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Old 09-15-10, 10:35 AM
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Is there an English translation for that?
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by achau9598
Is there an English translation for that?
Yeah....it made no sense. Someone translate that in proper American, curse words are applicable in there too.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

i actually think this one looks pretty good!!!!!
comes out this friday ?
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
Yeah....it made no sense. Someone translate that in proper American, curse words are applicable in there too.
Spoiler:
So there's this fucking van that crashes and some shit goes down. Then somewhere else, some fucking elevator has this old **** that turns out to be the fuckin' devil. TWIST FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN!!!!


Does that work?
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by magicfoot
i actually think this one looks pretty good!!!!!
comes out this friday ?
Yes it does. I'm from Toronto so unfortunately I have to travel outside of the city on opening night due to the film festival being in town... damn!
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by sauce07
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So there's this fucking van that crashes and some shit goes down. Then somewhere else, some fucking elevator has this old **** that turns out to be the fuckin' devil. TWIST FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN!!!!


Does that work?
I still don't get it.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

I read it about 10 times over and didn't get it either.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

My attempt at deciphering the ending

Spoiler:
*groan*
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by Lemmy
It's a fucking M. film....you people didn't really expect it to be good and make sense....did you?!?
A recent M. Night film, maybe no. A basic summary of the plot? Yes.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by sauce07
This seems to be what was removed according to the edit history on the wiki page

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When a woman jump out of a window building to commit suicide, she landed on top of a truck van. The truck van rolled over, somehow bumped into an outpost and cornered into an alley. Detective Bowden, seeing that the water runs towards the scene, he soon realizes that the truck van wasn't originally from there and had just rolled over. He and his partner walks to find out the exact location of the crime scene.

Sarah, Vince, Tony, Ben and an Old Woman are all trapped in an elevator. And the the Old woman is the Devil in human form. Tony was the person driving the car that hit and killed Detective Bowden wife and son. He repent of his sin and that made him survive the Devil.


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If true, that is lame.
Spoiler:
I like the idea of the elevator taking them to hell or heaven better than that. That just seems like a morality lesson.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

M. Night presents...

Spoiler:
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

"somebody turn the light on!!!!"
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by Tom Creo
"somebody turn the light on!!!!"

That line is so cheesy and the delivery cringeworthy.
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hahahaha it's amazing!! I wouldn't expect anything less.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by Seantn
In other words...
Spoiler:
it's just like most people had guessed. The old woman is the devil. Not shocking, considering that she is literally the ONLY person who doesn't say a peep in the trailer. Everyone else is talking up a storm.
Spoiler:
And old people are farkin' scary and nerveracking and gross! If I end up in hell, I'm probably going to spend an eternity, eating with old people. Chomp chomp, slurp slurp, nom nom. Sir, you have something sort of barely hanging inside your mouth there. Oooo, no, awe, now it's drizzling down your chin. Gross.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by Tom Creo
"somebody turn the light on!!!!"
Actually, it's "Somebody, turn on the light!!!", but yeah, the more I hear that line in radio spots, the more it's getting on my nerves.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

This movie must really blow, the night before and not a single early review, not even from the easy no-name reviewers the studios typically release their movies to when they want to beef things up.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
If true, that is lame.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

The film was screened for critics. I should know as I was up at midnight watching the movie for free (however, despite all being on the guest list, no Vegas critic actually showed up).

I went to bed the moment I got home so I didn't have time to post, but the Wiki leak on the ending was right. What I will admit is this is the first M. Night-involved film I have liked of his since Unbreakable. I'd rank it as one of the better PG-13 horror films to come out in the past ten years (which I get is also like saying it's the smartest kid with down's syndrome).

If you're going to see it, see it with a crowd. The audience last night/early this morning really got into it. I think that helped me appreciate it more than it possibly deserves, but it was a fun little horror movie.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel
The film was screened for critics. I should know as I was up at midnight watching the movie for free (however, despite all being on the guest list, no Vegas critic actually showed up).

I went to bed the moment I got home so I didn't have time to post, but the Wiki leak on the ending was right. What I will admit is this is the first M. Night-involved film I have liked of his since Unbreakable. I'd rank it as one of the better PG-13 horror films to come out in the past ten years (which I get is also like saying it's the smartest kid with down's syndrome).

If you're going to see it, see it with a crowd. The audience last night/early this morning really got into it. I think that helped me appreciate it more than it possibly deserves, but it was a fun little horror movie.
Can you spoilerize the general plot/twist/ending in better english then the Wiki?
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

If it was screened for critics they purposely did it too late to make the Fri newspapers. There are only 4 reviews right now on Rottentomates which is pretty sad for release day.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

Just got back from the movie and I enjoyed it. Just now reading the spoilered posts and I'm laughing at the 'wiki' spolier because...

Spoiler:
While it gets the facts kinda right, they are layed out nonsensically with some big pieces missing.
Real movie spoiler:

Spoiler:
All the people on the elevator are brought together by the devil (yes it's really the devil) for a reason (i.e. they are all bad people). Even the witnessess (the cop, building security) are there for a reason. Of course you learn this all slowly throughout the movie. They are killed off one by one except for the one who has a link to the cop, redemption ensues, yadda yadda yadda. There is no twist!
Again, I liked it. Didn't drag. Things were revealed at a good pace, suspense built up well, etc.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

That sounds really lame. What a surprise.
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Re: Devil (Dowdle Bros., 2010) - A New Nightmare from the Mind of M. Night

In addition to Strafe's spoilers:

Spoiler:
The character of the cop watching the events "unfold" is a human "representation" of God for forgiving the guy who killed his wife and child in a hit-and-run accident. For the Devil to exist, so must God.


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