Escape to the Movies: Devil
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Ha! Flipping toast to an arbitrary side = devil. Excellent deduction skills.
It was clear this movie would be bad, it's not often a movie trying to use a director, writer or whatever as a main deciding point in the trailers has anything but that to show for it.
That said, perhaps this is a movie that's fun to watch if you can come up with alternate explanations for the story? Like the Matrix and the 'Zion is still in the Matrix' theory, or the Silent Hill games and the various explanations for why bad things happen to the cast. Or Yahtzee's theory that the FBI agent in Heavy Rain is a time-traveller.
It was clear this movie would be bad, it's not often a movie trying to use a director, writer or whatever as a main deciding point in the trailers has anything but that to show for it.
That said, perhaps this is a movie that's fun to watch if you can come up with alternate explanations for the story? Like the Matrix and the 'Zion is still in the Matrix' theory, or the Silent Hill games and the various explanations for why bad things happen to the cast. Or Yahtzee's theory that the FBI agent in Heavy Rain is a time-traveller.
YAY WALRUS!
Ahem, anyway... This is actually one of the few instances where I've seen the film before a MovieBob review has come out.
Glad you really pointed out the bread and butter (or jam) scene since that's pre-school physics. While I'm not as wholly bitter as Bob about the whole thing (heck the premise is not all bad with all the cast trapped and what not) but yes this concept of the Devil does seem rather off at times, more so considering that...
Ahem, anyway... This is actually one of the few instances where I've seen the film before a MovieBob review has come out.
Glad you really pointed out the bread and butter (or jam) scene since that's pre-school physics. While I'm not as wholly bitter as Bob about the whole thing (heck the premise is not all bad with all the cast trapped and what not) but yes this concept of the Devil does seem rather off at times, more so considering that...
...just admitting you did a crime somehow gets you off the hook completely and not just with the Devil.
You're decades late. I read Spider-Ham [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Ham] comics when I was a kid!WaderiAAA said:
Yeah, I had a feelimg this wouldn't do well after The Last Airbender. And that part with the toast...what the heck?
even 5 minutes later and that part about the piece of toast is still baffling me as to how anyone with a sane mind could think it could prove the presence of the devil, im just waiting till it finally hits and i start shouting angrily......
I was excited to go see this... now I think I'll wait for a Red Box Release if I even see it at all.
I think I'll go see Easy A instead, maybe I'll just go see Scott Pilgrim Vs The World again if I can find a theater that's still playing it.
I think I'll go see Easy A instead, maybe I'll just go see Scott Pilgrim Vs The World again if I can find a theater that's still playing it.
is you SERIOUS moviebob? HOW ELSE are you supposed to know if you're dealing with the devil or not?
It actually wasn't that bad. I saw it, and there are a lot of things that I disagree with in the review. First off, the plot twist isn't obvious. At all. I've seen all things horror, good and bad, and I can usually see these things coming from the beginning of the movie. But I was genuinely surprised at this one. Yes, the toast thing is a little stupid, and admittedly his whole speech surrounding the toast thing was stupid. But there's actually two things that happen before that which would elude to the devil being involved, the toast thing isn't the deciding factor. Also, I felt that the Latino thing was a little stereotypical, but there's truth behind stereotypes. They don't just pop up on their own merit. There's some philosophical bit that pops up at the beginning, as the Latino guy is narrating, that is mentioned in the end and I thought that was pretty cool. And now that I think about it, the movie does a very good job of sewing up all the major plot points. Anyone who's seen a recent horror movie knows that most of the time half of the plot points go unmentioned again, but that's not the case in Devil. Everything has an explanation, except for this one part where a walkie-talkie appears in the elevator. But you can make an assumption, which isn't a huge stretch considering what happens to the elevator service man, as to how it got in there. There is one plot twist that you can see coming, involving the man in the business suit and the detective from the police, that you can kind of see coming, but it's not one you can see coming from the beginning. It only becomes apparent in the ending scenes of the movie. Honestly, that was a point mentioned in the beginning which I thought would be a horror movie cliche' of never being mentioned again, but I was shocked when it actually did come up later.
All in all, it's not that bad of a movie. It's not the best ever, but it's not horrible either.
OT: What bothers me is that most of the people on this thread making all these assumptions haven't seen the movie. And it's very clear with the first two pages littered with "LOL, WHO BRINGS TOAST ON AN ELEVATOR?". So maybe you should consider watching a movie before you make yourself look like an ass.
All in all, it's not that bad of a movie. It's not the best ever, but it's not horrible either.
OT: What bothers me is that most of the people on this thread making all these assumptions haven't seen the movie. And it's very clear with the first two pages littered with "LOL, WHO BRINGS TOAST ON AN ELEVATOR?". So maybe you should consider watching a movie before you make yourself look like an ass.
"There is one plot twist that you can see coming, involving the man in the business suit and the detective from the police, that you can kind of see coming, but it's not one you can see coming from the beginning."
Oops.. Redundant sentence.. My bad.... Sorry, I do that sometimes.. When my brain hiccups while I'm typing
Oops.. Redundant sentence.. My bad.... Sorry, I do that sometimes.. When my brain hiccups while I'm typing
Wow, I don't think I've ever heard Moviebob ever come out and say a movie was utter crap. Even The Expendables didn't get this harsh a review.
I'm sure it still deserved it, but wow.
I'm sure it still deserved it, but wow.
Toast is an official, precise and licensed method of detecting the presence of the devil... Licenced by the church by the way! How can you go wrong with the church? xD
