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cmeisenzahl · Oct 12, 2007, 10:12 AM

I just got them from Netlfix, looking forward to it. Without spoilers, did you like them?

Thanks!

brassplayersrock² · Oct 12, 2007, 10:16 AM

I'll have to rewatch disturbia to really remember it (not putting it down, but it doesn't stick out in my head)

1408 on the other hand i just purchased it on dvd, and well, WOW it was really worth the 15 bucks

d4nth3m4n · Oct 12, 2007, 10:16 AM

saw disturbia. meh. since you already have these two, you might as well watch them.

MindFad · Oct 12, 2007, 10:23 AM

Disturbia wasn't terrible. "Meh" is about right. 1408 was great, though, I thought. I was quite surprised by that one. They're both worth a watch, though.

RAILhead · Oct 12, 2007, 10:35 AM

Sarah Roemer. 'Nuff said.

analogue SPRINKLES · Oct 12, 2007, 10:35 AM

I watched 1408 and it was as shitty as 95% Steven King movies. That is unless CG and really over the top goofiness scares you.

brassplayersrock² · Oct 12, 2007, 10:40 AM

someone didn't understand the movie.....

wallinbl · Oct 12, 2007, 11:02 AM

disturbia was middle of the road

Chuckit · Oct 12, 2007, 11:09 AM

I thought 1408 was good. I didn't watch Disturbia because I'm not 13 and that looked like its intended audience.

mdc · Oct 12, 2007, 11:23 AM

I agree.
Disturbia, meh, and 1408 was pretty good. Nothing great, but better than Disturbia.

analogue SPRINKLES · Oct 12, 2007, 04:31 PM

In all seriousness at what point did any of you find 1408 scary? When a title wave came out of a painting or the always original idea of a dead child coming back to tell you "They are cold"?

The scariest part for me was that anyone would pay $12 to see it.

cybergoober · Oct 12, 2007, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

In all seriousness at what point did any of you find 1408 scary? When a title wave came out of a painting or the always original idea of a dead child coming back to tell you "They are cold"?

The scariest part for me was that anyone would pay $12 to see it.

Who TF said anything about 1408 being scary? I thought it was a good movie.

Disturbia was, as others have noted, okay.

P.S. - "tidal"

analogue SPRINKLES · Oct 12, 2007, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by cybergoober

Who TF said anything about 1408 being scary? I thought it was a good movie.

You're right it was a good romantic comedy.

But since you ask the poster does say "Terrifying".

brassplayersrock² · Oct 12, 2007, 05:42 PM

it's based on the book, it's NOT the book. bad argument on your part analogsprinkles

jonasmac · Oct 12, 2007, 06:05 PM

1408 was good, but it was typical Stephen King fare. Samuel L. Jackson inside the mini fridge? It felt more like a tv movie than a major motion picture.

analogue SPRINKLES · 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

it's based on the book, it's NOT the book. bad argument on your part analogsprinkles

Well that better be a joke but at any rate I heard the Care Bear movie was also based on a "terrifying" book from what I've heard. What category would you rate this film as then? That aside what part of this movie gripped you?

RAILhead · Oct 12, 2007, 06:13 PM

Man, so some like it, some don't. I VOTE FOR ENDING THE DRAMA NOW!!!11!!

Chuckit · Oct 13, 2007, 01:39 AM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

In all seriousness at what point did any of you find 1408 scary?

I didn't think any particular part was scary, but I thought it did a good job of creating atmosphere and I thought John Cusack did a good job in the lead role. I still have no ****ing idea what was up with the fridge scene, though.

cybergoober · Oct 13, 2007, 05:37 AM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

You're right it was a good romantic comedy.

But since you ask the poster does say "Terrifying".

So if it's not terrifying it can't be an otherwise good film?

Your logic confounds me.

PB2K · Oct 13, 2007, 11:38 AM

I am watching 1408 at this moment. I'll keep you up to date. His airconditioner is not working , a janitor just made him fix it himself. HOLY **** THE ALARMCLOCK IS COUNTING DOWN

WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU !!!!!

brassplayersrock² · Oct 13, 2007, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by PB2K

I am watching 1408 at this moment. I'll keep you up to date. His airconditioner is not working , a janitor just made him fix it himself. HOLY **** THE ALARMCLOCK IS COUNTING DOWN

WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU !!!!!

the OP asked for no spoilers

Kevin · Oct 13, 2007, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by RAILhead

Man, so some like it, some don't. I VOTE FOR ENDING THE DRAMA NOW!!!11!!

