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I'm wondering if anyone who saw this film would care to comment on it.
Thomas
I did see the film, the score works great within it.
As too the film, I wanted to like it..
I really did.
But the lead character does something after being cursed that just so upset and pissed me off with her that I turned on it her and felt she deserved to be dragged to hell.....
Maybe it's just me, but it was just MAJOR MISTAKE in my view on the director's part that I know turn alot of folks against her.
Watch the movie and you'll understand.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Aug 30, 2009 - 8:31 PM
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dogplant
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But the lead character does something after being cursed that just so upset and pissed me off with her that I turned on it her and felt she desered to be dragged to hell.....
Ford, I know exactly what you mean, and while the movie was unspooling I hated Raimi for doing that thing; but by the end I, like you, wanted to see the perpetrator of this callous act seriously burned, and I whooped it up when he delivered.
For me, Sam Raimi is one of the few filmmakers working in the horror genre today that gets it as far as the potential for the medium is concerned. When it's at its best, the classic horror film flies fiction and fantasy in the face of mortality, and it challenges the morality (or immorality) behind it. David Cronenberg gets it, too, in a more cerebral way; Roman Polanski does a pretty mean job too, I think, in connecting with the psychology of horror because he has survived some pretty devastating horrors in his personal life. And I've also felt that Guillermo del Toro gets it and delivers the goods with mythic potential. Many other filmmakers splashing gore around today are, I feel, empty headed fools wasting my time. I have a love-hate relationship with the horror genre, but "Drag Me To Hell", for me, was a love fest.
Nice review of the score, sdtom. I'm guessing that you are not a fan of the current mainstream Hostel/Saw/remake bilge that passes for horror, and I don't blame you. But while Raimi has made some extreme horror offerings, with his "Evil Dead" trilogy, I think he has matured, and he has gone out of his way to explore the genre in films like "The Gift" (not my favorite, but an interesting ESP thriller) and "A Simple Plan" (a pretty effective visceral thriller). "Drag Me To Hell" surfs the edge of "Evil Dead" carnage, as you may have gleaned from Christopher Young's rollercoaster score, but it reminded me of "Night of the Demon" with a twist, if you are familiar with that brilliantly creepy 1957 Jacques Tourneur movie, based on "Casting the Runes" by M.R. James.
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Oh good lord...butcher a thousand people, and the audience will whoop it up, but kill a cute widdle kitty cat, and out come the torches and pitchforks.
Damned right.....
BURN IN HELL YOU BITCH....
You deserve it....
(Guess what what I have two of at home)
Ford A. Thaxton
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IT'S.
A.
MOVIE.
Fuck...
So was OLD YELLER....
I can't watch that movie (but for very different reasons)...
FRACKING GET IT?
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Sam has stated that he wanted the audience to question the morality of the lead character. She essentially finds herself in her situation because of her selfish choice (a promotion at work). It's therefore not a surprise that she does whatever she can to lift the curse. Is it such a shocking and unique concept for modern audiences that a female lead has an ambiguous sense of right and wrong when every male lead character in film today is the anti-hero? And this is coming from a guy who has to feed and clean-up after a fat little cat!
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Aug 31, 2009 - 2:15 PM
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Jon A. Bell
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Sam has stated that he wanted the audience to question the morality of the lead character. She essentially finds herself in her situation because of her selfish choice (a promotion at work). It's therefore not a surprise that she does whatever she can to lift the curse. Is it such a shocking and unique concept for modern audiences that a female lead has an ambiguous sense of right and wrong when every male lead character in film today is the anti-hero? And this is coming from a guy who has to feed and clean-up after a fat little cat!
I may be wrong, but I think Alfred Hitchcock said that if you have a character in a film kill an animal, it won't turn audiences against that character -- it'll turn them against the film itself.
I liked "Drag Me to Hell," but I agree that the scene in question, played for nervous laughs -- and then followed through to a largely-unseen but ugly conclusion -- actively harmed the film. Overall it's a well-made horror film that's scary, gross and funny, but it should've been much more successful this summer than it was.
(What would've been really shocking would've been to have had the girl pass the curse on to her boyfriend halfway through the film because of this bad choice, and have her get killed and dragged down at the midway point, so the rest of the film would've been about him. That would've really freaked out audiences, and probably made the film bomb even harder, but it would've been a ballsy move.)
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Aug 31, 2009 - 5:10 PM
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Jon A. Bell
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I'd really like to see what some of the people posting here would actually do themselves, if they were placed in a similar situation, in a choice between their lives and a pets.
Well, this is pretty silly, but if it were me, in a similar situation (being threatened by demonic forces that I don't believe in, attempting to drag me to a place I also don't believe exists, and being told by *one* person with non-existent "psychic" powers that I "might" be able to get rid of a "curse" -- another concept I don't believe in -- by sacrificing my pet) -- nope, I wouldn't kill my cat.
If anything, I'd introduce the demon to my cat, who would proceed to kick the demon's ass. ;-)
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People have some seriously skewed reactions to horror movies... 
