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Sun 18/11/01 at 12:34
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Seeing as Jeepers Creepers isn't a DVD yet, I'll have to put my review of it here, hope that's ok :)

I can't believe I wasted £5.70 on this monstrosity! Jeepers Creepers immediately put me off watching it by the name alone - I mean c'mon? But don't judge a book by it's cover and all that, I went to see it with a few mates, and thankfully they all agreed that it was the worst film they've ever seen.

Anyway, it starts off promisingly, aside from the half empty cinema (not a great sign), with some intriguing goings on in, a brother and sister driving back on a long road from Uni or something, squabbling but trying to find the way back to their home...

Approached by a large rusty train like truck, with a rather suspicious looking number plate "BEATNGU" decides to try and plough them off the road, they manage to let it past, and the story continued.

Now if this review seems bitty, and it should do, it's because the film's storyline seemed to have torn apart from the beginning to the end - the siblings notice a small church on the side of the road, down a small lane and that rusty war like train lorry is outside it, the driver gets out and dumps a couple of body shaped rope tied cloth wrapped things down a pipe...Very nice...

Ok, after the BEATNG U truck leaves they stupidly go and investigate, the brother of course uses a guilt trip on his sister "what if it was you down there", well they go and look with the brother peering down there, and his sister (I forget the names, but they weren't important), holding his feet so he could get a closer look - at this stage the film looks very promising - they might both fall down and some kind of scary movie may have taken place, but no. The brother slips down after a gang of rats makes the whole cinema jump out of their skin (and make his sister drop him) and the story could go anywhere from here...

He sees the wrapped up bodies, well he hears them too, and helps one of them to half unwrap - a half dead character starts gasping to him, but we can't tell what he said - maybe it was help, I can't remember - any who, he dies there and then and the brother (is it Kay or Jay? Hmmm), looks around to see all these maimed bodies - with stitched on heads, very plastic looking and not that authentic (they do look like display models...) all over the walls of this underground passage way - loads of them all over the place, kind of yuck, but ok...

Making his way to this flock of crow infested but otherwise deserted church, the brother meets up with his sister and do what they should have done when they saw those bodies get thrown down the pipe thing - get the hell out of there!

Anyway this person/driver of the weird BEATNG U truck, who we later find out only comes out to eat every 23 years, for 23 days (yeah, great eh), then has a personal vendetta with the brother (or sister...) and won' really let him go, as you'd find out if you were as misinformed about the film as I was and end up going to see it...

Ok, they manage to get to a cafe/service station and tell their story to the police, and ergh, the story stays the right side of scary for the moment until a phone rings in the cafe, asking for whatever the brother is called. What she tells him suggests she's a psychic, whom we do find out, and most importantly she tells him to get away as fast as he can when he hears the really old song "Jeepers Creepers".

Oh dear oh dear.

Another scene, this time at deranged cat loving woman's house sees her get killed by this mysterious character after she shoots him for standing in her garden - naturally he ends up crashing through her roof and holding her up by her neck.... lovely stuff, she dies, they escape but he starts to chase them. Oh and for that little bit of extra tension, their car conveniently has gear changing problems...Ok, they're totally freaked out by now, I'm half way through my 1 litre bucket of mint choc chip ice cream and a group of girls in the corner of the cinema still won't shut up.

What happens next? You're in a car with your brother or sister, have no idea where to go, you've seen enough dead people for one day and an indestructible huge bloke with a healthy truck's after you...what do you do?

Run him over of course! That'll solve everything right? Well, they run him over several times just to make sure, and then drive off to a police station.

I think it's around this stage the film just becomes completely laughable - the bloke who's obviously got some kind of problem, or is just into speeding up people's lives, suddenly sprouts a wing. How fantastic! A wing. While some people might be thinking "what the hell is this creature, oooh what a scary film" the rest of us, if not all were feeling pretty gutted we forked out at least a fiver on this pile of trash - oh and what was the director thinking? Ok, so he flies away and now he's after them - some police get killed and we're now watching a state police station not know what to do, and we meet up with Mrs Psychic woman...

The story is completely mashed up from hear on - flying thing goes around eating everyone's organs and the brother and sister get told that it wants one of them - to eat or something...

After much unconvincing struggle, and confused plot the story does attempt to conclude - finally. The flying BEATNG U beast thing flies off with the brother out of a window in the police station, with the sister running off to chase them, not a good plan.


End scene - we see a kind of work shop, the Jeepers Creepers music probably starts up again, who really knows, and we see the brother, now not living sadly, oh and he has no eyes - is this because the flying beast thing knew what he had seen and didn't want him to tell anyone? Anyway - it ends with a shot of his eyeless face, with the beast thing behind it, with his eye peering through.

What
A
Load
Of
Rubbish!

