you believe Harrison Ford started his career as a villain doing the old cliche of the dead bad guy who isn't dead at all ? ( or, worse, stronger than after banging his head on the lavatory ! ) Can you believe that a car can dive into a lake at complete night, but under the surface everything is plain visible and clear as if in broad daylight ! Is this the kind of movie you like ? Blergh !
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Summary: what scared me out of my seat!!!!
Review: first off i have to say that i do not like scary movies at all. then i went to the san francisco sneek peek for this film. i never knew that Michelle Marie Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford II could sacare me like they did. this movie was fun and scary put together. it was fun to watch a scary film where no one got their head chopped off for no apprent reason. it was just make you jump out of you seat fun. if you like or don't like scary movies i suggest you at least see this one, because it is fun and true hitchcock type film and harrison ford and michelle pfeiffer are to really great actors who are beleiveable as their charaters.it makes you hope there is a sequel on the way!
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Summary: Nothing Lies Beneath
Review: Do you like scary movies? Are you intrigued by plot twists, unconventional storytelling and imaginative filmmaking? Then you'll probably want to avoid "What Lies Beneath," a slow, monotonous jog through the land of predictability and disappointment. Norman (Harrison Ford), a genetic scientist, and his worrisome wife Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) are getting used to having their large house all to themselves after their daughter leaves for college. At first it seems like the extra room and solitude will spice up their love life, but Claire starts experiencing paranormal incidents--weird voices, self-operating doors, images of apparitions, broken picture frames--and believes the ghost is the soul of her murdered neighbor. Meanwhile, several clues are presented to us about Claire's past: a mysterious car accident, a newspaper article about a missing local girl, and Norman's clandestine genetic experiments. Notice I said "clues", as in, "hints scattered about that supposedly have relevance to the plot". Not so, apparently. "Clues" now mean "pointless, wasteful story beats that are intended to mislead but instead steer toward massive disappointment". For one, Norman's a geneticist. I had all these wonderfully twisted theories spinning around in my head, like "Oh, Claire and the missing girl are somehow genetically connected," or "Oh, Norman's experimenting on his wife, messing with her genetic makeup," or "Maybe she has a clone," or "Oh, this has something having to do with all the clues I've been given." But, why make a complicated movie, right? Why try to trick the audience in ways they've never been tricked before? People want to see the same kind of movie over and over and over and over and over... right? WRONG! (Well, maybe the dim-witted masters of the obvious who were sitting behind us.) BUT NOT ME! I kept hearing "surprise ending, surprise ending!" from everyone who had seen it. Yeah, RIGHT. Maybe a surprise to a single-celled organism that chews plankton and slithers along the bottom of a petrie dish. If this sounds harsh, good. This movie was backed by so much talent--Ford, Pfeiffer, and director Robert Zemekis--that its shortcomings were, in my mind, inexcusable. The suspense set-ups were painfully kitchy, their only savior the respectable efforts by Ford and Pfeiffer. I wouldn't be surprised if they kept wondering all day what their characters were doing and why. This film gives new meaning to the clichéd phrase, "What's my motivation?" My grade for "What Lies Beneath": C+
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Summary: the summers best movie
Review: i loved this. it is creepy and has suprise twist. this is one of thhose movie where you jump even though you know somethings coming.harrison ford is great as usal.plus they a a cute pett dog
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Summary: Plenty Of Scares
Review: I've heard a lot of people say nothing but bad things about this movie, but I really can't understand why. They couldn't of been watching the same movie I did! This movie starts out very slow. Throwing in some cheap scares ( but they all work!) so we won't get too bored. We really start to get completely caught up in the movie, till the point where we can't wait to see what happens nexts, we're glued to the screen, every move gives us excitment. When the radio mysteriously turns on, I swear I heard one women in the theater actually scream ( she was the only one though, so it was kinda funny). But we go along with Michelle Pfeiffer, we feel as if we're with her every step she takes. This might remind some of Hitchcock's "Rear Window". If you can remember, didn't the viewer feel as if they were James Stewart? And speaking of Hitchcock, this movie has just as many plot turns as "Rear Window", "Psycho", "Rebecca", and "Suspicion" combined. Incidentally, that's all the Hitchcock movies this one try's to take on. I really liked the performances by Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford, I appreciated Zemeckis directing, and thought that the effects used here were quite good. Nothing to over the top, as in "The Haunting". This is really a fun movie to watch. It will without any doubt grab your attenion and keep you involved from begining to end. It's better one watches this with a group of friends rather than by myself. So hurry up ,and go see this movie. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: A cut above most ghost stories.
