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boring

posted 17 years ago by urbanpixie
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I watched for 45 minutes and still did not see a CHUD, just a bunch of people talking in a police station.

[–] JefferyLeininger 17 years ago

give it some more time...you'll like the scene when Christopher Curry and the detective stumble across the first Chuds as they navigate the sewer. there's three of them standing next to a pile of toxic waste in a really cool scene.

i love how the first 5-10 minutes of the movie (excluding the intro) are without dialogue, and of a street cleaner truck closeup with the homeless wandering around mumbling about liquor and 'commies'. it delivers that gritty, 80's feel that just can't be reproduced with today's equipment.

it probably would help to have seen this movie as a young kid, like i did, when i was about 10 years old. it scared me then, and i now have a special place in my heart for it, you know? my parents would take me downtown to the city on Sundays and i was always fascinated by homeless people, and by how bizarre they were.

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[–] HanktheHobo 17 years ago

Okay, I've gotta call you out on this. First of all, this movie is from the 80s -- THE decade for over-the-top action, violence, and nudity in movies. Second of all, its never been okay to have "more dialogue in a movie" when the dialogue is boring, flat, and unoriginal. If you don't have a well-written and interesting plot, then you have to fill it in with non-stop gore and nudity. If you don't have interesting dialogue, and you don't have extreme gore or nudity, then, well, then you have C.H.U.D. This movie is way over-rated as a cult movie.

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[–] Memories-Of-Murder 17 years ago

Not many, that's for sure.

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[–] HanktheHobo 17 years ago

Yeah, and people still talk about "Plan 9 from Outer Space," almost 50 years after the fact -- that doesn't mean its good.
I agree, not many films from today will be remembered; then again, not many films from any time period are remembered 20 years later -- there are just way too many films made every year. The ones that get remembered are movies that set new trends (Night of the Living Dead), that are completely bizarre (Eraserhead), or that are incredibly corny or ridiculously bad (Plan 9). Guess where "C.H.U.D." lies?
Of course, I guess its better to be remembered as the worst than not to be remembered at all...

[–] andell-2 17 years ago

Well i think that C.H.U.D was well made and got some really tense scenes.
you cant compare it to Plan 9 from outer space, if you do that you haven't seen many movies.

Films that get remembered are also the greatly nostalgic genre movies like The Thing, a nightmare on elm street, Zombie and night of the demons well i think C.H.U.D fits better in this category than the Plan 9 from outer space category.
A nightmare on elm street, was hardly the one that started the slasher genre neither was Zombie the movie that started the zombie movie wave, they are just great movies.

another remembered movies are the shocker category like Cannibal Holocaust, faces of death.
well ok, Faces of death was something of a trend setter to but Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal ferox was hardly the ones that started the Cannibal era, just the ones that got famous and remembered.

[–] T-eschberger 16 years ago

I think the less is more aspect of the flick is great. It actually made the appearences of the CHUDS later on in the film more exciting and frightening. Plus, its not like we dont have any monster action at all. Theres the girl in the beginning, the bum that gets pulled down in the sewers, the phone booth guy...

It reminded me of a lower budget, more cheesy Alien. That aint a bad thing!

[–] mattslittlebrother 15 years ago

I thought this film was surprisingly solid and had me entertained all he way. Daniel Stern is awesome in it!

[–] craigarawlinson 15 years ago

Him and the guy that played Boshe made the movie for me.

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