 The Curve a.k.a. Dead Man's Curve from 1998. Hey, what's up guys? It's Josh here. Today I want to do a little movie review on The Curve from 1998. I think this movie was originally called Dead Man's Curve and then it was re-released I think a year later as The Curve. Now, this is a movie that's pretty much nobody has ever seen. I don't think there's any reviews on YouTube. It's one of those rare ones that actually went under the radar and certain aspects to this movie in my personal opinion were absolutely mind-blowing and possibly some of the best parts in movie history under certain circumstances. So what is The Curve? The Curve is kind of like this late 90s scream style urban legend style movie. It kind of focuses on the urban legend of if your roommate commits suicide then you get a 4.0. That's kind of like the whole trick of this movie and throughout this whole movie that kind of always plays a point all the way up until pretty much the end. So that's kind of just the main thing. It's not just a bunch of urban legends. It's based on that urban legend that if somehow your roommate commits suicide then you get straight A so they pretty much just jump around with that. You have five characters, three males, two females, two of them are couples. The other guy is just hanging around with the group. And that's basically, you know, the synopsis, expect like a scream style late 90s. That whole vibe, that's what this movie is. Let's jump into the pros of this movie. The pros is the twist ending. This movie has a lot of twists. The whole ending montage of this movie is about 10 minutes. Pretty much of all the movies I've watched, I rewatched this ending probably the most. I pretty much rewatched it several times that night, several times the next day. It just has this 10 minute montage of essentially three different twists. Absolutely mind blowing because I didn't really expect anything like it. I knew there was going to be a twist. I knew there was going to be a little something, but what actually happened completely blew me away. The entire sequence at the end from the music to everything that goes on is pretty much amazing and almost as perfect as you get. And that's the main reason for watching this. It's got this, you know, dark dreamy, similar to something like cruel intentions or something like that. And it's almost kind of mesmerizing the feel. It's like dark and dreamy and like almost fluid like it's in water, but it doesn't seem like what are you guys doing? And I really do like the dark dreamy vibes in this. I think they pull it off pretty well. They also had some unique shots. The very first time I watched this movie, I was actually impressed by a shot. And I think this is a first time writer, director, sources is his first time directing a movie. Pretty much one of the first times I watched that I was impressed with one of the scenes really actually impressed me how he decided to shoot it. And then when I rewatched it again for this review, there was a different scene that I really liked. It was a slow zoom in. And I'm a real big fan of holding a shot for a while, at least every now and again. I just feel like it helps you be more in the moment versus a lot of cut scenes. And then the last pro of this movie is it has a full range of emotions. So the first 30 minutes seems like the ending of like a really bad movie. So you're like, okay, well, that seems like the ending. Like what's going to happen? So then you have about 30 minutes of like cringy, hard to watch stuff. I'll get some more of this in the cons. But this part from 30 minutes to about 60 minutes, it's just uncomfortable. It's just kind of like confusing. You feel like things are obvious and certain characters are just, you know, walking right into problems and it's just really hard to watch. Then there's a betrayal about an hour in. And for some reason I was watching this movie and the betrayal happens. And I actually felt really disgusted. I was like, man, I knew this is just a movie. I'm not invested, but I did get invested enough in a couple of characters. And then there's this just terrible betrayal. And it's like, you got me to like it. It's just, it's confusing. And then you have this betrayal, you know, whatever. And then from there, you slowly go into the twist ending. A lot of the negative stuff and the hard to watch stuff doesn't really matter as much in the twist ending. So a lot of the things that bother you might not bother you at the very end. So that's pretty much the pros of this movie. I got a couple. The cons of this movie is there's really no likable characters at all. There's really no one to root for. You know, in the end, certain characters come on top, you know, versus other characters, but there's just not enough done for you to really want to like any of these characters. Up into a certain point, yes, but once you see the full scope of how everybody does stuff, there's really not too many likable characters, which is really not any likable characters. And it's just really unfortunate. I guess you don't need it because, you know, you're watching for the twist ending, but I just noticed that on rewatch and it was unfortunate that all these characters are just not likable and once you get to the very, very end, the main character was a little stiff. I will say that. And it looks like it's funny. This happened quite a bit in the nineties. They get a really good cast and then they get this like good looking white guy who's kind of like stiff and dumb and they put him as the lead main guy. It doesn't have that pop. It doesn't pop as much as it could have done because the other actors were so perfect in their roles. Like Matthew Lillard, who was in Scream, is in this. He's just so over the top, just so in your face, almost like uncomfortable how over the top and in your face he is. And the main character, although he's okay, but it would have been nice if he had a little more pop, especially during certain scenes. There was a lot of mean scenes in this movie and a lot of cringy scenes in this movie. The guys in this movie are so, so mean to the girls. And it's really cringy and it's hard to watch. And that's just pretty much it. And it's so unfortunate that these are so cringy and so hard to watch. And there's very little, you know, reasoning behind it or helping the story. It's just, they're really mean, just mean, mean, mean. I don't need to see that. You know, there's just no point to it. And then the last thing was it kind of has weak kills. I don't only want to get into the body count on this movie. This body count, this movie has a very low body count and I don't want to give exactly, you know, what that is because it might tell you a little bit about the story. But the actual kills in this movie and the body count are very underwhelming. And although I really love the twist, it would be nice if there was something a little more dramatic in terms of kills at the end. That's all I'm going to really say. If I were to rate this movie, I would give this movie an 8 out of 10. And it's really unfortunate because if they had done a couple of really easy things to this movie, I think this movie could have been like a nine or a nine and a half. Like if you had given us some likable characters, more in line with the twist and give you something to root for and make these scenes a little bit engaging, but just cut out the mean scenes. Like Matthew Lillard, like he just absolutely tortures every one of his friends over and over and over and they just keep coming back to him. And it's like, I don't want to watch that because he's really an effective character in this movie is being aggressive. So do I give it a buy watch pass personally? This is a buy from me because I don't want to say it's the greatest ending ever. And it couldn't be because of the rest of the movies, just so whatever. But I was absolutely blown away by this ending. You know, most of the time I said, it's a quick twist. You understand what's going on. Maybe you have 10, 15 seconds of like, oh, that was crazy. You know, but then it's like, okay, there's nothing else. But with this movie, it's just, there's always something else and it's probably one of the most unique endings I've ever seen. At one point I put this in my top 10 horror. I don't know if I would now, if I made a movie about the best or if I made a list about the best endings, I'd probably put this one in there just because this one's like a montage. Like even if you look at like Shawshank, Shawshank's kind of like a montage, but once you understand the big thing that Andy was doing, it's not as crazy as anything else. But anyways, guys, that's been my review of the curve. Definitely check this one out if you can handle a lot of cringy scenes and you like that late 90s horror. Definitely check this one out. Let me know what you think of it. I think it was streaming free on Tubi or Voodoo or something like that. That's where I saw it. You do got to watch ads. We're on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I could not do it without any of your guys' help. You guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.