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The Orphanage - Spoilers and Ghosts Inside.

Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
edited May 2008 in Social Entropy++
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I just watched The Orphanage and it was pretty damn good.

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At first, when it showed Simon "come back alive", I thought it was completely cheap and it almost ruined the movie for me. Then I realised that Laura was actually also dead.

I was actually surprised at how sad the ending was.

But man, that mask is scary as all hell.

Did you like The Orphanage?

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    The Orphanage was most excellent. Saw it because of recommendations from here. Hrm, in fact, i coulda sworn a thread was started months back. still, super good movie.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    There's going to be an American remake.

    God damnit.

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  • BoredGamerBoredGamer Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I may see this....


    I have heard nothing about it.

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    during the first half hour of this film i found myself unsure of how to react when the orphanage was not filled with vapid teenagers rubbing each other with butter then being dismembered by radiation victims from a nearby uranium mine.

    regardless it is a fucking amazing suspense genre film and i am all kinds of fucked up in the potato department after this one. potatoes are borderline creepy vegetables to begin with let alone with spanish children using the bags as masks

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
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  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    when i thought that was the ending I was so pissed off then i realised what happened and all was well.

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    see but that's not fair because ginger children in any context are unsettling

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  • Riggs BlitzkriegRiggs Blitzkrieg Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    My favorite part is when the husband gets to first base with the old lady

    I'm just kidding, that wasn't my favorite part.

    Saw this in the theaters a while ago. Good movie.

    When I went to buy the tickets the kid in the box office told me it was in spanish. I knew this and I asked if there were subtitles, he said no. I went in anyways because I know spanish but there were subtitles anyways! Crazy!

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  • UpfishUpfish Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I was really bothered by the Ctrl-Alt-Del-style ending.
    I think it would have been enough for Laura to be reunited with Simon, and take care of the kids. I didn't need the tombstone scene to confirm that she was dead. It seemed like Guillermo del Toro was trying to keep people from complaining about a "vague ending", like they did with Pan's Labyrinth.

    Other than that, I thought the movie was great. It's one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, really.

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  • Regicid3Regicid3 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    One of the supervisors at work was telling me about this last Saturday. I'll be checking it out in a bit. I'll run down to my local Blockbuster.

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  • heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2008
    Upfish wrote: »
    I was really bothered by the Ctrl-Alt-Del-style ending.
    I think it would have been enough for Laura to be reunited with Simon, and take care of the kids. I didn't need the tombstone scene to confirm that she was dead. It seemed like Guillermo del Toro was trying to keep people from complaining about a "vague ending", like they did with Pan's Labyrinth.

    Other than that, I thought the movie was great. It's one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, really.

    It was a good movie, but it wasn't that scary.

    At all, really.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Upfish wrote: »
    I was really bothered by the Ctrl-Alt-Del-style ending.
    I think it would have been enough for Laura to be reunited with Simon, and take care of the kids. I didn't need the tombstone scene to confirm that she was dead. It seemed like Guillermo del Toro was trying to keep people from complaining about a "vague ending", like they did with Pan's Labyrinth.

    Other than that, I thought the movie was great. It's one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, really.
    yeah hmmm

    Guillermo del Toro did not direct this.

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  • baglerbagler Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Bloods End wrote: »
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    I agree. Pictures certainly do tell 1000 words...

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  • Cosmic SombreroCosmic Sombrero Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I don't want to find The Fall thread, so I'm just going to mention here that it got panned by Ebert and Roeper and that makes me sad.

    edit: Bagler your sig is too damn big.

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  • baglerbagler Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Cosmic Sombrero wrote: »
    I don't want to find The Fall thread, so I'm just going to mention here that it got panned by Ebert and Roeper and that makes me sad.

    edit: Bagler your sig is too damn big.




    God you guys are persistent you win I will change it.


    GEEZ

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  • UpfishUpfish Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    yeah hmmm Guillermo del Toro did not direct this.

    I know, but he produced it. I guess I sort of got an image of him being all "make the ending real clear. People do not like endings that are left up to interpretation."

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    the feel of the film is so close to pan's labyrinth in parts it's hard to believe it's a different director, still i agree the ending could have been less obvious.. i mean it's a spanish language film so that basically filters out most of the re-re's that would need a cut and dry closer

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  • UpfishUpfish Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    It doesn't filter out Spanish-speaking re-re's.

