I wanted to see My Bloody Valentine back in February on the big screen in its 3D version but eventually I could not. Not quite ago I saw its R1 DVD and I was very glad to find out that it included the 3D version but boy it was just too f****** expensive. So I decided to wait, the R4 DVD was released, it contained the 3D version as well and I finally bought it last weekend. I knew more or less what to expect of this remake of the 1981 Canadian My Bloody Valentine (for the record, I'm one of those who heard for the very first time about the 1981 My Bloody Valentine once its remake had already been released) and in a way I have not many complaints: the 2009 My Bloody Valentine (apparently the official title goes with the "3D" but in IMDb it is listed without it) is not clever stuff, it's an entertaining yet very forgettable movie with a cool-looking killer.
And I said that in a way I have not many complaints because I was expecting pretty much what I saw. Now, as for the 3D version I saw, well I don't know about the one included in the R1 DVD but the one I saw last night is just not good. To be short: in many times, mostly when the killer (the miner) was not just about adding someone more to the list of his victims, I was just about ready to change the DVD for the one with the standard version. It was difficult to follow the image, but still some scenes looked really nice in 3D (the pick-axe stuck in the car's windshield for instance). Going back to the substance of the movie, well it's about a tragedy that happened 10 years ago, during a Valentine's Day and that marked some then teenagers. But that tragedy was the return of someone that a year before marked the mining town and that now may be back. "What the f*** do you want?", asks at one point one of the then teenagers to the killer. Obviously there's no answer but just another killing. Of course the movie tries to give some tension and a story to care about the three main characters: we have Tom Hanniger, Sarah and Axel. The first two were a couple 10 years ago but now Sarah is married to Axel (yet he is cheating on her) and Tom is back after 10 years ago (he was almost killed by the miner). The movie says to you who the killer is really very soon but of course the movie tries to confuse you, it's just nothing tense, it's just a, for most of its runtime, decent slasher.
And I said that in a way I have not many complaints because I was expecting pretty much what I saw. Now, as for the 3D version I saw, well I don't know about the one included in the R1 DVD but the one I saw last night is just not good. To be short: in many times, mostly when the killer (the miner) was not just about adding someone more to the list of his victims, I was just about ready to change the DVD for the one with the standard version. It was difficult to follow the image, but still some scenes looked really nice in 3D (the pick-axe stuck in the car's windshield for instance). Going back to the substance of the movie, well it's about a tragedy that happened 10 years ago, during a Valentine's Day and that marked some then teenagers. But that tragedy was the return of someone that a year before marked the mining town and that now may be back. "What the f*** do you want?", asks at one point one of the then teenagers to the killer. Obviously there's no answer but just another killing. Of course the movie tries to give some tension and a story to care about the three main characters: we have Tom Hanniger, Sarah and Axel. The first two were a couple 10 years ago but now Sarah is married to Axel (yet he is cheating on her) and Tom is back after 10 years ago (he was almost killed by the miner). The movie says to you who the killer is really very soon but of course the movie tries to confuse you, it's just nothing tense, it's just a, for most of its runtime, decent slasher.