First off, I loved the originally, even with it's different endings.
This remake, however...was bad. I don't normally write reviews but dang! I saw it three days ago and it's still bugging me. I gave it three stars for the story and the actors; most (not all) of them tried their best and the story wasn't half-bad.
That being said, I felt like the movie was missing several scenes. I don't know if it was the director or the editors.
We wasted time on: watching the family decide which house they were going to rent backstory on people looking at themselves in funhouse mirrors talking to unnecessary people that didn't move the story forward. That time should have been spent on the characters getting to know each other. To me, it felt like these people met and three minutes later they are chasing a mystery together.
Also, the parents seem to hate their older daughter for some reason that's never explained. They kept reprimanding her for scaring the younger daughter when she never did anything of the sort.
And the 'Nancy Drew' of the film was just a girl who wouldn't stop asking questions. I'm not talking, interesting, probing questions, she asked questions like a yammering three year old. She then gets the 3 people that were with Karen to come to the forest with her but why? Who is this girl to them? They never show why they should believe anything she says.
Then, Anjelica Huston, she's one of my favorite actors and she tried her best, but the material they gave her just wasn't good. She simply came off as weird and instead of sad, forlorn, and protective, as a woman who lost her daughter might feel.
Overall, I feel that this movie tried to tell a good story but because of the time allotted, they cut out a lot of parts that would have made it better. Oh, and left in a lot that brought nothing to the story.
Just stick to the original, it's so much better and you actually believe in their motivation. --- On a random note, did anyone else think that tree looked like a giant vajayjay when it spit out the girls? WTH was that? There's no other way that could have been designed. Lol!
This remake, however...was bad. I don't normally write reviews but dang! I saw it three days ago and it's still bugging me. I gave it three stars for the story and the actors; most (not all) of them tried their best and the story wasn't half-bad.
That being said, I felt like the movie was missing several scenes. I don't know if it was the director or the editors.
We wasted time on: watching the family decide which house they were going to rent backstory on people looking at themselves in funhouse mirrors talking to unnecessary people that didn't move the story forward. That time should have been spent on the characters getting to know each other. To me, it felt like these people met and three minutes later they are chasing a mystery together.
Also, the parents seem to hate their older daughter for some reason that's never explained. They kept reprimanding her for scaring the younger daughter when she never did anything of the sort.
And the 'Nancy Drew' of the film was just a girl who wouldn't stop asking questions. I'm not talking, interesting, probing questions, she asked questions like a yammering three year old. She then gets the 3 people that were with Karen to come to the forest with her but why? Who is this girl to them? They never show why they should believe anything she says.
Then, Anjelica Huston, she's one of my favorite actors and she tried her best, but the material they gave her just wasn't good. She simply came off as weird and instead of sad, forlorn, and protective, as a woman who lost her daughter might feel.
Overall, I feel that this movie tried to tell a good story but because of the time allotted, they cut out a lot of parts that would have made it better. Oh, and left in a lot that brought nothing to the story.
Just stick to the original, it's so much better and you actually believe in their motivation. --- On a random note, did anyone else think that tree looked like a giant vajayjay when it spit out the girls? WTH was that? There's no other way that could have been designed. Lol!