Mothman Prophecies

Pros: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Alan Bates
Cons: Story, Direction

The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Have you ever seen these products that contain at least __% of whatever they are supposed to be? This breakfast drink - I forget the name - advertises on the bottle like that. Whenever I see something like that it ...

Pros: Gere and Linney, some great visuals, creepy moments...
Cons: Too many freaking loose ends!!!

I was ready to be scared. Terrified, even. I'm a great person to see scary movies with. If you have a theater with 200 people in it, and only one person jumps, it's going to be me. If anyone screams, it'll be me. Nightmares for a week afterward?...

Pros: Nice Theory That Keeps you Guessing
Cons: Heart Stopping Moments A little Too Spaced Out

Mothman? What the heck is this all about? I am a skeptic. Perhaps it is because I have lived in New York my whole life. We are not the breed of people that will be knocked over by just any theory. Mothman Prophecies is a new flick starring the...

Pros: story line, acting, creep factor, interesting and entertaining
Cons: they could have cut some of it out

Don't you just hate it when there's nothing to watch on TV? I sure do and the fact that we pay for our cable (and pay a lot, I may add) doesn't help. Knowing I'd be home and bored out of my mind, I went to Blockbuster tonight (along with half my town)...

Pros: Geere, Bates, Linney, Will Patton, and amazing cinematography enhanced by sound track
Cons: Dialog anyone?

Friday the Thirteenth, long before any movie made reference to any horrific story, has always been associated with bad luck, things strange and unexplained, and paranormal phenomenon. From one point of view, it is the stuff of superstition,...

Pros: It attempts to explain the inexplicable and really made me wonder.
Cons: A lot was left to the imagination.

Do you believe in psychic connections, predictions of the future, mass hallucinations, loved ones connecting with us after death, or maybe UFO's?

Take your choice -- any of these or none of these -- could be the premise of this rather strange...

Pros: Very creepy, lots of suspense
Cons: Leaves you hanging a bit

The Mothman Prophecies stars Richard Gere as a man whose wife dies after a mysterious encounter. Christmas Eve night, while driving home, she saw something on the road that caused her to swerve about a hit her head on impact. While at the hospital, it...

Pros: Intriguing, connotation-driven premise.
Cons: Gere's perpetual gawking gets tiring, as does the constant visual onslaught.

Any fool can spot an urban legend. They’re the type of stories you hear every day, recounted to you by friends or acquaintances, a bizarre event that happened to a person so ambiguous that the only recollection is that they’re a “friend of a...

Pros: Extremely creepy, well-shot, well-written, well-acted
Cons: Could've been a little shorter - but it's a minor gripe!

In 1966, the sleepy town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia took a turn for the bizarre. Sightings of a winged anthropromorphic creature, nearly eight feet tall and clad in black, began popping up all about Point Pleasant. People complained of knocking...

Pros: A few cool and creepy scenes.
Cons: Several scenes seem sponsored by Sominex.

Skipping clumsily between 'creepily interesting' and 'downright boring', Mark Pellington's schizophrenic The Mothman Propecies is a solid 100-minute thriller. Unfortunately, the actual running time is well over 2 hours.

I'm predicting...

Pros: Good subject, some creepy moments and visuals
Cons: Story has no direction, doesn't really explain things

I have always found that U.F.O.s, urban legends and unexplained happenings have always been interesting to me. A while back I found this movie and read the plot. It intrigued me greatly so I read up on the subject of the Mothman. Basically the Mothman is ...

Pros: Intriguing premise, much creepiness, effective use of setting
Cons: All the creepiness finally adds up to very little

Director Mark Pellington knows what a suspense thriller is supposed to look like. He know all the camera set-ups and all the editing moves. And he knows that certain framings are supposed to yield "shock" results and that certain cut-aways are supposed...

Pros: Some scary scenes and haunting use of camera and music.
Cons: Plot holes, seems to try to create tidy ending.

The Mothman Prophecies could have easily been a David Lynch film. There’s the creepiness, the obtuse camera angles, the characters who suffer from visions and waking dreams, and a soundtrack that easily sounds like it could have been created by...

Pros: This film put food on my table!
Cons: I got pneumonia and froze while trying to put food on my table!

The highlight of working on this film for me, was having Richard Gere touch me! No, not there... but an "excuse me" touch because I was in his way in the trailer!:) And that was my only thrill on the film! It has taken me a year to thaw out from this...

Pros: Well directed and filmed, with chills galore
Cons: Disappointing conclusion

I had never heard of The Mothman Prophecies, so when I picked up the box from the video store shelf I was pleasantly surprised when I read the film's description on the back. There was no doubt that this would be the evening's entertainment.

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