Damn, so many haters in here. Great movie.
Although the idea behind the movie is good, the mediocre acting, bad SFX and boring directing makes this "just another mediocre to bad old-school horror flick".
If you can overlook the horrible acting, it’s pretty good for the most part. But the last half hour implodes and ruins the film for me. Could have been a classic.
70s B movie feel, only worth watching in 2022 if you’re binging sci-if movies.
3 Thoughts After Watching ‘Scanners’:
I don’t understand how this film gets any praise. Yeah, the very basic premise is somewhat interesting, but the story is all over the place — and there’s a lot here that doesn’t make a lick of sense. I couldn’t tell you what Cameron’s ultimate mission was, or how one scene even led to the next. I literally had to force myself to continue watching.
In addition to an incredibly-weak plot, the acting was absolutely horrendous. Did somebody win a raffle to play Cameron? His lines were endlessly monotone and delivered with zero emotion. He was great at staring and shaking tho!
The score was another atrocity. The music was grating and often felt very out-of-place.
God this was painful to watch,
Slow like crawling Slow, bad story, boring characters, crappie like really crappie
Acting. Everything about this was just uninteresting and boring, and I've never had to grind a movie till the end as much as I had to with this garbage. Never again will I sit through this snooze fest ever again, what a load of bad acted rubbish. 1/10 for the head going pop.
Everything else
Trash just Trash
Just like a crazy stranger dancing naked on the freeway is better than him dancing in your kitchen, Scanners is the kind of kitsch that works best on the big screen.
The melodrama, the awful music, the ridiculous sound effects, the over-the-top acting, the cheap practical effects and all that cheese is almost enough to make you forget this came out 13 years after 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Didn't quite work. I'm not a fan of psychic power movies but the idea behind this one was good. The problems are that the charcaters are strictly plot based and have no identity outside of pushing the plot along. Sadly the plot doesn't have enough variation for this to wore. Just a few themes for too long when the world of which Scanners is set could have been explored much more. If youre going stick to a few ideas least find where the suspense and non predictable thrills are is within it.
The bad acting, especially from the lead, doesn't help. Some say its intentional because he was described as barely human. One line doesn't justify bad acting. And what does barely human mean? He is human.
Also too many boring scenes. Lots of scenes end in a fire - it was predictable. The effects at the end were great.
A lot of people read too much into this e.g it's a socially commentary on the mentally ill and social exclusion as they live on the fringe of society like scanners do... well where else was Dave going to base these characters who are struggling to fit in? Also not every scanner is doing bad for themselves in this movie.
I wanted another Cronenberg classic and I'm a fan so I was disappointed.
Shout by Mike_AVIP 5BlockedParent2020-12-05T06:39:03Z
I'm so glad I found this movie. It may be one of my new favorites. For about 75% of the film I was thinking just how much I loved this film! It's got that old school aesthetic. The directing is superb and the soundtrack is Terminator-esque. I see it's on a list of cult films and I can understand why. The weakest parts of the film in my opinion is slow start and the end which was rather abrupt. I'll be revisiting this film!