Comments on: Review: The Ruins

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:07:33 +0000

Don’t know that I’ll be in any hurry to see this again–parasites freak me out–but it’s most certainly must see stuff.

By: Matt W

Matt W — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:05:02 +0000

“but I fear it doesn’t carry the weight I was rooting for.”

Awful puns aside. I’m glad I listened to the review. Thanks for helping me spend $6.25 wisely!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:49:22 +0000

Hell yeah, R.J. $8mil opening weekend is nothing to sneeze at, especially in early April and no A-list stars, but I fear it doesn’t carry the weight I was rooting for.

THE RUINS is the first flick in, well, years that made me send a pleading text messaged to anyone in my phone, begging them to go see it. I love the movie, I really do, but, like you, I love what it represents even more.

Go see it people!

By: R.J. Sayer

R.J. Sayer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:14:44 +0000

i agree whole-heartedly.

i LOVE this film more for what it could mean for the genre than what it is as a film. but it was pretty damn good by its own merits, though.

not without its problems, but more enjoyable than 98% of the studio horror to open in theaters in the last two or three years, at least.

and if it makes enough, it could send a message to those fuckers that mainstream audiences are ready for this kind of high-concept “out there” horror movie again. no more j-horror remakes. no more torture porn.

it’d be a full-on renaissance.

i hope.

the thing i like most about it is how seriously it takes itself. and how candid it is about that.

like it’s saying “yeah, i’m a killer plant movie. you gotta problem with that, asshole?”