It's Not About Intellect

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2004)

Spoiler It's about expectations. The ones on this board who liked this movie (me included) aren't lording over the ones who didn't many of us just went in with different expectations of what we would see. Yeah, Night has a history of misleading trailers and twisting plots. That's an advantage and disadvantage at this point - we're all looking for the twist now; expecting it and disappointed when we find it. Well you can't have it both ways. This movie seems to be more of a "thinker" than his others - I didn't decide I liked it until the next day, now I actually want to see it again. And don't discount the studios role in this. They have a history of screwing up production and promotion of films they don't get. Star Wars and Jaws barely got made and after screening Star Wars one exec. suggested C3P0 should have a mouth b/c moviegoers wouldn't understand how he could talk! So it's entirely possible and I wouldn't be surprised if the studio up-played the horror angle to get the summer audience into the theaters thinking (wrongly again) if we knew the movie was deeper than the usual slasher fair we'd stay away. So yeah, we didn't get a monster movie but take a closer look at the story and characters after you let go of your old expectations - there is a lot there