I'm about to watch Seven for the first time ever

[DandyFop]

I hope it's as good as everyone says

[DandyFop]

Does it start after the fourth sin? There was no menu on my dvd player, it just started, and it feels like the middle of the movie...

[Ace42X]

I thought Seven sucked. Messiah the TV series was a slightly better take on what was essentially the same idea.

[Medellia]

Was okay I guess. I only saw it once and didn't see the whole thing, so I have no idea where it starts. Sorry, I'm no help there.

[DandyFop]

Oh dude, you have to turn the DVD over. I was like, what the fuck is going on??? Ahhhh.

P.S. Cosmo sucks!

[Medellia]

What? I've never heard of having to turn the DVD over to see the first half of the movie. I've got a couple that have widescreen on one side and full screen on the other, but not half on each.

Unless, I've completely missed what you're talking about. If that's the case I'm an idiot.

[DandyFop]

No, you got it right. Weird, huh? And then I put in the right side and it says "No disc". For fuck's sake!

I washed it and now it's working. But surriously!

Okay bye now

[Medellia]

Well that DVD is extremely stupid then.

[Ace42X]

No, you got it right. Weird
I washed it and now it's working. But surriously!

Translation: The disc was corrupted, and this meant that the menu system was compromised, everything else was the product of confusion. The end.

[Lex Diamonds]

No she's right, it was the same with the original Goodfellas DVD (before Special Edition) and the Blade Runner Director's Cut.

[ToucanSpam]

I thought Seven was fucked up, but enjoyable. I thought the fat guy thing was disgusting though.

[mp-seventythree]

I remember leaving the cinema very angry when I watched Seven

[Qdrop]

BEST.MOVIE.EVER.

[ScarySquirrel]

SE7EN is a very good movie, but I feel it may have been hyped up too much for you to possibily find that it reaches that hype. Maybe not though. It is, however, a really good flick. It was one of the first DVD's I bought, actually.

[Kid Presentable]

No she's right, it was the same with the original Goodfellas DVD (before Special Edition) and the Blade Runner Director's Cut.
I have that version of Goodfellas. Sucks to be me.

[Randetica]

seven is in my "only watch when it just plays donkey wank on the other channels" list

[Lex Diamonds]

I have that version of Goodfellas. Sucks to be me.
Well I have both versions, so I guess being me is sort of like a 69er.

[abcdefz]

I hope it's as good as everyone says



It's not.

[abcdefz]

I remember leaving the cinema very angry when I watched Seven



The group I was with, man... none of us liked it. One guy actually said it was the worst movie he'd ever seen, which is way too far. But so much of it is just crap. :rolleyes:

[Qdrop]

there is no one more pretentious on this board than AZ.

if AZ was present when God created the universe....he would leave saying it lacked depth, and dragged on in the 7th act.

[Randetica]

One guy actually said it was the worst movie he'd ever seen

lolz!

[abcdefz]

...I think it's just that we were so underwhelmed. We saw it in the theater when it opened, and it had all these great reviews, and then... enough of it was so stupid, and two of the plot points (the library account and "wrath") were so insipid that it was almost infuriating.

[abcdefz]

...months later, he and I wound up watching about half of Killing of a Chinese Bookie, which pretty mcuh took care of that "worst movie ever" thing. :D

Woman Under the Influence is amazing, though. For the record. Gena Rowlands gave one of the all-time great performances there, boy. Wow.

[Kid Presentable]

...I think it's just that we were so underwhelmed. We saw it in the theater when it opened, and it had all these great reviews, and then... enough of it was so stupid, and two of the plot points (the library account and "wrath") were so insipid that it was almost infuriating.
Hold up, explain the library account again? I haven't seen it in years, but I remember liking it.

[abcdefz]

Oh, it was some stupid shit like they were able to discover who he was by tapping the library and seeing who had been checking out books about the seven deadly sins or something. And of course, that led them immediately to him. The way it plays out, it's just a really, really cheap plot device, about one step removed from a deus a machina -- so insanely easy that, by using that as a (pretty unlikely) device, they looked like total idiots for not doing it earlier.

This is based on an eleven year-old memory of the movie, but it went something like that. It was kind of the final insult, we thought. Then we got to "wrath" and how that played out. :rolleyes:

"Whaas in the bahhhhhhhhhhx? Whaas in the bahhhhhhhhhhx?"

[Qdrop]

Oh, it was some stupid shit like they were able to discover who he was by tapping the library and seeing who had been checking out books about the seven deadly sins or something. And of course, that led them immediately to him. The way it plays out, it's just a really, really cheap plot device, about one step removed from a deus a machina -- so insanely easy that, by using that as a (pretty unlikely) device, they looked like total idiots for not doing it earlier.

This is based on an eleven year-old memory of the movie, but it went something like that. It was kind of the final insult, we thought. Then we got to "wrath" and how that played out. :rolleyes:

"Whaas in the bahhhhhhhhhhx? Whaas in the bahhhhhhhhhhx?"

if this movie didn't keep you in suspense...what does?

what's a good cop/serialkiller/suspense flick, oh pretentious one?
perhaps you could pull out an obscure italian flick to really wow the onlookers....

[ToucanSpam]

what's a good cop/serialkiller/suspense flick, oh pretentious one?


Murder by Numbers lol.

[The Notorious LOL]

Seven is great.

[Qdrop]

Murder by Numbers lol.

that wasn't too bad.

i've seen alot worse.

