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Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Ghoul on 03-09-2003, 09:55:44
"And I then when I watched it with an audience, everyone was watching it through the crack of their fingers and no one was looking up at the screen and they were all grossed out and screaming. I think, you know, if you've really done your job as a horror director, nobody should be looking at the movie, because they would be looking at the inside of their finger. So I think it's great. The fact that people couldn't watch it means that they were involved in the story, that they really were like getting a reaction and feeling something, they were really kind of freaked out by it."
Eli Roth / "Cabin Fever"

he he he

12. september, in cinemas near you

he he he
:lol:
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: dwyd on 12-09-2003, 16:27:48
Pa...? Kakav je lmfi? Nemoj samoj reći da si razočaran... Tolike sam nade polagao u CF, majku mu j... da mu ne j... majku.
Ako će te to utešiti, pogledaj Pirate sa kariba! Filmičina i po bog te smazo!
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Ghoul on 12-09-2003, 22:20:20
Piratima sam se 'teshio' posle Freddy Vs Jasona [istog dana]=i da, slazem se, odlichan film, uzivanjcija, savrsen spoj staromodne i (post)moderne zabave.

Cabin Fever ima vecu reklamu ovde nego ijedan drugi film: prekjuce je ceo grad bio zasut one-sheet posterima [onim finim, u kojima koliba i drvece imaju oblik crne lobanje na crvenoj pozadini], pa uzedoh 3-4 za sebe.
Gledam ga za tacno 24 casa, i onda javljam kaki je.

Takodje, 'teshicu se' posle njega sa ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO [najvise zbog Johnny Deppa, za koga svi kazu da je *opet* razbio sve oko sebe i pruzio *jos jednu* mega-uber-cool ulogu].
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: dwyd on 13-09-2003, 01:04:24
Whoa, što se Depp-ija tiče, jedva čekam da ga vidim u Secret Window, Secret Garden, jer, kako sam video kod Penny-ja na sajtu, on bi trebalo da glumi glavnu ulogu, j... mu majku da mu ne j... majku!
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Ghoul on 13-09-2003, 06:47:38
K'o sto neko vec rece [uz vrlo blago preterivanje] za Deppa:
'He's just about the best thing about any film that he's in' [uz izuzetak A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET gde i nije imao sta da radi...]

A evo sta drugi kazu o njemu u ONCE UPON...

The actors receive much praise from critics -- particularly Depp, who is having an auspicious year with this film and Pirates of the Caribbean. Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post comments that Depp "is quickly proving to be the most larcenous man in show business by stealing every movie he's in." Similarly, Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune observes that with this film, Depp pulls off "more movie piracy." John Anderson in Newsday remarks that Depp proves "that he has a great sense of comedic timing, as well as a great sense of swagger." And Geoff Pevere in the Toronto Star, who attempted to sink Pirates of the Caribbean with his review, concludes: "For the second time this year, the actor transforms a moribund movie into a watchable one merely by being there."

Nedavno sam shvatio da je on igrao u vise meni dragih filmova nego ijedan drugi glumac.
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: dwyd on 13-09-2003, 17:04:20
:P  :P  :P  :P  :P  :P
Možda bi treb'o da promeniš potpis u "I don't worship Johnny Depp. I just respect him!"
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Ghoul on 14-09-2003, 03:46:37
Well, guys, I don't know how to put this...

I hate bringing bad news...

But seems we have another OVERHYPED limp puppy on our hands...

I'm sorely disappointed.

You're in for the boobs?
One pair, in several quick flashes, and not from the better [blond] chick.

You're in for the gore? Of course.
BUt I must be more specific.

You're here for the body parts?
One foot.

You're here for the guts?
One quick shot in the DARK!

You want decomposing skin, rotting bodies, flesh falling off, etc?
All you get is several cheap skin appliances the likes of which I can get in the Halloween store down the street for 5$, and a single ambitious make-up of the chick with no lips that you've already seen all over the net= that's the single elaborate gruesome thing you'll see in the movie.
And one neat decomposing corpse in the water.

