"The Descent, Part 2" Review
Brad looks at the latest direct to video sequel, "The Descent, Part 2."
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HA! Someone should make that average in-the-middle movie. Call it "Descent Fever."
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Descent Fever would be awesome. Party Cop could end up down there to have a party, and then all heck breaks loose.
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Your pantomime of the cave critter crapping cracked me up. It was the hat waving that did me in.
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Sounds Like an awesome movie. Personaly, I didn't care for the first. It was ok until the monsters showed up. After that it just got stupid. I Have no desire to see part 2. Out of curiosity, I looked on IMDB to see who directed, and its Jon Harris, The guys who directed Kick-Ass. Explains why that movie sucked so much ass, IMO.
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Jon Harris didn't direct "Kick Ass," but he did edit it, along with the first "Descent." Seems like the guy has talent atleast as an editor.
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What, you didn't imdb correctly and you're bashing kick-ass and the first descent? I'm having a hard time telling though with such bad sentence structure, sorry. Also, you claim it sounds like an interesting movie just to go on to say you have no interest in watching it. Sarcasm much or just ADD?
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Stupid IMDB. It lied to me. Also, it was supposed to be sarcasm, I think. I dont know, It probably was the ADD. I havnt had my ADD pills for a week. To lazy to go out and get them.Im not kidding. Im supposed to take Concerta every day, but havnt since last thursday. Anywho... Anywho is my fav word. You guys should use it too. I wasnt bashing the first Descent. I really liked it up until the monsters showed up. It would have been much creepier if it was just about being stuck down in a cave with no way out. Monsters are boring. Close spaces are fucking scary.
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I LOVED the descent D: Why would they do such a thing to it?! WHY?!
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The Descent's Wikipedia page has a picture comparison of the two crawlers; and this was one of my favorite reviews.
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After looking at that comparison picture, I have to say that I prefer the Descent's crawlers. The idea of being trapped in a cave, with a bunch of fucked up looking, almost-human ABOMINATIONS coming after me... that's scary.
If I was trapped in a cave with the second one, I would just unsheathe my plus two blade of troll slaying, and slice the fowl beast in half.
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split the cave trolls in twain
and posting link for others
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crawlies.jpg
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Wikipedia lists there is going to be a sequel to this piece of crap lol.
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I personally haven't seen the version of The Descent with the happy ending as I only saw the theatrical version, which had the original ending. In retrospect, I've decided that this makes no difference and wouldn't have affected my opinion of the film. You pretty much hit the nail on the head. It sucked. And your impression of the crawler taking a shit was hilarious!
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Mental images of cave-dwellers defecating, and Joe Don Baker having a love child with another burly man will follow me to bed now...lol. Thanks for the warning, and the funny review!
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Yeeeaaaahh it's crap. The second really didn't capture what made the first so good: the atmosphere, the tension, the claustrophobic feel, the characters that were pretty likable, the surprise of having some fucked up creatures that may I say were never explained. Oh and the ending, the UK one, was really good. This movie had none, it's a forgettable cash in movie which didn't bring in the cash. What do you expect from a 4-5 year weak sequel to a brilliant movie and for me the sequel never happened
Also what I understood, from what I remember from the second, is that the creatures are said to be some inbreed humans that feel in the caves and never could go back and one of them was the grandpa of the redneck with a shovel. Yep and they now plan a sequel with the woman that gets to escape but she doesn't. What will they think up next: it was all a dream.
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Linkara is going to want his hat back
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Have to say, wasn't direct to video over here in the UK, we got a theatrical release. Though I did'nt go see it, I'm gonna pick a copy up today as I saw it for mega cheap.
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I still can't believe they released this in cinemas over here. I remember seeing the trailer before I knew anything else about it and thinking it looked about on par with something you'd see shit out on DVD. Then I looked into it a bit more and found out it was getting a proper release, and was absolutely gobsmacked. I still am, really.
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Wait a minute, they released a sequel to a movie in a region where the cut of it had everyone dying? What is this, Hamlet 2? (Which was awesome.)
A sick part of me wants to see how bad it is for myself. I love me some unnecessary gore but it just seems wrong for a film like The Descent. Plus, when I saw the DVD at Best Buy, I thought it was kinda funny that they put "The Descent Part 2" in an epic font with the chick striking a pose, as if this were Supergirl or something.
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The monster taking a shit impression may've been the greatest non-Snob thing you've ever done, Brad. That was just fucking hilarious.
