Pulse (2006)

[TheBoss062]

It’s pretty jarring that the site review neglected to cover the audio commentaries that were included on this disc. So imagine my surprise when I popped it into my player and I saw the extra special features that weren’t mentioned on the review.

[MazeRunner]

Happy 15th anniversary to the Pulse remake!

Pulse (2006) Official Trailer #1 - Kristen Bell Movie HD - YouTube

15 years ago, the forgettable remake starring Veronica Mars was released in theatres and made $8M opening weekend and $20M overall.

The blue-tinted film relied heavily on outdated tech such as flip phones and wired internet, and became severely outdated a few years later once smart phones became the norm. The film is probably laughable now (I haven't seen it since the theatres) but the trailer gives us iconic lines such as "I wasn't even hooked up to the internet last night, the cable was unplugged."

[TheBoss062]

Originally Posted by MazeRunner

Happy 15th anniversary to the Pulse remake!

Pulse (2006) Official Trailer #1 - Kristen Bell Movie HD - YouTube

15 years ago, the forgettable remake starring Veronica Mars was released in theatres and made $8M opening weekend and $20M overall.

The blue-tinted film relied heavily on outdated tech such as flip phones and wired internet, and became severely outdated a few years later once smart phones became the norm. The film is probably laughable now (I haven't seen it since the theatres) but the trailer gives us iconic lines such as "I wasn't even hooked up to the internet last night, the cable was unplugged."

Sadly, the remake is not bad enough to be good.

[snipemonkey]

The Kiyoshi Kurosawa is relentlessly creepy and "wrong" and has what might be the single most nightmarish sequence in any film I have ever seen.

The remake has... nothing. Literally a pile of hot, steaming zilch.

[TheBoss062]

Originally Posted by snipemonkey

The Kiyoshi Kurosawa is relentlessly creepy and "wrong" and has what might be the single most nightmarish sequence in any film I have ever seen.

The remake has... nothing. Literally a pile of hot, steaming zilch.

And the tower jump suicide wasn’t even in the theatrical cut.

[snipemonkey]

Originally Posted by TheBoss062

And the tower jump suicide wasn’t even in the theatrical cut.

I was referring to the basement "slo-mo" scene, which so perfectly captures the relentless, uncanny feeling of a real nightmare that every time I watch it I just want to get the f*ck AWAY. Utterly unnerving.

But, yeah, that suicide is pretty shocking, too, especially when it doesn't cut away like you expect. I'm sure there's a simple technical explanation of how they did it in a single uncut take, but, man it looks REAL. One of the purest "Holy Sh*t" moments I've had at the movies in a long, long time.

Just an exceedingly brilliant film.

[trustno1]

Originally Posted by snipemonkey

I was referring to the basement "slo-mo" scene, which so perfectly captures the relentless, uncanny feeling of a real nightmare that every time I watch it I just want to get the f*ck AWAY. Utterly unnerving.

But, yeah, that suicide is pretty shocking, too, especially when it doesn't cut away like you expect. I'm sure there's a simple technical explanation of how they did it in a single uncut take, but, man it looks REAL. One of the purest "Holy Sh*t" moments I've had at the movies in a long, long time.

Just an exceedingly brilliant film.

The extras on the Arrow blu go into great detail about how it was made to look like one uncut shot.

[Verisimilitude1984]

By complete coincidence, I've just seen this thread having bought the DVD. I haven't seen the remake in years.

[snipemonkey]

Originally Posted by trustno1

The extras on the Arrow blu go into great detail about how it was made to look like one uncut shot.

That explains it. I rarely watch extras. Plus, I'm not sure I want to know in this case.

[TheBoss062]

Originally Posted by snipemonkey

I was referring to the basement "slo-mo" scene, which so perfectly captures the relentless, uncanny feeling of a real nightmare that every time I watch it I just want to get the f*ck AWAY. Utterly unnerving.

