I've spent the last couple of years building my a dalek, but such is life...
I've spent the last couple of years building my a dalek, but such is life...
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The Sixth Sense is an exceptional film, I think its truly great and will remain something I regard highly for quite sometime. It was recommended to me by fellow workers, and although I was told a lot about it, (just enough, in fact, to ruin the film) I still found it brilliant.
The Sixth Sense concerns a child psychologist, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (played by Bruce Willis), who at the beginning of the film, has his house broken into by a man who he treated as a child, and failed to help. The man hates Malcolm for his failure and so shoots him, and then himself. The next autumn, Malcolm meets up with a child, Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who has a similar problem as the man before, if Malcolm can help Cole then it might make up for his previous failure. Cole however, has a special power, and something that is hard to believe, he can see the dead, everywhere, all the time, and what’s more they talk to him.
Its a rather sad film, until you reach the end, with two or three ongoing threads. The first with Malcolm and his wife who were happy and very much in love, until the day he was shot, and has since been racked with guilt. They barely speak or see each other, and Malcolm watches in despair as his wife spirals downwards into depression. The second is with Malcolm and Cole, Malcolm needs Cole to trust him so he can help both himself and Cole, but with a condition such as Cole’s its not easy, the third is with Cole and his mother, who is doing the best to cope with a problem child and Cole doing the best to survive, despite the problems his ‘gift’ causes.
There are some brilliant pieces in this film, a similar aged child who appears in Cole’s house and says ‘Come here, you wanna see my dad’s gun’ he turns around, and you see the back of his head is covered in blood, very chilling, there’s a couple of scary/shock moments. A piece that seems more like a tale of the unexpected (in fact its a story in itself) and a couple of quite disturbing bits, altogether making a great film.
As for the region 2 extra’s, all the usual, chapter search, subtitles (the stuff you don’t count as extra’s) etc., and
Storyboard To Film Comparison The Cast Music and sound Design Reaching The audience Rules and Clues Deleted Scenes A Conversation With M. Night Shyamalan Publicity Filmaker/Cast Biographies
So plenty of stuff, and its all interesting, and tells you things you may not have known or noticed and why they did such and such etc. The deleted scenes are very good and there’s a few of them, parts cut out for various reasons, and only add to the quality of the film, I don’t think you can watch a branching version of the film, and that would be my only criticism.
The acting is good and the script its very believable and honest, it never goes over the top and seems very ordinary. Other info you might want to know is, its rated for age 15 and over, it was made in 1999, its in a widescreen format (1.85:1), and is 103 minutes long. This is quite a nice DVD, even the inlay card has info about the Production, the Cast and Chapter Selections.
This really is a good film, soaked in tragedy and pain, with moments of horror it builds to a perfectly great finish and mind blowing ending. I would appreciate no sequal, because I don’t think it needs one, a little sad, but all’s happily resolved in the end. I enjoyed it.
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: John Duigan - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Penelope Cruz
Hi, I saw it twice and wouldn´t say no to another watching it! Great film! Have a nice day, Irve
arcadionseyes 16.08.2001 23:08
One I really want to see but haven't. However, some film magazine managed to completely ruin the ending by giving it away(how else would they do it?). Another brill opinion, but please, I noticed in this and your Aliens dvd op that you spelt sequal instead of sequel...sorry, just trying to be helpful to you as you are to other people(with your fab ops)...cheers!
one47 10.08.2001 22:28
Another excellent film. I watched this on my laptop in a hotel-room - Cheaper than Hotel movies!
Steve
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"I see dead people," whispers little Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), scared to affirm what ... more
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