Ebert & Roeper give AMITYVILLE the finger

[odinn7]

I saw this movie yesterday and although it was no work of art by any means, I actually enjoyed it. It strayed quite a bit from the book and quite far off from the original movie. I think this re-make would have been better off being called something else and then maybe people wouldn't have ragged on it so much. The movie offers some decent acting, some real good scares (90% of the people in the theater were freaking out and screaming) a decent story line and very good special effects/make up. Ryan Reynolds did an excellent and very believeable job as an increasingly posessed George Lutz.
It seems to me that the majority of people who are upset with this movie are people who still seem to believe the story. As far as I'm concerned, the story was proven false a long time ago so you might as well forget about it. The original movie was weak but what made that so big was that it was "true". Well, they tried to push that off on this one also as "based on the true story" but all I can really say was true about it is that George and Kathy Lutz did buy the house after Ronald Defeo murdered his family in it.
Overall I did enjoy the movie and it did scare the crap outta my wife. She bruised my arm from grabbing so hard. If you're looking for a horror movie that's fun, I would say you'd probably like this as long as you don't go in expecting too much from it.