Comments on: Orphan

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:20:27 +0000

Just seen this one. I liked the movie, but didn’t love the twist. Actually I don’t think it matters, since it doesn’t in any way change the perception of what’s gone before in any really significant way. Good film though, a few too many unnecessary jump scares for my taste but everyone in it plays their parts convincingly and, like Vern, I particularly liked the mother of the family.

By: Griff

Griff — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:26:37 +0000

WHAT A TWEEST!

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:03:45 +0000

The best horror movie this year is a ten minute short called ‘Treevenge.’ Youtube that thing. Absolute insanity.

By: Mr. Subtlety

Mr. Subtlety — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:33:04 +0000

Dan — that’s one theory I’ve heard, which does a good job explaining the snow globe and the”Returners”.

But what about the three women and the mongoloid? And all the weird stuff about murder and mistaken identity and his weird, clingy friend (the non-mongoloid one)? Could mean a lot of things.

By: Mr. Majestyk

Mr. Majestyk — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:46:16 +0000

I don’t remember the guy in the coma. Boobs of that size and frequency tend to make my memory selective, like when I forgot to break up with that crazy chick I was dating for five years.

By: Dan Prestwich

Dan Prestwich — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:41:47 +0000

oh and re: CEMETERY MAN. I remember reading somewhere that it’s all supposed to take place in the mind of the man in the coma. The snow globe thing is just a metaphor for the fact that everything that happens is happening in a self-contained, non-existant world.

Not that that explains everything. But I’ve meant to go back and rewatch the movie with that in mind.

By: Dan Prestwich

Dan Prestwich — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:24:10 +0000

Has anyone seen Robert Altman’s 3 WOMEN? It’s a strange movie throughout, but has an interior logic and is easy enough to follow… until the last few minutes, when the titular women seem to swap personalities and create some sort of family unit that didn’t exist earlier in the film.

By: Mr. Subtlety

Mr. Subtlety — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:07:42 +0000

I’ve thought long and hard about what “Cemetary Man” might mean, and never really came up with a satisfactory answer. I’ve heard a number of arguments which never quite seem to completely add up — but nonetheless, I’m absolutely smitten with the film. The title theme alone is enough to justify calling it great (also, fantastic boobies). I think the difference is, films like “Cemetary Man” or Lynch’s films, or “Daisies”or “Scorpio Rising” or whatever is, they’re intentionally nonlinear, abstratc, metaphoric, symbolic, etc. A true WTF ending — to me, anyway — has to be something completely out of the blue stuck on to the end of an otherwise conventional story (ie, Ape Lincoln — very nice, heheh).

By: Mr. Majestyk

Mr. Majestyk — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:38:58 +0000

Bear in mind this is not a criticism of Cemetery Man. I wouldn’t change its ending for the world.

By: Mr. Majestyk

Mr. Majestyk — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:30:26 +0000

At least you have some theories about what might have happened, even if they made absolutely no logical sense. (I’m going with wormhole to a parallel dimension where Ape Lincoln freed the slaves.) How about the ending of Cemetery Man? The best I can come up with is they live in a snow globe and every now and again the oversexed caretaker and the retarded gravedigger switch personalities, which really makes me want to see a sequel where the fat mongoloid gets to have sex with the hot zombie chick.