Thinking about watching The Conjuring tonight. Got good reviews, does it live up to them?
How was it? Probably going to catch it tonight.
It was bad. The backstory is half-assed nonsense.
Well, since I don't really value your opinion I'm going to watch anyways. But if it sucks you can say "I told you so".
Hmmm, seems a bit fuckface-y, but it happens. Maybe Dub will get back to you.
I enjoyed it, combines a lot of horror subgenres. Didn't realize the dude from Office Space was in it though, so had to get over that.
Please elaborate. Also, how did the main ghost's backstory grab you? Compelling? Or more like incredibly simplistic and nonsensical? Also, also, did you find the depicted age of the ghost strange at all given the backstory? Triple also, did the small number and random selection of prior victims seem inconsistent given the sizeable time frame and alleged motivations of said main ghost?
Don't get me wrong the scares were good, but man that backstory. So generic and unimaginative. Really eliminated the possibility of any deeper psycholigical disturbing of the viewer from the film. Cheap really.
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My point about the combined subgenres (might be wrong wording) was that they used a lot of typical horror storylines but had an interesting way of combining them (Exorcism/church/possession, little ghost kids that started with the ring, haunted house, clairvoyants, true story premise with old footage, etc.) Not saying it added or subtracted from the film, I just thought it was an interesting take on familiar plot lines.
That being said, I'm not sure why your so bent on the ghost's story. It's not a psychological thriller, it's a horror movie. It seemed like the backstory set up the story they were wanting to tell. Woman back in the day sacrifices her kid to the devil after getting in dark practices and then eventually kills herself and it damned to curse the land she owned.
Small number of murders? It showed that they found a bunch of neighbors had died on the same land that had been split up in previous years and told the story of the previous mother who killed her child in the house.
The ghosts age? I'm not sure what the hell your talking about, it's a rough ridin' ghost.
If your really looking for plot line holes in a horror movie, I suggest you stop watching horror movies.
First, her backstory. She marries a farmer and he builds them a house on
his land. She gets knocked up and in order to be a better witch, she sacrifices her baby. He catches her doing it. I'm fine with all of this so far. Here's where it goes off the rails into cliched nonsense--->
She runs away from him and to the nearest tree, apparently grabbing a rough ridin' rope along the way, then climbs it and rough ridin' hangs
herself. But before doing so, she specifically curses
her land and anyone who tries to take it in the future. They actually said that btw,
take it from her. Setting aside why the eff she wouldn't have just offed the husband being such a hardcore Satanist witch and all, why the eff would she have such an attachment to the goddamned land? It's the farmer's rough ridin' property and he built the rough ridin' house. Now suddenly it's rough ridin' sacred to the suicidal witch. Lazy bullshit writing.
You want a good rough ridin' backstory have the husband catch her and then he and the townsfolk do some really sick retributive pseudo-religious torture-murder action on her during which she starts throwing out some curses with real juice behind them. Beat her, burn her, starve, mutilate, rape, crucifiy, whatever just give her some more ammunition to hate blindly. It's isn't at all difficult. Yet they gave you random baby muder, impromptu tree and rope self-hanging and then a rough ridin' land curse. Absolute crap, but you're rough ridin' thanking them for shoving it in your face and asking for seconds.
Next, past victims. She had a fat mom kill her son. Fine, makes sense. Then forces a maid to commit suicide. WTF? Not a goddamned land owner and not a rough ridin' mother forced to kill her child. Nonsense. What about the maid's employers, you know the rough ridin' land takers she rough ridin' cursed? Ope, nothing. They're rough ridin' fine because this is rough ridin' crap writing. And no, dumbfuck, there weren't a bunch of neighbors, there were two rough ridin' kids and a rough ridin' maid.
Last, "The ghosts age? I'm not sure what the hell your talking about, it's a rough ridin' ghost." Yes, indeed. She rough ridin' killed herself shortly after giving birth for the first time, yet she's this hagard old rough ridin' lady ghost. What the eff did she age after she died? Of course not,
it's a rough ridin' ghost. All the other ghosts were the same rough ridin' age that they died. The rough ridin' kid ghost wasn't a rough ridin' adult now. She wasn't a bitter old crone witch, she was a young mother witch. Make her monsterous and gross? rough ridin' sure. An old goddamned lady? Hackneyed bullshit and you're just slurping it right up. Slurp, slurp, slurp says dumbfuck Dub can't get enough shitty writing.
Oh, but it's a horror movie! Set your brain to dumbfuck setting then folks. Can't expect any imaginative writing in a goddamned work of ficition. Can't criticize this genre. Above rough ridin' reproach. It's people like you that encourage this crap. A rough ridin' idiot who wanted to scream a little. You can have both quality writing and scares. They aren't rough ridin' mutually exclusive. We can have it all Dub. #RealmOfReality
