When a Stranger Calls

[blckhawk542]

omg...saw this movie tonite.....BURN IT NOW PLEASE!!!!!!!!

I was bored out of my mind in the theater...a bunch of girls wanted to see it..so i was stuck as the only dude there..so i got bored..and throwed popcorn around...

the movie is sooo slooowwwwwwwww paced u want to just kill urself...the only action that starts to happen is in the last 30 min of the movie!!!

first hour..total BS..."OMGGG STOPP CALLINGG MEE!!! IM SCARREDD!!! DADDDYYY SAVEEEE MEEEE!!!" HOO BOOO BEE BOOO!!!....omg...in the beginning i thought the actress was hot..but after the movie was going forward i started liking her less and less.....she jus annoyed the hell out of me.

It's a typical horror flick...the main character is a stupid ass that does stupid crap...very dark lighting..lots of blues...loads of black contrast...sloow paced dolly shots that move around corners and objects.....violins in the orchestra creating suspense sounds...the occasional heart beat sound...and a really whaccck storry.


..hollywood...make a better remake...please...

[Rich Lee]

serves you right for even going...

[blckhawk542]

Wehn u have a pack of women ordering u to go see a movie with them..u cant refuse....even tho there was 8 of them..

[dakotapod]

.... pack of women ...... there was 8 of them..


Ummm... Who cares what movie you saw - Nice work!!

[Nick Adams]

I can't believe it was directed by Simon West

[rook]

Looks awful.

Can't wait to see that cute girl run around all pretty and scared until at the end she cowboys up and with ultimate girl power kicks ass, kills the vilian and overcomes her inner obsticles all at the same time.

Did I mention that I think the girl is cute?

-rook

[HorseFilms]

I was wondering about this. They took the first 20 minutes of the original and stretched that into a feature-length movie. Not necessarily a great idea.

[Ought2bCommitted]

When remaking a movie like this, the hardest part is the we all know the once shocking twist. I can't believe anyone even bothered to try especially a hack like Jake Wade Wall who has no clue how to write a horror movie.

[lookatmeimbender]

its a wonder when movie get greenlit. she was cute though.

[spencer]

Yeah, I spent about a week of watching the trailer for Feast, then coming to terms that this movie got released before Feast has gotten released (i don't care if it's different production companies) and that it was actually high in the weekend box office.

But most importantly, Feast hasn't been released, and that piece of shit has.

http://www.revver.com/video/6521/?__session_just_started__1&__session_just_started__=1

The trailer for Feast, if yous guys are interested. I mean, it may not be the best looking movie, and the trailer doesn't play to the actual strengths of the movie, but it definately should appeal to all the fuckers who made final destination and when a stranger calls top box office material. Too bad the Weinsteins fucked that up and didn't release it January 20th like it was supposed to. IT would've strangled the teen/twenties demographic and taken all of their money.

The CineAlta looks nice, too.

[Ought2bCommitted]

The ONLY reason I am ineterested to see Feast is to see what Gulager did with a piece of crap script visually. I like his style from what I have seen and would have been very curious to see what he did with a beyond terrible script.

[Ought2bCommitted]

its a wonder when movie get greenlit. she was cute though.

Cute and sadly can't act.

[spencer]

The script was really bad? I've only been a couple of pages in each time I'd read it. I admit, some parts were very cheesy like the life expectancies, but it seems like it'd be fun. kinda like evil dead, except... Well, obviously nothing is gonna be half as good as Evil Dead was.

[Ought2bCommitted]

FEAST? Yes, the script is atrocious... absolutely atrocious. It is one of the worst written scripts I've ever read. I mean, did you watch the PG???? They were all bickering about how bad the script was.

[spencer]

Yeah, but I thought was like bad in the bad horror movie way, like not as bad as Final Desitnation 3 (which, I caught a couple of lines of dialogue, and jesus christ it's bad) or When a Stranger Calls, but you know, still kinda bad.

It seemed (From my memory) that the producers were the ones pushing for it, but the more artistic (damon, affleck-did I just call Ben Affleck artistic? shit, there goes my street cred, and Craven) were pushing for like WildCard or Hans Gubenstein. It probably was the right choice though, to go with Feast, because look at what has been doing great in teh box office. IT's a same they didn't release it in JAnuary, because I think people would've seen that over Final Destination with the trailer that we've seen.

I mean, I would have, but I forget that I'm way cooler than the general population. (I'm winking right here.)

I think Gulager would have done good with it. The trailer looks good. Some cheesy wannabe-Raimi moves but pretty good. And then there was all of the praise being sung about Gulager by Damon and Affleck and Chris Moore afterwards. I hope he did good, he probably deserves it after a career of wedding videography while aspiring to make movies.

