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by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/01/2004, 1:17pm PST

Matt Drudge wrote:

On the other hand, it's at 48% on Rotten Tomatoes (with 30% from the elite reviewers) and Ebert gave it two stars. I think there's the possibility that I quite like what everyone else is going to consider to be a shitty movie.

Complaints seem to be with the acting, the amount one cares about the characters, and with the implausibility of the killer.

Acting : Honestly, it didn't bug me. I was reading a thread on the Awful Forums about Saw, and this seems to be the major criticism. Though I suspect that after seeing 200 posts on the movie people just try to top what has come before. I totally believe that people came out of the theatre all saying, "What a fucking terrible movie!" as one poster indicated. I believe that they were all doing this whole-heartedly.

Depth : I believe you get something "for free" when you put Danny Glover in your movie as a cop. I automatically care about Danny Glover because he's Danny Glover for goodness sake. I think in an alternate dimension he got to be Easy Reader and before you know it he was in Seven and Shawshank and Morgan Freeman made four buddy cop movies with Mel Gibson and I'd be in Morgan's corner instantly. But anyway, if you make Glover your detective, I will care about him as the detective and root for him and hope he wins out.

With that in mind, I didn't feel much empathy for Elwes and felt that the movie didn't expect me to. I am seeing that this is not universal.

The Bad Guy : People going "Shyeah, right" about supervillains in movies are aliens to me. Depicting scenes of madmen constructing life-size rounds of the boardgame "Mouse Trap" is the only legitimate use for cinema.

On the other hand, maybe the fact that this was the first movie I have seen in a couple years where the audience was not a complete distraction had something to do with it. The theatre was pretty empty and nobody was nearby not just taking cell calls, but actively making them. In the past it's been perfectly acceptable for frazzled parents to take their newborns to the 9:55pm showing on Saturday night -- this weekend it was like the Pied Piper had descended upon lovely downtown Longmont, CO right after breakfast and stolen all our wee shriekers away until it was time for Trick or Treating, which was fine with me.

the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!