Look, somebody must have bit. Whoever you are, 'fess up. We'll still respect you (giggle).
Is this really this year's "Battlefield Earth?" Does everyone's head pop off at the end?
I haven't yet, but I will, God damn it. Just...just leave me alone!
*raises hand sheepishly* Yeah, I saw it on Friday, and yes, it is as bad as everyone says. Among the stupidities:
*The website in the movie ISN'T fear.com; It's feardotcom.com. Kinda undercuts the menace of your evil genius when he has to settle for sloppy seconds domain names.
*Many plot points are thrown in, but very few connect to one another. For example, about halfway through our heroes discover that the website kills its victims in ways relating to their greatest fears... and NEVER bring it up again.
*Jeffrey Combs is in it... as the sidekick cop. I mean, come on: Here you have a movie featuring a sadistic genius, and Herbert West himself is in the Barney Fife role? (even worse, Udo Kier appears as the pre-credits victim; his only line is "NOOOO!!")
*Best line in the movie: "I did some research, and found out the German girl was terrified of drowning." Where did she research this?!
As for the ending... Yes, if you're referring to the audience. The "epilogue" consists of the heroine picking up the phone, not getting an answer, and going back to sleep. This is the ONLY closure following the climax scene. All in all, it's just a bad movie; not even terribly amusing, just bad (although there's a hilariously illogical scene involving a homeless woman that I won't even spoil).
My spider sense was tingling. It has saved me agine. Thank you, spider sense.
The inherent lameness of Fear.com was blinding. Easily on eof the weakest films to hit screens this year. I saw it the other night by myself ... and I was REALLY by myself because there wasn't a single person in the theatre. Which meant I could moan in pain as loud as I wanted.
Fear.com made me squirm in my seat. Not from chills or fright -- I squirmed from stupidity.
As frustrating as Queen of the Damned, and probably just as drawn out. And apart from the fact it's a shameless rip of RING (and a half-dozen other plots), I really don't know how such a lifeless mess even made it to theatres.
Vermin hit many of the things that irritated me. Here are a few more:
* What the hell is up with the passage of time in Fear.com? The film jumped from day to night and back again.
* What kind of parent lets a hemophiliac child play in an abandoned steel mill?
* How did a hemophiliac survive prolonged torture?
* Doesn't anyone use a standard web browser?
* How did she get the note in the lipstick container? Why wasn't the note damaged from the water? How did it remain there after the "living autopsy?"
* And wait a minute -- why the hell would her body be in a place she played at as a kid. Did I miss an explanation for this because I was moaning too loudly?
* How did the "back-up" cops arrive first?
* Who isn't afraid of "knives?" God, that was stupid.
Stupid stupid stupid.