Guest Ravenbomb Posted April 27, 2003 Report Posted April 27, 2003 Just got back from seeing Identity. Best. Movie. All Year. I can't tell you anymore, as you should go into it without knowing anything. I can tell you that Cusack was great in the movie.
Guest Downhome Posted April 27, 2003 Report Posted April 27, 2003 I loved it also, I'll post more thoughts about it later. For now, let me just say that it's also one of my favorite movies I've ever seen. Just go see it, really, then we can all talk about it.
Guest Ravenbomb Posted April 27, 2003 Report Posted April 27, 2003 so far I've seen this and Phone Booth this year, and this was better hands down.
Guest Scuba Steve Posted April 27, 2003 Report Posted April 27, 2003 Even thought it was quite easy to figure out what was really going on, it was still a pretty good movie. First movie I've seen all year too.
Guest Ravenbomb Posted April 27, 2003 Report Posted April 27, 2003 Spoiler (Highlight to Read): I figured that the hearing was for the con that was in the motel until they said 'he's here' and brought in the bald guy. After that, I figured that the Motel was a flashback of him killing people
Guest NoCalMike Posted April 28, 2003 Report Posted April 28, 2003 That movie was a trip and a half. It was creepy, and it worked great. Probably my favorite movie I have seen this year hands down.
Guest Downhome Posted April 28, 2003 Report Posted April 28, 2003 That movie was a trip and a half. It was creepy, and it worked great. Probably my favorite movie I have seen this year hands down. I can't believe more people aren't talking about it here!
Guest RenegadeX28 Posted April 28, 2003 Report Posted April 28, 2003 Everyone has been telling me that this movie was awesome. MUST SEE!
Guest Urine Sane Posted April 29, 2003 Report Posted April 29, 2003 Yeah, the movie is greatness. Really creative, nice to see something swerve like that.
Guest Edwin MacPhisto Posted May 4, 2003 Report Posted May 4, 2003 So I know this thread has dropped off the board, but I just saw Identity last night and I wanted to express my fist-shaking discontent. Rantage in the spoiler space below. Spoiler (Highlight to Read): Can no one just write a decent murder mystery anymore? It wasn't too hard to figure out, but that's not even a major complaint. I have a general problem with the ridiculous conceit of the film, which devolves into illogic and is really quite silly. Suspension of disbelief, sure. Taking an hour to build up what seems like a complex mystery and pulling the rug out from under it in a cheap, silly tactic? Not so good. I hate that this movie gets by on its basis of having twists and being unique. If you're going to use psychobabble and try to justify something scientifically, DON'T USE FAKE SCIENCE. This is one of the things I hate most about shoddily made stuff in this vein: if you find out that there's no scientific basis for what you want to do, then *adapt,* don't be retarded. What I'm bitching about here is the jargon that the Alfred Molina character--the psychologist--was going on about. I don't care so much about a stage four disorder being the complete wrong term--that's asthma level, whereas dissociative disorders are definitely stage one--but I do care about the nonsense about the personalities killing each other. Multiple personalities, as of current research, can't interact. Some of them "know" about each other, but they can't interact in the sort of frame that this movie creates. I'd probably be fine with this if the filmmakers hadn't tried to pass it off as real science. If you're gonna make shit up, just do it and let fly. Anything else is just lazy writing. I've got a billion other gripes with this movie, too, but these are the most irritating. And it was so interesting for that first hour, too. Shame-ity shame shame.
Guest HHH123007 Posted May 4, 2003 Report Posted May 4, 2003 I've seen it twice....aside from the two fairly obvious plot "twists", it was pretty good... I've given it a 7.5/10. That places it 3rd on my list 2003 movies.
Betty Houle Posted May 5, 2003 Report Posted May 5, 2003 Marginal thumbs up for IDENTITY. 3 (out of 4) stars.
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