I'm sorry. All that hype on 'greatest scary moments' lists and me waiting for ages to see this film & then it's one of the daftest, crappiest films I've ever seen.
Seriously don't waste 2 hours of your life watching it. You'll never get them back.
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
This movie should be right up my alley. I love 70's films - films that are trippy, films that are slow, exploration of emotion etc etc. But this film didn't amaze me too much, BUT I'm not going to dismiss it so easily.
This film would of come out around the time of Rosemary's Baby, to me they have a similar feel. and being the early 70s, LSD was still influencing movies, art and music. This film is very much like an acid trip, not in the Beatles yellow submarine sense - but in the creepy, confused sense.
I can understand why people would dismiss this movies as crap, because they probably didn't live during the 70s and probably have seen limited films from this genre or period so can't see where it's coming from.
The thing I kept thinking though while watching it is, gees Donald Sutherland is weird looking!
Hey Jasper
I actually did grow up in the 70's.. born in 56..
I just think the movie tried to be tricky and was, but was just too slow paced with too much time just filler....
my opinion,, no worries if someone differs from mine
all the best
I'm not a fan of horror nowadays and avoid torture porn etc. I felt sick for like a week after watching Hostel - so "No, thanks!" It's just disgusting. But I have to say that I didn't like this movie much either. It's same with movies like Full Circle or Suspiria etc. They're said to be 'classics', but either you like them or you don't.
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I hated this movie but loved Suspiria...!
shareI just watched it and only watched it cause it was a horror... This is not a horror unless you consider a 40 second death scene a horror movie. I didn't care for it as a whole. It felt a little like David Lynch at the end when they connect the dots and when they revealed the killer.
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I really liked this film, certainly very slow paced and not an easy watch but feeling of anxiety the film generates is quite overwhelming. So much so I started to feel what the main characters were going through! I cant only begin to imagine how shocking this would have been at the time.
I think the choice of setting it in Venice was a fantastic choice, added to creepy and unsettling tone of the film. I personally dont see what people refer to as plot holes though, there were none as far as I can see. I understand how people may not enjoy this film as its not an easy watch by any means but to dismiss it as "pure crap" or "ca ca" is pretty ignorant really. Not to mention people claiming it was too old fashioned, seriously?!
If people didn't like it, fairplay! If you like David Lynch films and stuff with a non-linear narrative give it a go.
I don´t see what´s so "slow" about it - the editing is frequently very fast and although there are more glacially paced sequences, this one practically flies by.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
The only anxiety I felt growing was my great unease as I realized I was wasting two hours of my life on a movie that went absolutely nowhere.
shareA young girl dies, then the couple move to Venice where they are plagued by psychic forces and near death experiences, ending with the father getting his throat slashed by a demonic troll who has been murdering people across the city.
That’s actually a fairly dense plot, so to say it ‘went nowhere’ betrays extreme ignorance and stupidity.
A creature like you can’t ‘waste time’ on anything. Good films are ‘wasted’ on your small mind.
You couldn't be more right. This movie was incredibly boring. Nothing happens in it. It's just one slow scene after another. I saw the 7.3 stars on here and decided to watch it. And then I kept thinking it would become interesting at some point. I was wrong.
It's amazing how movies get more and more lame and boring the further back in history you go. There are exceptions, of course, but they are few and far between. Don't Look Now wouldn't make a cent today. The whole story could have been told in 20 minutes. Don't waste your time with this pile of dung.
Amazing how much time you've wasted telling everyone about it since...
shareAre you trying to take the piss out of yourself? 🤣
shareI hated this. I've always detested Roeg and this was no exception. When I read that Du Maurier wrote him a letter congratulating him, I thought I should go easier on him. I knew that hoked up sex scene was all Roeg. He knows nothing about suspense which is paced differently than a drama or comedy. He should study Polanski or Hitchcock, of course.
sharePlenty of Hitchcockian flourishes in Don't Look Now, but I agree that Polanski could have made a film to rival Roeg's version. There probably would have been more emphasis on the suspense and less on the melancholy which would have been less in keeping with du Maurier's story which Roeg captured so well, but still, it would have been intriguing to see what Polanski would have done with this material.
shareYes, it was pure crap.
shareIt is not pure crap, to label something so lazily suggests nothing but closed-mindedness when it comes to things you can't enjoy. Sure it shows signs of age and may be a bit avant-garde for modern horror fans but it is still a tremendously effective piece of cinema. If you approached it looking for the jumps and scares of an ordinary horror film then I can understand the disappointment, it is not that kind of film and doesn't allude to being so. I first saw this when I was about 10 and it's stayed with me longer than anything like The Exorcist, a truly unsettling masterpiece IMO.
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Some of these comments are so deliriously in bad and poo taste, this is a masterpiece for everyone who loves and understands greater Cinema, for the others.. they may enjoy what they love, there are no further comments to be made!
shareYou're right about that ofcourse, more power to you boss.
shareJust seen the DVD; first saw the film when it came out. Yes it is rubbish. Badly directed, horribly photographed. When a film is so badly scripted, people always say "Ah you didn't understand it". I understood it all right, but I thought it was very badly told. A classic over-rated case of the Emperor's New Clothes.
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The direction and photography were so poor it picked up a BAFTA nomination for the former and won for the latter.
shareI just watched this after reading about it on scariest movies lists. I agree with the direction, and cinematography being flawless....but I do not believe that it deserves all the hype as one of the scariest ever. I wouldn t even consider this a horror movie. It is beautiful, and a classic, but scary...it is not...but to each his own.....
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I read lists of scariest movies all the time and most of the lists are not even scary movies at all. I think it is hilarious that people think the movies like this are scary. One little noise scares them but if they see any gore they are just disgusted instead of scared. I don't really look for scary but love the gore because it is entertaining and more than this with hardly any or other build ups.
For those defending this as a one of the best scary films is just too much and acting like they like it just because others say it. I agree as this is just as bad as Full Circle 1977. Nothing with these builds ups are scary and they are more thriller than any horror and most thrillers are creepy and scary to some horrors.
Now a days people say that the horror movies are not that scary is mostly for the PG-13 and there are so many PG-13 horror crap coming out more than any rated R or Unrated. I have stopped watching PG-13 horror for a long time and rarely even see one. I can honestly say though that today's PG-13 horror is better than the this movie and the Full Circle.
I am in my 40's and to those older people. Keep enjoying your older most boring movies. Its okay if you like them but I am not going to say I like something when I don't.
I am a gore watching freak!!!
If it don't have it, it isn't worth the watch.
You must be in your 50’s now. Do you still have the brain of a retarded young teenager?