No you HAVE to like something. Or HAVE to dislike it. There can be no differences!

MUST HAVE ALL SOAP PIECES SAME SIZE...

brassplayersrock² · Oct 13, 2007, 12:08 PM

this aint donnie darko we're talking about

Timo · Oct 13, 2007, 12:37 PM

Instead of DIsdurbia, maybe rent Rear Window?

Mithras · Oct 13, 2007, 02:16 PM

Just watched Disturbia. Rates a solid meh. Watch Rear Window twice instead.

Mithras · Oct 13, 2007, 04:04 PM

And 1408 was terrible. Well, a good afternoon's work.

voodoo · Oct 13, 2007, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by Timo

Instead of DIsdurbia, maybe rent Rear Window?

Seconded. Disturbia was a dumb hack of a movie. Seriously dumb. Don't waste 90 minutes of your time with it. Just skip it.

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Cadaver · Oct 13, 2007, 10:45 PM

I liked Disturbia.

King Bob On The Cob · Oct 14, 2007, 01:59 AM

Originally Posted by Timo

Instead of DIsdurbia, maybe rent Rear Window?

Yep. Why get the cheap imitation when you can get the original from the greatest suspense director of all time?

Parvez · Oct 14, 2007, 02:23 AM

1408 is a piece of ****. Boring arse movie.

Disturbia is good.

voodoo · Oct 14, 2007, 10:44 AM

Explaining why Disturbia sucks rocks would require spoilers.. So with spoiler tags not working (don't know why), here are the good and the bad comments about Disturbia, all different posts from imdb:

WARNIG SPOILERS:

what's even more ridiculous is the fact that Morse was all along a very smart if brutal killer and yet, at the end, he acts totally irrationally. Why? because the filmmakers couldn't think of anything clever to do.

a waste of the talents involved.

Apparently... in Disturbialand, all adults are idiots. As a teenager, you can point out direct evidence of a murder and the adults will simply laugh at you. Your mother will insist on going over to the murderer's house and apologizing for you. The murderer will suddenly and stupidly (after years of calculated planning of all his murders) start attacking all of his neighbors.

It was so predictable, and went for cheap thrills instead of a logical conclusion. The "bad guy" actually turns out to be a bad guy, who only appears on screen when it will be scary. He was suppose to be a pretty smart serial killer that has outwitted authorities for years. It turns out that he lacks common sense, and is easily dispatched by the average kid.

Poor David Morse, he's a tremendous actor, but given NOTHING to do here. What a waste of Carrie Ann Moss! There are a couple of "shock" moments, but they appear and leave in the first 5 minutes of the film, after that, the teenage love puppy story sprinkled with tepid moments of "tension". This is a predictable, silly, unrealistic and awful movie.

Kale was OK, but when he explained to Ashley about him watching her, I almost started laughing out loud because she said it was 'creepy, but sweet.'and then made out with him. -- My final thing is about Ashley; where did she go?! After the scene Kale is arrested the 2nd time, she is gone. Why? I have no clue... Ashley comes back in the end, but what happen to her for that big old gap when Kale is almost getting killed?!

I had expected a more exciting, and suspenseful film to tell you the truth. Once he meets the beautiful neighbor girl Ashley -Sarah Roemer- the film takes a u turn. You become a witness of teenage lust fest, which makes you think "am I in the right film ?". Like most of the teen movies, there are way too many shots of the "hot" girl next door doing Yoga, slow-mo swimming, sun bathing.

If you need to get rid of 7.50 with no benefit to yourself short of donating to charity, go see this movie. I would rather swim with sharks with steaks tied to my legs. This piece of cinema dog crap is not even a scary movie.

It's cheesy, it's jokes are stupid, and the killer's house is apparently designed by James Bond. He has a secret room, and then inside that secret room is another secret room that leads into a basement, where beneath the floorboards is another secret room. C'mon, a secret room in a secret room in a secret room, that's stupid!

