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DVD : The Amityville Horror (Widescreen Special Edition) |
- The Amitville can be so "Lame"!We are having a good remake season in this days,we have good remakes like King Kong, Dawn of the Dead and bad remakes like When Strangers Calls and The Hills Have Eyes, all the movie is boring,a finally sure cure for the insomnia.
The acting was cold, none of these actors gonna makes any diference in hollywood,Ryan Reynolds only beacuse is pretty face for the womans he thinks his acting is better than a solid like Al Pacino,Jake Gyllenhaal(a new solid young actor) or Joaquin Phoenix,he looks more like a retard dude who only take-off his shirt,what you can except from a actor who his best job is Blade:Trinity,Ryan you are an awful actor and need some acting lessons too, Melissa George at least did a decent role but she sadly can't save the movie, i don't why Micheal Bay has to waste his time and money producing popcorn movies like this.
The story had a lot potenciall but the vision of the director was wrong and the story is going to the nowhere and without sense(the original has a better chacter and story deveploment), the scary scenes ohh common are so chessy i laughed with those "Scary" scenes,the only frighting scene is the end titles and the most suprisly thing the film grossed more than 60 millions wow you can make bad movies and make a suseful record.
Overall a weak remake that make me to turn on my DVD and put Senfield season one,the movie is direct offend to the original movie,a totally supreme dissapointment better luck next time(obviously "Wicker Man" gonna be a better remake than this trash).
Acting 1.5/10
Direction 3/10
Visuals 4/10
Story 5/10
Overall 2/10
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- so much potential in the remakeFamily moves into a haunted house (or house with a demon portal) supposedly based on a true story, which was later proven to be a hoax.
I'd like to start off by saying that when I heard they were remaking the Amityville Horror, I was ecstatic!! I couldn't wait to see it. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the original, but it was slow moving and they didn't quite capture the horror that these people supposedly experienced. I thought with an updated script and better special effects this remake was going to kick butt!
Unfortunately the remake was a big disappointment. Not only did they skim over the terrors, but they twisted and hollywood-ized the plot. They added a vengeful murderous minister in the basement and ghosts of his tortured victims. That part was kind of cool, but it just wasn't the Amityville story. The Amityville story itself is a timeless pleasure - please don't try to make it better.
On the upside Ryan Reynolds was a surprisingly good George Lutz and there were a few chills and thrills. If they had given the movie a different title and added a disclaimer of "loosely based on the Amityville Horror" I would have given it a much better review.
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- Fun MovieThis movie has a lot of parts that make you jump. Its about a family who moves into a house where a guy murdered his family. When they movie in the dad starts to go insane or is possesed or something. Its a good movie to watch at night in the dark during a storm.
Rating:
- Sorry, but this is my opinion.If you look at some of the reviews here, you'll see that most of them are pretty negative. Most of them say "Achh! It's lacking the fright factors that were packed in the 1st" etc. But I honestly think that most of these 1-star reviewers are giving it 1 star based on the fact that it's a remake. I've seen the original Amityville Horror. And while I thought it was good (being an open-minded horror fan and all), I didn't feel it was anything special. I saw this remake of the Amityville Horror with my dad at a theatre, and I found myself more scared then when I saw the original. The Jodie in this movie is a lot creepier than 2 red eyes staring at you from outside a window. The "ghosts" are really improved. They're more than just ghosts; they have a lot of facial features like blood spewing out of their mouths, sometimes even a few missing limbs.
In fact, my only real complaint is that the last few minutes of the movie are rushed. It makes me wonder if the makers were running out of time. Whatever. Your opinion is your opinion. I'm an open-minded horror fan, so you can imagine that I liked this movie.
The remake of the Amityville Horror is my pick for the best horror flick of '05.
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- Ryan Reynolds in RemakeThis is a great rehashing of the original. Ryan Reynolds goes for a change of pace from his typical comedy role to deliever a great performance in this thriller/horror remake.
The Lutzs move into a fixer-up of a house in mid-1970s Amityville, NY. Just a year prior to their move in a grizzly murder occured in the same house. Now all kinds of freaky things are happening. But is it the ghost of the prior residents or does this go back hundreds of years when an evil priest was torturing the natives?
Whatever it was, it drove the Lutz family away from Amityville, never to return, not even for theise possessions.
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