I forgot my pillow

Rating: Null/10 (21 August 2001)

This is definately going to contain spoilers....so read on at your own risk.
Ok. Let me clear up an issue about the sixth sense thing I've been hearing. I LOVED the sixth sense. I did not know the ending until it happened, and was shocked...then it made me think back to say "Oh yeah. I saw this and this and this...why didn't I come to that conclusion earlier??" the kid was kind of creepy (Great actor!! Love this kid!!) My skin crawled, I was gripping the edge of my seat. I mean, even predictable things happening, like the little girl grabbing his foot from under the bed, was scarier than heck. I mean, this was a good movie. I love movies that not only shock you and keep you in suspense, but make you go back again to see what you missed and make you really think about the clues you didn't give second thought to, but should have because they told you what to expect in an off side way. It thrills you and makes you think a little.
The "Others" almost exactly like it. Two kids who thought they saw a dead boy that turns out to be a boy who saw dead people. They thought they were alive through out the entire show...then ala Bruce Willis, they turn out to be the ones who were dead. Gee, and people are saying there is no connection between the two, and still insist this movie is original??
And come on...how scary is it for a mother to punish her braty kids by making them read from the bible out loud? You think that's eerie and thrilling...go to church. You're in for a real thrill there!
When the husband arrived the first thing I thought....He's dead. After the husband arrived, the first thing I thought....I bet they are all dead. When they talked about the graves...I got that wrong. I knew the housekeeper and her buddies were dead...But I thought the graves would have Kidman's character and her children's names instead.
A few loud bangings upstairs from unseen feet, overdoing the banging noise if you ask me. Creeking and lighter stomping would have been kind of eerie, but to go all out and BANG BANG BANG. oh come on! a book of dead people, been done before in movies, not that gross and spooky anymore, and oh I love how people thought the piano playing was so eerie. Um...yeah. Its scary when potential ghosts play a riviting sonata.
These were the most intense moments in the movie as they were the only time you thought there was "a ghost". and the old lady in her daughter's dress speaking with her daughter's voice...that would have been slightly weird, IF that wasn't part of the tv promo for the movie so we all knew it was coming.

Trust me...if you are not easily entertained by a few halloween type bumps and bangs, and look for a more deeper, intellectual thrill that chills you and makes you think...this is not really for you. This is so predictable. I hate knowing how it ends minutes into the movie. And for as good as Nic Kidman is as an actress, she seemed just a tad stiff. But it must have been uncomfortable for her knowing she was playing Bruce Wilis. If she wins an award at the emmy's...it better not be for this movie. It should be for a REAL original like Mulan Rouge. THAT was a good original movie.
And I can't believe the people who thought this was better than the sixth sense. For crying out loud it IS the sixth sense. The kid who sees dead people, the dead who thought they were the living ones but weren't, leaving that "twist" for the end. And the rest of the movie was just so long and dull because you knew every step, what would happen.
My theory...this movie is a sleeper, not a creeper. Sorry guys. It stunk!! Rip off, Copy, Stolen, recycled with poor quality, re-done but poorly written. Bring your pillow. You'll need it. ( I forgot mine.)
Normally I give every movie at least credit for originality... It can't even score a point for that.