Native American's speaking English in pre-colonial times, but it switches to native tongue pretty quick. The movie shows none of the important scope of the pre-colonial society that existed in Squanto's time.
Recommendation: Read 1491 and don't see this movie.
Goodbye 1491
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Reincarnation: The following is rated "R." No need to change into clean underwear.
Now we are looking at a Japanese movie that will be remade in America in about two years.
It starts out with the shot of people commuting across Japan. Follows with Japanese school girls gossiping. Something is wrong with one of the phones and she sees the reflection of a face. Rushing wind accompanies this graphic to let us know it is ominous.
Now we have a guy in an elevator. Camera whips around a corner and he's stunned. Now a guy in a restroom with the same camera whip and sound. More horrified looks.
Someone just hit by a car. Now flipping between bathroom mirror and car accident scene. The driver is trying to get away. Zombies. It just got better.
The story took off to the point where there is something legitimately creepy going on, so I would recommend seeing at least the first half hour. Beyond the camera whips and noise. After creepy scene, we get opening graphics. This is how a horror movie is supposed to be written.
11 minutes in and you want to know what that cut scene was all about. Creepy dolls and disappearing kids flashing across the screen. None of it out of place. I am digging this film.
I'm not giving away any more of this movie accept to say that it awesome. After the 25 minute mark.
An old horror story that is done well.
The next time you are over, remind me to put it on so we can watch a good movie.
It starts out with the shot of people commuting across Japan. Follows with Japanese school girls gossiping. Something is wrong with one of the phones and she sees the reflection of a face. Rushing wind accompanies this graphic to let us know it is ominous.
Now we have a guy in an elevator. Camera whips around a corner and he's stunned. Now a guy in a restroom with the same camera whip and sound. More horrified looks.
Someone just hit by a car. Now flipping between bathroom mirror and car accident scene. The driver is trying to get away. Zombies. It just got better.
The story took off to the point where there is something legitimately creepy going on, so I would recommend seeing at least the first half hour. Beyond the camera whips and noise. After creepy scene, we get opening graphics. This is how a horror movie is supposed to be written.
11 minutes in and you want to know what that cut scene was all about. Creepy dolls and disappearing kids flashing across the screen. None of it out of place. I am digging this film.
I'm not giving away any more of this movie accept to say that it awesome. After the 25 minute mark.
An old horror story that is done well.
The next time you are over, remind me to put it on so we can watch a good movie.
Portaits of a Killer.
Before I started to watch Portraits of a Killer, I sat down and was trying to decide between watching a Japanese horror film by the people who did some other wildly popular Japanese horror film, and "Portraits of Killer." So far, I have chosen poorly again, Portraits starts out with Sean Young in a night gown. I watched "Motel Blue" (The movie Punky Brewster is supposed to reveal her oversized chest but nothing happens), it was awful.
Wait a second, that's not Sean Young. Now there is a real chance the female lead won't get naked.
Now there is is a woman in a terrible New York accent talking about the current killing of the "Teenaged prostitutes of New York." Their are provocative fashion photos on the wall...
This movie really sucks.
I give Portraits of a Killer a 10 out of a 100 because it has decent casting. Otherwise. It really sucks. There are a few character actors playing to type for comedy. Otherwise, booooooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg. Sorry to let you down, on to Reincarnation.
Wait a second, that's not Sean Young. Now there is a real chance the female lead won't get naked.
Now there is is a woman in a terrible New York accent talking about the current killing of the "Teenaged prostitutes of New York." Their are provocative fashion photos on the wall...
This movie really sucks.
I give Portraits of a Killer a 10 out of a 100 because it has decent casting. Otherwise. It really sucks. There are a few character actors playing to type for comedy. Otherwise, booooooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg. Sorry to let you down, on to Reincarnation.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Alternate ending...
I don't really want to see a movie with alternate endings. It makes it appear that either the director put in an ending that tested poorly, and the studio made him/her do a re-shoot or worse, the director wasn't sure what she/he was doing. The one movie that I think alternate endings were absolutely necessary was Clue.
Other movies that I hate the alternate ending:
Clerks: Dante gets shot as he closes the store at the end of the movie. The shooter is Kevin Smith, playing someone other than Silent Bob.
Boogie Nights: Almost the entire script is different from the movie. I think they all showed up on set and decided to shoot an altogether different film, keeping the characters' names.
I'll try to update the list later.
Other movies that I hate the alternate ending:
Clerks: Dante gets shot as he closes the store at the end of the movie. The shooter is Kevin Smith, playing someone other than Silent Bob.
Boogie Nights: Almost the entire script is different from the movie. I think they all showed up on set and decided to shoot an altogether different film, keeping the characters' names.
