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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 2428037" data-attributes="member: 2795">How amusing. You presume I was speaking out of ignorance. I regularly watched Buffy for the first few seasons. Then, pretty much right after Columbine, it went downhill real fast and crashed into a giant wall of made of alternating bricks of mediocrity and banality."Genius" is a word so over-used and misapplied nowadays that it has pretty much lost all meaning. Shakespeare was a genius. James Joyce was a genius. Cervantes was a genius. Ernest Hemingway, whose fiction I don't like, was a genius. E. A. Poe was a genius.Joss Whedon is a better writer than I, but he's not a genius. He's barely above average.But, back to the thread:Was The Grudge scary? Sure, in a jumping out from behind the door and yelling BOO! sort of way. The premise of the movie itself wasn't that scary. The situations weren't scary. Of course, I'm rather difficult to scare.So, okay, if the only criterion we're going to have is "Was the movie scary?" then I guess, at some level, The Grudge was a success. It still isn't a good movie. A good movie - meaning a movie that is well made - has a sensible plot, decent acting, believeable dialogue, good direction, competent editing, et cetera. The Grudge really didn't have any of these. Ju-on was good in the directing and acting categories, but that's it. (Well, maybe the dialogue was done well, but I don't understand Japanese and have to rely on subtitles.)</blockquote>

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