[ToucanSpam]

On an unrelated note, am I the only one who thinks the movie Stay was a complete piece of shit?

[abcdefz]

Stay



:confused:

[Qdrop]

On an unrelated note, am I the only one who thinks the movie Stay was a complete piece of shit?
Stay was an overall failure, i thought

artsy, stylish....but the concept (the twist) was pretty vague.

[bigblu89]

What? I've never heard of having to turn the DVD over to see the first half of the movie. I've got a couple that have widescreen on one side and full screen on the other, but not half on each.

Unless, I've completely missed what you're talking about. If that's the case I'm an idiot.

EDIT: Didn't read the whole thread, and my point was already pointed.

[bigblu89]

if this movie didn't keep you in suspense...what does?

what's a good cop/serialkiller/suspense flick, oh pretentious one?
perhaps you could pull out an obscure italian flick to really wow the onlookers....

I'm curious to hear the answer to this...

I liked se7en... A lot... still do.

[abcdefz]

...good cop/serial killer/suspense movies?

Off the top of my head, Silence of the Lambs, Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer (minus the cop aspect), or Psycho are all way beyond Seven.

Manhunter was pretty good, but William Peterson (?) talking to himself never really worked, and the way they shot and scored the climax was just awful.

[bigblu89]

...good cop/serial killer/suspense movies?

Off the top of my head, Silence of the Lambs, Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer (minus the cop aspect), or Psycho are all way beyond Seven.

WItht he exception of Henry (which I also love), you mentioned movies that are considered "classics".

Of course they'd trump a movie like se7en.

But I do agree that all 3 were better.

[abcdefz]

...I guess that's my point: there are truly great movies out there, and calling Seven a great movie is kinda silly. It doesn't hold up as much of anything but a style piece.

[bigblu89]

...I guess that's my point: there are truly great movies out there, and calling Seven a great movie is kinda silly. It doesn't hold up as much of anything but a style piece.

OK, I get what you're saying.

It's no classic, but I do think it's a pretty good movie, minus the part about it raining every day during the movie.

[Qdrop]

you cannot compare Henry to se7en.

completely differant movies...from completely differant aspects (the killer vs the cops).
Henry was Character introspective about the killer himself. it wasn't a suspense.

i find it puzzling that you would even bring Henry into this discussion.

[abcdefz]

You specified a suspense/serial killer/cop genre, which is mighty slim to start with. I acknowledged that I was fudging a bit with Henry -- two thirds of your criteria -- but any discussion of fantastic serial killer movies that ignores Henry is incomplete.

If M were more suspenseful, we could add that.

[cosmo105]

oh man M was a masterpiece.

Se7en was good, i liked it. i don't think it was fantastical great amazing lifechanging orgasmic movie experience of the century, but it was good. like AZ said, i think it was more about the style than the substance.

i hates me some kevin spacey though. sorry barb :(

[DandyFop]

Yeah I was very very underwhelmed. Cosmo was right in that it's very good stylistically. But other than that, meh. I saw the ending coming a mile away, I think it could have been done in a more interesting fashion.

SPOILER here if anyone hasn't seen it - when the junkie guy is actually alive, omg that was the fucking nastiest freakiest thing EVER.

I share a-z's view on the library card - way too easy.

It wasn't horrible but it didn't live up to the hype, for me at least. I liked most of it except the ending, it felt pretty anti-climactic.

[abcdefz]

Yeah I was very very underwhelmed. Cosmo was right in that it's very good stylistically. But other than that, meh. I saw the ending coming a mile away, I think it could have been done in a more interesting fashion.

SPOILER here if anyone hasn't seen it - when the junkie guy is actually alive, omg that was the fucking nastiest freakiest thing EVER.

I share a-z's view on the library card - way too easy.

It wasn't horrible but it didn't live up to the hype, for me at least. I liked most of it except the ending, it felt pretty anti-climactic.



Can you rehash the library card bit? Am I remembering it correctly? It was almost like this insanely easy/illegal search they did that was kind of insulting to expect the audience to buy.

Yeah, yeah -- I know that Spacey's character wants to get caught at a certain point, but you could set that up much, much better.

[bigblu89]

Very few movies live up to the hype.

Considering thsi movie came out more than 10 years ago, you've probably have had people hyping it for quite some time.

It's a solid movie, but it's not Lambs.

Like I said before, I liked it A LOT, but I wouldn't call it an instant classic.

[DandyFop]

Can you rehash the library card bit? Am I remembering it correctly? It was almost like this insanely easy/illegal search they did that was kind of insulting to expect the audience to buy.

Yeah, yeah -- I know that Spacey's character wants to get caught at a certain point, but you could set that up much, much better.

You pretty much got it right. Dude knew someone in the FBI and gave him the names of the books to run through. They're like "hmm, John Doe, let's give this one a try". Lo and behold...it's him.

[beastieangel01]

I liked it A LOT, but I wouldn't call it an instant classic.

werd.

[Randetica]

6/10

[Documad]

I saw it on opening night with a bunch of friends and I hadn't heard anything except that about Gwen and Brad being a couple. I recognized the killer's voice right away, even though I barely knew who the actor was at the time. I liked it at the time but I have lower standards for crime movies.

I didn't like Henry, but that has a lot to do with the fact that I dragged two friends to it without understanding what it was going to be like.

P.S. I rented Sin City last night and I liked it a lot.