American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
居然比预想的还要走心～昏迷20年的拉拉队长在37岁高龄继续回中学争夺毕业晚会皇后～个人成长/友情亲情/社交网络时代和千禧年的碰撞～看到致敬小甜甜的Crazy听到Hot in Here，Come On Over等时代金曲串烧真的情怀加分～
了解了一段历史，但是电影有点无聊。下次拍成个纪录片试试
i tended not to focus on the assumed smart alec itself as the main theme but immersing on the SOMETIMES uniquely chanted film language...
很教會的電影，Mel Gibson+Mark Wahlberg的奇怪組合，這兩位主演都是天主教徒，女導演Rosalind Ross應該也是個虔誠的天主教徒，好在我當過26年的天主教徒，完全可以理解這部電影的宣傳手法，巧的是我還認識一位肌肉萎縮症去世的神父，這是一部由天主教教會贊助的電影
艾弗以为船长和自己一样都是对着照片意淫的撸瑟，没想到船长真有个等着结婚的女朋友。
我是个无神论，所以对于宗教这部分感受不是特别深刻，但对于斯图人生中的几次转折却是很有感受，意识的改变也许就只是欠缺一个契机，然而由意识转化为行为并拿到阶段性的成果，那才是更为关键的部分！思后言，言须行，行必果，受教，受教！ps:梅尔吉普森真太有魅力了！！！
故事开头设定给的期待值过高，中间后面就平平并且转折特别硬……父亲和两个发小太好了，独领风骚女主角的客串还是有惊喜的。女主角演员瘦好多啊！但是看她胳膊皮好松……不是说减肥瘦下来皮不会松嘛……
冒险家精神是可贵的，狗狗也是很可怜的，但是把重要信息放在石标里跟出门没有留字条这种低级错误真是让人无语……拍的不如儿时看的小说杀狗取暖让人印象深刻……
主人公真的也挺不容易的 所以说 一般真的要遇到很大的困难 会有更大几率信教
看完这片子谁的想法可能都不一样，就跟stu和其他人对待苦痛的想法也都不一样。
前半段尴尬得让人难受 可能是代入幻想自己一觉起来老了二十岁太吓人 二十年后的政治正确台词很妙 但现实（欧美）也确实是飞速发展的二十年 很真实 后半段太暖了 特别是毕业舞会那段舞 感动到想落泪
前半段还是挺有意思的，尤其是女主昏迷20年醒来后，若有若无的带出对所谓政治正确和白左的粉讽刺和映射还是很好玩的，不过后半段后有些俗套，有点某名奇妙了。
说实话，主演的表演很到位，把一个痞子气的神父演的活灵活现了。
17岁的时候总以为20年后会有一个光鲜亮丽的未来等着你，但当37岁真正来临的时候才发现，象牙塔里的憧憬不过是一道被荷尔蒙涂抹的滤镜。美式校园青春歌舞片总是如此欢乐快活，一成不变的“不论肤色、不论种族、不论年龄，你仍然可以成为你”的美式鸡汤，虽然曾经的dance leader变成了dance master，但Prom Queen的梦想依旧。（我堕落了，连着两个晚上看了两部我曾经很鄙视的美国校园青春片，感觉好chill）（中美价值观的不同在于，中国父母会说：你瞧瞧别人家的孩子，但美国父母说：I‘m so proud of you.）【NF.WEBRip.DDP5.1.Atmos.x264-TBD/4.02GB】
看着别人的一生，虽然与自己大不同，但是整体的代入感还是次次打动我...
最后的煽情还算合格，前边人物的描写刻画太简单，导演叙事能力还是有欠缺。
我已泪流不止
在netfilx看到就点开了，毕竟最近看了那么多“寒冷”的东西…故事倒是挺一般的，但是想到是真实故事改编还是觉得很钦佩…在那个时代做真正开拓未知世界的探险家，几乎一无所有地生存下去，太厉害了。超简陋的装备仿佛在给消费时代的露营者们打脸x
-Man don’t lose when he gets knocked down, but when he won’t get up.
为了捍卫国家的主权，为了自己擅长的工作，坚持，坚毅，直到永远… 弑君者的老船长极地演绎，震撼到菜鸟; 期待后的失望，失望后的绝望，绝望后回归平淡，或许这才是生命的意义!
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