New thriller: Don't Breathe

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was really anticipating this for a couple months, but I'm kinda let down.

First of all, the kids acting is just tolerable.

Secondly, I know it's called "don't breathe", but the way they were OVER-accentuating the breathing sounds at times was kinda cheesy.

the rest I'll say here....

at a certain point, this dude blind became more of a superhero than Daredevil. Got kinda cheesy the way he kept coming back with seemingly super human strength. Like another breh said, "super white women" in horror movies is def an issue. Also, so at the end, did he basically lie to the cops about what happened?

And I thought the old man's character sort of lost some steam when he started speaking about his daughter. The voice didn't match the image IMO.

The theater I saw it in was fairly empty, so maybe it'd been better in a packed house.
 
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Guess I'm going to be in the minority. I thought it was pretty good movie but that's it. In terms of horror, nothing scary in this film except for a part that caught me by surprise and it wasn't even the blind man (the dog).

Being a Detroiter, I had mixed feelings. Positive wise, you could see how certain neighborhoods in the D, could be a scary thing. Iron bars, being on block that's totally isolated from other people. It's sorta like being on farm with no other people around. Negative wise, all white cast in Detroit? Especially, with the part of town he's in, it's probably 1% white if any at all. So I don't get that direction with it being in Detroit but an all white cast.

Now, cinemotogapy was dope. Camera angles, lighting, all that. The best part of the film, was once you got to know the old man and got to see that he was a person of depth. Nota simplistic character at all. You saw in the commercial, where he states he's an atheist. And there are reasons why. So they wrote his character well.

I don't have a problem with suspending reality. It's a "horror" film so I get it. So I could deal somewhat with the "stupid white people doing dumb stuff" because that's just the norm in these films. But at the same time, some of the stupidity just got too much for me. But my main problem are
Overall, I liked the pacing. The revelation of the blind man. Video game chase vibe. But I just couldn't suspend belief all the way, so I can't put it in great category. Can't even say it's better then "10 Cloverfield Lane" as a chase film. Though I hated that ending and this one as well.
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I think most of this is fair. The part about race and Detroit is rather interesting. I don't think Money's character was meant to be white, more like racially ambiguous. :troll: I do think that
they shouldn't have revealed that bit in the beginning about her being dragged down the street. It also revealed that the other two were already dead. It was unnecessary. And yeah the white girl getting out was too hamfisted. She should have died. That would have been glorious. Or the blind guy should have died. One of them. I also don't understand how he escaped the basement while cuffed? And managed to get a gun, but it is his house and he is paranoid, so I was willing to believe he had other means and awareness of the space.

jadillac said:
was really anticipating this for a couple months, but I'm kinda let down.

First of all, the kids acting is just tolerable.

Secondly, I know it's called "don't breathe", but the way they were OVER-accentuating the breathing sounds at times was kinda cheesy.

the rest I'll say here....

at a certain point, this dude blind became more of a superhero than Daredevil. Got kinda cheesy the way he kept coming back with seemingly super human strength. Like another breh said, "super white women" in horror movies is def an issue. Also, so at the end, did he basically lie to the cops about what happened?

And I thought the old man's character sort of lost some steam when he started speaking about his daughter. The voice didn't match the image IMO.

The theater I saw it in was fairly empty, so maybe it'd been better in a packed house.
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Definitely a different experience with a packed theatre. And I thought the daughter piece made him more human and less of a one dimensional character. But you're not the first person to say it loses steam. It just never did for me.
 
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