hollywood movies: 2008

Timber Falls

When a young couple (Josh Randall and Brianna Brown) go hiking in West Virginia, they meet with local woman named Ida (Beth Broderick) who recommends that they head along the trail to Timber Falls due to the beautiful waterfalls and gorgeous Appalachian views. Despite prior knowledge that the trail is the least frequently patrolled, Mike and Sheryl decide to follow Ida's advice and end up abducted, tortured and fighting for their lives.

"Timber Falls" borrows a little bit from "Wrong Turn" (in fact, it was mistakenly marketed as "Wrong Turn 2" in Brazil), a little bit from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and a little bit from "Hostel". Unfortunately, it ends up less than the sum of its parts. The best scene in the entire movie comes in the opening segment which features a lot of blood and the rather gruesome way in which a young woman frees herself from imprisonment. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is nowhere near as bloody or horrific. With only one exception that I can think of, the camera subsequently shies away from showing most of what is happening.

The fact that it borrows from other movies isn't what causes "Timber Falls" to fail. The movie fails because the main characters aren't actually that interesting. They spend the first half of the movie making small talk or simply making out with one another, and the second half crying or shouting. You don't get much back-story either, other than some dialogue explaining that one of them is a nurse. Because of this, you can't really connect to either of them and ultimately don't care all that much about their fate.

Also of annoyance is that, instead of playing mind games with their tormentors whilst trying to think up ways to escape, Mike and Sheryll simply refuse to comply with their captor's demands and then get tortured. This is how most of the movie plays out. It becomes repetitive and (dare I say it) boring. The torture methods aren't particularly interesting either and there's absolutely nothing here that you haven't seen before in other horror movies of this ilk.

It's a shame really because you get the feeling that director Tony Giglio has quite a lot of talent. The Romanian landscape (where the movie was actually filmed) is captured beautifully and he fully conveys the gloom of the location in which the two main characters are imprisoned.

As it is, "Timber Falls" isn't a bad movie. It just isn't a particularly great one either. If you've already watched "The Hills Have Eyes", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Wrong Turn" and all the other scary wilderness/torture-porn movies then this will be an okay rental until something better arrives. If not then try one of the aforementioned movies instead.

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Apple unveils super-thin "Air" laptop

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday launched an aluminium-clad laptop just three-quarters of an inch thick, seeking to bring a new computer to market with the same cachet as its iPod and iPhone devices.

Apple also said it would let people rent films over the Web with upgrades to its iTunes online media store, a technological challenge to a movie industry still largely focused on DVDs.

Shares of movie rental firms Netflix and Blockbuster fell sharply in response, and Apple's own stock lost 5.5 percent since the announcements were widely expected and Chief Executive Steve Jobs failed to conjure up any big surprises.

Jobs set a high bar last year by unveiling the iPhone. In addition, many times he ends presentations with by saying, "One more thing..." as a prelude to something unexpected. This year there was none.

Still, Jobs' talents as a showman were on display when he took the stage at the annual Macworld convention in San Francisco to cheers and applause from a few thousand software developers, customers and Apple employees.

He detailed a series of new products and services but saved the laptop, dubbed the MacBook Air, for last, drawing it out of a standard manila envelope to emphasize its slim dimensions.

Jobs said the new notebook was the thinnest available, measuring 0.76 inches at its thickest point and tapering to just 0.16 inches.

Priced from $1,800 (920 pounds), the Air bridges the gap between Apple's entry-level and high-end laptops, but analysts voiced concern that it could steal customers away from pricier products.

"It's not really clear how many more incremental buyers you can drive, and there could be some cannibalization," said Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research.

Macbook laptops have been one of the company's strongest products, with sales rising 37 percent on the year in the fiscal fourth quarter ended last September.

NEW APPLE USERS SOUGHT

Phil Schiller, Apple's vice president of marketing, said the new laptop could appeal to a large swath of customers, including business travellers, those in education and people who wanted a more attractive computer at home.

"The goal overall is to continue to grow the business, so having another product in the line helps to do that. If the mix (of customers) changes a little bit, it doesn't matter as long as we grow everything," Schiller said.

Apple stock has nearly doubled since last year's Macworld, and in late December topped $200 for the first time, driven by market-share gains by Mac computers, continued iPod strength, and enthusiasm over the iPhone, which Jobs said had sold more than 4 million units since its release last June.

Jobs showed off new iPhone features such as displaying a user's location on a map and a way to customize the main screen with icons linking directly to specific parts of a Web site.

"The iPhone is not standing still. We keep making it better and better and better," Jobs said.

But the company has struggled to find a big audience for Apple TV, a product originally designed as a Mac accessory for watching Internet video on a television and unveiled alongside the iPhone a year ago.

"It's not what people wanted. We learned what people wanted was ... movies, movies, movies," Jobs said.

A new version of Apple TV will be able to connect to the Internet directly and download TV shows, movies and music through iTunes. Viewers will be able to choose movies directly from their TVs and Apple said viewers could start watching within seconds if they had a fast Internet connection.

Jobs announced deals with all six major movie studios and several smaller ones to offer movies for rental through iTunes, with new releases costing $3.99 and library titles $2.99. High-definition movies will also be available.

The revamp of Apple TV hardware combined with a broad selection of movies would give Apple an edge over competitors such as Amazon.com (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research), Netflix and Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research), American Technology Research's Wu said.

News Corp's (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Time Warner's (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Warner Bros, Viacom's (VIAb.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Paramount, General Electric's (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Universal, Sony's (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) Sony Pictures, Lionsgate (LGF.N: Quote, Profile, Research), MGM and New Line have all signed on to Web rentals, Apple said.

"It's too early to declare that this is going to be a big hit but this is arguably the best offering out there right now," Wu said.

Apple shares fell to $169.04, while mail rental firm Netflix (NFLX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) shed 3.2 percent, and top video rental chain Blockbuster Inc (BBI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) dropped nearly 17 percent.

(For more tech news see the Reuters Mediafile blog at blogs.reuters.com/mediafile)

(Additional reporting by Duncan Martell in San Francisco, Sinead Carew and Kristina Cooke in New York; Editing by Toni Reinhold and Braden Reddall)

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