May 21, 2012 xjpnfanx Says:
i'm not usually scared of movies...but i'm terrified of this...i can't watch it
May 19, 2012 icyangel13 Says:
I never understood why this movie is so underrated. Did no one else notice the stunning religious iconography? The intense symbolism pertaining to life and death, the sense of purity and innocence which exists all over the place and in every mind, the constant reference to water as a symbol of renewal? The courage of facing inner demons, the strength of empathy and love? It just baffles me that no one but me sees these things here.
May 17, 2012 AmericanWolves13 Says:
Hmm, I'm seeing a lot of different opinions on this movie. I've never actually seen it, I just remember seeing commercials for it during Raw and Smackdown when it came out. Looked freaky.
May 14, 2012 surfer53 Says:
Visually, it's indisputably well done. Those scenes in Starger's mind are brilliantly done. It's what you'd expect from a music video guy. Enormously inventive. JLO is well cast, given she's playing a character with empathy, which she brings to all of her movies, sometimes to the detriment of other films. Here, it works. Psychologically, it's an interesting character study. Rather than being a boring formulaic psychological thriller, the concept of this is original as hell.
May 13, 2012 Geektality Says:
This movie sucks! Pretentious bullcrap for no real reason. Tarsem doesn't deserve to make movies.
May 10, 2012 kaos12 Says:
One of the best movies I have ever seen
May 6, 2012 differentandalike Says:
Great movie
Great concept.
Think about it
May 1, 2012 BiggieBenBoarding Says:
there are some movies...that r just to weird to even touch...
Apr 28, 2012 pennylaneglamcat Says:
Vincent D'onofrio in costume looks like the lead singer of Empire of the Sun.
Apr 25, 2012 AICOOL1 Says:
I never knew a serial killer could have such strange and horrible things in his mind, like a world, a strange and horrible world
Apr 19, 2012 snillocgrom Says:
well there you go. some people like to see just good imagery. I also watch movies for character development, but not all the time and not for every movie. I don't believe good character development should be a requirement for any movie or any story. That's why I thought the Cell was okay. There is character development in this movie, just not a whole lot of it. it's not pretentious at all though, that suggests the director intended deeper meaning, I don't think he did.
Apr 19, 2012 DeepEye1994 Says:
...And letting the main character totally undeveloped.
I watch movies to see also good character developments.
If I want to see some innatural images with no sense or things in common, I just need to watch some Garry's Mod video, not waste 107 minutes of my life on this disgustingly pretentious movie.
Apr 19, 2012 snillocgrom Says:
most of our dreams don't make sense. going into an unconscious serial killer's dormant mind....what one sees there probably wouldn't make that much sense anyway and many things are bound to be "random." I'd expect everything to be even more abstract and random actually. I think the point of the "pointless images" was exactly that: to reflect the reality that any subconsciousness if seen would be random.
Apr 19, 2012 snillocgrom Says:
finally, there we go. now we're getting somewhere. I never found The Cell looking "deep, like 2001..." I just found it surreal. I also didn't believe it was the goal of the director to define characters using said surrealistic approach. the images were a supposition in what the dreamworld of a violent person may look like, nothing more (there was nothing to suggest there was more). I don't think Kubrick's films are surrealist in any sense of that word. I didn't even draw that comparison.
Apr 18, 2012 dfrostband Says:
reddit made me search this again
Apr 18, 2012 DeepEye1994 Says:
because it looks like something surreal and deep, like 2001 or The Shinning, but instead it's just surreal with no deep inside.
Kubrick's surreal images had a porpouse in his movies, while The Cell has so many pointless images that don't define the character, that you can make a drinking game out of it.
The Cell is just pretentious. It covers it's mediocre chracters with pointless images. Well, some of them DO define Carl, but the most don't.
Apr 18, 2012 snillocgrom Says:
honest opinions aren't pointless, but unexplained statements are. you didn't give an opinion, you stated this was trying to be a Stanley Kubrick movie without saying why you think that.
Apr 18, 2012 DeepEye1994 Says:
Why giving your honest opinion on a movie is supposed to be pointless?