You want blood?
Well, there's lots of AFTEREFFECT BLOOD, the 'effect' that anyone can do with several kilos of ketchup= no experts [certainly no KNB EFX Group] needed for that.

Ok, so the gorehound in me was disappointed.
How 'bout the artsy-fartsy parts of my multiple persona?

You want good story?
Nothing special/ nothing much is done with it.

You want Cronenbergian disease metaphors, body horrors, metaphysics of the flesh...?
Wrong movie.

You want SHINING-like exploration of the psychological effects of "cabin fever'?
Wrong movie.

You want to jack off to how it's edited?
Competent, but nothing to arouse you.

You hear there's A. Badalamenti soundtrack and already want to add it to your collection?
He's done 3 themes, none of which is special in any way [probably unused material from some past Lynch movie that he gave Eli for free, cause Eli's friends with Lynch].

OK, so how about just pure popcorn entertainment, mindless gory fun, check out your damn brains and just enjoy the flick at the low budget cult wannabe level it's aspiring to?
Well, for one thing, it ain't boring. It's watchable, and then some. The humor is hit-and-miss, mostly infantile and silly, but passable.
It's dinamic. Things happen. Though some of them are meaningless show-stoppers [like Roth's self-indulgent cameo as a junky, or the annoying karate-kid who is just silly], and some of them are there just because things had to SOMEHOW be connected from B to C [where the director wanted them], though they make no sense.


You want to show off in front of your friends and fellow film critics? How many allusions to much better movies you can spot?
There is some meat for ya, but they are all meaningless, not there to enhance the story or anything, but only to show that Eli Roth saw and liked some films, whose themes and ideas have nothing whatsoever to do with his!

E.g. the use of "The Road Leads to Nowhere" [main theme from THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT] is heavy-handed & pointless, cause HOUSE at least tried to be a tragedy [among other things], whereas this one ain't.

Something similar goes for the DONNIE DARKO reference [it is pointless, but at least it's brief & funny].

The nods [or should I call it theft?] to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD also have nothing to do with this movie, cause NIGHT was about *something* [unlike CABIN]. In the context of this movie the behavior of the cops is just plain STUPID & UNCONVINCING [burning the corpses you found in the woods, on a pile, instead of taking them to the town, dissecting & investigating :shock:  :?  Fuck, man, was this script written by an 8-year-old who has no idea about how things work?]

The most painful comparisons are those to EVIL DEAD: they just remind you of a much, much better movie that got EVERYTHING right, from preparation, through development all the way to its ingenious, extravagant, so-out-there conclusion. None of that will you find in this movie.
Which brings me to my biggest complaint:

It has no sense of direction, of what it wants to be or how to get there.
Basically, I'd compare it to a ride:
you're sitting there in this shiny red thing, and it starts revving, and at first it feels good: vrrm, vrrrm, vrrrrm... and you think, yeah man, that's it, gimme more, and for a while it seems it's gonna get you somewhere, it starts getting speed, it starts roaring, and roaring...

...and then, when it's supposed to go WWWRRRRRRROOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR and deliver the ride it's been preparing & promising all the way...
the bumper falls off...
and the breaks are not working...
it's a stop-and-go, stop-and-go ride...
and the wheel is disobedient...
it's swerving this way and that way...
& it eventually ends in the ditch, not even with a bang, but with a whimper...
and you're left watching the steam from under the hood...

...and that's it.

preparation=8
development=6-
conclusion=3


So, it boils down to a relatively well made geek film: the director has his heart in the right place, but needs a better script, a better sense of direction & timing, and a good sense to actually deliver the goods that Romero, Craven, Raimi & his other heroes KNEW HOW TO & WHEN.

It's good paying hommage to the guys that influenced you, but how 'bout doing something really fresh & complete & fully satisfying, so that one day some other kid would have something to steal from *you*?!