I'll try to update the list later.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Penny dreadful
The movie starts out with a cameo by the guy from "Hills have Eyes" the original, He;s aged pretty well, and looks more handsome than ever. Penny is a little girl haunted by visions. I don't know if I'm in the mood for some "Mouth of Madness" type disjointed horror flick starring Mimi Rogers.
I think the cameo of this guy might be the best part of the film. Mimi Rogers is pushing this girl to "confront her fears" and "complete the circle." I think I might change the movie right now to "The Hamiltons." I can feel the seconds slipping off from my life, but I'm an insomniac, so I have time.
Mimi is a therapist, and the girl survived some tragic accident. I can tell you right now that the movie will be revealed through flashbacks (poorly) and it's only ten minutes in. The girl is on anti-psychotics, probably prescribed by Mimi, and hopefully something good. She didn't prescribed the pills, the girl got them on her own. I'm bored of this film and it's twelve minutes in.
13 minutes in and it's good again, they hit a hiker. Darn, the hiker is still alive. Sweet, they are giving the guy a lift. Movie could be halfway decent as long as she doesn't have flashbacks. I don't mind flashback movies if they are done well, but horror movies are rarely good flashback movies. The guy looks like a zombie. She's afraid of driving and she's trapped in a car with a guy that looks like a corpse. He's carrying a raw meatstick and they act like it stinks.
They are about to drop him off and he looks more dead than ever. If she is having a hallucination I'm changing it. Otherwise, it stays on.
I just fast forwarded ten minutes ti find out the killer is a meat skewer killer. I guess it's original. They also cast some classic horror movie actors. The meat skewer killer just got Mimi. I think. Could be a hallucination. Then he parked the car in trees, so Penny's stuck in a car with the body. Yup, car's good and trapped. She is too freaked to smash a window.
Promiscuous teens just showed up. She got topless. I wonder what happens next.
I would say she has three choices, learn to hotwire a car, smash the back window and run fast as you can, or die in that car. She's been freaking out for five hours now. Rigor Mortis has already set in Mimi's body.
Promiscuous teen just found the car. He just said, "I'll be back in a jiffy." Goodbye.
Both promiscuous teens dead in five minute span. I could paint by numbers too. Co-worker just called out "Where are you, this isn't funny."
Nothing else interesting happens. Another guy in a truck hits the hiker as he tries to kill Penny. He goes to investigate the body, twitch, roll credits. It kept the character in danger, but the only originality is the guy killed with a meat skewer.
I think the cameo of this guy might be the best part of the film. Mimi Rogers is pushing this girl to "confront her fears" and "complete the circle." I think I might change the movie right now to "The Hamiltons." I can feel the seconds slipping off from my life, but I'm an insomniac, so I have time.
Mimi is a therapist, and the girl survived some tragic accident. I can tell you right now that the movie will be revealed through flashbacks (poorly) and it's only ten minutes in. The girl is on anti-psychotics, probably prescribed by Mimi, and hopefully something good. She didn't prescribed the pills, the girl got them on her own. I'm bored of this film and it's twelve minutes in.
13 minutes in and it's good again, they hit a hiker. Darn, the hiker is still alive. Sweet, they are giving the guy a lift. Movie could be halfway decent as long as she doesn't have flashbacks. I don't mind flashback movies if they are done well, but horror movies are rarely good flashback movies. The guy looks like a zombie. She's afraid of driving and she's trapped in a car with a guy that looks like a corpse. He's carrying a raw meatstick and they act like it stinks.
They are about to drop him off and he looks more dead than ever. If she is having a hallucination I'm changing it. Otherwise, it stays on.
I just fast forwarded ten minutes ti find out the killer is a meat skewer killer. I guess it's original. They also cast some classic horror movie actors. The meat skewer killer just got Mimi. I think. Could be a hallucination. Then he parked the car in trees, so Penny's stuck in a car with the body. Yup, car's good and trapped. She is too freaked to smash a window.
Promiscuous teens just showed up. She got topless. I wonder what happens next.
I would say she has three choices, learn to hotwire a car, smash the back window and run fast as you can, or die in that car. She's been freaking out for five hours now. Rigor Mortis has already set in Mimi's body.
Promiscuous teen just found the car. He just said, "I'll be back in a jiffy." Goodbye.
Both promiscuous teens dead in five minute span. I could paint by numbers too. Co-worker just called out "Where are you, this isn't funny."
Nothing else interesting happens. Another guy in a truck hits the hiker as he tries to kill Penny. He goes to investigate the body, twitch, roll credits. It kept the character in danger, but the only originality is the guy killed with a meat skewer.
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