Apr 18, 2012 AlexIsUber Says:
this movie was freaking weird! Visuals and shit are awesome but the story and all that is not good. Inception definitely nailed it.
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Uljana Petrowna Says:
I hate this movie
pockerboy2009 Says:
this is a Life changing Movie !!
MisoEverything Says:
Best. Movie. Ever.
xjpnfanx Says:
i'm not usually scared of movies...but i'm terrified of this...i can't watch it
icyangel13 Says:
I never understood why this movie is so underrated. Did no one else notice the stunning religious iconography? The intense symbolism pertaining to life and death, the sense of purity and innocence which exists all over the place and in every mind, the constant reference to water as a symbol of renewal? The courage of facing inner demons, the strength of empathy and love? It just baffles me that no one but me sees these things here.
AmericanWolves13 Says:
Hmm, I'm seeing a lot of different opinions on this movie. I've never actually seen it, I just remember seeing commercials for it during Raw and Smackdown when it came out. Looked freaky.
surfer53 Says:
Visually, it's indisputably well done. Those scenes in Starger's mind are brilliantly done. It's what you'd expect from a music video guy. Enormously inventive. JLO is well cast, given she's playing a character with empathy, which she brings to all of her movies, sometimes to the detriment of other films. Here, it works. Psychologically, it's an interesting character study. Rather than being a boring formulaic psychological thriller, the concept of this is original as hell.
Geektality Says:
This movie sucks! Pretentious bullcrap for no real reason. Tarsem doesn't deserve to make movies.
kaos12 Says:
One of the best movies I have ever seen
differentandalike Says:
Great movie Great concept. Think about it
BiggieBenBoarding Says:
there are some movies...that r just to weird to even touch...
pennylaneglamcat Says:
Vincent D'onofrio in costume looks like the lead singer of Empire of the Sun.
AICOOL1 Says:
I never knew a serial killer could have such strange and horrible things in his mind, like a world, a strange and horrible world
gravyhouse Says:
this shit looks bizarre
DeepEye1994 Says:
ok, good for you.
snillocgrom Says:
well there you go. some people like to see just good imagery. I also watch movies for character development, but not all the time and not for every movie. I don't believe good character development should be a requirement for any movie or any story. That's why I thought the Cell was okay. There is character development in this movie, just not a whole lot of it. it's not pretentious at all though, that suggests the director intended deeper meaning, I don't think he did.
DeepEye1994 Says:
...And letting the main character totally undeveloped. I watch movies to see also good character developments. If I want to see some innatural images with no sense or things in common, I just need to watch some Garry's Mod video, not waste 107 minutes of my life on this disgustingly pretentious movie.
snillocgrom Says:
most of our dreams don't make sense. going into an unconscious serial killer's dormant mind....what one sees there probably wouldn't make that much sense anyway and many things are bound to be "random." I'd expect everything to be even more abstract and random actually. I think the point of the "pointless images" was exactly that: to reflect the reality that any subconsciousness if seen would be random.
snillocgrom Says:
finally, there we go. now we're getting somewhere. I never found The Cell looking "deep, like 2001..." I just found it surreal. I also didn't believe it was the goal of the director to define characters using said surrealistic approach. the images were a supposition in what the dreamworld of a violent person may look like, nothing more (there was nothing to suggest there was more). I don't think Kubrick's films are surrealist in any sense of that word. I didn't even draw that comparison.
dfrostband Says:
reddit made me search this again
DeepEye1994 Says:
because it looks like something surreal and deep, like 2001 or The Shinning, but instead it's just surreal with no deep inside. Kubrick's surreal images had a porpouse in his movies, while The Cell has so many pointless images that don't define the character, that you can make a drinking game out of it. The Cell is just pretentious. It covers it's mediocre chracters with pointless images. Well, some of them DO define Carl, but the most don't.
snillocgrom Says:
honest opinions aren't pointless, but unexplained statements are. you didn't give an opinion, you stated this was trying to be a Stanley Kubrick movie without saying why you think that.
DeepEye1994 Says:
Why giving your honest opinion on a movie is supposed to be pointless?
AlexIsUber Says:
this movie was freaking weird! Visuals and shit are awesome but the story and all that is not good. Inception definitely nailed it.