Anyone else as excited as I am about the movie “White Noise” coming out on January 7th?
I have very high hopes for this movie and I hope it is a great thriller/horror film that will have me on the edge of my seat.
It sounds interesting though I doubt I will see it (movies too expensive.) I am familiar with the actual phenomena the movie is supposed to be about, though, and it’s rather interesting stuff.
Drats. I was hoping (and fearing a little) for an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel of the same name.
True, con artists and nut jobs are interesting stuff, but the movie looks like a snorefest. Count me out of this one.
Actually, I’m dreading this movie. I teach high school science and as always happens when a *new “phenomenon” like this draws attention, I will get lots of questions about it and I will spend too much time explaining (again) about the scientific method and controls and repeatability and subjective interpretation (and how we shouldn’t all just be gullible fools!). And then, unfailingly, someone will raise their hand and say, “But I saw a news report about it, and they played some tape and you could totally hear it!” And a lot of others will nod in agreement while I do this :smack: :smack: :smack:
Sometimes fighting ignorance is like trying to hold back a flood.
*though it’s been getting a lot of attention lately, this ‘EVP’ concept has been around for a long time. I remember hearing a guy on a radio show (may have been on Art Bell–hey! those nuts are funny sometimes!) at least ten years ago who was demonstrating and explaining EVP.
No and I’m surprised anyone is. I’m sure it’s no accident it’s opening in January, the dumping ground for misfit movies.
I don’t like the terms con artists and nut jobs. I think they’re a bit too negative.
Maybe “sincerely deluded” in some cases.
At any rate, I am interested in the subjects for what they are (I didn’t say I believed in it, I am as skeptical as they come, but the subject does interest me.)
I have heard at least one show about this on the Art Bell show. It was very creepy and a great Halloween show, regardless of the validity or not of the science involved. I listen to the show fairly regularly though - I would be careful about branding anyone who goes on that show as a nut, though. They often have guests on specifically to debunk or argue with other guests. And some of them do know what they are talking about. They pretty regularly have authors of things like science fictions and biothrillers on to talk about the real concepts behind their books. And the SDMB’s [strong]BadAstronomer[/strong] has been on the show at least twice debunking things like Planet X/Nebiru and the claims of moon-landing hoaxes.
I do miss Art on the weekday shows, though. George Noory (the guy that took over the weekday shows when Art “retired”) seems much more gullible and less willing to grill the guests on the validity of their claims.
It’s interesting that the “examples” from the trailer are crystal-clear, yet the samples from the website mentioned at the end of the same trailer are so distorted and… subjective? that they could be anything. Hell, I couldn’t figure out what the “real” ghosts were supposed to be saying, even when I had the text in front of me!
I probably won’t go see the movie - my poor GF is so easily prone to screaming when startled - that we don’t see horror movies at the theatre. (Hell, I thought the neighbors were gonna call the cops when we watched The Ring on DVD at home one night).
Having said that, I’ll probably check it out on DVD or cable when the time comes. I’m still not sure what I believe in when it comes to ghosts due to some crazy personal experiences of my own - although I certainly believe that 99% of the supposed “hauntings” are hoaxes or things with logical explanations.
EVP freaks me out for some reason, even though I am 100 percent sure it’s not really supernatural. I’m a pure skeptic, but this movie could actually scare me a bit.
I’m quite happy that stuff like this can still get under skin. I miss the days when I was very young and stuff like a made-for-TV Frankenstein movie could chill and thrill me. I suspect the non-EVP stuff in White Noise (like those video-ghost looking scenes) will actually have the opposite effect, though.
Who cares if the “science” makes sense. It’s a horror movie. The premise is “I hear dead people”, isn’t it? That’s not exactly new, but no reason it can’t be good.
Granted, the trailer isn’t scary, whereas the hand coming out of the girl’s hair on the Grudge trailer is just freaky. But we’ll have to wait and see.
I want to see this movie, but that’s the first thing I thought of when I noticed its January release at the end of the trailer a couple of months ago. I’ll check it out, but I’m not having any high hopes.
After watching the Twilight Zone marathon, I can recite the advertisements for it word for word, but it still looks like crap. Scary crap, but crap all the same.
I mean, come on. Is that a generic horror movie wife, or what?
Not at all. The film looks like utter crap from what I’ve seen of it so far. I forget what it was, but there was some line in the trailer that was just so unbelievably bad the whole theater burst out laughing when the trailer was shown. Oh, I remember now. “It’s one thing to contact the dead, it’s another thing to meddle, and you’re meddling!” Uh, what? :dubious: :rolleyes:
Yeah, other than the films that get a rolling platform release and come out nationwide in January (after Oscar consideration in Dec), everything else is just the leftover dregs of the year that no one wanted to squish into an already overcrowded December. It’s the same thing every year. Sure they’ll be a good film here and there occasionally, but IMO Jan & Feb are the absolute worst months of the year for new films.
White Noise looks like a big steaming pile.
This isn’t a kneejerk reaction to the pseudoscience, either. I enjoy ghost stories and supernatural tales, and EVP is no different from “cold spots” or any of the other established parapsychological trappings. Heck, it was used to great effect in Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom, which is one of the best things ever.
White Noise just looks pitifully mediocre. Geoffrey Sax is a competent TV director, but with his theatrical directoral debut being so far out of his usual line, I would be very surprised if manages to carry it off.
The trailer doesn’t do anything to persuade me otherwise.
That’s what I thought too. Then I heard it was White Noise starring Michael Keaton. So I was unspeakably relieved when it turned out to be non-Delillo related.
I’m more excited about jinwicked being back on the boards than I am about this movie.
For a long time I thought the movie was called EVP. They hyped the term EVP much more than the title White Noise. And if you made a trailer for this film, wouldn’t you just have ‘white noise’ coming in the speakers with some voices mixed in?
One of the more surprising excellent films to come out at this time was Silence of the Lambs, which was released on Feb. 14, 1991.
But yeah, usually the movies are crap. And what’s hilarious is sometimes I’ve seen advertisements about movies released this time that say, “Best movie of the year!” I think that’s what it said about that hockey movie where they beat the Russians released in early 2004.
Yeah I agree. In the past couple of months, I’ve really taken a shine to the British show Most Haunted. I kept wondering why I liked the show so much, because 99% of it is BS (you mean you hear “strange noises” while sitting in a pitch black 400 year-old house? No way!).
Then I realized that it produces the same feelings I used to get as a kid, sneaking downstairs after my parents were asleep to watch The Exorcist or some other movie that made me sleep with the lights on for weeks. Of course, I don’t sleep with the lights on anymore, but Most Haunted give me similar sensations, so even though the show is (scientifically) BS, I quite like it.
Heh, it’s funny cause that was the exact film I had been thinking of which is why I said there’s bound to be a few good ones. That’s actually one of my favorite films. 
What’s interesting is how that is the earliest released film (in the year) to ever win Best Picture.