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The Strangers

Well I have yet to see it but the reviews I wrote said it was basically a well executed formulaic horror movie, nothing new or original but it succeeds in keeping suspense.
 
Gotten a pretty base review of 'it sucked' from a co-worker today.
 
I really wanted to see this, but then I read about it and decided it wasn't going to live up to my expectations. I was looking at the website which has lots of clips and there is a part where Liv Tyler is standing in this giant room alone and smoking a cigarette. The sack mack guy quietly appears in a doorway off the the side and all I could think was, "Doesn't this stupid bitch have any peripheral vision?"
 
It says it is based on real events, but not! It was predictable and long. It took 45 minutes for something to even happen. It is the Manson Murders, but more modern.
 
terrible!

we had to break out the vodka to make it remotely interesting.
 
The movie was seriously horrible... there was probably only a few scenes that were actually scary. The concert was amazing, they had the idea down but the way they acted it out, it was just so bad. It could have been so much better.... sigh.
 
HOT4MEN said:
It says it is based on real events, but not! It was predictable and long. It took 45 minutes for something to even happen. It is the Manson Murders, but more modern.
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The whole "inspired by true events" thing is weird. I read an interview with the director and apparently it's not even the Manson murders. I mean, that sort of came into it later, but when he was a kid living in rural Texas, someone came to the door asking for a person who didn't live there. The family later found out that houses in the area had been broken into. Definitely a creepy story, but it's a bit of a stretch to use that to claim psycho killers in scary masks were connected to "actual events".
 
Yeah, whether or not a movie is based on actual events is not something that is going to decide for me one way or another if I'll see it or not so I don't get why they bothered.
 
yng4oldmeat said:
The whole "inspired by true events" thing is weird. I read an interview with the director and apparently it's not even the Manson murders. I mean, that sort of came into it later, but when he was a kid living in rural Texas, someone came to the door asking for a person who didn't live there. The family later found out that houses in the area had been broken into. Definitely a creepy story, but it's a bit of a stretch to use that to claim psycho killers in scary masks were connected to "actual events".
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Wikipedia cites that it's partly based on the Charles Mansons murders and the other part is inspired by the writer or director's experience as kid when what you described above happened to him.
 
*SPOILER*

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When James was in the wooded area in the middle of the movie about to shoot the woman coming out of the barn, the guy came running behind him. Immediately I predicted that James killed the masked man and took his mask. I thought that the director was going to fool us by having James wear the mask while walking around slowly. So during the scene where the masked man is sitting at the kitchen table with Kristen hiding in the pantry. I was like Kristen, it's okay, it's James!

haha I was proved wrong! I was trying to look on the bright side, but I was foolishly wrong.
 
luminum said:
Wikipedia cites that it's partly based on the Charles Mansons murders and the other part is inspired by the writer or director's experience as kid when what you described above happened to him.
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I didn't say there was no inspiration taken from the Manson murders. It's just that when I read the interview, it sounded like he threw in the Manson thing as a side connection to give validity to the "inspired by true events" tag they were using. The only connection is that in both cases some people came into a house and killed some people which is a pretty weak connection. I think they just used "Manson" like a buzzword to generate interest because most people have no knowledge of what actually went on with the Manson killings.

By the way, wikipedia is really not a very thorough or reliable source.
 
I'm well aware that Wikipedia is a flawed encyclopedic "source" for its open editing. Nevertheless, before we slam it, let's trust that some material is indeed sourced. Just because it doesn't make the grade for legitimate research and publication (and rightly so) doesn't mean it's a poor source for, of all things, pop culture nor does it mean that's it's "really not a very thorough or reliable source." If you take a look at the Wikipedia behind-the-scenes work, you'll be surprised how many experts in their field contribute to Wikipedia's scientific and historic entries. Likewise, vandalism is quickly noted and reverted and unsourced materials are quickly noted and flagged for a source.

Also, a study by Nature found that Wikipedia comes close to the same amount of accuracy of Britannica in terms of its scientific entries. So, I would reconsider that last statement--maybe take out a few of those modifiers.

But regardless, yes, it is based in part on the Charles Manson murders. He read Helter Skelter as a kid, which fascinated him due to the fact that Charles Manson was described in full detail and history, but his victim's experience was never known or understood. I've sourced it on Wiki.

And I wasn't implying that you were refuting the claim, just expanding on what you mentioned about his childhood experience and how both contributed.

Here's the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strangers#Inspiration

And the corroborating source:
http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=6242

I agree that the inspiration is rather thin, but that's the truth of the matter.::shrug::
 
ItalianStallion00 said:
The movie was seriously horrible... there was probably only a few scenes that were actually scary. The concert was amazing, they had the idea down but the way they acted it out, it was just so bad. It could have been so much better.... sigh.
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There wasn't a concert scene...

I personally loved this movie, i found it genuinely suspenseful and well acted.

Better than Prom Night or other garbage.
 
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