Disturbia is a poor attempt at remaking the Alfred Hitchcock tale Rear Window. Change the reason for remaining indoors from a broken leg to house arrest, add a cute girl in a skimpy swim suit and make the murderer a psychotic mass murderer who does not particularly hide his victim's bodies but rather keeps them for trophies and there you have disturbia.

This is a modern-day teen version of the 1954 classic "Rear Window." To show you how far down the tubes Hollywood has gone since then, instead of a grown, mature adult spotting a criminal across the way, we now have a snotty teenager under house arrest for slugging his high school Spanish teacher. And, we have the teen and his horny friend "Ronald" (Aaron Yoo) spying mainly on the new teen girl "Ashley" (Sarah Roemer) who has moved in across the street. The camera zooms in on her skin as frequently as possible.

The silly, slurping dazed-and-confoozed Asian buddy, the teasey-cheezy girl next door, the continually absent and oblivious mother, the portrayal of cops as ignorant, and an experienced and treacherous killer who gets had by a teenager are the mundane hallmarks of the director's sophomoric re-creation of a film classic. Shame on him.

The supposedly funny parts aren't funny, the scary parts aren't scary, the tension isn't tense, the girl's character is all over the map, the male lead is channeling John Cusack bigtime. -- I recommend the Simpsons episode where Bart breaks his leg and thinks he sees Flanders murder Maude. Much better show than this dreck.

There's 45 minutes before anything builds up... and then just when you think all hell is going to break lose, NOTHING again, until the last 5 minutes of the film, which is such an anticlimax.

I watched this flick because of the acclaimed critics. Well, it was a big mistake, because this film lacks everything that makes a film "viewable". Not good, but just viewable.

There is a good basic idea that could be the base of a great movie, but both the screenwriters and the director failed to attain it. The result is a very boring movie without any surprises. It's just another teen movie, packed with high-tech, trendy stuff ads (such as the XBox360 or the PSP - everything that a modern teenager needs), but beneath the glossy surface there is nothing.

What is wrong with the movie? Well, a lot of things. First of all, it is boring, the prelude is too long when literally nothing happens. The acting is bad. There is no suspense or surprise in the movie, everything is what it seems to be.

I definitely do not recommend this movie for anyone who is older than 14 years old.

I kept watching this cinematic turd in the hope that it would redeem itself, but that never happened. The actors have no idea how real people respond to real situations, and the director doesn't seem to care if his characters have little to no connection with reality. Altogether it makes for a poor trip through fantasy land.

If you can download and watch this crap for free, then you are probably getting your money's worth. If you pay more than 15 cents to view this crap, then you are getting ripped off.

While it has a moment or so of entertainment, DISTURBIA is not a good film and shouldn't be seen by anyone who loves thrillers. Everyone know the plot a la REAR WINDOW. What troubles me the most are those stupid plot holes which is laziness on the script writers part. The ending is the worse thing about the movie. The killer disappears for a while, the surfaces again? Why the wait? With so much going on with screaming and the noise of the fight, no other neighbor's notice? When the girl jumps out of the pool, she presumably goes to her parents and calls the police. Where were they? They come so late? The killers house is like the "house of horrors". Who can make a place with so many secret walls, floors and compartments? You'd have to have a mansion, not a suburban home to configurate such a place. Would a killer really settle down in the burbs? With his killings, why leave all the windows uncovered for anyone to see? Doesn't anyone think about these things when making a movie? Don't they sit around a table and discuss impausabilities? Do they think audiences are going ae not going to think? Of course these types of movies aren't made for the general public, but for kids who don't think I guess. Anyway, a waste of time and forget this one.

The list goes on and on. It was a dumb dumb boring predictable snoozefest. That's how it appeared to me and seemingly a lot of other people.

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Timo · Oct 14, 2007, 11:06 AM

^ that review seems quite apt

including the part that alludes to the original, a pinnacle of film called Rear Window.

angelmb · Oct 14, 2007, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by voodoo

we now have a snotty teenager under house arrest for slugging his high school Spanish teacher.

To make things even worse, the dubbed spanish version features an italian teacher instead of the spanish one which would be kinda hard to imagine… so you hear them trying to talk italian while the chalkboard has plenty -sort of- spanish sentences…

IMHO an awful movie.