But, yeah, that suicide is pretty shocking, too, especially when it doesn't cut away like you expect. I'm sure there's a simple technical explanation of how they did it in a single uncut take, but, man it looks REAL. One of the purest "Holy Sh*t" moments I've had at the movies in a long, long time.

Just an exceedingly brilliant film.

That’s why I said “and”, to continue off of your point.

But yeah I agree, it’s a film that makes you physically uncomfortable to watch.

[Vixen of the Night]

Originally Posted by TheBoss062

Sadly, the remake is not bad enough to be good.

While I suspect the original director's cut won't be great. It might be interesting to see, since it sounds like the movie was a victim of the Weinstein's having there hands on it, demanding changes and trying to make it a "hit" only for it to be a failure.

The excessive tinted color to the movie doesn't help either. Viewing the unfiltered deleted/extended scenes it's amazing to see how it looked normal before going over the top with the filter.

If early test screenings of the director's cut exist. I'd love to see it and give it a fair chance.

[TheBoss062]

Originally Posted by Vixen of the Night

While I suspect the original director's cut won't be great. It might be interesting to see, since it sounds like the movie was a victim of the Weinstein's having there hands on it, demanding changes and trying to make it a "hit" only for it to be a failure.

The excessive tinted color to the movie doesn't help either. Viewing the unfiltered deleted/extended scenes it's amazing to see how it looked normal before going over the top with the filter.

If early test screenings of the director's cut exist. I'd love to see it and give it a fair chance.

The unrated cut on Blu-ray only restores 2 minutes of footage and it doesn’t fix it one bit, it’s still bad. It did restore the tower jump suicide though.

[KManX89]

Little fun story: way back when, when Blockbusters were still around and I wasn't super researchy on movie news like I am today, I was browsing the horror section of my local Blockbuster and saw the cover for The Human Centipede. I thought it sounded like a cool concept for a horror film and seriously thought about renting it completely unaware of its controversial "concept".

By pure luck, I decided not to rent it and rented this instead. I had a free rental with my Blockbuster Rewards program and was like "what the hell"? My poor friend's reaction after sitting through it: "they should've paid ME to watch that shit".

Basically, instead of being violently ill, we were both bored to tears, not sure that's better than the alternative. Of course, those were different times and today, I refuse to watch A Serbian Film under ANY circumstances. You couldn't pay me to watch that filth.

[Vixen of the Night]

Originally Posted by TheBoss062

The unrated cut on Blu-ray only restores 2 minutes of footage and it doesn’t fix it one bit, it’s still bad. It did restore the tower jump suicide though.

Of course it doesn't fix it, since it only restores footage cut to get an PG-13 instead of an R(the suicide scene is great though). But the movie itself still features the meddling of the Weinsteins, over-use of jump scares and CGI ghosts, "happier" more on the nose ending. I think it suffered re-shoots and re-writes as well, which is another typical Weinstein interference.

The director only made this one movie. So maybe his original version sucked as well, and the reshoots/re-edits didn't save it either. Still. There is a fascinating story behind it's production history at the very least and how the final project came to be.

[KManX89]

Originally Posted by Vixen of the Night

Of course it doesn't fix it, since it only restores footage cut to get an PG-13 instead of an R(the suicide scene is great though). But the movie itself still features the meddling of the Weinsteins, over-use of jump scares and CGI ghosts, "happier" more on the nose ending. I think it suffered re-shoots and re-writes as well, which is another typical Weinstein interference.

The director only made this one movie. So maybe his original version sucked as well, and the reshoots/re-edits didn't save it either. Still. There is a fascinating story behind it's production history at the very least and how the final project came to be.

The same thing happened with Cursed. Wes Craven's original cut was an almost completely different film. The initial cut that was reshot and butchered to hell by the Weinsteins only retained something like 13 minutes of the sabotaged version.

I'm hoping we'll one day get to see his original cut (#ReleaseTheCravenCut), but there's virtually no chance of that happening unfortunately since the original ending was never filmed and they wouldn't dare spend the money to finish it.

