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Old 11-25-2009, 05:44 PM   #3733
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Originally Posted by pikesome View Post
I know it's old-ish and I'm late to the party but... I watched The Descent yesterday and I was not impressed. Which surprised me considering how many people loved it.

I found myself unconcerned about the lead or any of the others and the first part of the movie was poorly paced. The movie spent so much time trying to show the bonds between characters no one cared about.

And then the creatures... ****. They were unmitigated crap. Stupid looking, stupidly explained, stupidly conceived. In addition to being blind they apparently can't smell or feel, and their hearing wasn't good enough to hear people feet away but was good enough to "see" with? And they didn't seem to notice fire. And walk on the walls with human arms and legs. If you want to know how they should have been watch Pitch Black and take notes. The level of incompetence in the monster design killed any enjoyment for me.
I liked it. I know it's nothing great, but I enjoyed it. You are right about too much time with the relationships between teh characters. I watched in on DVD and fast forwarded about 20 minutes of the beginning and didn't feel like I missed anything. I thought the monster things were ok.
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