Post by MetalBlade on Aug 20, 2012 18:33:59 GMT
THE DIVIDE
OK maybe not a hit, but definitely a film that grabbed my attention after ten seconds and held me in a vice like grip of tension and horror for two hours.
First off, I recommend watching this film blind, as I did.
I knew vaguely what it was about, but nothing could have prepared me for what I saw.
This is a film I had heard about at the back end of 2011, when the story was that Michael Biehn - star of The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss, and one-time shoe-in for the Peter Parker role until Toby Maguire steamed in and made a rom-com trilogy out of Spider-Man - was about to emerge back in the spotlight. Biehn has long been one of my favourite actors, and I had been anticipating this film for some months, when I got hold of a DVD copy the other day and thought, "well this slipped under the radar... no cinema release, no hype for six months and it just appears on DVD".
So I watched it.
When it had finished I realised how tense I had felt throughout the whole two hours, it was one of the most gripping and horrifying films I've ever seen, and one of the best I had seen for some years. I have been thinking about the film daily since I saw it last week, and I keep reliving the events in my mind over and over. It's really affected me a lot.
Now I am one of those people who generally doesn't read reveiws for films I have not yet seen, and I tend to read reviews after the fact to see what others thought, which is why I was so shocked to read so much negativity towards this beautiful/ugly vision of hell.
I think the mistake a lot of people make - especially professional critics - is that they read reviews or hear a lot of information and hype beforehand and go into a film having preconceptions, and if the film does not match those preconceptions, then it registers as misguided disappointment.
So after reading so much bad press about this frankly Oscar-worthy film, I vow never to read a review before a movie ever again, and I am going to try really hard not to read any previews or too much hype about any film I intend to watch one day.
You will notice that I have not mentioned anything about the story or the characters or anything really about the film itself, because I want you to see the film almost as I did, albeit having foreknowledge about how it affected me.
