flatworlder

I don't care who you are or how much you hate America, you've got to love this movie.

The effects are still good, even eleven years later, the actors all pull through to do their roles to create a movie that is better than the sum of its parts. The scenes are well paced, even if the scale is a bit lost.

All of those things that make an average drama bad help to make the sci-fi good. When I want to watch a movie about aliens invading and destroying everything, thats what I want to see. The convenient coincidences, the pathetic love stories and typical characters don't' matter too much.

It seems that internationally this movie isn't very well appreciated, "the gun-ho Americans at it again" or some such talk. To that I say, whatever.

Military and government inacurracies aside, small plot holes and loose ends taken for granted, I watch movies to be entertained, Independence Day still delivers, eleven years later.

There was once a slasher film, we like to call it Scream, that was the end of all slasher films. Scream set a "new bar" that made slasher movies "funny" and "sexy" and "quotable" Well, this slasher film was the death of all modern slasher films until...Wrong Turn.

Wrong turn is a lost script from the seventies in many ways. First, the lack of sex. Second, the lack of humor. And Third, its in the woods. (well, a lot of horror flicks are in the woods) In Wrong Turn, a few sexy characters are stranded in the middle of the woods. They are soon hunted down in a predictable fashion by cannibalistic, uber ugly inbreds. (Which is a very bad joke pointed at West Virginia) In every new scene, one young adult is going to die. However, the scenes are fresh. Sure, we've seen a lot of sadistic houses in our movie going lives, but the way the house scene unravels is grade A. What we haven't seen is the junkyard, which shows just how many people have been killed, the watch tower and the tree tops.

I would have given this movie a 10 out of 10 for sheer slasher relief, but the last 15 seconds of the movie (which come after a few credits role) was so cliché that I had to knock it down 3 whole points.

And as an "oh by the way" the three women were absolutely gorgeous.

From what I can tell, this movie is a love it or hate it affair. Personally, I loved it. This is the best slap-stick since Dumb and Dumber. Everything is so over-the-top that you just have to laugh. Steve Martin is at his best; personally, I think this is Steve's best movie since The Three Amigos. All of the acting in this movie is spot on and the jokes are hilarious. It follows what I believe to be a good formula for a comedy: First 20 minutes-non stop jokes-next hour-plot and fewer jokes, less slapstick, better setup-last 20 minutes-more non stop laughs and unexpected resolution.

Watch this movie, laugh at it, laugh with it, whatever.

I love it...My neighbor hates it(not the same as the original)...But I love it.