This movie is becoming the most talked about movie in a very long time. It's a huge love/hate movie. The majority of people here hate it, and there's a few defending it. I'm making this thread basically so you can all argue it out, and so that I can ask a few questions about the movie. Things I didn't understand. So, if you have not seen this movie yet, and intend to, don't read past this post.

Okay, so here are some things I haven't understood yet. BKB cleared some stuff up for me, but there's still some underanswered questions in my mind, and it's been bothering me. Hehe.

- I guess the one big question is ... what are those shadowey figures? Ghosts? What the hell?

- In the movie, they discover that everyone who is being kidnapped and tortured once visited Price (i think). If that is so, does that mean that Anna (Jonathan's wife) also visited Price at one point?

I really hated the ending because
1.)It doesnt make sense for the shadowy figures to intervine and kill Michael Keaton like that since all they can really do is communicate like they did with that serial killer guy
2.) The death of Keaton brings no closure for the movie and is rather abrupt. "Oh we found his body lying near the pit of a storm drain pipe. He must of fallen down". Its not so much the death of Keaton but he hasnt come in terms with his wife's death or learned anything new about his wife.

I was about to make a thread just like this! The White Noise Consolodation Thread, since there seems to be numerous threads on it.

I hated this movie, as well as the ending. The ending wa not poetic, and it really pissed me off. Offered no closure, answers...ect. I was really let down~

The shadowy figures were evil entities assisting the killer in doing what he was doing and when Michael Keatons wife kept giving him clues to this Via EVP, He interfered in the killers plan in stopping him and as a result, the evil spirits attacked Keaton and killed him and in the end, you saw Michael Keatons character in the WHITE NOISE, The one thing that intrigued him the most and now he was a part of it.. Understand?? :wink:

Read my reply to the ending in my post that I've offered.. The ending wasn't Poetic?? What the fuck?? :-s

I found it stupid that the 3 spirits could attack Keaton yet had to get someone to kill for them?

Ok, here's some questions:

How powerful are these ghosts? It's firmly established that they can only move through shadows and talk through the white noise and TVs, so I suppose it'd make sense that they'd haunt a man into taking out there victims. I could go with that. But what I can't go with is understanding how they were then able to possess a lady and kill someone. If they can do all that, why bother with that redneck serial killer? It took him weeks to sloooooowlllllly walk towards the kidnapped lady, but the ghosts kicked Keaton's ass. And since when do you NOT die after landing on your face from falling ten stories onto a glass ceiling? Even if you didn't, you wouldn't be walking around two scenes later with NO cuts, bruises or scrapes? And what was the point of the movie? Keaton did some mystery solving like Scooby and the Gang, got assraped by ghosts that look like Bat Boy from Weekly World News, and then the movie ended. There was NO point, NO resolution, NO reason for Michael Keaton to die. It wasn't symbolic, he didn't sacrifice anything, he would've just been completely fine if he let his wife die in peace and had actually been a father to his son.

thats the trouble I had with the film which is why I did not give it an A.

All those reasons I could've gotten over if the movie was scary. But there were three jump scenes, and NOTHING else. No scary imagery to make you think afterwards, just a couple parts where Michael Keaton looks REALLLLLLLLY close to a window or TV, and *BOO!*. My girlfriend, who never sees horror movies, called every last jump scene. Add the completely wooden acting, completely boring pacing, nonsensical ending and everything else and it's an almost completely unreedeemable movie. I don't automatically have every movie be an A+ and then say each one of it's flaws makes it a bit worse. Nor do I have each film start as an F and force it to work uphill to please me. I just take in what I see and, to quote BKB, "call em as I see 'em".

