Comments on: The Ruins Review https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/ The Correct Opinion Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:11:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rochelle https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-223107 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:11:51 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-223107 Just watched this recently from HBO .. and man.. after seeing the trailers, I “thought” it was good so I waited for it. After the movie, I felt I wasted one and a half hour of my precious weekend nights. It was disappointing. It’s like it builds the story up for something really scary and amazing to happen then boom… it flat-lined. I initially thought that the moving vines and mimicking flowers were corny so I just hoped the story will be good. But as it turns out, it was not. The fact that in some scenes it gave a good scare, that makes it more disappointing. It felt like that when the movie was nearing the end, it suddenly went out of budget and cannot come up with a good ending.

]]> By: John https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-182769 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:26:53 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-182769 In reply to Michael_C.

Dear Michael,

Get over yourself.

Kind Regards,

John

]]> By: Matt https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-161433 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:21:18 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-161433 This movie sucked so bad I damn near shit myself. It was WAY funnier than scary! I think this is the dumbest movie iv ever seen. Not worth anything except for a good laugh. (Give me the knife),cut,cut(it doesnt hurt),cut,cut,(now the hot pot!!! lol

]]> By: SAVS https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-154838 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:10:51 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-154838 I just have to say, there’s been a lot of really bad movies put out lately, and this was very well put together – good premise (even though it could have been difficult to take seriously – man eating plants, pfft), but the way it was written/shot made it actually seem plausible. Good acting helped. The idea of slowly losing your mind, believing that your bodily integrity has been compromised, like a bad acid trip, it was just nasty, but effective. I hope they make more movies like this, because it seems that we are losing ideas lately and just rehashing old ones.

]]> By: mags https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-151661 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:15:50 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-151661 can u tell me the whole stoty of the ruins

]]> By: sinema https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-131893 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:07:05 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-131893 I wasn’t too psyched for this movie beforehand, but I got a free pass and figured why the hell not and wound up seeing one of the better horror films I’ve seen in a good while. Thes best thing I can say about “The Ruins” is that it plays its hand honestly, there’s no tweeny BS, no winking at the camera, it’s just a classic situational horror film that just keeps getting from bad to worse in the best possible way. Like I said, I got in for free and I kinda feel like I owe ‘The Ruins” 10 bucks. But as a small caveat, I saw this film with a bunch of pretentious jackasses sitting behind me and surprise surprise, they didn’t like it. So if you fall into that category than do yourselves and anyone who can enjoy a straight shot horror film a favor and stay away.

]]> By: mikeb https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-130563 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:58:39 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-130563 I concur with the above “Bug” comments, it really was pretty great. I spent time trying to get it out of my head too, but that’s what the film’s intentions were…

But “The Ruins” is the only movie out right now I have interest in seeing…maybe something on this site will sway me in a good direction.

]]> By: maggie https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-130406 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:12:26 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-130406 that movie was crap..

]]> By: Michael_C https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-129598 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:59:42 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-129598 Horror movies. Want to scare me? Force me to watch Bozo the Clown or My Little Ponies. Tell me that doesn’t make you want to get drunk and scream off buildings….

As for ‘The Ruins,’ can’t say I cared for it. Just didn’t. I’m sure people enjoyed it, but as John pointed out, I doubt there will be any awards.

]]> By: medavidson https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-129596 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:55:32 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-129596 Bug was bad-ass. I know there were no explosions or giant frickin’ robots, but still.

]]> By: kaif https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-129485 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:32:14 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-129485 Great story….The ‘Ruins’, all of the characters and their vexed interrelationships are richly and carefully drawn.

]]> By: Chris S. https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review/#comment-129482 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:54:00 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/2008/04/the-ruins-review#comment-129482 Wel,, I would have to say the book trumps the movie and that is all I cared about, so not worth th 7.50

-C

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