4.8 is far too low. Sure there could have been some parts of the movie that may have been improved and it feels a little rushed, but this was quite a good movie.
Are people rating it low because they were expecting a slasher flick and got more of a psychological thriller instead?
You'll have figured everything out yourself after aprox. 15 minutes.
This movie linked comsumerism to the vegetary state of being in a coma (double meaning of PVS). Wow!
The guy had a sympathectomy; he's a white, new-money (jumped the dot.com bandwagon at an early stage) liberal, who feels sympathetic about the world, but is ultimately cut off, because of fear to venture into it. He surrounds himself with 'stuff' and convinces himself that this offers some kind of fulfillment (conversation with brother - who has ventured in the world - during party). After the 'sympathectomy' he experiences his fears, the black man, the poor white trash, the lesbian daughter... his white liberal fears masked as understanding, tolerance, sympathy. Wow!
Everything this movie has to offer was obvious for everyone who has read a book/seen a movie or two - the falling in a dream and landing leading to death, who didn't see the ending coming??.
You may have liked it. There will be people who disliked it, because they aren't able to grasp everything this movie had to offer, but stop acting as if lack of appreciation necessarily stems from ignorance. It was an easy, obvious film that offers no interesting insight, but it wasn't the worst movie in the world.
Send lawyers, guns and moneyshare
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Because we don't really like Tom Cavanaugh (at least I don't), certainly not enough for him to carry a movie like this. Really, it's not that bad a movie, and certainly creeped the heck out of me in parts, but all the stupid Big Chill stuff with a bunch of white upper middle class types doing the obligatory pseudointellectual navel-gazing b@$@#@t, and at a birthday party no less, was the final nail. Plus the whole perforated bowel thing was lame. Just say no and go see Jacob's Ladder.
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I. ".../in an attempts to look smarter than the film actually is."
II. "I saw this movie for free and I still paid too much."
Mhm... I see.
I completely agree. I've never been so compelled to comment on a films rating. I actually own this film... and I've never brought myself to watch it because of the reviews, but the other night I ran out of films that I had rented from the library and decided to give "Sublime" a try. Good film, great ending.
How do you wake up from a nightmare, if you're not asleep?
Are people rating it low because they were expecting a slasher flick and got more of a psychological thriller instead?
Just watched it for the first time, and although it's no Jacob's Ladder, I thought it was a very good watch. A bit predictable, but it kept my interest the whole way through. The scenes with Mandingo were particularly effective. If the ending were a little bit better (just too predictable for my tastes) I would give this movie a higher rating. As a result, I think a 6.5 or 7 would be fair.
I'm just a guy that likes horror flicks.
irritating leading actor, irritating tv commercials within film, irritating music, irritating scenes switching birthday-hospital and yet you can't wait what will happen next and how it will end.. i gave it 5
shareActually the very ending improved it for me.
It became a bit predictable (maybe later for me than others), as I did love the comparisons of the dialogue at the party to what he was experiencing.
I just found the end to be ironic, where the wife says she was going to leave, but will now stay with him til the end and knows her husband is in there (but has no idea of his agony), and how he thought she was happy with their marriage but in dream state "knows" differently or at least that's a fear, it raised it just a notch for me.
Then again, it's been years since I've seen Jacob's ladder, and I do love symbolism in movies and I think I enjoy this one in retrospect more than I enjoyed watching it. I do agree with as others stated it probably could have been made into a short film.
It isn't the different taste or the cover. It is the fact that the movie didn't really deliver anything.There have been tons of movies with the same plot/twist but better acted/directed so that's why it has a 5.
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