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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samothdm" data-source="post: 795915" data-attributes="member: 5473">I have to agree with Fenros that I thought the movie was terrible.  So did all seven of the friends that went with me.  But, for me, it was just more of a story and direction problem versus the specifics that Fenros mentioned.  Spoiler alert! and all that. . .  Nah, this didn't bother me at all.  It kind of threw me for a second until I figured out what they were doing, but overall it didn't make the movie horrible for me.   But, seriously, why not do it visually?  It was kind of different.  If he's just going to talk about it, then why mention it at all?   I think somebody else mentioned this, but they made it pretty clear through some of the flashback scenes that the four main characters had some kind of telepathy.  Jonesy, probably unconsciously, warned Henry that he wasn't himself.  Or else Henry was able to sense it.  That's why Henry started shouting "Jonesy!  Thank God!" or whatever before he even couldn't known that it was Jonesey - he sensed him, and then later sensed that he was "not himself". They also established that it was I think 9 miles from the cabin to where Pete was.  Maybe not quite that far, but very far.  I think it's reasonable to assume that he was on his way back to Pete (using the skis) but got intercepted by the military people.  You don't really know that he wasn't heading back to Pete. I agreed wholeheartedly with this.   I thought it was really stupid and had no set-up for why he would do that.  But, as Eddie Izzard would say, Americans always make their villains have English accents.  Look at the Imperials in "Star Wars".   That took me off guard when it happened, but didn't really bother me all that much.  A little more consistency would've been nice, but again, wasn't really what made the movie horrible. I agree here, too.  Sizemore was totally under-utilized, and I really like him as an actor.  I have no idea why he just stood there and waited for Morgan Freeman to completely turn all the way around and shoot him again.  We were all complaining about that.  Bad writing.  And, bad direction for not taking that out or changing it.  And, I'd argue that Freeman and Sizemore are actors of enough quality and reputation that they could've said to the Director, "That's complete BS!  My character wouldn't do that." That didn't bother me that much, either.  People just naturally drift apart as they grow older.  And, he was different enough that it makes it that much easier for the other guys not to be able to find that much in common with him.  It sucks, but that's just how people are. I think that the alien picked a "host" and just out of sheer bad luck picked Duditz.  I figured that once a host is chosen, it can't be changed (at least for that particular species of alien).   I agree with this sentiment completely.  That's why I completely disagree with another poster in another thread about LOTR: TTT.  He complained that it was as good as FOTR because it was too different from the book.  So what?  Evaluate it as a movie, not as a direct correlation to the book.In general, I actually thought that the movie was pretty scary and suspenseful until the scenes with the eel-things and seeing Mr. Grey and all that.  It's like any other horror film - once they show the monser, it's usually not very scary any more, because no matter how scary they try to make it seem, it's never as scary as I've imagined it in my own mind.I think that the dialogue was pretty poor, and I thought that Morgan Freeman's and Tom Sizemore's characters were shallow and undeveloped.  Not written well at all.  And the whole stepping on the little eel guy before he goes into the water supply, that whole scene was just so cliche.  Even the battle beforehand.  I was never really scared that the bad guy would (or even could) win.  Duditz revealing himself to be a weird alien guy was not a surprise and just kind of goofy.  I just don't know how to explain it, but I thought it was terrible.  Then again, just to be fair, the only Stephen King movies I've really liked are the more mainstream ones like "Stand by Me" and "Green Mile".</blockquote>

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