Review: Pfeiffer, a cellist turned homemaker, faces an empty nest. She has just sent her only daughter off to college. Her husband (Ford), a genetic researcher, is preoccupied with an important paper. That leaves Pfeiffer alone in her lakefront Vermont home. It's a gorgeous place, wood-shingled, with much of the interior painted a periwinkle blue and fitted out with what look like fixtures from Restoration Hardware. There's even a garden, where Pfeiffer grows roses. As the whispering leaves and buzzing cicadas provide accompaniment to her solitude, a sense of dread seeps in. Is she possessed by Martha Stewart? Then another, more dangerous spirit arrives. A blonde who looks like Pfeiffer, this ghost mists up the bathroom, knocks over photos and is always gently tugging open the front door. Pfeiffer, not sure whether she needs a Ouija board or Prozac, begins to unravel. And how beautifully she falls apart. Like her cello, Pfeiffer is an exquisitely built, gleamingly polished instrument that pours forth a low, throbbing melody. She gives one of the summer's best performances. Ford, the least neurotic of leading men, is a comfortable match for her. As usual, his rumpled charm trails off imperceptibly into rumpled surliness. Elegantly shot and teased along by small, sly touches of humor, Beneath aspires to the kind of sophisticated psycho-horror associated with such sick-puppy maestros as Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski. Director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) appears ready to pull it off, but then the movie takes one twist too many and skitters off into slick formula. The eye of a corpse blinks open. The music shrieks. And Pfeiffer becomes as ditzy as a babysitter in a slasher movie.
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Summary: pretty scary. enough fun...
Review: Critics bashed the hell out of this movie..... and I guess I can as well. but I won't. the movie is pretty boring in the 1st hoour .... nothing too spetacular.... just a long mystery and paranoia type of thing which goes into a useless subplot and an array of pointless characters..... the movie could have dealed without this and cutted off 40 minutes of this useless stuff. the suspense and stuff is your basic freak out type of thing..... scary and loud music at a scary part.... cheap thrills.... the critics hated it..... and I guess that's one of the main reasons..... the 2nd half of the movie goes pretty well. it just goes all out at the end and it's really freaky. I freaked out about twice.... not bad.... overall, the movie has sooooooo many subplots and pointless bits that you might get confused on what is important and whats not.... soooo many pointless characters.... horrible music..... some parts of the movie, the music was sooooo pointless and just didn't fit in the scene. I don't know why Michele Phiffer & Harrison Ford did this movie.... but oh well. it was fun, 2 hours and 40 minutes though or something.
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Summary: The ONLY film to give me an asthma attack
Review: All the hype and feverish wonder over this film from friends and total strangers drove me to spend ..... to see it and it was worth every penny. More shocks and chills and screams than "The Sixth Sense" and "The Blair Witch Project" combined, this unnerving ghost story is tightly wound and strongly vivid. One never knows what fright will loom at the audience and only Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis can achieve such frightful fascination. Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfieffer are outstanding as a middle-aged couple whose only child has just left for college. As soon as she's gone does Pfeiffer start hearing sounds and noises from all over the house. She suspects her creepy neighbor of having killed their spouse, the front door opens on its own power, a picture gets shattered over and over, and some girl appears in the bathroom, among other chills. A terrible secret is soon revealed involving Ford and his quiet past. Once this secret is made manifest to Pfieffer, who has had so much to make any woman go insane, he'll do anything to silence her forever, thus escalating into one of the most heart-poundingly suspensful climaxes ever captured on celluloid. The ghost in the story makes "The Sixth Sense" look wimpy compared to this one. The jolting shocks and sudden scares jump off the screen and into the mind of the viewer without warning. You WILL NOT be prepared for the scares and YOU WILL flinch and jerk more than just a measly few times. There was so many for me combined with the unbearable suspense I started having an asthma attack in the theater. It makes the heart and blood go into high-gear shooting flow like never before and YOU WILL NOT be able to leave and not see what will happen next. Truly this is what movies should do and Robert Zemeckis has proven himself to be a master at this stuff. I predict this film to frighten its way into the Oscar race next spring because if it doesn't, then those Academy voters should have their heads examined. This film is irresistable!
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