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A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

As a Pittsburgher, this movie is somewhat important, as it was filmed here and in nearby Kittanning, PA. Which is somewhat humorous, as Point Pleasant, WV isn't far at all. They could have just filmed it there. There's a mothman statue, after all.A lot of the script was changed, as this movie is based on the work of John Keel, the paranormal researcher who wrote the book The Mothman Prophecies. Pellington rejected numerous screenplays that were literal takes on Keel's work, instead wanting to explore the psychological damage that UFO witnesses endure. In the book, Keel went into deepest, darkest West Virginia to interview folks who had seen the huge winged beast called the mothman. At the same time, he began receiving strange phone calls, reports of mutilated pets, visits from men in black (in fact, Keel coined the term!) and it all ends with the collapse of the Silver Bridge across the Ohio River.Whereas the movie posits that the collapse was never solved, experts determined that an eye-bar in the suspension chain caused its failure. And in reality, 46 people died, not 36.The movie is therefore fictionalized, sharing the story of Washington Post columnist John Klein (Richard Gere) and his wife Mary (Debra Messing) being involved in a car wreck that leads to her dying of a brain tumor. Before she passes, he finds a notebook filled with pictures of a strange beast.Between time distortions and loops, strange phone calls, visitations from his dead wife and premonitions, this film does a good job of conveying the terror and confusion that the paranormal can unleash.My theory has always been that nuclear waste near Point Pleasant unleashed holes in the time/space continuum and the mothman, a fifth-dimensional creature, was unleashed on our 3D space - bringing weirdness in its wake.There's a great shot at the end of this film, where the cars drift to the bottom of the river and holiday gifts float and headlights stretch out into nothing. It's probably the eeriest scene I've seen in awhile. According to IMDB, Gene Warren III and five other model-makers, plus two production assistants, spent three full months to fabricate every piece of the bridge set from scratch. He estimates 20,000 individual pieces of steel went into the construction, in order for the ultra-photo-realistic 1/6th scale model suspension bridge to support all the model vehicles and ultimately collapse like a full-scale steel bridge into the water. It really shows - this practical effect looks perfect.I usually don't enjoy big budget films, much less ones that take so many liberties with their source material, but this one always wins me over. It's worth a watch.

This is the worst thing ever made by anyone. It makes absolutely no sense, it has a tone that is all over the place, it confuses audience and irritates the viewers by relentlessly trying to create a sense of mood, which never leads to anything in terms of drama or plot. It's just mood. And then my mood turns to agitated, then angry. I couldn't watch this nonsense until the end.But here is what makes things a lot worse: it is a butchery of the actual story it was based on. How on earth do you take a true story about a monster that stalks people at night and turn it into a dull, low-energy moody pile of **** where the highlight of the story are these nonsensical phone calls? How do you turn this incredible true story into something so boring? Why was the story changed? It just boggles the mind. I think whoever wrote this is mentally ill.Zero stars for this. I hate this film with a passion. My blood pressure jumps when I just think of this monstrosity of a film.

This is a tough one. I personally found the story really intriguing and even though it did not go in the expected direction, I really enjoyed the story, which was original and smart and interesting.Still, the film lost me. The shorts were badly dine, the cuts strange, there were"special effects" (the colour changed from time to time), and that all made it impossible to watch.who would show an intriguing scene from the monster's perspective? i most certainly would not, and they should not have done it here, repeatedly.It was sad to see how a brilliant script can be turned into an unwatchable film.So even though I would love to give this one a 10 - a 4 seems fair to me. I really hope that they will do a remake, for I believe that this could be one of the big horror films, if it only were done differently.

I was so excited to see this coming on TV. Good TV, no commercials, no cutting, the full movie. Actually had famous people in it. Had great viewer reviews. Woohoo!!After one hour I was so bored, I thought something has to happen any minute now. 30 more minutes, nothing. 20 more minutes, nothing. Whoever said this was good, scary, horror, thriller, interesting, entertaining, worth the watch for any reason at all -- sure doesn't expect much from a movie. It was sooo boring, a nap in an ant hill would have been less painful and more interesting. Even in the middle of the night, by yourself, out in the woods in a tent with spooky bloody snarly howling all around you, the hook hanging from your car door handle is a better story than this stupid movie. Don't waste you time.