Jeska Synius
The Bijoux
I saw it recently. I thought it was pretty good. All the stuff about Voodoo was fun. Some of the things the main character did annoyed me. She would just do some stupid things at times. Some things in the movie were predictable but I didn't expect a couple of things.
Overall it was a pretty good movie and worth a watch.
Yeah, there were some WTF!
scream moments at Caroline but I forgave them considering the rest of the movie was really interesting to me.
first of all remember it wasn't VOODOO but HOODOO...there's a difference. I just watched it last night and in the extra stuff there was a segment regarding voodoo/hoodoo and it looks like there's some bad bad blood between the 2 practices. Voodoo is a religion according to the extra...hoodoo is just practices without a specific worship...just for power mostly.
That being said, I totally agree. I HATED Caroline and I was so glad that she didn't win out in the end. I mean COME ON! She gets a nice cushy job. She only has 3 rules she really needs to obey...and she breaks all of them. She was a complete b***h to Violet right fromthe beginning and she didn't respect her at all. There was no indication that Caroline's character was so inquisitive until the gas station scene (which being from New Jersey and living in the french quarter in NOLA you would think she'd be a little more careful...i mean it's not like she was from the sticks)
Some of it was a little predictable but the ending really made up for everything in the movie. It seriously took me until she found the law books to figure out it was body swapping (altho i pegged him for a "bad guy" from the beginning) and it wasn't until they showed the mirror racing to her that i figured out it was Papa Justify and Mama Cecile from the beginning. I really liked it...you know once i got past Caroline being a complete b***h for no reason in the first half ... at least she had a reason in the 2nd half.
Plus, they were filming this movie while we were in NOLA 2 years ago...it was awesome!