Final score: 3-
[& I'm being partial here cause I see promise in this guy, and if the review was too harsh, it's because this could & should've been much better than a half-baked affair it is. It is enjoyable, especially in the 1st half, but when it's supposed to deliver the goods = it just becomes clumsy & silly & misguided until it sizzles into nothing really]

Ghoul says: check it out, on divx.
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: dwyd on 14-09-2003, 17:53:45
Svarno ne kapiram šta se dešava sa američkim horor biznisom (što bi rekli Misfitsi) u poslednje vreme. CF ne samo što je obećavao lud provod za sve horor fanove, već je trebalo da prejebe sve šitine koje su poslednjih godina okupirale bioskopska platna (ne računajući Near Dark koji iskreno nisam uspeo da nađem, a čuo sam da je dobar).
Sve u svemu, više se straha i groze doživi dok se posmatra sadržaj jetrene paštete domaće proizvodnje, nego neki moderni američki horor.
It's  :( , very  :( ...
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Ghoul on 14-09-2003, 22:43:51
evo, kako izgleda, uprkos svoj reklami i hype-u, film je za vikend zaradio samo 8,5 miliona $, sto znaci 2 stvari:
1. publika se nije primila na hype, i bad word of mouth je uradio svoje,
i 2. say good bye to wide releases of gory films= going back to the safe Leprechaun Vs. Chucky movies...

cak i jeepers creepers 2 je bolje prosao od ovoga...

PS: sto vise posmatram trejler za TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE [novi], to sam zagrejaniji za film. mozda to i ne bude tolika katastrofa.
jedno je sigurno= to je najbolji trejler koji sam ikada video [=melancholy+ creepy+scary+jumpy...]
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: taurus-jor on 17-09-2003, 01:33:44
Quote from: "Super-Ljilja"....već je trebalo da prejebe sve šitine koje su poslednjih godina okupirale bioskopska platna (ne računajući Near Dark koji iskreno nisam uspeo da nađem, a čuo sam da je dobar)

1) Near Dark nije novi film. Snimljen je 1987. godine
2) Near Dark nije okupirao bioskopska platna. Sva lova i reklama baceni su te sezone na The Lost Boys (zabavan, ali konfekcijski vampirski film), pa je Near Dark proveo u bioskopima dve-tri nedelje i nestao.
3) Near Dark nije dobar film. Briljantan je. Originalan je. Kopaj noktima da ga nadjesh.
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: eric cartman on 22-09-2003, 17:29:22
Uhvatih vremena , uzeh sa sobom mog najboljeg kriticara (better half) i pogeldah  gore spomenuti film i.....ghoul vam je sve rekao.Uglavnom se sa svim salzem sa njim osim da je plavusa bolja od crnke...nije brate , gdje su ti oci..hehehe...
Sve u svemu bolji od mnogih filmova koji su izasli ove sezone , gledljiv i sta vise , veoma , veoma zabavan.
Jedino su sve uporpastili sa NIGGER-ima , al kad vidite film , shvaticete o cemu pricam
Pozdrav
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: crippled_avenger on 23-10-2003, 03:43:29
uhhhhhhhhh, uperavo sam preziveo CABIN FEVER. Sva je sreca da moj zivot nije omaz slavnom Romerovom filmu, inace bi me sada vec neki zemljaci izresetali.

ghoul je doneo vecinu losih vesti, mada mislim da nije bio dovoljno konkretan. Dakle, CABIN FEVER je ne samo slab vec i neobican film. Nagledao sam se stvarnmo svacega ali ovako nesto nisam video. Zapravo, video sam ali u srpskom filmu.

Eli Roth je tipican primer srpskog reditelja. Njegov koncept je da u niskobudzetnom debiju pokaze sve sto zna, ali kad kazem sve sto zna onda to i mislim, dakle hoce da pokaze kako zna da gradi karaktere, da prikaze tipske likove, kako ume da bude duhovit, kako zna da rezira scene seksa, kako zna da rezira komicne momente, kako je gledao Tobe Hoopera, kako je gledao Monty Python,...