[Ought2bCommitted]

No Feast is bad, period. Its badly written across the boards. Its not clever in an Evil Dead sort of way. I was horrified that was the script they chose. Dimension chose it because they thought they could make money off it and could market it, not because it was a good horror script. Wes Craven all but said it was garbage. It's a bad script....

[spencer]

Yeah, i do remember a line Matt Damon said during the debate:

"You have the master of horror movies (Craven) telling you it's a bad script and you still want to pursue it?"

Well, that disheartens me, but most people who watched it said it was pulled off. I think they did that on purpose just to make the show interesting---shitty script, good director?

[Slimothy]

Someone asked me if I wanted to go see this with them the other day.








We are no longer friends.

[angrynerdrock07]

its a wonder when movie get greenlit.

The budget was $15 million and it's already made $42 million. Studios greenlight these movies because A)They're cheap to make B)no matter how moronic the film is, people will show up in droves to see it. Studios aren't looking to make great films, they are looking to make large amounts of money.

[Ought2bCommitted]

Someone asked me if I wanted to go see this with them the other day.








We are no longer friends.

LOL....nice. Its sad when friends ask friends to pay for poop...

[Ought2bCommitted]

The budget was $15 million and it's already made $42 million. Studios greenlight these movies because A)They're cheap to make B)no matter how moronic the film is, people will show up in droves to see it. Studios aren't looking to make great films, they are looking to make large amounts of money.

True, but it seems to me, and maybe this is where I go a little nuts... that if people pay 42million to see a steaming pile of poop, how much would they pay if it was.... mediocore? or even..... *gasp*.....somewhat good?

Of course that takes more work, and you'd have to hire someone more talented that Texas oil rich boy hack Jade Wade Wall.

That explains everything.

[angrynerdrock07]

True, but it seems to me, and maybe this is where I go a little nuts... that if people pay 42million to see a steaming pile of poop, how much would they pay if it was.... mediocore? or even..... *gasp*.....somewhat good?

Man I would love it if hollywood was that way! Unfortunately, a great film is usually a gamble in Hollywood. It can either make a lot of money or loose a lot of money. Sometimes they do turn over a good profit (American beauty, Saving Private Ryan, Passion of the Christ, etc.) but the odds are usually against it. Check out some of these grosses:

Solaris: budget: $47 million, US gross $14 million.
Shawshank Redemption budget: $25 million, US gross $28 million.
Cinderella Man: budget $88, US gross $61 million
Dark City: budget $27 million, US gross $14 million.
Requiem for a Dream: budget $4.5 million, US gross $3.6 million
Donny Darko: budget $4.5 million, US gross $727,000.

Now you may not agree with me about these all being great films, but you would have to admit they are far superior to most of the garbage being produced today. Studios would make more films like these if they knew that is what made them the most money, but that's not always the case. A safe movie on the other hand like "When a Stranger Calls" is usually a sure-fire bet. It's cheap, it's appealing to teenagers (which are the biggest consumer of movies) and it's safe. Because the formula has been used so many times before and succeeded, they are going to bet on that formula.

It's the way the industry has been for years, and unfortunately it's probably never going to change. I worked at a theater for almost 3 years and it used to drive me crazy that films like "2 Fast 2 Furious" were constantly selling out and films like "Royal Tenenbaums" would get people wanting refunds because it was "too boring". Don't worry, you're not nuts. You just have a little better taste than the average movie goer.

[Ought2bCommitted]

Oh totally! I agree with you 100%. I used to argue with my mom. I use her a lot as my "average theatre goer" litmus test...the things she would like. LOL.

I just don't think it takes much work/effort to make a script a little better than total grabage like Stranger. I mean in this case, you still have the name value of the title and the gimmick that people know the hook. There are so many good writers out there that even if you're going to repackage crap, I think there's little excuse as to why its really low grade crap. LOL.

[spencer]

I watched a scene of Final Destination yesterday, I believe I already mentioned this, and it appalled me. The girls were both very bubblegum like and unrealistic (albeit hot until the whole dieing thing happens). One girl was a blonde stereotype who had a blatant disregard for any thing smart and called her friend "bitch" all the time. Maybe I'm just lucky, but where I come from, we don't use bitch as a noun, we don't act like we're reading shit from a script all the time, and we ARTICULATE.

To older writers trying to recreate younger dialogue: Do not research MTV's "Laguna Beach" to create your lines in movies. We can say shit that isn't monosyllabic. See right there, I just did what you've never put in a movie! That was multisyllabic, as is that word!

[Ought2bCommitted]

Yeah those girls in FD3 were highly annoying and badly written.