The Rabbit Room

Thomas no! It wasn’t good. It was like watching Friday the 13th with wolves. The ending….yuck. The point of this movie…….who knows!

Men, after you huddle up, by pass the theatre and go rent, The Edge with Alec Baldwin…..much better.

Or just stay home and watch the Super Bowl.

I take Fridays off, so I get to go see new releases at 10am for half price and have the entire theatre to myself. Last week was The Grey. Interestingly enough, the heat was broken in theatre two where it was showing…perfect temperature for watching this flick. I thought it was a great study in mortality.

I hadn’t really thought of it as a horror flick, though. I guess the virgin does make it to the end alive, so…maybe you’re right.

Eh… not planning to go see it, but it seems like all the philosophizing winds up with yet another cookie-cutter statement of existentialism. I saw some dialogue quoted that was basically word-for-word identical to the climax of _Cool Hand Luke_. Originality may not be its strong suit.

I will see this movie. I’m expecting lean and mean fun, with just enough heart and philosophy and Liam Neeson badassery to keep it from being a 2 hour version of that wolf scene from The Day After Tomorrow. Thanks for the review.

Can’t wait to see this.

The NPR movie review/interview had me intrigued (Note: by Audie Cornish, a woman, who apparently enjoyed it)!

And @YANKEEGOSPELGIRL, from what I heard on NPR, it seems the director more-so wanted to ponder the questions and doubts with which we all sometimes wrestle (and flesh out his own personal questions and fears), rather than make any type of firm philosophical, or existential, statement. But obviously I’d have to see the film to know for sure!

Here’s Joe Carnahan in the NPR interview: “We hear, ‘Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways,’” Carnahan says. “Well, these guys — some of them — they don’t want it to be mysterious. They want to know what’s going to happen, and they want his help. They want this idea of a deity that could grant them — ‘Can you save me? Will I survive?’”

Link to the interview: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/27/145996456/carnahan-discusses-the-grey

Thanks, Thomas! I think I may see it… If my husband and the dudes will let me join them.

I was seriously stoked about seeing this movie. The day it came out, I was given a free movie GC for $25. So I took out a pastor to see it with a couple doods from my church. I was slightly disappointed with it; however, I think it really had some great moments.

1) Wherever they filmed it was beautiful
2) The line of his wife saying “don’t be afraid” had NOTHING to do with the wolves which is what the writers wanted you to think. It had everything to do his wife being on her death bed. They also wanted you to think she left Neeson, but that is dismantled as well.
3) They spend the entire film running from evil only to end up in the den of evil. Neeson puts on the armour and faces the most evil one. Awesome.