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Brad,you should make "I hate this Fucking movie" you're catchphrase
Seriously,i read up that this flick was horrible so i stayed well away from it.
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What's with the hat, dude? Makes you look like a homo.
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what an intelligent comment.
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Wow, this movie sucked. I watched it after seeing this review. Before that, I didn't even know there was a second one. The first one is one of my all time favorites, and seeing how they destroyed everything that was good about the first in only 90 minutes was kinda sad. Only thing "good" about it was, that at least Neil Marshall didn't direct it. I like most of the stuff he's done so far, so it would've been a huge disappointment to me if he had directed this piece of crap. Imagining that there'll be a third one, and Jon Harris will be directing it yet again, makes me cringe. There was no need to make a sequel or a trilogy out of the descent, why couldn't they just let the first one be a great movie and move on -.-
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John Harris was the the freaking editor the the original movie and this movie was his directorial debut.
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Haven't seen this one (yet) but what you said about the redneck feeding the monsters... Maybe they're his inbred relatives.. Dark family secret and all. lol. I smell a part 3 hehe.
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I like the hat, it fits you well.
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Nice and entertaining review, as always. Thanks a lot.
I was surprised by The Moses (Spoony's brother) relatively positive review of the movie. (http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-descent-part-2-jon-harris-2009/) He criticized many of the same flaws (bright sound stage caves), but still came to a much more positive conclusion, calling it "surprisingly good".
After all i heard about the movie, i trust your verdict more.
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Couldn't agree with you more. This movie was aweful. I found it funny at how much it seemed like the movie hated its male characters. They all died horribly, especially the sherrif
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I love you Brad but you got to lose the hat.
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My thoughts when seeing the still of the video: "That's a nice hat. Wait, a hat? Wait, The Descent Part TWO?!"
Well, at least I understand that the hat was necessary for the reanactment of the crapping creature scene (glorious, just glorious), the movie on the other hand apparently doesn't need to exist.
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SPOILERS
about the ending about the red neck, earlier in the movie he said his great grandad (or something like that?) were trapped down the mine so i figured that he thought the crawlers were his family in a weird way O_O
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What a strange coincidence! Being a huge Fan of the first Decent I rented this movie today and as soon as I was at home I saw that you review was up. So I naturally waited till dark and watched the movie back to back with your review and your right with almost every point.
I'm especially pissed because I'm from germany so I saw the european cut from the first movie. That means that after every time watched Part 1 with my friends I had night long discussions wether the stuff in that movie really happened or they just went batshit crazy because of claustrophobia and killed each other.
So now this movie not only takes it's place as a shitty sequel, NO!, it actually manages to ruin part of the charme of the first one by stating that there were in fact fucking morlocks in that cave. Morlocks protected by some shovel-swinging redneck. Was that cliché really necessary? Haven't we already seen enough movies where some crazy are protected by rednecks?
I'm literally Über-Pissed! Fuck this movie. Da fress ich ja lieber frische Morlock-Scheiße!
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I liked the Descent 2. Sometimes when you watch a sequel to a great horror film shoddy is good. Descent 2 gives you more of the same except more of it. Its a film about killer trogs and sometimes that's enough.
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A cross between the Descent and Cabin Fever? I'm going to make that. I'm going to make that movie! And it will be better than either Cabin Fever or the Descent Part 2.
In my opinion, the downer cut would be the canon one for the original Descnet, making this movie officially non-canon.
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Descent Part 2: A movie so bad you have to watch it with a hat on.
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Brad- Hi. Sorry to be off topic but I thought you might like this story on NPR about Troll2.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126834363
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It's good to finally be able to check out the site again after a busy as hell past month!
Sorry to hear the film was terrible. I have been meaning to check out the first film for quite some time, ever since my prof gave me a recomendation about a year ago.
On the plus side, there is no way it can be worse than HIGHLANDER: THE SOURCE. At all. Ever.
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Your comments about it being brightly lit reminded me of something...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVh6-v4bRJc#t=7m25s
"In fact, you couldn't have picked a nicer day to film a night sequence!" - Tom Servo
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Your bad reviews are fantastic, Brad. Stop watching all those freaking good movies and give us what we want: you yelling about bad movies for 10 or more minutes. It's what the Internet is all about, man.
Well, that and lolCats.
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Ironically I just come to see this. Mind you I liked the original, though judging from your review probably not as much as you and although I didn't like the sequel I didn't totally hate it either. I will say though I had many of the same complaints as you.
