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DVD : The Cave (Widescreen Edition) |
- THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FORGET ALL THE BS REVIEWS, THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE! ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES. THIS WAS ALSO ONE OF THE MOST UNFAIRLY REVIEWED MOVIES IN HISTORY BY AMAZON REVIEWERS WHO CAN'T SEEM TO REVIEW ANYTHING VERY WELL. VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING NEGATIVE THAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THIS MOVIE IS BS. WATCH IT ON A HOME THEATER SYSTEM, WITH SURROUND SOUND, AND IT WILL BLOW YOU AWAY. A REVIEWER BELOW WHO LIKED THE MOVIE SUMS IT UP "WERE WE WATCHING THE SAME MOVIE?". I AGREE - THESE REVIEWERS ARE DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND. BUY THE CAVE - YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!
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- extraterrestrial folkloreAn alluring thriller with an intimation of extraterrestrial along with immense CGI effects which have been nicely played down allowing the film to keep as much of a pragmatic atmosphere as possible. The Cave isn't really a movie with distinguished climatic plots and elevated dilemmas, but it's a clear-cut plot, with appealing diversity of characters and with some brilliant location shots and cinematography.
It manages to hold your attention throughout the film, thus I give extra credit due to the fact that my imagination doesn't really dig the whole factor of Aliens, Goblins and Boogiemen.
I guess the only downfall of the film is that it fails to embrace any unique quality of film elements and principles that could gain critically acclaimed recognition.
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- Fangs in the DarkI am somewhat surprised by the negative reaction to this movie. The movie is filled with horror film clichés and the acting leaves something to be desired in places, but I liked the H.R. Giger inspired look and the creatures were cool. I also thought the ending, though somewhat expected, was tidy and enjoyable.
The plot is transplanted from other horror movies. A group of divers descend into a newly discovered cave. Once the divers enter the cave, they realize they are not alone, but only after the entrance to the cave collapses and the divers become trapped. The divers need to escape the cave and the hungry creatures that inhabit it.
Sometimes movies are not so much about the ending, but the journey to get there. This movie has its moments of absurdity and silliness, but I keep thinking about those charming underground creatures and remember that I can forgive a lot for a well-made monster. The monsters in this movie are nicely made. I also enjoyed the cave. The cave may have been produced on a set, but it was an excellent set. I should point out that several places in this movie were just short of scary, but did startle me somewhat.
"The Cave" is hardly breakthrough and the acting was only average. Yet, I enjoy creature movies and I enjoyed this one. While there are many better movies, there are also many worse. I fall short of recommending this movie to anyone but hard core horror fans and fans of creature movies, but for those audiences there are things to compare notes about.
Good luck!
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- Bloody horrible.The Cave (Bruce Hunt, 2005)
After about ten minutes of this mess, it became clear to me that those who criticized Olatunde Osunsami's surprisingly enjoyable The Cavern for being a lackluster ripoff of The Descent didn't have Bruce Hunt's The Cave to use as a reference; if you put The Descent at one end of a number line and The Cave at the other, The Cavern would stack up a lot closer to the former than the latter.
Hunt, whose early resume (second unit director on both Dark City and The Matrix) seemed to hint at great things ahead, takes the director's chair for the first time, but the screenwriters have a much longer pedigree. Michael Steinberg has directed some very good movies (The Waterdance being, likely, the most famous of them) over the years, and he and co-writer Tegan West previously collaborated on another script, the romantic comedy Sleep with Me. Why they decided to try their hands at an underground monster movie is beyond me. They then picked up a cast of has-beens, wannabes, and not-evers, took them to Romania for the basement-budget treatment, and threw them in a cave. Fun!
In any case, the plot, what little there is of it: a team of spelunkers, led by Jack (Pitch Black's Cole Hauser), explore a Romanian cave. They are not alone. (And now you find out why all the hired actors are work-to-scale types: 98% of the movies' budget was spent on a silly-looking creature.) They are also not at the top of this particular ecosystem's food chain. I don't think you can call that a spoiler, really.
I'm not exactly sure where par would be for a basement-budget B-grade monster movie, but wherever par is, just about everything in this movie comes in under it. The locations look like they might be great, but the lighting and cinematography does nothing to play them up in its best bits, and obscures them in its worst. The acting ranges from kind of competent (Morris Chestnut, whose film career ranked as "very promising" ten years ago, and has since slipped into, well, doing stuff like this) to just plain silly (Hauser, Piper Perabo, Lena Headey's sillier scenes). The script is blah most of the time, except when it slides into painful cliché and cheap titillate-the-audience tricks. And the ending? Oh, you're going to love the ending. Assuming, that is, you haven't seen any monster movie made since, oh, the 1930s. Because if you have, you've probably seen this ending, or a variation on it.
I can't think of anything at all to recommend about this movie, and for me, that's rare. (half)
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- THE CAVE IS ALL THAT AND MORE!!! i don't know why the caves getting all these sorry reviews. did we watch the same movie. this movie is very good. of course it's a typical horror movie. don't they all share one thing or another from each other. you got to give and take. it's always going to be that way. the story was good. you knew people were going to die, but how and by whom or what. there was even some good action in there that i really liked. beautiful setting, you actually felt like you were there at times, people turning into monsters, they had to adapt to their environment. climbers coming into their territory of course they're going to be hunted. all that water, kind of makes you feel creepy. the actors did a good job in my opinion, especially cole hauser. believable character, did his thing, he brings that tone and that attitude that you can't help but notice him. it's not getting the credit it deserves. i give it lots of props. if you like the descent, alien, etc. you'll like this.
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