I na sve to se opredelio da njegov niskobudzetni debi bude horor jer je to biva zgodno buduci da horor trpi neke uslovnosti niskog budzeta.

E sad, na sta lici CABIN FEVER. Hmmmmmmmmmm Recimo ovako, moze da se gleda kao poucna tinejdzerska drama o tome kako ljubav, pozuda i tako to bivaju pokoseni ako se suocis sa neprijatnim virusom ili bakterijom koja prozdire ljudsko tkivo. Onako, da ti mama iz druge sobe vice `Cripple, ima dobar neki film, kao deca se razbolela`.

E sad, na tokm nivou, da, CABIN FEVER je vispren TV film o biohazardu. medjutim, nema veze sa svim onim neukusnim najavama koje je pravio Eli Roth. Kako ima obraza da napada WRONG TURN kada njegov ceo fil izgleda kao (solidan) melodramski kostur SCREAM 4. Ali samo melodrama, bez scena nasilja,  bez krvi, bez napetosti.

U to ime predlazem da Eli Roth dodje u Srbiju, mada mislim da je TT SINDROM bolji od CABIN FEVER. Zapravo bolje da ostane u Americi i da tamo radi teen komedije...

A da mi svi pristavimo VARIOLU VERU.

P.S. Plavusa je bolja... Nekako humanija. Ova crnka je onako, futrola za kurac, ali nista vise. Dihotomija na tragu MULHOLLAND DRIVE.
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Bilja on 18-07-2005, 09:02:49
Ovde neko nije mogao da se odluci da li da pravi horor ili komediju pa je ispalo naizmenicno. Malo apsurda, malo komedije, malo horor, pa sve to izmesas i sta ispadne... ispadne.
Film nije previse strasan i dosta je predvidiv, ima klishea koliko hoces, ali nije dosadan. Gledljivo, zabavno i ne posebno inteligentno, ali boze moj... za jedno dokono popodne sasvim prihvatljivo.
Zanimljivo kako moze da ti otpadne deo noge dok spavas, a da cak ni ne primetis. Takodje, interesantno je koliko dugo covek ostaje na nogama posto izgubi litre i litre krvi. Ali valjda je to bas draz horora: treba da zastrasi ali da bude dovoljno nemoguce da se ikada tako nesto desi da bude i zabavno (sta je uopste zabavno u hororu koji MOZE realno da se desi?).
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Bilja on 18-07-2005, 09:15:00
E da, jos nesto. Zasto vecina horora snimanih poslednjih godina pocinje sa "grupa mladih se nasla u vukojebini..." (ne bas tim recima)?
Valjda niko ne bi ni gledao da pocinje sa "cetiri penzionera u starackom domu..."?
Znaci, onaj sa kesom trave je Eli Roth? Onaj sto ga posle nalaze u pecini bez nogu? A sto nigde nisu naveli kako je stradao? Nekako mi njegov lik zaludan, nicemu ne sluzi.
I sta je sa Dejvidom? Uvedu tako neobican lik u film i onda ga zaborave. Nema cak ni one scene sa "bunny man" sto se vidi na imdb-u. Jos jedan obecavajuc pa zaludan lik.
Bilo bi zgodno i da su namerno pobili jedan tipican horor klishe i ostavili plavusana da prezivi. Taman sam ocekivala da ce na kraju da ga srede posto je on kao negativan lik, jel'da pa po zakonima horora ne treba da ostane ziv. Ili jos bolje, da mu u toku pobedonosnog vikanja "preziveo sam" naglo otpadne ruka u potocima krvi. Islo bi uz zajebantski ton filma. OVako ispada kao da ni sam Eli Roth nije bio siguran sta ce od filma na kraju da ispadne. Kao da su snimili jedno 5 sati materijala a onda neko seo pa otprilike seckao i sastavio nesto od sat i po.
PAdaju mi na pamet jos neke bizarne ideje, ali necu da kvarim rejting jako fine osobe koji ocito ovde imam.
Title: Hm...
Post by: Tex Murphy on 19-07-2005, 03:21:10
Zapravo, teško je naći prave riječi za opis Cabin Fevera. Ako bih morao da kompletan opis kompresujem u jednu riječ, onda bi to bilo: "Blesavo".
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Truba on 19-07-2005, 11:39:25
film sam gledao na nekom blesavom piratu... nije sjajan ali vala nije ni loše koliko pričate...
zapravo ću ga gledati ponovo uskoro na dvdripu pa ćemo vidjeti  8)
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: marduk on 19-07-2005, 18:14:26
Cabin Fever nije ni loš, ni slab, već UŽASAN. Fuj! :x
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Truba on 19-07-2005, 18:44:08
moguće  :x  čim vidim grudi&lijepe žemske kod mene ne može da ne valja film  :shock:   :x
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: marduk on 20-07-2005, 15:59:35
Spomenute Trubine žeMske su jedino što valja u "filmu" :D
Title: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Truba on 20-07-2005, 16:54:51
prepoznaje Truba kvalitet
 :!:  :!:
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Ghoul on 03-02-2010, 16:19:50
Quote from: Harvester on 19-07-2005, 03:21:10
Zapravo, teško je naći prave riječi za opis Cabin Fevera. Ako bih morao da kompletan opis kompresujem u jednu riječ, onda bi to bilo: "Blesavo".

