Ghost Ship

[Anonymous User]

This movie is a damn shame!! Good visuals and effects are TOTALLY
erased by a LAME and CONFUSING script that goes nowhere! Plus a
TOTAL lack of Marine Technical Knowledge! eg: A ship has been adrift
at sea for 40 Years, and in the wheelhouse one of the 'Salvagers' remarks,
"The Rudder is Seized", well DUH, any large ship has hydraulic-powered rudder
control. So, a dead ship without any power is un-steerable!!! The funniest part is, they "Fix" the rudder so they can steer it, without any power!! Dumb!!!

On a scale of 1-10 "Ghost Ship" gets a 1.5 for technical merits, thats all!! Save your $10.00 and see a better flick!!!

Zoloft.

[Fearless Freep]

Yeah, Like "Death Ship" with George Kennedy

[Chadzilla]

You know, I saw this while on vacation and really expected and crappy painfest.  While the movie is certainly weak, it is better than Death Ship and/or Virus.  Talk about damning with faint praise.

Things I liked - the opening scene where the deck top dancers get sliced is priceless.  The flashback to the slaughter of passenger and crew.  The effects, production design, and the Italian singer were all top notch to look at.  I appreciated that the movie had an actual story to tell, a point to make (albeit simplistic), and had an actual ending (although the final 'tag' was eye rolling, a fine ending spoiled).

Things I thought were funny - I know that Corporate Business is evil incarnate (and this message delivered in a major corporate studio financed picture, irony not lost on me), but calling the Ulitmate Evil simply 'Management' had me snickering.  "I cannot deliver until I make my quota." - Huh?

Things I disliked -
The characters (aside from Gabriel Byrne's captain) were nil in the development department..  This group made the scientists in John Carpenter's The Thing look like something drafted by Tarantino.

Play a drinking game, see how many times Ghost Ship rips of other movies.  Aliens (the mother/daughter thing), Death Ship (character getting mulched by the ship's gear works), and Poltergeist (eating food that  jump to mind, and that was just in one second of thought.

There was not one moment when I did not know what would happen next.  The list of suspects for U.E.'s Henchperson is stupidly short...I kept waiting for the minority characters to get iced (no surprise when they did, especially with Isaac Washington's predominantly played out in the advertising campaign.  I kept sitting there thinking 'Man they're dragging this out.' - Like we don't know what's going to happen.) first, then the supporting cast (with a big star thrown in for - gasp - shock) until the heroine goes up against the U.E.'s Henchperson to rescue to the spirits not trapped by sin.

First impression - two slimes (but probably it'll get knocked down to one on a second viewing) and a step up for Steve Beck  (his previous movie, the plotless blunder that was 13 Ghosts rates a skull from me).

[Chadzilla]

Which is rated excessive while the far superior The Ring got abhorrent.  They also rated They abhorrent and spoiled the ending in graphic detail.  Jerks.

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