I saw a few positive reviews on IMDB so I watched the movie.
I'm not familiar with Ted the Caver. The film was just a film for me.
I'm giving 1 star for the effort and determination it would take to produce a movie. I'm giving another star because I jumped during a hallucination sequence ... and I'm very impressed with that.
I think editing and directing contribute just as much to acting talent as the actual talent. If I watched these actors in a well-financed film/tv show with adequate directing, a better script, and effective editing, they'd probably appear to be better actors. There were several scenes or lines where the "acting" was too obvious. Other times, they were believable.
I'm not sure how Uncle Charlie managed to fit through the hole or why he went down the shaft - the viewer doesn't get to see this. If I had to use my imagination, I would guess some other entrance to the cave besides the too-small-for-Charlie-to-fit-through hole, and that he was lured or dragged by the creatures living in the cave.
I enjoyed the gas station character. He gave the movie more realism and an element of humour. The brothers were serious and mawkish too often.
Irrational decision-making is usually a facet of storytelling that I do not enjoy. I could tolerate the brothers initial intrigue and sense of adventure, but when you're screaming and terrified, you'd be contacting authorities rather than returning to a cave hole time and time again, alone and ill-equipped.
The fatalities in the film were also completely avoidable. In the final scene - deep in the black hole - there was so much motion and movement I wasn't sure what was happening. I figured that sensitivity to light was keeping them at bay, but a single torch pointed in one direction wouldn't scare off the number of creatures surrounding them for long. Sure, scream for some drama, but the characters behaviour bordered on silly hysteria and madness rather than adrenaline and natural survival instinct. At one point the brothers stop and sit to talk about how they really love each other for an excessive amount of time, without being attacked, then they stand up and the creatures are right there ... as if they were giving them 'moment'.
I'd like to see the cast in something else to see if more production value and better editing improves their talent, and as more the writer, producer and director ... everyone starts somewhere.
I'm not familiar with Ted the Caver. The film was just a film for me.
I'm giving 1 star for the effort and determination it would take to produce a movie. I'm giving another star because I jumped during a hallucination sequence ... and I'm very impressed with that.
I think editing and directing contribute just as much to acting talent as the actual talent. If I watched these actors in a well-financed film/tv show with adequate directing, a better script, and effective editing, they'd probably appear to be better actors. There were several scenes or lines where the "acting" was too obvious. Other times, they were believable.
I'm not sure how Uncle Charlie managed to fit through the hole or why he went down the shaft - the viewer doesn't get to see this. If I had to use my imagination, I would guess some other entrance to the cave besides the too-small-for-Charlie-to-fit-through hole, and that he was lured or dragged by the creatures living in the cave.
I enjoyed the gas station character. He gave the movie more realism and an element of humour. The brothers were serious and mawkish too often.
Irrational decision-making is usually a facet of storytelling that I do not enjoy. I could tolerate the brothers initial intrigue and sense of adventure, but when you're screaming and terrified, you'd be contacting authorities rather than returning to a cave hole time and time again, alone and ill-equipped.
The fatalities in the film were also completely avoidable. In the final scene - deep in the black hole - there was so much motion and movement I wasn't sure what was happening. I figured that sensitivity to light was keeping them at bay, but a single torch pointed in one direction wouldn't scare off the number of creatures surrounding them for long. Sure, scream for some drama, but the characters behaviour bordered on silly hysteria and madness rather than adrenaline and natural survival instinct. At one point the brothers stop and sit to talk about how they really love each other for an excessive amount of time, without being attacked, then they stand up and the creatures are right there ... as if they were giving them 'moment'.
I'd like to see the cast in something else to see if more production value and better editing improves their talent, and as more the writer, producer and director ... everyone starts somewhere.