CAhobbit said:The 'villians' of the movie of "The Cave" (which was not even on par with the actual execution of said 'villians' in "The Descent" had..."The Descent" was far better) seemed very similar to me. What the creatures were and now are etc... Hey I thought "The Cave" was a terrible film but I couldn't deny a similarity between both films.
As for the effects...some were good but there were occasions (especially near the end) where they brought me right out of the film.
Michael Crawford said:Ah, but there is absolutely no attempt in The Descent to try to explain what they are. They are simply there, which makes sense, because if you were in that situation you'd have no idea what they were - just that you better damn well get the hell out of there. I like that about the film, the lack of explaination around the creatures.
CAhobbit said:I think cave paintings along with the look of the creatures gave the 'idea' of what they might be. Whether it be the right assumption or not is not given in the film and thus we don't know the answer (but I do think one can make an assumption there).
Michael Crawford said:We're starting to wade into spoiler territory, so I'm marking this as a SPOILER! I won't give much away...yet...but if you haven't seen the movie, you might want to tread lightly...
Interesting - I don't take the cave paintings to mean anything, at least anything more than the ancient helmet did or the old climbing gear. The cave drawings certainly weren't done by the crawlers, so it merely indicated that people had at one time been in that section of the cave.
What was your take on the paintings? What do you think the movie was saying about the crawlers and their origins? I'm interested in seeing what the movie said to you in that regard.
Michael
MWC
CAhobbit said:Spoilers............
From the cave paintings it was obvious that ancient folks use to dwell in those caves. Given the look of the creatures (very humanlike) I was under the assumption that these were humans that adapted to living in a cave environment (obviously it would have taken hundreds to thousands of years to evolve of course). That was what I gleamed from it all. Of course I might just be stumbling around in the dark (so to speak) with my assumptions given the that I saw "The Cave" (much to my dismay) and thus a story bias of sorts was then formulated in my mind as "The Descent" storyline progressed.
CAhobbit said:Spoilers............
From the cave paintings it was obvious that ancient folks use to dwell in those caves. Given the look of the creatures (very humanlike) I was under the assumption that these were humans that adapted to living in a cave environment (obviously it would have taken hundreds to thousands of years to evolve of course). That was what I gleamed from it all. Of course I might just be stumbling around in the dark (so to speak) with my assumptions given the that I saw "The Cave" (much to my dismay) and thus a story bias of sorts was then formulated in my mind as "The Descent" storyline progressed.
Duckgoo said:I assumed that the crawlers used to cavemen who lived in the caves before the ice age. They hid there every since the ice age hundreds of thousands of years ago and evolved into the crawlers. The cave drawings I assumed were from the cavemen before they evolved.
gdb said:Spoilers............
Yeah I got the impression that the movie was a variation of the old Cave Man Vs. Space Man arguement.
The way the film rises above normal thrillers, IMHO, was the relationship of the two girls and how the story evolves into a revenge tale. I haven't seen the American version, but I hope the ending still features the female lead stuck with the man-eaters. She was a murdering *****.
[NOTE: Really? In this day and age, the b word is censored? Okay... my bad.]
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