1408

Just got back from seeing the new horror film 1408 - it was fine (quite immersive, but nothing amazing). It did make me jump, but that’s nothing special - everything slightly scary makes me jump.

I even smiled in a couple of places, the first being when Mike Enslin’s Dell (product placement anybody?) laptop showed a blue screen of death after getting a little damp from the fire sprinklers. But it’s all OK, because the computer decided to switch itself back later on in the film so that he could have a video chat with his wife. The second smile moment was just weird: some of his daughter’s clothes came out the hotel fax machine…

Posted at 19:28 on August 31st 2007 and tagged as

2 Responses to "1408"

  1. Gravatar! Kevin Spencer
    September 1st, 2007 at 3:39

    How was John Cusack in this movie? For the life of me I can’t find a link handy but I remember reading that John Cusack is really the only actor with any screentime. Everyone else, even SLJ, really have bit parts at best. Is that the case?

  2. Gravatar! Alex
    September 1st, 2007 at 9:15

    Yep, it’s very true - there’s barely a scene without him, but Jackson as the hotel manager has maybe fifteen/twenty minutes on screen. The only other vaguely important people are his wife Lily and daughter Katie.

    That said, it wasn’t too bad - I guess the idea was a bit like Phone Booth, in that it was just one major actor in one location for most of the film.

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