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Posted by Nick Macpherson on 10/04/25 11:35
moviePig wrote:
> Goro wrote:
>
> > Ralph Grossi wrote:
> >
> >>"Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >>news:1135359593.625968.174190@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> >>
> >>>I just watched the RED EYE dvd. It was a decent movie; the first half
> >>>was very good, the latter half, quite awful. One thing is that I found
> >>>myself rooting for Cillian Murphy throuhgout. SInce there's little if
> >>>any substantial character development, there wasn't anything really
> >>>pressing me to care about Rachel McAdam's char or the senator target.
> >>>I did find Cillian Murphy really engagingl, though, and wanted him to
> >>>succeed and off McAdams and Brian Cox, too.
> >>>
> >>>-goro-
> >>
> >>Nice double bagger, spoilers on an unreleased DVD (Jan 10). Well done!
> >>
> >
> > WHoops. sorry about that, but to be fair, it's very obvious fromt he
> > beginning what the outcome is going to be. I guess i should have put
> > some sppoiler space, though, for people who have avoided the trailers
> > of this.
>
> I, who crusade against spoilers, have occasionally committed worse. I
> usually just wear a hair shirt for a couple of days. I can loan you mine...
>
> What's a bitch is that, e.g., the *trailer* (iirc) gives away who the
> villain is. Sure, so does the movie within 5 minutes... but it does at
> first pay a little lip-service to some low-level misdirection. I figure
> the studio said, "We want clips. Screw the plot." Typical, to be
> sure... but that means that few screenwriters should ever consider using
> an early far-reaching surprise.
>
It's a thriller. It has to have a bad guy and there's no other
candidate than Cillian Murphy so I don't see how under any stretch
revealing him as the bad guy could be considered a spoiler violation.
It was a good trailer. It starts out like the trailer to yet another
dreary romantic chick flick (Wth Rachel McAdams taking the Brittany
Murphy part) and then gets tense. I went from, oh man, I'll never ever
ever see this, no, not even on cable, to, oh wow, maybe this is going
to be halfway decent (and it was--and while the ending sucks, I think
Craven cannily turns the film into comedy after the plane lands so it
doesn't matter.)
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