Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: okay good, commenting before you saw it would have been silly

[quote name="Flavio"][quote name="Liz Enkittengasm"]The UK ending would have been what they telegraphed throughout the whole movie. The US ending was just nonsensical. I couldn't tell what was actually supposed to happen right at the end - is she supposed to be crazy now and seeing dead people? Did the asian chick make it out and is now going to kill and eat her? No clue. [/quote] The US ending? There's a brief flash of her opening her eyes lit up by torchlight, so it was still just a dream and she was still in the cave. [quote]p.s. I can sorta see how it would have been better if the monsters had all been in the main characters head, but at the same time it would have sucked, because that happens so often in movies. Maybe what would have been good: the main character is in a mental institution and the staff is trying to reconstruct what happened in the cave from the camera footage, and then HOLY FUCK ITS TRUE. Or something. I don't know. I liked that it was really gory in parts, wouldn't want to lose that aspect of it. It gets an A+ for graphic eye gougings, though no extra credit is given for doing the same thing twice. [/quote] Instead of a gorefest, it probably would have worked much better with a Blair Witch approach (although they did borrow a lot of elements from that). Have the majority of the movie be about the women freaking out more and more the longer they were trapped down there (what happened to the great sense of claustraphobia they established early on? everything widened into giant corridors you could run through after that). Have Sarah hear more voices (freaking the audience out that she'll have another "pole through the eye" hallucination, which was the single creepiest moment in the movie). As the paranoia sets in, others start hearing the sounds too through the power of suggestion. Wake up to find member missing? Wake up to find bloody teeth at the campsite? Unseen movement causing them to run and scatter in a panic? Then have some sort of subtle revealing that it was Sarah all along. I think it could have been done well as long as they avoided the clumsy and overdone "flashback montage" showing her in place of the monsters (<i>Hide and Seek</i> style). The real confusing thing is that it's like they started to set this up, then never carried through and just went with the more obvious monster ending. The birthday cake scenes went nowhere. And the subtle parts never matured. Notice that a monster murder never happened while Sarah was around? Or that she killed five monsters total? How about the fact that Juno's protege is the first to be killed, fitting revenge against someone you blame for the death of your daughter? other Gripes I wish my camcorder had "infrared mode", which looks surprisingly just like nightvision; nightvision with the amazing ability to function in the pitch blackness of a mile deep cave. If I ever have an affair with my friend's spouse, I'd be sure not to carry around a trinket with their trademark catchphrase inscribed on it. I'd double be sure to never keep in on me when I'm around my friend. The affair revelation came far too late when it didn't really matter anymore. They could have brought it out much, much earlier (and much less clumsily), even before the monsters showed up, to create tension between the survivors.[/quote]