Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Seesion 9!

[quote name="FA-BI-OH!"][quote name="curst"]It's a sort of interesting story, I guess. The acting's not bad. The mental hospital is undeniably creepy. But similar to my reaction to SH2 and it's opening fifteen minutes of you running through a foggy forest, I had a tough time getting excited during the 99% of the movie that consists of panning around decrepit environments with the director practically screaming to the audience in the background "SEE HOW GLOOMY EVERYTHING LOOKS? DRIPPING WATER! I SURE HOPE YOUR HEART RATE IS INCREASING! BECAUSE IT'S PSYCHOLOGICAL! LOOK AT THAT PEELING PAINT!" and in the meantime absolutely nothing of interest is happening. The ending was pretty disturbing, I guess. I'm glad I sat through well over an hour of pure tedium for that almost average payoff![/quote] Just saw it. I kind of liked the plot and ending. I thought Jacob's Ladder was a predictable letdown plot that insulted the viewer's intelligence with some awesome freakout scenes scattered around. Session 9 was more like an hour long instructional video on hazardous waste removal followed by a genuinely interesting last half hour with surprising ending. spoilers But holy fucking shit does it take forfuckingever to get going. Over an hour of blue collar workers cleaning up lead paint. How fun. I really liked the last half hour or so when they find the missing guy. I kept bracing myself for some bullshit "dream" ending like Jacob's Ladder, started getting worried that they were going that way by having the boss turn out to be one of the former patients returning with the added bonus cliched twist that all his coworkers were multiple personalities in his head that he was killing off (fuck you, Identity), then was genuinely surprised when the final revelation hit and I totally didn't see coming. I thought they did a decent job dropping hints that the others might have done it (though some of them didn't make much sense). "Simon" was pretty creppy. I'd probably have to go back and watch it again (not sure if that's possible) to fully piece it together, but a lot of stuff didn't make much sense. One bit was how everyone kept saying they had to bust their asses to complete a 2-3 week job in seven days and how they'll be pissed if they miss their deadline and lose out on the bonus, but then constantly showing everyone slacking off and taking tons of longass breaks. Which leads to the next point of why, under such a strict deadline, did that one guy keep sneaking off to the basement to listen to not only listen to hours of tapes, but plot out detailed notes on them. It sort of made sense when I thought all the characters were inside the boss' head, but then that theory got busted. The whole thing was especially silly during the chase scene. "We have to chase after this guy we thought disappeared! You guys go after him, I just have to go listen to my tapes and find out how it ends!" What the fuck? The deleted scenes threw in another monkeywrench. So the original script was that the woman on the tapes was still living in the hospital, set her up to be the killer, surprise the audience by revealing that the boss was the killer, then pull a <b>double</b> twist by having the woman kill the boss? That would have sucked, and the story was better for cutting that out, but then it still left holes that they didn't edit out. If the woman wasn't around, who did victime #1 see behind him in the basement? It couldn't have been the boss (wrong figure, totally opposite location). Whose footsteps on the ceiling did they hear later on? It couldn't have been victim #1. I'd like to recommend it saying, "Just fast foward until the guy come back for the coins at night, then fast foward it some more until the others find him again", but there are couple plot points and moments ("Do it, Gordon!" *SPLAT*) you'd miss out on. Way too much early boring stuff for most people to sit through. The whole thing would have worked a lot better as a condensed one hour long twilight zone or outer limits episode, in which case it'd have the honor of being one of the best ones.[/quote]