Have you ever messed with a Ouija Board Moviedude??? Depending on what and how you feel about Ouija Boards, there dangerous to mess with when it comes to opening up things we shouldn't mess with and the same thing applied to Michael Keatons character in the movie.. He was warned on more than 1 occasion NOT to mess with these EVP's and pursue them the way he was doing for fear of opening up something that could cause bad things to happen whixch is what happned when that Raymond Price guy was killed and his place destroyed... Now, as for your extreme rant about this so called woman falling 10 stories?? She didn't fall 10 stories but at best, she fell about 30-40 Feet and her fall was broken by landing on that roof she landed on and ot cement which YES, would've killed her probably.. It is possible you know to survive that despite how knocked out and bruised up she was from it.. Call it a freak accident.. It could go either way.. I've read where parachutist have jumpd out of a plane at 5000 feet and there Chute not opening and them hitting the ground and surviving.. It's hard to swallow and one would think they'd be made into Pulp, but it's a freak of nature and a 1/1000,000,000 possibility..

I was hoping for more creepy stuff. I still found it good but alot of holes.

Well I called this as wondering whether you actually saw the movie or not since I've explained every question you've thrown at me and I understood the movie just fine.. This whole "The acting is wooden" or The Editing and pacing was off" is really a bunch of old lady nitpicking as though you went to see this like every other Internet reviewer or critic in an effort to find flaws like this and seen who could nitpick about it the most.. I guess once again, I don't focus so damn heavily on everything being who what where when and why when it comes to acting and felt Keaton did just as good as anyone else would've done.. He played the role.. What more do you fucking want?? :laugh: I've PM'd a couple of people now with questions from the movie they didn't understand and after my explnantion of things, they seem to understand it alot more now.. ](*,)

I understood most of it. some of it did confuse me but its not the first time i've been confused in a movie. I actually had to explain half the movie to an older woman who looked confused.

Well, I guess I'm one of the few who had no problem or confusion understanding the movie.. It wasn't that difficult really to grasp folks.. I thought it was pretty cut and dry and to the point.. Sometimes folks when you read too much into a movie, your confusing yourself more than the actual content and story of the movie itself..

Well part of it was me not really knowing much about EVP first off. I find it iteresting but i've never really looked into it. I understood the movie for the most part. the thing that confused me was using the hick in plaid to kill poeple whe n the 3 were fully able to kill on there own.
BKB you should really watch Ghostwatcher and Frailty.

http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75633

Below is a comment from a poster over at CHUD.COM who calls himself "DudAlb" and this is what he had to say that best sums up how I feel about the people on the internet that said this movie was full of plotholes which is as laughable as it gets and he's right:

"There are alot of people at IMDB who are saying that the movie is full of plot holes and what not. It's unreal how many people just can't think for themselves and want everything handed to them on a silver platter."
If you have to provide you own storyline to make a film make sense, then the film was not well enough written and directed.
I am not saying this is the case with "White Noise", which I have not seen, but I am getting irritated at the way some elements of genre film fans will defend bad filmaking just becuase it is a genre film"..


=D> So true..

Um the second sentence in that statement is actually against White Noise not for it, I have no idea how you think thats a statement that helps White Noise, he just quoted another guys post and added that saying how the other guy is wrong about the whole people cant think for themselves statement.

What are you talking about, BKB? That post is blasting White Noise and the people that defend it.

Anywho, I wouldn't call this a "love/hate" movie, Zing. The only person that loves it is BKB. Not exactly polarizing.

No, I'm agreeing with him on the part where he says everyone can't think for themselves and need to have their hands held and everything explained to them and handed to them on a Silver platter and it's true.. I've had to explain this movie which really is easy to grasp to about 3 or 4 people now.. THIS MOVIE FUCKING RULES!!!! YES!!!!! :rock:

NO...it was downright awful

Cause you like the other braindead internet film nerds have to have everything handed to you on a platter and your hand held and everything explained to you.. Funny how I understood every moment of this movie with no problem while the rest of you(You included) read so much into it that you ruined it for yourselves by causing your own confusion over it.. ](*,)

NO...I understood everything, but everything about it just sucked. Why do you feel the need to resort to name calling if someone does not like this movie?

When did I call someone a name??? What?? Braindead Internet Nerds??? It's true..