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Good movie but grossly overrated

As Good As It Gets

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The movie reminded me a little of "Paranormal Activity" in that it has some hand held camera shots as well as using things like "DAY NINE." It reminded me of the classic "House" as there was a huge hole in the closet that apparently "things" were coming through.Danny Hill's grandmother dies in the opening scene. Danny (Van Hansis) becomes a squatter in her apartment on the advice of Joe, the Doorman (Thorsten Kaye) and Joe's lawyer friend. He wants the apartment for the same rent control price his grandmother had it. The landlord wants Danny out so he can rent the 3500 square foot, downtown NYC apartment for big bucks. Joe gets Danny everything he needs to stay there, unfortunately there are weird things going on in the apartment and Danny quickly develops cabin fever.The movie doesn't have a lot of characters and is practically a one man play. The movie plays you along to the end.F-bomb, brief night time sex, no nudity

This movie was not good at all. It was boring. It was not scary , not thrilling, not exciting and very dull. I don't recommend this at all. You will be disappointed. Plus it made no sense what-so-ever! Don't waste your time with this. I thought it would be great and found it very disappointing. I kept waiting for the big exciting action and there was none. I kept waiting and waiting and nothing ever happened. I've seen more action walking to the store. Not worth the time. It would do you well to chose another movie that might keep you awake. This one might just put you to sleep. Really I kid you not. It's that bad. I mean who loses it just because you have to spend 12 days in your apartment? I have stayed in for way longer than that and I'm not a basket case. Spongebob is more thrilling. I'm ready to move on and find something that will keep me awake.

Young man's (25 year old Danny Hill) grandmother dies; he comes by to identify the body. She was in a rent controlled apartment. The doorman's shyster relative convinces him to move in and stay for twelve days until he can get a court order completed. This should protect him against moves by the landlord to oust him. The apartment has 3500 square feet, and the rent controlled rate was 675/month, which is cheap for NYC.Cody drops by and stays the night. She had inquired at his work to find out where he was. She's gone the next day without explanation. Eventually he finds her camera and tries to reconstruct what she recorded.The landlord tries a number of ploys (cable guy, pizza guy, the painter, exterminator) to get him to come out and get locked out.The mirror scene is where the film jumped the shark for me: the mirror image keeps looking back and talking; the primary image goes quiet and turns away. Hm. The moving shoes was an ongoing joke I could have done without.The exterminator kills the cat. Gratuitous. Someone kills the exterminator. Whoever could that be? Also, who is the old guy who keeps showing up at the elevator?By day nine I had given up on the film. Danny had left the exterminator in the stairwell. The doorman explains how the exterminator has a bottle of heart medicine in his pocket. Amazing how that works. Later that day he re-finds evidence that the cat is dead.He gets into altercations with the neighbors when he starts hacking down walls in the middle of the night.Danny's descent continues after the landlord cuts his power. The doorman seems willing to enable anything Danny wants. He starts building with the materials the doorman brings.Eventually, though, they change the doorman. When the lights go back on, he loses it for a while, again, in the middle of the night. He gets to talk to the police. Perhaps that should have been a major clue. Then he finds the cat for sure.Day twelve. Danny's circling the bowl. He can't get in touch with the lawyer. He still has a dial tone. He loses it once again. He catches himself in one of his own traps.After Danny's dead, the lawyer shows up with the court order. Now Danny can leave the apartment safely.Joe, the old doorman, returns; someone else moves in. Someone who pays full price, I expect. The child of the renter views the full clip of Cody's video recording, including Danny dragging her dead body away.------Scores-----Cinematography: 6/10 The camera work uses some odd filters in several places. There are periods where camera shake is just too irritating.Sound: 9/10 The incidental music is about ten times creepier than the screenplay.Acting: 2/10 Van Hansis does not have the chops to play the lead. Unfortunately all the other roles are more or less unimportant and of little note.Screenplay: 4/10 Somewhat mysterious, but not engaging.

OK, considering the plot about a guy who has to live 12 days in the flat of his recently deceased grandmother to be the legal tenant with a nice low rent in NYC no one would expect much. Sounds like a Scooby-Doo Movie with kids who have to sleep a night in a spooky house to win a bet.So my expectations weren't high and I have to admit the first 40 Minutes had me positively surprised because the location and weird atmosphere keep you interested. So in the beginning you take the whole strangeness of that guy in his huge flat, isolated with only a strange Doorman helping him get his groceries as weird foreshadowings of eerie things unfolding. People appear in the flat, others disappear, there is a strange hole in the wall and the main character gets more and more paranoid regularly stamped with "Day X" on screen to count the 12 days and announcing some terrifying finale. So I give to the creators of the movie that they managed to create atmosphere with minimalism but that just falls apart after 40 Minutes because then the strange incidents get tedious and don't follow any build up. Many things don't make sense and are never explained until the guy suddenly (really pretty much out of the blue to me) snaps and delivers one bloody scene towards the end that follows the whole strangeness of the previous minutes perfectly but is totally incoherent and random... and cheap considering a 12 day build up and then having a guy snap some hours before his lawyer knocks at the door.Spoiler alert.... If you go for the psychotic episode/its all just in your head motive don't drop red herrings all over the place that have no meaning whatsoever. After all the basic premise of granny dying with a horrified look on her face makes which is the base for everything here.... it makes no sense unless the whole family is genetically pre-disposed to schizophrenia.So watch the first 40 Minutes, enjoy the weird atmosphere and then roll the dice to decide if its a Paranoid Psycho or Haunted House Movie. No matter what ... this movie is totally random and the character development is ridiculous. There really are people randomly falling from the sky or appearing in the apartment dying of a heart-attack. When the credits roll you can't but feel cheated.