The sequel does really have the feel of a quick direct to video movie, it's not a total bad thing mind you but it is a change from the original.
You may have not hated it as much if it was a stand alone movie and not a sequel.
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Just realised there is a film where a waterborne chemical virus turns people into evil cave-monsters and it is average! The Cave is a cross between Cabin Fever and The Descent. It's the exact film Brad describes, sort of, at a stretch, if you overlook the massive differences!
I still liked Descent part 2 and you can get it darker by turning the brightness down on ancient steam driven TVs.
The Descent Part 2 is gory, it has killer trogs and its a bit of a cheat. In other words it's like sequels from the olden times. Honestly, some people take films far too seriously.
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This is not a direct to video sequel. I watched this movie in a cinema. So it had a run at the theatres but still the movie was nowhere near as good as the original.
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This movie was released in the cinema here in the U.K!!! Kind of confused me as here in the U.K we have the sad ending in the first and not the happy ending like you guys have in America. But seriously, I kind of liked the gore parts as I am a gore hound but still the movie did suck. It confused me even more as there are American people in this movie when I thought the first movie was a British movie set in the U.K with English actors, english cars, and now the sequel is saying that its in America? Where the hell does this cave lead?
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Bwahahahaa!!! I nearly fucking choked when you did the creature shitting scene. That was magnificent.
Nice hipster hat, by the way. You got a scarf to go with that?
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I live in Turkey and naturally we had the European version of the first one here (I even have it on DVD). Thus when I watched the second one, all I could think was "The girl could never get out of there, how can she be outside?!". Seriously all I could think was this throughout the movie and I thought it was a "continuity error" until I saw your review. That killed the whole movie for me from the start and I didn't even care about the rest.
P.S. Yes as a child I watched "Turkish Star Wars" (Actually "The Man Who Saved the World") on prime time tv. How awesome is that? In highschool we used to even get high to watch it just to try and see if we can understand anything, as when sober it didn't mean much.)
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IIRC, "The Cave" fits the bill for the hypothetical movie at the crux of the X - it involved a water-based infection reeking havoc among a group of spelunkers exploring a cave.
And it was complete crap.
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Yowza! Seems like the movie electrified your brains with its horribleness. You actually looked traumatized from it. Talk about shock treatment.
Glad i skipped out on purchasing it today at FYE at the twenty plus dollar range and stuck to the under ten bucks like WATCHMEN.
Thank you Cinema Snob for suffering for us your loyal watching masses so we wouldnt have to. Hail selfless sacrificial man god of luxurious martyrdom!
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This movie was so bad it destroyed the first one for me. And that's all I have to say about that.
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Hey Brad, I love your reviews but today I can not agree with you about the movie Descent II. I personally love this movie very much and find a worthy successor for the first part. I hope they are making a third part. The tension in this second part was very good en the story was not a run of the mill story for a second part. Now only we need to know how the critters came to live in the caves!
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lol, sounds like the "puddle of shit" scene can be taken as a metaphor for this movie.
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This movie blows. Stick with the original.
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The evil redneck in the ending is a Double Agent with the russians and the monsters..
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This probably have been said that its only YOU who sees the bright lighting. Even the first one had thing like that going on because in cave like that there is no light at all. Its pitch black so of course you have to add lighting to make it a movie.
Havent seen second one and never will.
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Both Movies rocked!....none of you jaded punks knows F-all about good Horror.... If I cut off your balls you'd probably yawn and tsay "I'm so bored where's my F-in I-pod". That's because you have no soul from selling out to Diablow with a W at the end.
The only thing that sucked was Descent 2's Bleak Depressing-assed ending. How can there be a 3 if Elen dies? Let's start the 3rd film out with her doing a cool roll out of the way of the Crawler and then the Crawler kills the Redneck bastard and shites in his ear while she runs away...Then they go back in(without Elen who is in hospital asylum temporarily)back in with a Navy Fucking Seals and Big ass Alien Killing weaponery! Really Give those Crawlers a reason to Shite themselves! Kill all those slimy Biaches except an embryo which we'll need for The Descent 4 (on the floor)....I saw both films a few years late but I'm still the Man so Piss off all you haters!!!!!!!!!!
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God, this shitty ending reminds me of Humains....
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I think you and some other people posting are way too hard on this movie. Have you seen most of the straight to dvd crap that horror fans have been putting up with the past few years. This is superior to most of them. I didn't like some parts of the film. But this was worth watching one time for any B-horror fan. The gore and the monsters werent that bad.
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