Friday, July 20, 2012
The Feed!
Plot Synopsis: Having secured what appears to be the ultimate venue in the form of the historic Brenway Movie Theatre, the Ghost Chasers, a team of reality TV paranormal investigators, are confident that their annual live broadcast will be one of their best shows to date. However, when the sleepy Central Pennsylvania movie house turns out to be a bit more active than they had anticipated, the prospect of record-breaking ratings quickly takes a back seat to the basest of all human instincts: Survival.
Ok, let me start off by saying I hate ghost stories. The Ring, The Grudge, they suck. I hate Paranormal films. Paranormal Activity 1 & 2 are two of the dullest films ever made. And lastly I hate Ghost Hunter shows. There lame. They usually consist of a group of nerds who go into a house, act like there bad asses, and never find a thing. With that said I loved The Feed. Which is strange because its a Ghost movie, sort of, let me explain.
The Feed is a bout a group called The Ghost Chasers. There going to do a live television broadcast from a supposedly haunted theatre. See years ago there was a fire in the theatre when a projector was loaded wrong causing the film to ignite. See old film is highly flammable. Its how Brad Pitt was able to kill Hitler. Anyway the guy running the booth died in the fire. Over the years strange occurrences began happening, concluding with a family being murdered in the theatre basement. The theatre is still open to this day, and the new owner allows the Ghost Chaser TV show to do a live broadcast. The usual stuff happens, like in all those shows. Reading off the charts, noises, flickers here and there, really ghost showing up. Yes turns out the place is really haunted by vengeful ghosts.
See here is why the film works. For starters the movie is actually the live broadcast of the show, complete with commercials. My favorite commercial is for a shady lawyer played by Lloyd Kaufman from Troma fame. You are actually watching the live broadcast. Interviews with staff, full back story on the theatre, the team acting cocky, everything. What really sets it apart is how they all act when everything turns out to be real. Like I said I don't want to spoil anything, but personally I would be scared if a ghost came after me.
The acting on this film is quite good for an independent film. You can tell the cast really enjoys, and believes in what they are doing. The production levels are also very slick, it has the look and feel of a live broadcast, but at the same time you know your watching a movie. It gave my wife and I a couple of good jump scares, and trust me when I say that does not happen very often. And finally it takes some of the old familiar cliches and adds realism to it, not an east task.
Overall I highly recommend it to all fans of Indy Horror, and Supernatural films. Very cool. Here's the link to purchase.
http://www.thefeedmovie.com/
Overall 4 out of 5 Stars.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The Big Boss a.k.a. Fists of Fury
Plot Synopsis: A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear
Ok, before I get started let me get this out of the way. I like this film, a lot. With that said its original title should have been Sum-Dum-Fuk-Family.
Its about a guy (Bruce Lee in his first big film role) who goes to live with his cousins, in search of work. They get him a job at the local ice factory. Once night a couple of the cousins notice heroine in the blocks of ice. They go and tell there boss. He has them killed, as he is a drug smuggler.
The rest of the genius's cant figure out what happened to them, they know they went to see the boss, the big boss I should say, so they go see him too. They also get killed.
Bruce Lee decides to go see him as well, but as hes the star of the film the boss offers him a Foreman job. He finds out the ice factory is a smuggling operation, then finds his dead family. He goes home and finds the rest of them dead as well, see they went to see the boss to.
So Bruce goes back to see the boss. But hes Bruce Lee, he strolls in eating his lunch, then calmly kills everyone, then get arrested.
Yes I know it sounds awful, if you've never seen it, but it is fantastic. Yes its dumb as all hell, but the fighting scenes are light years ahead of there time. And Bruce Lee has gallons of charisma, making the film that much more enjoyable. Check it out
Overall 3 out of 5 Stars
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Recoil
Synopsis: A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers - and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system
You know whats great about Stone Cold Steve Austin films? They have no plot, and little dialogue. In this one Stone Cold plays a former cop whose family has been killed, so he does what any cop whose family has been killed in a movie does. He drives from town to town killing bad guys.
He pulls up into a small town ran by Danny Trejo's biker gang. They sell dope, shakedowns, t=gun trafficking, the usual bad shit. So Austin kills all of them, then drives off.
Yes, that's it. His fight with Trejo is very dark, but I'm assuming that's to try and cover up the fact that when you see them standing side by side Trejo looks like a midget.
