Chatroom

There is the feeling that, despite making The Ring, Nakata had a script dumped into his hands and wasn't allowed to take a more methodical take on the material, only given permission to interpret the internet as a grungy apartment complex, an interesting idea until its gets to the sex perverts and you're viewing a conservative take on a subject that could have been a lot thoughtful. The same is true for the main drive for the film despite admirably trying to deal with teen depression.

Not a bad film. I didn't know that the movie was gonna be like this... somewhere I read it was a comedy. Jokes on me. Anyway, the choice to make the internet physical was a great one, and so the movie had some nice cinematography. I like the look into the seedy part of the internet, though the movie could have used some more work in a bunch of different ways. Still, an interesting idea about a good subject... the idea may turn off people who LOLZ INTERNET.

It ain't no Unfriended that's for sure!

#14#, story, Imogen.P!

Part arthouse part bargain-bin, an intriguing concept - how would a physical representation of a chatroom work on film? how does the distinction between physical and virtual worlds affect our lives? - that gets bogged down in cliche, over-the-top and surface-level drama. The potential and talent was there, but it doesn't work out.

The hope of Chatroom is that a novel take on an interesting idea would be enough to distract us from a complete lack of drama or thrills. It's not. The primarily online setting doesn't allow for deep characters, the offline scenes don't compensate for this, and the chatroom idea would have been more appropriate 15 years earlier. While the message is sound and there are some visual flourishes almost worth seeing, I can't recommend that you see Chatroom.

Doesn't work so well on film - clearly made for the stage.

Builds up the tension nicely with a close and dramatic-stage-play-like- setup but loses impact in the final (irl) act.

Chatroom is an intense movie, though a bit weird. It's an interesting concept (what if a chat room played out in real life), but the execution isn't great.

intehar, internet, chat odasi (babasi tarafindan terk edilen cocuk, cahat odasindaki baska bir cocuk tarafindan intihara sürüklenmek istenir.)

Interesting.