Comments on: A Rant On ‘The Descent: Part 2′ (Plus First Images)

By: Will

Will — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:40:21 +0000

Oh and when is it coming out on dvd in the UK?

By: will

will — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:39:00 +0000

ok well i’m actually really excited about the second one. And you guys are all saying that the main girl died. SHE DIDN’T!!!! You don’t even see her die and she could of still escaped through that tunnle thing. As for Juno you don’t see her die either she could of killed all the nasties and started roming around the cave looking for a way out. (spoiler alert) and by the way in the new one Juno’s the villen. SHOCKER!!!!! Then again i would be pretty anoid if my bestie stabbed me through the leg. Oh and Juno gets killed. Oh going back to the first film was i the only one who felt sorry for Juno at the end? And i got upset when the docter girl died in the first one cos she was so small and pretty and she wasn’t a fighter. But the stupid nastie killed her while she was hanging upside down on a rope danggerling down fom the cieling .

P.S: sorry for any spelling mistakes i’m not a very good speller.

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By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:45:15 +0000

@Rick

Many, many sequels DO suck and are made specifically just to cash in on the popularity of what came before. Of course there are exceptions – my all time favorite movie (Aliens) is a sequel.

There’s no need to be rude about it.

Vic

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:57:36 +0000

I have to admit that it really bothers me when people have a problem with sequels,remakes or reboots.
Never will anyone put a gun to your head and force you to see it, read about it, buy it or think about it. You can end the story with the the one you like it and that’s it.
Some people (like me), can watch the sequel with an open mind and if I am disappointed, I can actually forget they exist and just like the original (like I did with Alien 3 and 4). But….what if they do make a better one? Like Aliens, 28 weeks later,The Dark Knight, etc. Do you want to be the idiot who complained that they made it and it turns out to be fantastic? Who will listen to you anymore? If it turns out to be worse or even bad…who cares? Ignore it and enjoy the original as you always did.
And to those who wonder why they make sequels, please, you can’t be that dumb. Movies are a business. Their only purpose is to make money…entertaining is a nice bonus. Movies made for art or to make a point have ruined careers and bankrupted families. A sequel that may only break even still employed hundreds of people for a year or more not to mention future residuals over time.
I can’t wait for the Descent 2 and I will pay to see it in the theatre…with mind wide open.

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By: Kiriyama

Kiriyama — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:57:43 +0000

Still not sure what to make of the sequel, although I’ll no doubt end up seeing it.

But whoa (that’s English for stop a horse) on the “inexperienced” writer comment. Eden Lake was the most effective thriller of 2008, and despite its tabloid-baiting content, it contained some of the most horrific and memorable scenes of recent years.

By: steven the git

steven the git — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:20:26 +0000

I had no idea the US version ended early. Why do that? Who thought Americans couldn’t take a grim ending?
That ##### me off as the dream ending followed by the true one really twists up your emotions.

I have heard about other ideas for the movie. What the crawlers were, did they even exist, etc. That’s the great thing about the movie – it doesn’t explain.
I love the Descent because it isn’t about the monsters, but the main characters. I mean the crawlers do nothing as vicious as those girls do to them!

But totally agree about this sequel. She knows there are no survivors, she saw most of them dead or dying, and who could survive long down there anyway? Very feeble. Nothing would get me down there again.
Also agree about the crawlers. Reminds me of seeing Samara when they redid the Ring. Apparently they think seeing something a bit weird is scarier than not seeing much at all.

If no one has it, get the special edition dvd of the descent. Really good commentary and you get to see the crawlers dancing!

By: JMoney

JMoney — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:53:04 +0000

johnnymontana

if that’s true maybe the sequel will be good. maybe it wil explore the fact that she is the one that killed her friends. she and the cops get to the caves and discover she is the murderer. that might be decent

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:47:55 +0000

I loved The Descent, and I will not be seeing this. I’m sorry, but this is just the studio trying to squeeze more cash out of it. I can’t stand that.

By: JohnnyMontana

JohnnyMontana — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:40:47 +0000

Ok, I absolutely loved this film too. Have you heard of the theory that the Crawlers didn’t even actually exist? That Sarah actually went crazy and killed everyone. There is a scene, if I remember correctly, when they get up the next morning, before they venture into the caves, where she forgets her pills on the nightstand. Marshall made a point to do a close up on the bottle, thereby possibly alluding to something. Anyway, and the original ending, absolutely brilliant. Sarah, lost in the caves, staring at her dead daughter, with birthday cake candles lighting up her face. Then we zoom out to find that it is the torch actually providing the light and all we hear are the screams of the Crawlers (or the screams of insanity inside her head). It sucks that they are making a sequel, b/c it is just a money play, there is no creativity/artistic integrity in the idea of a sequel for this brilliant work. Although I probably will see it, and in that admission, the filmmakers have succeeded in their dastardly plot to squeeze more money out of The Descent, and the fans of the original film. Curses!

By: Mike Basil

Mike Basil — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:29:00 +0000

It has been commented that Aliens led to the ‘sequel curse’. I now agree. I had hoped that The Descent, a superb sci-fi horror thriller, wouldn’t fall into this trap. But the film industry’s addiction to sequels is still showing no signs of diminishing.

I’m not saying that I’m totally against sequels. But they are becoming a burden for most films in this decade. Descent: Part 2 is an unnecessary sequel and I’m disappointed that it wasn’t realized by whoever gave it the green light.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:57:49 +0000

@JMoney

You can plus /Film – they’re friends of mine.

Vic

By: JMoney

JMoney — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:42:08 +0000

I don’t want to plug another website but I read it on Slashfilm, maybe they took the plot synopsis from IMDB.

either way I agree with you that the sequel was completely unnecessary and a totla money grab, but you can always hold out hope it won’t suck

By: Strider

Strider — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:09:02 +0000

And i’ll be way more willing to go back and face a bunch of bat people in a cave than to go back to face a colony full of Xenomorphs!!!

By: Strider

Strider — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:05:46 +0000

Hey, Well Ripley went back. And yes, she was forced, but hey, that makes the authorities forcing this character to go back just as plausible.

By: Ross Miller

Ross Miller — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:49:21 +0000

@JMoney,

The only place that I’VE saw where it says that the authorities force her back into the caves is IMDB which is unreliable when stuff can be submitted by any user.

Perhaps it’s true though (the submitter had to get the info from somewhere) but even then the main character would make up some sort of lie that would allow her to never go near those caves again.

By: JMoney

JMoney — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:43:55 +0000

PS, sorry for the typos, you guys need an editing option