Violent, naked women, short sentences make this everything you want in a low budget action film. Just beware. Seeing Danny Trejo in 1080P Blu Ray can be frightening
Overall 3 out of 4 stars
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Burning Moon
Plot Synopsis: The Burning Moon centers on two bedtime stories that a delinquent brother reads his kid sister. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest
So Burning Moon is finally out on DVD, and worth every penny. Looks and sounds great. Its a bout a fat, psycho drug addict who's parents make him baby sit his sister on night. What kind of parents are these people? So he does what any psycho drug abusing ass would do. Shoots up some heroin and decides o tell the little girl a few bedtime story's.
The first is about a guy who breaks out of the looney bin and terrorises some chick he goes out on a date with. Pretty cool story, he wipes out her whole family. The 2nd is about a priest who is really a devil worshiper going around killing people. Whens the towns people (As I have said before towns people are always stupid) blame some big off and murder him, vigilante justice style he comes back for revenge. Full on revenge.
This film is very violent, and gross. Decapitations, guts ripped out, stabbings, drills to teeth, you name it. Its like an X Rated Tales From The Crypt.
Check it out!
Overall 3 out of 5 Stars
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Colombiana
Plot Synopsis: A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.
The skinny as all hell Zoe Saldana, who looks like Mike Tyson on crack stars in the film as a girl who watches her parents get killed when shes little. She escapes and comes to live in America where she trains to be an assassin. Sounds basic, it is. The opening scene where the hit squad kills her parents and chases her down is great. The first act of her as an adult killing a guy in prison is fantastic too. To bad there is still about 1 hour to go. One long boring as shit hour. I fell asleep twice.
Zoe should eat a few cheeseburgers so she can bulk up to lets say 75 lbs. She would look better. That's my only advise to her. My advise to you is to watch on cable. Don't buy the disc.
Overall 1 out of 5 stars!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The Green Lantern
Plot Synopsis: A test pilot is granted an alien ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.
I love comic books, I love comic book movies. My 3 year old son loves comic book movies. Green Lantern is one of his favorite characters. He loves this film. Unfortunately he is the target audience, because if your over the age of 6, and the effects don't amaze you, you are left with one pile of crap.
Ryan Reynolds stars as Hal Jordan, who is given a ring, which turns him into the Green Lantern. See all the lanterns use the power of green. The bad guys use yellow, as yellow is fear. I guess that's why you piss yourself when your scared, you know, as pee is yellow. Anyway a giant cloud of fear is coming to destroy earth and only the Green Lantern can stop it.
Simple plot, that's mainly because the whole film is a giant set up for part 2. Too bad this film made 50 cents and there wont be a part 2. Every character, was just a set up for what probably would have been a cool sequel. That is if they get a different director, and writer.
The effects are amazing. Probably the best I have seen in a comic book film. But there dumb. For instance, there is a scene where a helicopter is going to crash, so the green lantern uses his ring to encase the crashing chopper into a stock car frame and drive it on a giant track, complete with loop until it lands safely. Why didn't he just glide it down, or make a giant green blade, or even make a giant mat for it to fall on? Who knows.
If you have a small child, or your IQ is under 25 you will probably enjoy this. If not just stay away.
Overall 1 out of 5 Stars!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Cowboys & Aliens
Plot Synopsis: A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way.
So Daniel Craig gets abducted by aliens, and escapes, stealing an alien hand blaster gun along the way. As he was probably anal probed he represses his memories, and has short term amnesia. He stumbles into a town, and gets locked up. Harrison Ford learns hes there and gets his boys together to kill him, as he robbed Ford before he got abducted.
So when Ford and his Posse show up so do a bunch of aliens who snatch half the town. Luckily Craig has an alien laser gun thing, so he teams up with Ford to get everyone back, and stop the evil aliens from taking over the world, or whatever their plan was.
This film stinks. It is played way to serious, where it would have been better if it was done more tongue and cheek. I cant tell if Craig is trying to hard to look tough, or if hes constipated. Ford once again proves hes not a good actor, just a guy who got lucky playing good characters. The effects are good. But the one thing that kept bothering me was how Daniel Craig was killing every alien in sight with his one blaster gun, while all the aliens had them. Was he the only living being in the universe that was good with one? Or was he able to kill everyone because he has a license to kill? Wait, that was a different character. Avoid this film like the plague.
Overall 1 out of 5 stars!
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