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Shutter
Apr 13, 2008 23:03:14 GMT -5
Post by Jen on Apr 13, 2008 23:03:14 GMT -5
Shutter (2004) Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun Parkpoom Wongpoom "Have you ever carefully looked at your pictures?" After a night of drinking with their friends, a young photographer named Tun and his girlfriend, Jane, are in a car accident in which she hits a woman and then drives away. Soon after they begin to notice mysterious shadows in the photographs Tun takes. And it turns out, they aren't the only ones being haunted. ----------------- Rate this film on a scale of 0-5 stars, 5 being the best.
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Shutter
Apr 14, 2008 10:35:48 GMT -5
Post by GP on Apr 14, 2008 10:35:48 GMT -5
I'm tempted to give this a five simply on the strength of the director's awesome name but I'll wait til I've seen it.
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Shutter
Apr 14, 2008 11:20:16 GMT -5
Post by Jen on Apr 14, 2008 11:20:16 GMT -5
I give it a 4. Its an extremely derivative film, yes, you've seen this all before but somehow its still a VERY effective film. Its so creepy at times, and a couple of the performances were quite good.
I am kind of interested to see the remake to see what was changed.
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Seeker
Buried
Hell...ha! I've been there...I wasn't impressed...
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Shutter
Apr 19, 2008 12:03:07 GMT -5
Post by Seeker on Apr 19, 2008 12:03:07 GMT -5
I gave it a 3... I thought it was a very cool movie...Like you said, Jen, I've seen all the same things in many horror movies, but it all worked for this movie...Another creepy Asian movie, gotta love 'em...
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Shutter
Aug 1, 2009 10:50:52 GMT -5
Post by GL on Aug 1, 2009 10:50:52 GMT -5
I'd personally go with a 2.5 rating, as there was some good stuff and bad stuff here, but one never really dominated the other.
The multiple scares in the developing room were awesome, her encounter in the abandoned meeting room with the jars filled with grotesque-looking objects was great and then the strobe-light sequence in the apartment was probably my favorite of the film, inventive, creepy and downright original. The ending would've been a lot better had they just kept it to where he was using the photographs to find her and they show the twist with her being eternally connected to him rather than the lame ending in the hospital, but it's still pretty good.
Then they go ahead and completely waste a golden opportunity where she's following them in the car outside the window, which made me jump the moment her face appeared but was over within a matter of seconds later, without a payoff at all and really should've been expanded a little more. There were a lot of scares that were too short to really get to me (him picking up the prescription at the medicine window, her calling him on the cell-phone and not getting an answer) and probably the one scene that really threw me off was the sequence where they meet the best friend in his apartment with the walls completely littered with photographs and during which they not only reveal that all the friends have all died (robbing us of the fun of their deaths) but we get a lame on-screen to wrap up that whole plot thread itself. Rather frustrating.
I'd say a 2.5, but I might just knock it back to a 2 simply because I found the remake much better while almost being a carbon-copy.
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Shutter
Jul 5, 2012 20:30:53 GMT -5
Post by stinger on Jul 5, 2012 20:30:53 GMT -5
I can't recall if there is much of a difference between the two but I enjoyed both versions. I would give it a four.
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Post by Clathian Salvator on Jul 6, 2012 1:47:03 GMT -5
The remake isnt as effective with the ending I dont recall ever seeing an ending like that, so I dont know how anyone can say its derivitive. The ending greatly surprised and scared the shit out of me.
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Post by Jen on Jul 6, 2012 9:46:06 GMT -5
I think when people say it's a derivative film (including me) they aren't talking about the ending so much as they are the themes and scares throughout. They are all pretty much commonplace for Asian ghost stories. They actually didn't change much as far as story goes, but the remake lacked any kind of subtlety, in my opinion.
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