The end. I therefore conclude that this film is one of the stupidest I have ever seen, how it can be advertised as the scariest movie in America is beyond me, and I do not recommend this to anyone - it just goes beyond a joke. If the flying thing wasn't able to fly, oh and if there was actually a storyline then maybe, just maybe this film would have been good.

Ironically the acting isn't too bad, and the crows do give an excellent performance, but as a production, Jeepers Creepers sucks big time.

Thanks for reading, hope you aren't too disappointed,

Until next time,

Dan
Mon 19/11/01 at 22:47
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"Rong Xion Tong"
Posts: 5,237
Goodnight Sir! :-D
Mon 19/11/01 at 18:05
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Stryke wrote:


Well, it is MY forum, after all. Now get out. ;-)
And he
> DID post it before. He obviously didn't win FAD the first time so is going for
> again. Heh. :-D


FAD?

Stryke. He obviously didn't get any response when he posted before, and so he posted again. If it wins GAD so be it, but I can almost guarantee it won't. If you don't have anything to say about the topic then please, as people often tell me, say nothing at all.

Good night :-)
Mon 19/11/01 at 07:59
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Posts: 16,548
The_Vottanator wrote:
> Grrrrr...Gaz, Stop trying to enforce the laws of the forums using your own
> methods.

You're like a goddamm vigilante!

:-D


Well, it is MY forum, after all. Now get out. ;-)
And he DID post it before. He obviously didn't win FAD the first time so is going for again. Heh. :-D
Sun 18/11/01 at 18:18
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Posts: 5,237
Grrrrr...Gaz, Stop trying to enforce the laws of the forums using your own methods.

You're like a goddamm vigilante!

:-D
Sun 18/11/01 at 17:47
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Did you not post this before?
Sun 18/11/01 at 16:32
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Well I can't really say whether I agree or not since I never saw it and still don't want to (although now that I know the ending there's even less reason for me to watch it :-D).

However, I have this to say. It really has no relevance but I'm gonna say it anyway.


A.I was brilliant and everybody hated it. Once you had to time to reflect on that, you (or I anyway) realised what a godd film it was. You also had to time to realise how much you hated the ending and KNEW that it should have ended when David found the Blue Fairy underwater.

THE GODDAMM FINAL 25 MINUTES SHOULD HAVE BEEN CUT!!! CUT I TELL YOU!! CUUUUUUUUUTTTTT!!!!
Sun 18/11/01 at 16:15
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I completely disagree.

I thought it was quite a good film myself, particularly because you don't know what to expect, and things are constantly taken 'one step up' to keep you guessing.

The start, with the truck, is undeniably good. That is unarguably the scariest truck you could ever wish to see, complete with a horn that screams of insanity.

And here, all you think you have to worry about is a weird guy in a truck. BEATINGU on the registration.

Then you see the guy dropping bodies down a pipe. Which the kids later investigate, and despite the fact you know the kids are stupid. you can't help feeling that the atmosphere here is really good. Corpses lining the walls. Class.

I think the virtually dead body says 'hide'.

And now you think you have to worry about a murderer.

They get away, and then it's a bit slow for a while, until the police arrive. Suddenly, this psychopath guy is on the police car roof. Without much effort, he kill the cops, and eats the male cop's tongue.

Suddenly, we're dealing with a cannabilistic psychopath with super powers. Sketchy. A little unnerving, and quite entertaining.

One bit I thought was quite class, was when they meet with the psychic woman:

"Did you see the registration?"
"BEATNG U?"
"No! Think!"

And then the conversation goes elsewhere.

Only later do you realise what she meant (or you might not have, this one's for the more observant)
"B EATNG U"
Be eating you. Class! I love little details like that.

Then of course, you have your monster chase scene. Not much to say about that, but it's well enough done.

And of course, we have the ending. Yes it is an ending, and just because it's not a happy ending, doesn't mean it's a crap ending.

The guy loses his eyes. You see his dead body. All you're left to relect on, is the fact that he died screaming in the dark, with that song playing as the last thing he ever heard.

It's not an action packed ending, they don't even come close to stopping the creature. Evil wins, and everyone was powerless to stop it.

You're left to reflect on this, and I personally like the way it's done.
Sun 18/11/01 at 13:14
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Posts: 5,237
£5.70!?!?!?!

I hope they have huge armchairs in your cinema otherwise you are getting REALLY ripped off.


Anyway, I didn't go see the film because I was smart. :-D

I advised my friend not to but he insisted so he went. He thought it started off very well until a green monster appeared and started to eat parts of people before sewing them up and storing them in a church basement.

He described the monster as a GIANT GREEN BAT!!!

Lol
Sun 18/11/01 at 12:34
Posts: 0
Seeing as Jeepers Creepers isn't a DVD yet, I'll have to put my review of it here, hope that's ok :)

I can't believe I wasted £5.70 on this monstrosity! Jeepers Creepers immediately put me off watching it by the name alone - I mean c'mon? But don't judge a book by it's cover and all that, I went to see it with a few mates, and thankfully they all agreed that it was the worst film they've ever seen.