Ironically enough, Wes Craven was also supposed to direct that movie while he was making this one. Alas, the Weinsteins ended up butchering both movies and Craven gets a "story" credit that means about as much as Aaron Seltzer/Jason Friedberg's "credit" on Scary Movie (having to remind people who say "they at least made one decent spoof movie together" is a real pet peeve of mine ).

[TheBoss062]

Originally Posted by KManX89

Little fun story: way back when, when Blockbusters were still around and I wasn't super researchy on movie news like I am today, I was browsing the horror section of my local Blockbuster and saw the cover for The Human Centipede. I thought it sounded like a cool concept for a horror film and seriously thought about renting it completely unaware of its controversial "concept".

By pure luck, I decided not to rent it and rented this instead. I had a free rental with my Blockbuster Rewards program and was like "what the hell"? My poor friend's reaction after sitting through it: "they should've paid ME to watch that shit".

Basically, instead of being violently ill, we were both bored to tears, not sure that's better than the alternative. Of course, those were different times and today, I refuse to watch A Serbian Film under ANY circumstances. You couldn't pay me to watch that filth.

Same. A Serbian Film is just edgy bs that’s only known for the shock value and nothing else. I’d rather rewatch this garbage than subject myself to that experience.

Originally Posted by Vixen of the Night

Of course it doesn't fix it, since it only restores footage cut to get an PG-13 instead of an R(the suicide scene is great though). But the movie itself still features the meddling of the Weinsteins, over-use of jump scares and CGI ghosts, "happier" more on the nose ending. I think it suffered re-shoots and re-writes as well, which is another typical Weinstein interference.

The director only made this one movie. So maybe his original version sucked as well, and the reshoots/re-edits didn't save it either. Still. There is a fascinating story behind it's production history at the very least and how the final project came to be.

How much better could the original version have been? One thing that was always consistently terrible was the acting. Kristen Bell was supposed to be crying in one scene about her dead friend and not only was the emotion laughable but she cried no tears even though she “wipes” them away.

Of course, this movie’s failure killed Jim Sonzero’s career.

Originally Posted by KManX89

The same thing happened with Cursed. Wes Craven's original cut was an almost completely different film. The initial cut that was reshot and butchered to hell by the Weinsteins only retained something like 13 minutes of the sabotaged version.

I'm hoping we'll one day get to see his original cut (#ReleaseTheCravenCut), but there's virtually no chance of that happening unfortunately since the original ending was never filmed and they wouldn't dare spend the money to finish it.

Ironically enough, Wes Craven was also supposed to direct that movie while he was making this one. Alas, the Weinsteins ended up butchering both movies and Craven gets a "story" credit that means about as much as Aaron Seltzer/Jason Friedberg's "credit" on Scary Movie (having to remind people who say "they at least made one decent spoof movie together" is a real pet peeve of mine ).

You know what disappointed me more than anything? That we didn’t get the cut footage as deleted scenes on the Shout Factory Blu-ray at the very least.

[Resident Evil Labs]

This is a mediocre remake, I used to hate it, but now it's not so bad. The OG is a masterpiece, but this one has grown on me. It's missing the hopeless dread the OG had

[Resident Evil Labs]

Originally Posted by snipemonkey

The Kiyoshi Kurosawa is relentlessly creepy and "wrong" and has what might be the single most nightmarish sequence in any film I have ever seen.

The remake has... nothing. Literally a pile of hot, steaming zilch.

Are you referring to the scene were the guy trips in the red tape room and the ghost eerily walks towards him? That's scene is probably the scariest scene I've ever seen.

[Resident Evil Labs]

I was going to say, having a tinted filter isn't always a bad thing. The Ring remake has one, Underworld, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 03, Minority Report and others. I think it really depends on the film

[snipemonkey]

Originally Posted by Resident Evil Labs

Are you referring to the scene were the guy trips in the red tape room and the ghost eerily walks towards him? That's scene is probably the scariest scene I've ever seen.

That's the one.