Hurrah - someone who hates Descent
nearly as much as I do.
I was wondering if I'd seen the same film as everyone else had.
The Descent has entered my top ten worst film list, and not at number 10!
I agree pretty much with most of Marky's points above, but would just like to rant on about a few more flaws in the movie for me.
SPOILER WARNING
1) The "experienced" cavers who are woefully ill-prepared for their trip. They carry no food or water, nor do they even seem that competent at traversing underground
2) The end sequence was so hackneyed and generic that I was genuinely nauseous to realise that, a) I had wasted £3.50 on this tripe and b) lost the best part of 2 hours of my time on this plane of existance - well, I say lost, they were stolen from me!
3) The dialogue - I'm used to shoddy scripts in Horror movies but the dialogue in this was truly horrific....horrifically bad! I kept expecting to see Leslie Nielsen turn up.
I cannot overemphasise enough how amazingly poor I thought this movie was.
I quite enjoyed Dog Soldiers (in a mindless kind of way) and heard all the positive reviews about this, so was looking forward to a good, creepy movie.
The only good thing I can say about this movie was that my friends and I still had a cracking night watching this on DVD as we just talked over it, and improved the dialogue as we went.
"They're going plot-holing" and "Pol-Pot holing" were two of my particular favourites
Rating 1/10 (and the 1 is for good creature design and makeup - NOTHING else)
I enjoyed "The Cave" more than this - it was tenser and wore it's cheesiness proudly, rather than try to pretend it's better than it is.
p.s. Ravenus, I usually agree and like most of your film choices, but seriously, you thought the women in this movie were "
credibly tough cookies" -
they were whiny, crybabies for the most part, bar the lead protaganist. I found them wholly unbelievable cavers, most gave the impression they'd rather be having a manicure & reading Hello magazine, quite frankly. I found it hard to believe any of them (apart from the short haired girl) would enjoy caving as a hobby.