Reviews
Weapons of Massturbation
Piranha 3D
posted by Kattastrophe on August 26, 2010
Remaking a movie from an era when horror movies were campy, exploitative, and wicked fun can be difficult, to say the least. But, man. Aja pulled that shit off.
I'd been excited since I saw the preview. We were supposed to go grocery shopping that night. So, we stopped for some pre-shopping food. Then we somehow ended up at the theater.
Me: "Omigod! Piranha 3D! Piranha 3D! I wanna go!"
Xian: "No."
Me: "Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease..."
Xian: "Fine. I'll take you to see... Read more...
A Delve into Dreams
Inception
posted by Kazallo on July 22, 2010
About twenty years ago my dad told me something in a movie theatre at the age seven. He said “as you get older you go to see films based on who directs them over who stars in them.” I’d never really thought about it until a few movies really caught my eye. ¬One such film was “Memeto,” a bizarre story of a man with no ability to form new memories hunting down his wife’s killer. To make matter’s even more difficult the film is told backwards. It was fantastic. Obviously if you’re here reading... Read more...
Changed the Rules
Splice
posted by Kattastrophe on July 01, 2010
Everything about this trailer told me it would be a ridiculous creature feature. In fact, the only reason I saw it was to farm it for ideas and write the review. It's a bit like Event Horizon. The trailer kinda shows you what the movie's about, but leaves out the critical information that would push the movie from "maybe I'll see that" to "hells yeah! Let's all go to the movies!" But it almost works in the movie's favor. Much like Event Horizon, the less you know about it going in, the more... Read more...
Hercules and Gurl Power
Hercules and the Amazon Women
posted by JoVo on June 28, 2010
Little else ever captured my imagination the way that Greek mythology did. Of course I started out reading all the children's story books. Then, in 1994, I was sitting in front of my Macintosh computer (with my brand new TV tuner) and discovered Action Pack, a series of television movies that featured interesting but sometimes really bad shows like TekWar and Cleopatra 2525. It was primarily a guilty pleasure, but nobody had done Hercules the way that Action Pack did Hercules in... Read more...
I'm a Monster... Rawr!
Where the Wild Things Are
posted by JoVo on June 28, 2010
I first read Where the Wild Things Are, the 1963 children's book by Maurice Sendak, when I was in kindergarten. I read it over, and over, and over. I never put it down until Madeleine L'Engle kicked Sendak out of my young child brain. Still, the book always stayed with me. It colored my imagination the way it probably colored many of yours. The moment the promo spots for the film adaptation of this classic book showed up on TV and YouTube, many of you probably brimmed with nostalgic... Read more...
Drowning Like Turkeys
Heavy Rain
posted by Kattastrophe on June 21, 2010
I was really excited about Heavy Rain. I wanted so badly for it to be good. At least good enough for me to finish. I played the demo the day it came out and it was pretty awesome. I’m used to my Xbox controller, so I had some problems remembering where the buttons were, but that was my issue, not the game’s.
At various points throughout the game, you play one of four characters; Ethan Mars, a divorced father, Norman Jayden, an FBI profiler, Scott Shelby, a private eye, and Madison Paige.... Read more...
This Is What You Call An Apocalypse?
Legion
posted by Ezekiel on June 21, 2010
Every now and then when I'm out wondering what movie to watch, I think back to those films that friends have warned me against. Still I sit myself down and subject myself to just pure aweful. I'm not sure what possesses me to do this, or why even that I sit through the whole thing, or even with the case of "Legion" I do so a few times.
The previews pretty much lay out the whole plot of the movie, so really you as the movie goer are watching it for what? The explosions, the action, the... Read more...
Wanna Make A Deal?
Solomon Kane
posted by Ezekiel on June 21, 2010
Solomon Kane, it has some deep weight to it. Like something down deep pulls at you. I had never heard of it till just recently, I'm not entirely sure I ever had the chance either. But there are those lucky moments that you stumble upon something strange and interesting. That's the way I felt about this film, I went in expecting a basic hunter film and what I got instead a a story about redempton, honor, and killing some evil creatures.
This films seems to jump out from a historical... Read more...
Time's Up
Prince of Persia
posted by Ezekiel on June 21, 2010
Seldom does a film come along that takes your expectations and crushes them in pure awesome, this was one of them. I find it interesting that often films are adapted from games or books and for the most part they do a horrible job at staying true to the original, this wasn't the case for Prince of Persia.
Minus the obvious computer graphics, it was amazingly accurate to the orginal game on Xbox. The action was both amazing and daring, and the setting made me feel like I needed to dump... Read more...
Hell, It's More Fun Than You Know
Hellboy
posted by Kazallo on June 21, 2010
This film is a pleasant merging of action and horror. Overall it’s an action movie, but the villains are demon summoning Nazis and their infernal minions. In fact the hero himself is a demon conjured by the same dark forces intended to create the Armageddon. The themes are dark and although it would could easily have been a being a biblical boring fest it carefully sidesteps God, angels and even the bible. So for anyone that enjoys a good ole demon movie without listening to all those verses... Read more...