If you’re not going to see Mr. & Mrs. Smith today, go see Haute Tension instead. If you already saw Mr. & Mrs. Smith yesterday, go see Haute Tension today. If you already saw Haute Tension yesterday, go see it again today because chances are you probably hated it the first time and you’ll love it the second time (trust me).
Bottom line: make it a point to go see Haute Tension someday and then post some spoilerific comments about what you thought of the flick.
i’m going to see angelina jolie no matter how stupid the movie probably will be.
#1 | Comment by Titleist — June 10, 2005 @ 10:01 pm
First. Okay.
#2 | Comment by JVC — June 10, 2005 @ 10:02 pm
Okay. Second.
#3 | Comment by JVC — June 10, 2005 @ 10:02 pm
You misspelled HIGH.
#4 | Comment by Dex — June 10, 2005 @ 10:15 pm
High Tension was ok. I couldn’t explain all the twists for the life of me. Dubbing was horrid – I would see smiths to see jolie any day of the week.
#5 | Comment by Mr_SaMSA — June 10, 2005 @ 11:33 pm
you have to pay attention to the things marie says and the way she interacts with alex in the beginning. the clues are there.
#6 | Comment by Justin — June 11, 2005 @ 12:10 am
i like the shower scene and what she does just after
#7 | Comment by lswalker — June 11, 2005 @ 2:08 am
who’s seen the uncut version? anybody know what exactly was cut?
#8 | Comment by Justin — June 11, 2005 @ 2:21 am
Foreskin
#9 | Comment by Dex — June 11, 2005 @ 10:39 am
Was there a reason half was dubbed and half was subbed? That was bothering me.
#10 | Comment by heineken — June 11, 2005 @ 1:29 pm
go to the official movie site and click on the directors comments. he explains the dubbing.
#11 | Comment by Justin — June 11, 2005 @ 2:07 pm
He makes it seems like it was only dubbed…half of the movie had subtitles.
#12 | Comment by heineken — June 11, 2005 @ 3:01 pm
subtitles are good! better subbed than dubbed! my dvd is pretty much 100% dub.
#13 | Comment by Justin — June 11, 2005 @ 3:10 pm
Yeah I prefer subtitles as well, dubbing makes it too distracting watching how the mouths arent in sync…but half of both is worse!
#14 | Comment by heineken — June 12, 2005 @ 12:23 am
here it is:
from http://chud.com/interviews/3284
Q: One of the things that has been most controversial in the film has been the twist. How did you settle on that twist in the end?
Aja: In fact it was from the beginning the idea to make a survival love story, with this twist. With this psychological approach of the lead character. We shoot a lot of different things that we decided during editing not to put in the movie because it was too obvious. We were shuttling between too much indication in the film to the audience to — how to keep the audience with Marie and with Alex without giving any clues. It was a hard decision to make, but I was happy to take the decision as it was. If you stop too long to understand, it was love.
I know some people want a logical point but don’t forget that all the story is telling from the perspective of Marie. She is telling the story as she want it in a perfect world to happen. So who was driving the car, and who was — it’s really her telling the story.
#15 | Comment by Justin — June 12, 2005 @ 1:34 pm
and from joblo:
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=7712
Without getting too specific can you talk about some of the controversy that has surrounded the film’s ending? It seems to have sparked off quite a debate. Do you want to take this opportunity to help explain the ending for those who didn’t totally buy into it or are you content to let people figure it out themselves?
It’s true that we’ve met a lot of people that’ve had some questions. We shot a lot of raw footage… I can’t tell too much cause I’m going to expose the ending but we decided to not go too obvious. We didn’t want to give too many clues in the film. I think we did it in a way where if you watch the film again you understand that it didn’t come from nowhere. But at the same time it was a big decision. We have to decide whether to give more clues and risk people figuring out what was going on very early on. Or we keep a veil of mystery and just do a straight-forward horror movie to the point where everything just twists.
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it seems that the korean cut had like 6 or 7 minutes chopped off. the DVD i have doesn’t look like it had 6 or 7 minutes cut. maybe it isn’t the bastard korean version that i thought it was after all. still wondering if it’s missing any extra gore though.
#16 | Comment by Justin — June 12, 2005 @ 1:49 pm
Mr. and Mrs. Smith was pretty good, it was funnier than I expected.
#17 | Comment by thesuit — June 13, 2005 @ 6:47 am
Mr. and Mrs. Smith fucking rocked.
#18 | Comment by AngelBaby — June 13, 2005 @ 9:06 am