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Frailty (2001)
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A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."
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This is a freaking FANTASTIC film. Great performances, great thrills, and a great ending with one of my favorite final scenes of any film of the 2000s. The last line of the film says it all, and really makes you see the film in a completely new perspective.

Wonderful film, and it showed Bill Paxton's talent as not only an actor, but as a horror/thriller director.
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How have I not seen this yet? Especially with my huge crush on Matthew (love)
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^ Ew.

It's a great film, though. Bill Paxton is pretty fucking wonderful in the film.
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It's a great film, though. Bill Paxton is pretty fucking wonderful in the film.


I'm surprised this thread isn't more active, since if I recall correctly, it was pretty big when it came out.
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And then back in like 2007, it ended up in the Walmart five dollar movie bin. That's how I got my copy. :)

And shoot me again, Jared. See what fuckin' happens.
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Watching now. This is quite possibly the best horror film of the 00s period. I can't believe how dead the thread is
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Finished. So... I don't think I like the final twist, but it's not outright movie ruining. And to some degree, I get what Bill Paxton was going for with it, and it's not an inherently bad idea, but... Idk, the execution doesn't fully work for me.

That said, this is still a 10 in my book. Seriously. Amazing movie. Paxton's acting and directing is amazing. And Matt O'Leary (Chugs's brother in Sorority Row) is really excellent in this (he's basically the main character), too bad his career didn't take off more. It's also extremely disturbing and effective. Really, outside that last twist, I love it.

And Jeremy Sumpter better die horribly in literally everything he does since this movie. His acting was really good, but man. FUCK that little brother so fucking much.
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I just about to watch this movie, sounds really good

It's on netflix
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I wonder how many times the creators of Supernatural watched this movie. (coffee) Even before the half hour mark, Robby and I noticed some similarities, lol.

I really liked this but I definitely wouldn't say it's one of the best of the 2000s though. It just might be in my top 200. That still says A LOT though since I've watched thousands from 2000 onward, lol. While I wish this had more blood (it's still pretty violent at times), it really didn't NEED it. The deaths were effective as they were and there were some pretty disturbing, unsettling scenes throughout. I really couldn't find much wrong with the performances. At all. Everyone did a terrific job, I thought. Special shoutout to Matt O'Leary who pretty much carried the film (Bill Paxton was really great too). I didn't like the little brother either.

I have mixed feelings about the twist. It wasn't BAD but I don't think it was too great either. It didn't hurt the film too much but it could've been handled a little better, I guess. I'll probably have a stronger opinion of it when I rewatch this.


7/10 quality, 7/10 entertainment.
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I have mixed feelings about the twist. It wasn't BAD but I don't think it was too great either. It didn't hurt the film too much but it could've been handled a little better, I guess. I'll probably have a stronger opinion of it when I rewatch this.
Strongly disagreed. I'm still not sure how many points it knocks off of this. It's gone from taking it anywhere from a 9 to a 1 depending on my mood (it'd be an extremely solid 10 without it)

I love literally everything else though.
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I'm of two minds about this one. I was seriously underwhelmed with the McConaughy and Boothe stuff, but absolutely loved all the stuff with Paxton and the boys. The modern-day stuff was too obvious in its attempt to set up a revelatory twist-ending; only two characters, one of whom is connected in some way to a string of murders and insists on speaking only to the other, who is played by Powers Boothe, far more well known for his villainous roles than heroic. You just knew something was going to happen there, and when it does, it's not all that big a surprise. You can see the twist coming from the other side of town.

But everything involving Paxton and the boys is great stuff. Completely involving, harrowing in bits, the boys were believable in their performances and Paxton really brought his acting A-game to the role of Dad. If the film had consisted only of Paxton and the boys, this could have been a winner. But the interruptive and clumsy modern day stuff, with its Shyamalan-wannabe twist, just gets in the way.
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^ I can agree with that. The modern day stuff was like...5/10 (and that's me being generous) while the 'childhood stuff' is at least an 8, lol.

And I can't remember the last time an ending twist made me literally despise EVERYTHING about a film. (wary) I don't know. I guess I'm just not that kind of movie watcher. If I love 90+ minutes of something, it'll probably take more than 90 seconds to make me hate the movie as a whole even if those 90 seconds are atrocious.
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And I can't remember the last time an ending twist made me literally despise EVERYTHING about a film. (wary) I don't know. I guess I'm just not that kind of movie watcher. If I love 90+ minutes of something, it'll probably take more than 90 seconds to make me hate the movie as a whole even if those 90 seconds are atrocious.
When 90 seconds invalidate the previous 90 minutes.... that's enough. Ultimately I've grown to tolerate the twist. It's nowhere near High Tension or Scream S2 levels of bullshit, but the ending is what they leave me with. When you fuck up that bad with a twist that makes no sense or was pulled out of the writer's ass that makes everything that came before plothole filled or objectively pointless for not happening.....
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Finally watched this tonight with my friend. I saw the twist coming from a mile away honestly. I liked it alot though.
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This is a really good flick. The direction in this is great. Except, yeah, the modern side of the film is less interesting and less engaging as the past with the boys and their father. There really was no call for a twist like that. I'm sure I was fine with the twist way back when, but now it leaves a bad taste in my mouth for some reason. It would have been better if the film ended more ambiguously.
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