The Hills Have Eyes

[maraudar]

I wathed this over the weekend. Not a bad movie but a lousy remake. Even though they kept the same storyline and had all of the original characters plus few new ones it just didnt do it for me.

Unless you watched the original you probably wouldnt be able to tell which cannibal was who. The movie seemed to lose something without the racist diatribe of Big Bob and Jupitor's rant. The interaction of the families was flat. I was never scared or nervous during this film like I was in the original(I watched that just recently as well). Even the rape scene fell flat. It didnt have the same horror attached to it that it should of for that type of horrendous crime.

I will say I did like the son-in-law in this movie better than in the original. He seemed to be one hell of a tough SOB when it came down to it. More so than Big Bob. The cannibals seemed nothing more than cardboard cutouts ala Texas Chainsaw or House of a 1000 corpses. They just didnt bother me. The originals did because they didnt look to far off from regular people. You could see the degenerency in them all the more clearly that way.

My favorite scene in the whole movie though had to be when the freak in the wheelchair radios Mars to kill the baby sets the mike down and sees the dog Beast snarling at him. Like I said all in all not a bad movie but a lousy remake.


Maraudar

[Joël of the FoS]

*** Spoilers ***

It was OK, but predictable and quite lousy in parts (the little girl saving the baby, then the son-in-law.

The putting the dad in fire diversion was insanely evil

I liked the ending, indeed, when the tide turn in favor of the victims. They were able to impart us that savage joy of killing who did you great wrong.

Even the rape scene fell flat. It didnt have the same horror attached to it that it should of for that type of horrendous crime.

Indeed, but they played it with the simultaneous horror of actually seeing these guys at the same time. I think it was a deliberate choice to downplay the rape in favor of seeing the monsters, which I don't think it's a good idea for real life. At least, the scene shows little and leaves all to the imagination.

Joël