I'd sort of have to agree... I really wanted to like it, and I really wanted it to scare me. I watched alone, in the dark, but it didn't get to me at all for some reason. The way I felt after this movie was very much "Eh..." Heck, Mothman Prophecies scared me more than this, and I thought that movie was the dullest fright flick I'd seen.
I'd rented feardotcom also, and watched it next and found it not only more creepy, but more entertaining. I think normally I'd have been alot harder on certain plot devices in feardotcom if I hadn't just seen the The Ring, which for me was an utter sleeper. By the way, anyone else think it's weird how similar the plots were to these two films?
Maybe The Ring is better if everyone you know hasn't gone on to you about how scary it is.
Even as a big fan of Revolutions, I still have to disagree. I hear people spout this big-headed rhetoric about how deep these movies are, waving around the word "philosophy" like it was a sceptre of supreme intellect. In general, I see the arguments of those who do this as pedantic, with an attitude of "if you don't think this is "philosophical gold" then you're simply less intelligent than I!"
People who think that these films are so deep rarely come up with any profundities when put under the lights about what exactly they mean. How did it impact your life? How does it impact all of life? What great revelations are brought to light by these films? Can you show me something that'll knock me off my cerebral feet? I didn't think so.
The thing that Revolutions and Shakespeare have in common is levels of human drama. Painting a picture that makes the audience indentify on some level is good drama, not philosophy. Painting this picture can be achieved by both forcing questions and pulling the audience into the action.
I think the main problem is that people want them to be the same thing the original was. People should realize they can't be. The great thing about the original was it was something we'd never seen any part of before. To be a sequel eliminates any possibility of this.
Although I didn't enjoy the second film, the third film would undoubtedly stand with high ranking on it's own merit, and is only frowned upon as a sequel. It's got excellent drama, eye-catching but not pointless effects, and good action. The story is even reasonably twisty without the pretention of the second film.
People have critisized the ending, but, in general, it seems to me those are the people who had a particular ending theory based on the second film that was proven wrong. Again, if the third film hadn't been a sequel it wouldn't suffer from the same kind of criticism.
Didn't hold a candle to X2, though, IMO, because that managed to be an extremely cohesive and surpassing sequel. However, it is a great film, with all the elements that most people enjoy in a movie.
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I'd rented feardotcom also, and watched it next and found it not only more creepy, but more entertaining. I think normally I'd have been alot harder on certain plot devices in feardotcom if I hadn't just seen the The Ring, which for me was an utter sleeper. By the way, anyone else think it's weird how similar the plots were to these two films?
Maybe The Ring is better if everyone you know hasn't gone on to you about how scary it is.
People who think that these films are so deep rarely come up with any profundities when put under the lights about what exactly they mean. How did it impact your life? How does it impact all of life? What great revelations are brought to light by these films? Can you show me something that'll knock me off my cerebral feet? I didn't think so.
The thing that Revolutions and Shakespeare have in common is levels of human drama. Painting a picture that makes the audience indentify on some level is good drama, not philosophy. Painting this picture can be achieved by both forcing questions and pulling the audience into the action.
Although I didn't enjoy the second film, the third film would undoubtedly stand with high ranking on it's own merit, and is only frowned upon as a sequel. It's got excellent drama, eye-catching but not pointless effects, and good action. The story is even reasonably twisty without the pretention of the second film.
People have critisized the ending, but, in general, it seems to me those are the people who had a particular ending theory based on the second film that was proven wrong. Again, if the third film hadn't been a sequel it wouldn't suffer from the same kind of criticism.
Didn't hold a candle to X2, though, IMO, because that managed to be an extremely cohesive and surpassing sequel. However, it is a great film, with all the elements that most people enjoy in a movie.