Anyway, it starts off promisingly, aside from the half empty cinema (not a great sign), with some intriguing goings on in, a brother and sister driving back on a long road from Uni or something, squabbling but trying to find the way back to their home...

Approached by a large rusty train like truck, with a rather suspicious looking number plate "BEATNGU" decides to try and plough them off the road, they manage to let it past, and the story continued.

Now if this review seems bitty, and it should do, it's because the film's storyline seemed to have torn apart from the beginning to the end - the siblings notice a small church on the side of the road, down a small lane and that rusty war like train lorry is outside it, the driver gets out and dumps a couple of body shaped rope tied cloth wrapped things down a pipe...Very nice...

Ok, after the BEATNG U truck leaves they stupidly go and investigate, the brother of course uses a guilt trip on his sister "what if it was you down there", well they go and look with the brother peering down there, and his sister (I forget the names, but they weren't important), holding his feet so he could get a closer look - at this stage the film looks very promising - they might both fall down and some kind of scary movie may have taken place, but no. The brother slips down after a gang of rats makes the whole cinema jump out of their skin (and make his sister drop him) and the story could go anywhere from here...

He sees the wrapped up bodies, well he hears them too, and helps one of them to half unwrap - a half dead character starts gasping to him, but we can't tell what he said - maybe it was help, I can't remember - any who, he dies there and then and the brother (is it Kay or Jay? Hmmm), looks around to see all these maimed bodies - with stitched on heads, very plastic looking and not that authentic (they do look like display models...) all over the walls of this underground passage way - loads of them all over the place, kind of yuck, but ok...

Making his way to this flock of crow infested but otherwise deserted church, the brother meets up with his sister and do what they should have done when they saw those bodies get thrown down the pipe thing - get the hell out of there!

Anyway this person/driver of the weird BEATNG U truck, who we later find out only comes out to eat every 23 years, for 23 days (yeah, great eh), then has a personal vendetta with the brother (or sister...) and won' really let him go, as you'd find out if you were as misinformed about the film as I was and end up going to see it...

Ok, they manage to get to a cafe/service station and tell their story to the police, and ergh, the story stays the right side of scary for the moment until a phone rings in the cafe, asking for whatever the brother is called. What she tells him suggests she's a psychic, whom we do find out, and most importantly she tells him to get away as fast as he can when he hears the really old song "Jeepers Creepers".

Oh dear oh dear.

Another scene, this time at deranged cat loving woman's house sees her get killed by this mysterious character after she shoots him for standing in her garden - naturally he ends up crashing through her roof and holding her up by her neck.... lovely stuff, she dies, they escape but he starts to chase them. Oh and for that little bit of extra tension, their car conveniently has gear changing problems...Ok, they're totally freaked out by now, I'm half way through my 1 litre bucket of mint choc chip ice cream and a group of girls in the corner of the cinema still won't shut up.

What happens next? You're in a car with your brother or sister, have no idea where to go, you've seen enough dead people for one day and an indestructible huge bloke with a healthy truck's after you...what do you do?

Run him over of course! That'll solve everything right? Well, they run him over several times just to make sure, and then drive off to a police station.

I think it's around this stage the film just becomes completely laughable - the bloke who's obviously got some kind of problem, or is just into speeding up people's lives, suddenly sprouts a wing. How fantastic! A wing. While some people might be thinking "what the hell is this creature, oooh what a scary film" the rest of us, if not all were feeling pretty gutted we forked out at least a fiver on this pile of trash - oh and what was the director thinking? Ok, so he flies away and now he's after them - some police get killed and we're now watching a state police station not know what to do, and we meet up with Mrs Psychic woman...

The story is completely mashed up from hear on - flying thing goes around eating everyone's organs and the brother and sister get told that it wants one of them - to eat or something...

After much unconvincing struggle, and confused plot the story does attempt to conclude - finally. The flying BEATNG U beast thing flies off with the brother out of a window in the police station, with the sister running off to chase them, not a good plan.


End scene - we see a kind of work shop, the Jeepers Creepers music probably starts up again, who really knows, and we see the brother, now not living sadly, oh and he has no eyes - is this because the flying beast thing knew what he had seen and didn't want him to tell anyone? Anyway - it ends with a shot of his eyeless face, with the beast thing behind it, with his eye peering through.

What
A
Load
Of
Rubbish!

The end. I therefore conclude that this film is one of the stupidest I have ever seen, how it can be advertised as the scariest movie in America is beyond me, and I do not recommend this to anyone - it just goes beyond a joke. If the flying thing wasn't able to fly, oh and if there was actually a storyline then maybe, just maybe this film would have been good.

Ironically the acting isn't too bad, and the crows do give an excellent performance, but as a production, Jeepers Creepers sucks big time.

Thanks for reading, hope you aren't too disappointed,

Until next time,

Dan

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