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The 25th Hour
A brilliant work from Spike Lee touching an untold story with brilliant acting and cinematography. To watch Edward Norton transition from his Fight Club role as weak person who develops power to a man of power taken down by circumstance was a refreshing move for his character. Rosario Dawson brought new life to the school uniform and the lip mole. I was really taken back by a side plot where the schoolteacher (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) developing an attraction to a sexy teenage student, because I understood the feeling of having forbidden desire from a distance... and then acting on it in an extreme situation. The ending became a challenge, because the climax drew to such a "low point"... but it did the job of peaking my interest and leaving me wanting more.
The Ring
All right, I know I'm lame for only having seen this for the first time last night, but whatever...
Something so subtle as what looks like a failed CalArts project brings out a fear of immense magnitude in the right setting. The setting portrayed in this film brought out unimaginable fear, and it was done without support of effects, graphics, blood and gore, or outlandish characters. Not since What Lies Beneath has a movie captured this much terror with good filmmaking. I watched with a friend who called it "a great way to expand on the chain letter concept." Watch this one with a friend.
The 25th Hour
A brilliant work from Spike Lee touching an untold story with brilliant acting and cinematography. To watch Edward Norton transition from his Fight Club role as weak person who develops power to a man of power taken down by circumstance was a refreshing move for his character. Rosario Dawson brought new life to the school uniform and the lip mole. I was really taken back by a side plot where the schoolteacher (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) developing an attraction to a sexy teenage student, because I understood the feeling of having forbidden desire from a distance... and then acting on it in an extreme situation. The ending became a challenge, because the climax drew to such a "low point"... but it did the job of peaking my interest and leaving me wanting more.
The Ring
All right, I know I'm lame for only having seen this for the first time last night, but whatever...
Something so subtle as what looks like a failed CalArts project brings out a fear of immense magnitude in the right setting. The setting portrayed in this film brought out unimaginable fear, and it was done without support of effects, graphics, blood and gore, or outlandish characters. Not since What Lies Beneath has a movie captured this much terror with good filmmaking. I watched with a friend who called it "a great way to expand on the chain letter concept." Watch this one with a friend.
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The ring....I really liked it. The japanese version goes more in depth with the story but the american version is more entertaining.
and I agree with raspberrygirl...Dawn of the Dead is great!!!! you must see it in a theater in order to get the full effect of the scariness
oh and how old is your son?