# How was White Noise
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 8, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710 "2005-01-08T04:51:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/1 "2005-01-08T04:51:17Z")
For those who may have seen it, how was “White Noise”?
Is it scary? Creepy? Worth it?
WRS
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### Author:  [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/2 "2005-01-08T05:24:46Z")
I haven’t seen this movie but I hate it because it should have been based on Don Delillo’s book.
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### Author:  [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/3 "2005-01-08T15:01:23Z")
It was boring. There were a few moments that made me jump and then I felt foolish for being so manipulated.
But overall, pretty boring. It takes forever for anything to happen and when it does it’s so-so. Michael Keaton seemed to have slept through his performance. It seemed like the movie was poorly edited.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/4 "2005-01-08T15:03:37Z")
> [@Agrippina](#):
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> It was boring. There were a few moments that made me jump and then I felt foolish for being so manipulated.
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> But overall, pretty boring. It takes forever for anything to happen and when it does it’s so-so. Michael Keaton seemed to have slept through his performance. It seemed like the movie was poorly edited.
Yeah but apart from the boredom and bad acting and poor editing was it any good?
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### Author:  [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/5 "2005-01-08T16:29:28Z")
I enjoyed the film, but the ending was a bit crap.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/6 "2005-01-08T16:40:04Z")
It’s been roundly slammed by every critic that I’ve read so far, but I haven’t seen it. Sounds like a ‘wait for the video’ movie.
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### Author:  [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/7 "2005-01-10T19:35:32Z")
I saw the film last night – can anyone out there explain what in the heck was happening in the ending?!
Also, what was the significance of the 2.30 and 23s throughout the film?
I had to come home and clear out my brain with the \*Young \* Ones’ ‘Bambi.’
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### Author:  [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/8 "2005-01-10T20:07:43Z")
> [@Ms Boods](#):
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> I saw the film last night – can anyone out there explain what in the heck was happening in the ending?!
(SPOILERS, I guess)
I certainly can’t. That stupid serial killer plot came out of nowhere. What, Anna couldn’t just say that she was murdered in the begining? And how was that first guy killed? By the demons? What for?
And the biggest question is why didn’t the police constantly question Keaton? These people who keep dying and or being injured are connected to him somehow. And the police (or that father) don’t wonder why Keaton was out wandering around in the middle of nowhere at night when he finds this woman and baby in the car?
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/9 "2005-01-10T21:18:36Z")
It was the most amazing time dialation I’ve ever experienced. I could have sworn it took four hours but when I left the theater my watch said it was less than two.
The biggest question is “How did Michael Keaton get suckered into making this movie after being AWOL for so long?”
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### Author:  [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/10 "2005-01-10T22:00:12Z")
> [@Agrippina](#):
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> (SPOILERS, I guess)
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> I certainly can’t. That stupid serial killer plot came out of nowhere. What, Anna couldn’t just say that she was murdered in the begining? And how was that first guy killed? By the demons? What for?
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> And the biggest question is why didn’t the police constantly question Keaton? These people who keep dying and or being injured are connected to him somehow. And the police (or that father) don’t wonder why Keaton was out wandering around in the middle of nowhere at night when he finds this woman and baby in the car?
**Agrippina** – crikey yes, I had all these questions, and more…I saw it with my mum, and the film wasn’t quite lined up with the screen evenly, so part of the picture was cut off (no one really cared), and mum remarked that maybe the bits that explained the movie were in the parts we couldn’t see.
**Sir Prize** – it makes me wonder how long the director’s cut is…
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### Author:  [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/11 "2005-01-10T22:14:52Z")
> [@Sir Prize](#):
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> The biggest question is “How did Michael Keaton get suckered into making this movie after being AWOL for so long?”
I would imagine it was a case where the script looked excellent and showed promise. Then the film was made, the script was a mutant of what it once was, and it was too late for Keaton to get out of it. And it ended up being so crappy that the studio threw it to a January slot.
I could be wrong. After all, Keaton _was_ in **Jack Frost**. And I don’t know how that movie could look good, no matter what the original script was like.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-white-noise/283710/12 "2005-01-11T01:31:35Z")
> [@Agrippina](#):
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> I could be wrong. After all, Keaton _was_ in **Jack Frost**. And I don’t know how that movie could look good, no matter what the original script was like.
Now THAT
was scary.
:eek: