Mother's Day

[jeanelle]

Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh baaaaaaaaad! (and not in a good way)

Sorry hopeprince, I was in Wandsworth but I've only just noticed your post.

[valda]

Glad I didn't go, it really wouldn't have been my cup of tea

[alythonian]

Just back from this comedy at Edinburgh.

Yes we had a two part screen until I got up and went and told them and they fixed it 5 minutes in! Actually that was one of the more interesting bits!

The story and the main charachters were set up reasonably well, but the friends could have had beefed up stories a bit. However it was the way in which the story progressed that let it down in my opinion.

It was a good psychological thriller premis (not a horror) and if it had stuck to that it would have made a far better film, but they decided to go for blood, gore and gratuitous violence which actually took away from some of the good acting going on. Rebecca de Mornay was excellent and the song bit at the very end going back to The Hand that Rocked the Cradle was back to the psychological.

There was so much gore and unnecessary violence the film could have been "Brought to you by Smith & WEston/Fake Blood Ltd"!!!

Anyway, we got a laugh or several in fact. there were at least 4 or 5 occassions where at least 1/3 of the audience were laughing out loud. Says it all really and yes, to my shame I'm afraid I was one of them.

About as scary as a bag of sugar but as funny as if you'd had a sugar rush!

4/10 from me.

[elski]

Ugh! much worse than I was expecting... I was trying to fathom out why people like horror films. My assumption is the adrenaline rush from being scared and make you jump moments and being on the edge of your seat in fear for the characters. I was neither of these things in this, not one single 'jumpy' moment and the characters aren't developed enough to care about any of them to feel anything for them or hope any survive as it's likely most of then won't you just detach yourself from it. It's just one long gratuitous excuse to see people being maimed, tortured and killed. I don't think having set-ups where people that are friends are pitted against each other 'psychological' either mostly because again not enough of the characters have been developed to sit there guesssing what the people are going to do, you just know it's going to happen anyway. So basically it's just a sick horror and I'm nowhere near understanding how people can 'enjoy' these types of films. I get the more supernatural types with vampires, ghost etc just not this.

I did notice that at the end it turned out that [spoiler]all the women had survived[/spoiler] was the only point of interest.. oh and the cute doctor George as it was a good diversion trying to place what TV show he's been in, my guess is The OC and I'm going to go and check.

The most disturbing thing about Rebecca De Mornay was her character's resemblance to Hilary Clinton

0/10

[ClareBarr]

Wow what a clunker. Saw this in Wandsworth. It was ok in parts but it was mostly predictable I thought. My friend & I enjoy watching those kind of channel 5 afternoon "thrillers" they show...we've started calling them "classhits"...meant to sound like "classics", but meaning films that are so bad they're good...this one was definitely a classhit!!

[biggins]

Thanks for going and sorting out the split screen Alythonian as this was very irrating. We were debating who should go and tell them when we saw you get up out your seat.

The film had more blood and gore than actual "scary" moments. Expected to be frightened but only found some of it funny.

Recognised Deborah Woll the red head from True Blood.

6/10

[havingascreen]

Thanks for going and sorting out the split screen Alythonian as this was very irrating. We were debating who should go and tell them when we saw you get up out your seat.

The film had more blood and gore than actual "scary" moments. Expected to be frightened but only found some of it funny.

Recognised Deborah Woll the red head from True Blood.

6/10

thanks from me too, my brother exclaimed ffs very loudly..........

[Yinster]

Back from Cineworld Glasgow and not surprisingly the cinema was about 70% full. Plenty of empty seats. Told OH that we would sit right at the back so no one could see us jumping or being scared. Surprise to see a few people who I suspect were just under 18.

Well what I can say? Yes there were gore and horrible things done to people but there were nothing thrilling about it. I can't see why it was an 18 to be honest. I reckon if this was made anywhere else apart from America whether it would be a lot thrilling and scarier. I felt this was aimed at an American audience and so a predictable plot and gory details given. There was no imagination.

This was a tale of a mother who keeps her children on a tight rein and they will do anything to protect that. Also I don't understand why the hostages couldn't take on their captors sooner rather than later. Especially when most of the film they totally outnumbered them. I didn't really care about anyone and was bored for the most part.

[spoiler]Yes I wonder why the females survived too? Plus the ending was so predictable. At least make the daughter steal the baby. Or have the daughter kill the mother for all the lies.[/spoiler]

If you seen the trailer you seen the film. Don't waste money on it.

the cute doctor George as it was a good diversion trying to place what TV show he's been in

that is Shawn Ashmore - Iceman from X-Men.

[elski]

that is Shawn Ashmore - Iceman from X-Men.

oh yes thanks! saved me a trip to IMDb

[mdweaver]

hmmm, saw this at a 60%ish full Shaftesbury Avenue Cineworld. I don't really see why people enjoy these type of films either, I was expecting more of a story but there was nothing to it - it was basically violence followed by more violence all the way through. 3/10.