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As Above, So Be-meh.
11 years ago
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Went go see As Above, So Below today.
It's really something when you can go into a movie theater with little to no expectations and leave feeling slightly disapointed.
It wasn't like... DB:Evolutions bad to where it was funny... but it wasn't very good, either. I imagine this is what it was like for people who go see the original Blair Witch with no preface or buzz about it. You basicly have to already be 'Ou mi gud, ze cataecombs in par-wee, so super spoopy!' about it to get anything out of it. The pacing wasn't 'not good' - it didn't show up entirely. I mean, you could imagine that this was directly what the story board artist had penned. When he turned to the director and said 'so how are we gonna pad this out to 2 or so hours?' the reply back was "nah, this's good" 'but I didn't even end it! three characters are still trapped without a clue how to escape the darkness!'
/////SPOILERS!!!\\\\\
But no. That was it. Keeping to fashion, we just have a straight up Fairy Tell bullshit ending where the main character just like football tackles through these demons (not once, twice) finds out the secret was inside her/love/believing/chemical X all along and they just make it out of hell and are like 'cool. That's just bairly more than an hour and a half, or three tv eps, so that's cool, that's a wrap.'
There is no time devoted to exploring the characters or even the main girl's movtive. And that's even with a half hour or so devoted to being out of the catacombs.
One little spoiler-laden nit pick I have is why did she see her father in the caves in Iran? If all the super spoopy shit didn't happen until they entered the catacombs, why was she treated to that little horror all the way out there? Was simply being on the trail of the philosopher's stone such an egregious act that the willies and the spookys came out to find you wherever you are?
Overall, it was like a shakey cam movie with a few too many protags. Nobody was able to capture adequate screen time and not everyone dies in the end, and instead of one final horror twist, we get a sorta-happy ending. Which is bad.
It's really something when you can go into a movie theater with little to no expectations and leave feeling slightly disapointed.
It wasn't like... DB:Evolutions bad to where it was funny... but it wasn't very good, either. I imagine this is what it was like for people who go see the original Blair Witch with no preface or buzz about it. You basicly have to already be 'Ou mi gud, ze cataecombs in par-wee, so super spoopy!' about it to get anything out of it. The pacing wasn't 'not good' - it didn't show up entirely. I mean, you could imagine that this was directly what the story board artist had penned. When he turned to the director and said 'so how are we gonna pad this out to 2 or so hours?' the reply back was "nah, this's good" 'but I didn't even end it! three characters are still trapped without a clue how to escape the darkness!'
/////SPOILERS!!!\\\\\
But no. That was it. Keeping to fashion, we just have a straight up Fairy Tell bullshit ending where the main character just like football tackles through these demons (not once, twice) finds out the secret was inside her/love/believing/chemical X all along and they just make it out of hell and are like 'cool. That's just bairly more than an hour and a half, or three tv eps, so that's cool, that's a wrap.'
There is no time devoted to exploring the characters or even the main girl's movtive. And that's even with a half hour or so devoted to being out of the catacombs.
One little spoiler-laden nit pick I have is why did she see her father in the caves in Iran? If all the super spoopy shit didn't happen until they entered the catacombs, why was she treated to that little horror all the way out there? Was simply being on the trail of the philosopher's stone such an egregious act that the willies and the spookys came out to find you wherever you are?
Overall, it was like a shakey cam movie with a few too many protags. Nobody was able to capture adequate screen time and not everyone dies in the end, and instead of one final horror twist, we get a sorta-happy ending. Which is bad.
Duo
~duo
Wasn't this made by those Paranormal Activity guys?
