Thursday, May 8, 2014

'Oculus' Some Thoughts

-Nice to see Starbuck getting some work.

-At the beginning there was a five minute shot following the back of the female leads head with her pony tail swinging. What's with that?

-Of all hair dyes red is the most obvious. If you want a redhead in the movie cast one. Someone with vibrant, clearly dyed, red hair is distracting.

-I didn't notice until Vince pointed it out, the dad is the super-stoner from Dazed and Confused.

-Why don't they just break the mirror in the beginning?

-The son looks like Dawson era James Van Der Beek.

-What's with his hair? The lead in Endless Love had the same hair. Those cuts gotta be 25 years out of date. Maybe they're supposed to be dreamboaty? They are not.

-The movie had the chance to make a sharp turn from horror to psychological thriller but didn't take it. I wish it had.

-Not a whole lot of gore, what they had was earned.

-Glad we didn't see a ton of the stringy-black-hair-white-nighty-clad ghost. Ever since The Ring there seems to be only one kind of ghost you can have in horror movies.

-I'm starting to feel a bit old. Half of the movie is set in 2001 and implies that's "a long time ago". I am old if a movie set in 2001 is a "period piece".

-The ending was a clear gambit to get a sequel. Not satisfying, not cool.

Rent It.

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