Frozen

I stand by my comments.

All such movies are based on characters doing what we would consider to be stupid things...going into dark houses/rooms, accepting lifts from strangers, not looking behind them, walking backwarRAB, trusting strangers...the list is endless.

Horror/suspense movies rely on characters doing what appear to be stupid things to further the plot more so than any other genre. If they didn't...we would'nt even have horror movies!

OK, I guess where we will disagree here is whether the filmakers manage to make you forget such contrivances at the time we are watching the movie. Some do, some don't.

I have also watched movies where the illogical actions of the characters, or the coincidences and contrivances have distracted me, and pulled me out of the movie.

I believe it's always down to the direction, the script and the acting. Get at least 2 out of 3 and an audience will usually not notice the absence of the third...

But apart from a slow build up, and a somewhat shaky premise of how the trio actually ended up on the ski lift in the first place, I found Frozen to be quite grippping and disturbing...and I speak as someone who is somewhat jaded with this sort of horror/thriller genre as a rule.
 
I enjoyed it but am with others that you have to suspend disbelief a little at moments, I found it hilarious that...

the guy who jumped out of the chair just did it, not one attempt to say tie a coat to the chair or hell even hang off the chair and drop to lessen the height he was falling, nope he just launches himself out of it like he's Batman
:D

and...

a pack of man eating Wolves hanging around a populated ski resort, c'monnnnn seriously?

But I still enjoyed it.
 
But like I said before, most movies of this type, be they horror, thriller, suspense etc rely on such contrivances to set up certain scenarios...eg, if he had not hurt himself when he fell, he would not have found himself helpless and surrounded by wolves, and the consequences of this would not have been as horrific.

I guess it's a personal thing...some people can accept that movies of this type rely on such contrivances and not let it bother them, but some people seem to insist on total logic.

I guess I would belong to the former...people doing silly things in such movies is a pre-requisite, I got used to that a very long time ago.

So, I just let it go and enjoy the movie for what it is.

And if I don't enjoy a movie, it rarely has anything to do with characters doing silly things...
 
It was ok, but I do wonder why he didn't swing his legs up onto the wire. That is a level of weak that is hard to believe lol. They were snow boarding after all, hardly couch potato activity.
 
They made a point of having the character ridiculed for not being that good at keeping fit.
Being strapped to a board going downhill doesn't do all that much for the physique/leg muscles I would think.
 
I really enjoyed it. there was times when i thought whats going to happen now and nothing did for a while so wasnt sure where it was going to go.
Definately recommend to watch it.
 
Oh I'm with you on this, hell those moments are what make some horrors worth while, I watch a lot of horror films so I'm used to characters doing stupid things, like you say if characters made logical sensible choices all the time in these films we wouldn't have 99% of horror films.
 
Maybe, but you would be surprised, esp for unfit noobs controlling skis or snow boarRAB is all about muscle control and body position, you can't maintain that without strength.
 
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