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Man, all I want is for the afterlife to be depicted as eternal torment.
    MOVIE DID NOT DELIVER, ASSHOLES! Seriously, peace and joy in death pisses me of to no end.

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Peter Ebel wrote: »
    Man, all I want is for the afterlife to be depicted as eternal torment.
    MOVIE DID NOT DELIVER, ASSHOLES! Seriously, peace and joy in death pisses me of to no end.

    well i mean
    if your definition of peace and joy is the main character finding out that she could have saved her son's merely by listening to him, discovering his wasted away corpse in her own house then promptly overdosing on prescription meds then.. uhh, well.. shit man

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Axim wrote: »
    Peter Ebel wrote: »
    Man, all I want is for the afterlife to be depicted as eternal torment.
    MOVIE DID NOT DELIVER, ASSHOLES! Seriously, peace and joy in death pisses me of to no end.

    well i mean
    if your definition of peace and joy is the main character finding out that she could have saved her son's merely by listening to him, discovering his wasted away corpse then overdosing on prescription meds then.. uhh, well.. shit
    And then being happy as shit. Hell everyone was happy. Just cheerfully being dead.

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Peter Ebel wrote: »
    Axim wrote: »
    Peter Ebel wrote: »
    Man, all I want is for the afterlife to be depicted as eternal torment.
    MOVIE DID NOT DELIVER, ASSHOLES! Seriously, peace and joy in death pisses me of to no end.

    well i mean
    if your definition of peace and joy is the main character finding out that she could have saved her son's merely by listening to him, discovering his wasted away corpse then overdosing on prescription meds then.. uhh, well.. shit
    And then being happy as shit. Hell everyone was happy. Just cheerfully being dead.
    man i like brutal resolutions as much as the next guy but sometimes it's just better to go down into the basement, pull out a copy of angela's ashes and masturbate furiously

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I like the ending because it stops me being so scared.

    Because I was so fricking scared during this movie. So I'm a big scaredy-cat. I'm not ashamed to admit it.

    The only thing that stopped me freaking out the next day when it was pitch dark and I had to walk down a narrow alley to reach my back door and then fumble for the keys in my bag was to remind myself of the happy ending.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    bagler wrote: »
    Bloods End wrote: »
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    I agree. Pictures certainly do tell 1000 words...

    don't you just want to absolutely stab it to death

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  • QuirkQuirk Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    bagler wrote: »
    Bloods End wrote: »
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    I agree. Pictures certainly do tell 1000 words...

    don't you just want to absolutely stab it to death

    Stamp on its pale creepy face until pulling your foot out makes a 'schlorp' noise. Only then will I feel safe from this horror

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  • DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    guillermo del toro does do some damn good films

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Annie is offensive to look at. No wonder she was orphaned.

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  • heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2008
    Dislexic wrote: »
    guillermo del toro does do some damn good films

    Goddamn, del Toro did not direct this film.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Guillermo Del Toro is having the Tarantino effect.

    If Tarantino produces a film, he's said to have made it.

    "Hero is a Tarantino film!"

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Usually.

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  • heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2008
    Woah, where did tehcoolryan's post go?

    I didn't know you could delete posts.

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  • DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    No, I just said he DOES good films, I know he didn't direct this, but he does know a good movie when he comes across it.

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  • Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    its magic

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    You know what part was rad?
    The old lady with a mangled mandible, leaping up after getting hit by a fucking van!

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  • heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2008
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    You know what part was rad?
    The old lady with a mangled mandible, leaping up after getting hit by a fucking van!

    Yeah, I couldn't
    stop laughing when you saw what the old ladies face looked like after she got hit, and then realized that the guy had been trying to give mouth-to-mouth CPR to THAT.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    heretoinform wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    You know what part was rad?
    The old lady with a mangled mandible, leaping up after getting hit by a fucking van!

    Yeah, I couldn't
    stop laughing when you saw what the old ladies face looked like after she got hit, and then realized that the guy had been trying to give mouth-to-mouth CPR to THAT.

    hahah yeah, that was brave of him.

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    Guillermo Del Toro is having the Tarantino effect.

    If Tarantino produces a film, he's said to have made it.

    "Hero is a Tarantino film!"

    I wish Tarantino would stop enjoying terrible, terrible films. Hostel? Shit. Hero? pretty but bad and pointless.

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