b.l.e.s.a.v.o?
čudno, zar se tako na bosanskom piše reč 'genijalno'?!
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Tex Murphy on 03-02-2010, 20:35:39
Ja sam i Franca Kafku nazvao blesavim.
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Ghoul on 07-02-2010, 23:18:07
imajući u vidu na kako se debilan film nastavlja, te probleme sa menjanjem kraja i ko zna čega, C. FEVER 2 je sasvim zabavan tokom većeg dela svog trajanja: avaj, ne koristi grdne potencijale koje nova premisa i kontext proma imaju - praktično, SVAKA scena deluje prekratko i nedorađeno, i sumnjam da se za sve mogu kriviti producenti - mada je kraj zaista vanredno glup.

pitam se šta je taja prvobitno hteo s ovim i kako se to zaista završavalo, jer jebeni CRTIĆ je svakako embecilan način da se okonča bilo koji film.

ipak, **(*)
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Tex Murphy on 19-04-2014, 03:11:03
Репризирао ЦАБИН ФЕВЕР, изванредан филм!
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Ghoul on 19-04-2014, 03:21:31
Quote from: Harvester on 19-04-2014, 03:11:03
Репризирао ЦАБИН ФЕВЕР, изванредан филм!

koješta.
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Tex Murphy on 19-04-2014, 05:17:43
Подсјећам те да си том филму дао НАЈБОЉУ ОЦЈЕНУ! Исту ону коју су добили Предатор, Повратак у будућност и многи други изванредни филмови.
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Truba on 19-04-2014, 21:26:25
dobar film
kakva je trica?
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Ghoul on 19-04-2014, 21:41:41
Quote from: Black swan on 19-04-2014, 21:26:25
kakva je trica?

trica je trtica.
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Tex Murphy on 21-04-2014, 13:28:07
Quote from: Black swan on 19-04-2014, 21:26:25
dobar film
kakva je trica?

Погледаћу за који дан па ћу да ти јавим, очигледно је да сам ја једина особа на овом форуму којој се може вјеровати кад је КЕБИН ФИВЕР у питању. Двојка је океј, али много слабија од кеца.
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Tex Murphy on 01-07-2025, 14:56:25
Quote from: Truba on 19-04-2014, 21:26:25dobar film
kakva je trica?

Ужасна.
Title: Re: cabin fever: THE SAD TRUTH
Post by: Truba on 03-07-2025, 23:20:03
11 godina poslije
Ija sam gledao al se ne sjecam