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The Haunted mansion movie rant

Thu Jul 2, 2009, 8:42 PM
Well, guess what was on Disney Channel tonight. Yes my friends the very thing that makes me want to beat my head against a wall. The haunted mansion movie. *Le Gasp* something Haunted mansion that I do not like? Well actually I did really enjoy some aspects of the movie. The set and music were outstanding! Absolutely perfect for a movie version of the haunted mansion. Yet, even with that it cannot redeem the movie fully.

Just... just WHY!? The look of the film is nearly perfect, yet the story is just so horrid. They were SO close! Why did they just lag on the story? They should have done a history with the mansion or something! Just why did they have to get the story so ... it just didn't fit.

I know the downfall of the movie. Eddie Murphy. ... what more can I say? It just doesn't work! No! NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO! Do. not. want!


Okay... I think I'm calm enough now. I just had to get that out of my system. Goodness. THEY WERE JUST SO CLOSE! Okay... I just need to breathe.

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*Maurri Jul 2, 2009, 8:48:30 PM
Oh Eddie Murphy... why can't you make good movies? :crying:

I know what you mean... the first like 3 minutes of the movie is the only bit worth watching.

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~MadameGracey Jul 2, 2009, 8:58:35 PM
Yes. The credits are what could have been. Then... you know.

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~gimme-da-money Jul 2, 2009, 9:26:14 PM
COMPLETELY AGREE. but i read one of the original scripts made way way back and, despite its age (which means a more...je ne sais pa...sentimental(?) disney) its actually pretty descent. they took one of the original backstories of the master being a bloodthirsty pirate and rly worked it pretty well. i wish they would have just cleaned it up a little and made THAT version into a movie!! (if yer interested, i found it on Doombuggies.com u have to go into the infernal MOVIE section and look around through there, but you'll find it. its interesting to see their first ideas)

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~OddballArtist Jul 2, 2009, 9:29:22 PM
I've only seen bits and pieces of the movie, but yeah, it doesn't seem that good. If only the hitchikers could have been a major part of the story...or that they'd have come up with a better story...maybe something that would have the caretaker as a main character. But that's just me.:shrug:

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~MadameGracey Jul 2, 2009, 10:44:43 PM
Don't worry. I've scowared through every section of DB. I too have read the script, and yes it was very well done.

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~MadameGracey Jul 2, 2009, 10:46:19 PM
Yeah, the caretaker should have. I wanted to have him more in my story but I was adding too many characters XZ(he may show up in the future *shifty eyes*)

But hey I got the HHG in there quite a bit :P

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~minasnightwish Jul 2, 2009, 10:50:18 PM
I like it a lot. Obviously. Just some parts, were, yeah. Seriously. -.-
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~TRegnier2795 Jul 2, 2009, 10:53:45 PM
Oh god, I saw it too.

I only saw the dinner scene before I called it quits, and the thing that bothered me most was Master Gracey's shirt was open.

No respectable gentleman would have ever gone to formal dinner without a well tied cravat, especially one as wealthy as Master Gracey.
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~MadameGracey Jul 2, 2009, 11:45:43 PM
Yeah, I know ;). It did have it's moments. I pretty much like all the scenes without eddie murphy. If more of the movie was like that then this rant might not even be here.

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