Frailty (2002)

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Frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 6:29pm

This brilliant movie is on TV right now, so I was wondering if anybody has seen it and has comments to share. It really creeped me out when I first saw it, and I feel that it is one of-if not the-best horror film in the past five years.

#2

re: Frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 6:37pm

I loved this movie! The dad is literally nuts. Jeremy Sumpter's debute role, I think.

#3

re: Frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 6:40pm

What a horrible movie.

#4

re: Frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 6:41pm

I wouldn't say best...just kinda freaky.

#5

re: Frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 6:43pm

AMAZING movie!! And i'm not saying that just because i'm Jeremy Sumpters #1 fan...this mobvie SCREWS with your head and I love that! Bill Paxton is...well, not the BEST actor, but whatever, this is such a creepy movie, and Matthew Mconneghy (sp?) is very easy to look at! Mmmm!@

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#6

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 6:45pm

i loved this movie. if you haven't seen it, mef, and you enjoyed this, you might want to see night of the hunter with robert mitchum directed by charles laughton (his only directing effort). paxton said that film informed a lot of the decision he made on frailty.

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#7

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 6:48pm

Excellent example of terrific tension achieved by suggestion on a miniscule budget.

#8

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 6:54pm

I didn't like it till the end. It had some good twists. Other than that< i found it disturbing and questioning why I had spent money to see this.

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#9

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:23pm

I love this movie. Stylish, emotional, thought-provoking, and very creepy. I thought that Matt O'Leary was terrific in it. Those twists just kept on coming.

#10

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:24pm

And the ending is simply brilliant.

#11

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:26pm

Yes. It was incredible how everything fell into place.

#12

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:28pm

Great film. In fact, my alltime favorite quote from a review came from Time Out New York about this film. They said -

"Frailty is a ham-fisted, ideologically repugnant waste of celluloid"

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#13

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:36pm

Really? I remember "Frailty" getting great reviews. Roger Ebert put it on his end of the year Top Ten list.

#14

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:37pm

It did get some great reviews. Time Out despised it though. And that review really made me laugh. I still have it somewhere.

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#15

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:39pm

I am going to use "ham-fisted, ideologically repugnant waste of celluloid" in a sentence some time this week. That's awesome.

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#16

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:39pm

Tiff, isn't that great?! I use it all the time. I SHOULD start using it in theatre reviews.

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#17

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:54pm

haha. Yes. That'd be great.

Matt_G, all I can think about is your icon.

#18

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 10:19pm

Is that Anna Nicole Smith?

#19

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 10:24pm

No, that is Dot.

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#20

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 10:29pm

Oh. Who is Dot?

#21

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 10:39pm

from Mad TV. The retarded 3 year old girl thing. Really funny.

#22

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 10:40pm

Dot is not retarded!!!

She's special. And she loves gloves and gum.

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#23

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/5/05 at 10:42pm

Okay. "Special".

#24

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/6/05 at 12:35am

Anna Nicole Smith is also "special". She arrived in Australia this week to present at the MTV Awards and the first words out of her mouth were "So where are the damn f***ing kangaroos?"

#25

re: frailty (2002)

Posted: 3/6/05 at 12:43am

"So where are the damn f***ing kangaroos?"

Oh, lordy...