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The Experiment

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  • #2
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I thought it was ok, interesting subject based on a real experiment a few decades back. Some gaping holes in the story sort of ruined it for me, though.
    One of the prison officers not being able to have a **** so he decides to rape one of the prisoners.................come on.

    The volunteers being told explicity and repeatedly before the experiment that any kind of violence would result in it being stopped. I can understand the point of telling the volunteers this to make them think they are constantly watched................but then they allow a row to break out which results in a guy being killed...........and it still carries on.

    Brody's hippy character turning all forms of psycho and tough guy............though anybody would after being pissed on
    :pac:

    Whittaker was good in it playing a repressed man revelling in his new status of an authority figure but Brody's hippy character irritated me. He had only met a girl a few days before he did the experiment but we're subjected to pointless flashbacks of him and her as if they were a solid couple of many years.

    Overall, it was a decent flick with a good concept but it becomes weaker and dafter as the movie goes on.


  • #3
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Is it a remake of Das Experiment?


  • #4
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    kraggy wrote: »
    Is it a remake of Das Experiment?

    Yes.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment_%28film%29
    The Experiment is a 2010 American thriller film directed by Paul Scheuring[2] and starring Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker and Maggie Grace,[3] about an experiment which resembles Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment in 1971.[4] The film is a remake of the 2001 German film Das Experiment,[5] which was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.[6]


  • #5
    Eirebear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    Das Experiment is a great film, didnt realise they had remade it at all.


  • #6
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Eirebear wrote: »
    Das Experiment is a great film, didnt realise they had remade it at all.

    Yeah, news to me too. The original was very good.

    When will they stop making remakes? It's really starting to piss me off.


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