So I saw [REC]ł and I was thoroughly disappointed.
I already knew it wasn't going to be the same hand-held style as the first two
even though that for the opening scene it was.
But even then, even in the opening scene, in the first two movies they were umm...
leading up... they had a lot of exposition and little things that you could notice about it
that sort of tied in to later in the movie that actually served a purpose.
But the entire opening of [REC]ł just felt like it was just bullshitting.
Like they were just killing time and using lots of filler.
The performances... its kind of hard to judge
because it's making me thing that, because of the hand-held style of the first two,
maybe that helped with the performances or the believability of it.
Because, at this point, it's really hard to take seriously.
For the third movie they added in cliche scare music and jump scare sounds and things like that.
And the eerie string instruments and its like, you're losing all the charm of the first two movies.
The first two movies, the reason why people loved the series is because it's...
it's brutal and realistic and it's uncompromising and this one is just...
It had some good gore scenes but that's about it.
It uhh, it didn't... it didn't really take itself too seriously
but I don't think it should have been called [REC]ł.
It should have acknowledged the fact that it was nothing but a spin off.
It should have been called something different because, especially if they're going...
I know that there's a fourth movie in production.
That was planned before the third movie was even in production.
Umm, if the fourth movie is going to stay true to the first two films
then I would have just preferred for them to call the fourth one number three
and have that as it's own trilogy.
And this fucking piece of shit as it's.. as just a spin off because that's what it felt like.
It felt like, even though it was in the same kind of universe
and when they got bit it acted differently than in any of the other movies, I don't know.
Why call it [REC] even?
They sort of acknowledge the fact that umm..
the events of the first two films were happening at the same time as this movie but the characters uhh...
it had absolutely nothing to do with it. They were going to do some sort of uhh...
a prequel for this film and that idea got changed around lots of times and uhh...
It just turned to shit. I don't know what they were thinking.
And uhh... I- I...
somewhere between four and six out of ten.
I didn't really think too hard about my rating, I just want to forget about this movie.
I'm never going to see it again. Its fucking bad and it's not like...
bad in the sense that I can make an entire review out of it
pointing out little parts of continuity errors and things like that.
It's just bad because it doesn't live up to the first two movies at all.
And it's not like them at all and it feels... I feel cheated...
by the fact that they considered it a part of the series when its really just a completely different movie.
It has nothing to do with them and uhh... that's all I really got to say about it.
Don't see it. Or see it and judge for yourself
but I... it's not...
you can't take it seriously.
You can't take it seriously.
There's no tension,
there's no drama,
there's mo caring about the characters,
you already basically know who's going to die,
and the whole umm... possession slash religious
aspect of it, which I thought worked for the second movie.
In this one they used it more so as a plot device, rather than something that can
help make the film better or more interesting in any sort of way.
That's why I liked it in the second movie when they added in the
whole possession and religion and stuff like that.
I felt like they were doing it because they didn't want to make [REC] twice.
They didn't want to make the same movie twice so they're like,
"okay so now me can have zombies running around on the ceiling and shit like that."
And that was cool because it... they used it as an excuse to do
something new with it. And in- and...
now if these directors are people that don't want to make the same movie
over and over then that's abundantly clear because this is a completely different movie.
But I don't think it worked at all and I'm hoping that, for the fourth movie,
they at least try to have a similar style to the first two films or...
at least care about it.