I'm just so disappointed! I absolutely loved V/H/S and it was not long after my seeing it that I learned that there was going to be a V/H/S 2. Needless to say I was excited and eager to see it, and well, today was the first time I'd had the opportunity to finally see part 2. I'd read all the many great, rave reviews which only furthered my excitement of seeing it. I'd also seen and read a few negative reviews that were varied in their reasons for not liking part 2, and for the most part I noted that it seemed to be coming from people who generally did not like the original. This led me to believe that they were simply not fans of this particular type of horror(as seen in VHS), rather than my taking it as any type indicator of the movie not being "good".
I obviously was quite psyched to finally get to see it today and my belief was at BEST it would be a bigger/better version of the original, and at the very LEAST it would be equal to the original, with similar, but different story lines.
Boy, how wrong was I in it not even being comparable to the original. In fact so drastically different(and not in a good/positive way) I would never have dreamed that this was even a "V/H/S" film coming to us from people involved in its predecessor.
It's the first time in a very long, long time that I have actually felt so disappointed, and let down over a movie. I obviously should have given more weight, and thought, to those who'd expressed such dislike for this sequel film, but I believe what's most confusing to me is that so many of the huge fans of the original, like myself, have given this sequel such rave reviews, heralding it as even better than the first, and outdoing the original.
No, fans, I am sorry to say but this sequel is not any of the above described in those rave reviews, but rather is of poor quality, quantity, and altogether unrecognizable as even being in the same category as its predecessor...And I hate having to say that because I am NOT one who bashes horror movies, or are overly harsh in my critiquing them. I'm a die hard horror fan and I love even some of the most lower-alphabet-grade of horror flicks! I give them praise and point out all the great about each/all of them. So, for me to have this opinion on this sequel is not only surprising to me, but is just a great disappointment all around where this movie's concerned.
I suppose this was bound to happen, but I certainly never thought it'd have been a "V/H/S" film that was to be the flick to deliver me such disappointment! I say skip it, and instead go watch the original, V/H/S, because without a doubt it delivers on every single level a horror movie should, and it does so in repeated viewings, and not just a single, one-time, first viewing type of way.
I obviously was quite psyched to finally get to see it today and my belief was at BEST it would be a bigger/better version of the original, and at the very LEAST it would be equal to the original, with similar, but different story lines.
Boy, how wrong was I in it not even being comparable to the original. In fact so drastically different(and not in a good/positive way) I would never have dreamed that this was even a "V/H/S" film coming to us from people involved in its predecessor.
It's the first time in a very long, long time that I have actually felt so disappointed, and let down over a movie. I obviously should have given more weight, and thought, to those who'd expressed such dislike for this sequel film, but I believe what's most confusing to me is that so many of the huge fans of the original, like myself, have given this sequel such rave reviews, heralding it as even better than the first, and outdoing the original.
No, fans, I am sorry to say but this sequel is not any of the above described in those rave reviews, but rather is of poor quality, quantity, and altogether unrecognizable as even being in the same category as its predecessor...And I hate having to say that because I am NOT one who bashes horror movies, or are overly harsh in my critiquing them. I'm a die hard horror fan and I love even some of the most lower-alphabet-grade of horror flicks! I give them praise and point out all the great about each/all of them. So, for me to have this opinion on this sequel is not only surprising to me, but is just a great disappointment all around where this movie's concerned.
I suppose this was bound to happen, but I certainly never thought it'd have been a "V/H/S" film that was to be the flick to deliver me such disappointment! I say skip it, and instead go watch the original, V/H/S, because without a doubt it delivers on every single level a horror movie should, and it does so in repeated viewings, and not just a single, one-time, first viewing type of way.