Friday November 30, 2007
Creepshow III - 2006
This was sad, really. The stories are juvenile and predictable. This doesn't appear to be either fish or foul. It's not horror, but it's not comedy. I'd really have to be drunk to think that this was funny or scary.
Only extra is a Behind the scenes. This is by the man & woman co-director team of Ana Clavell and James Glenn Dudelson that did that craptastic Day of the Dead II: Contagion. For all their talk about loving genre's and wanting to expand them, and how great it is to work as a team to accomplish anything, it really is amazing what a failure this pair's (as they are husband/wife or related) body of work is. I mean, when the Behind the Scene featurette is more interesting than the movie, you've failed.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
No movie due to attending wife's company party.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Paprika - 2006
WOW! The opening credits alone will blow you away. And the music is awesome too. So great I've already ordered the soundtrack from Amazon. This movie is similar in style and ideas to the highly acclaimed Perfect Blue . It is by the same writer/director (Satoshi Kon ), and is based on the novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui . This is one gorgeous and cool anime. This may replace Perfect Blue as the anime to see if you only see one.
Commentary is in Japanese, and subtitled, which is a little odd, but doable. There are also several extras that were very nice. Tsutsui & Kon's Paprika: interviews with director and author. Very interesting exploration of the director's creative process.A Conversation about the "Dream": 2 voice actors, director and author talk about the movie. Really nice and insightful. Finally, The Dream CG World: very technical but interesting. Quite a bit of detail about lighting and rendering and layering. Good stuff.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Live Free or Die Hard - 2007
McCain has become an almost comic book character of himself in the first movie. First off, he's become the luckiest SOB in the universe. Secondly, he evidently can't die. He can get hurt, but gunshot wounds that kill his adversaries just pain him awhile.
Basically, you have to leave your brain on a shelf and just enjoy the ride. The effects and action are great, provided your suspension of disbelief is turned up to maximum.
And hey, there's Kevin F'in Smith. What a perfect role for him.
Commentary with Bruce Willis, director Len Wiseman, and editor Nicolas De Toth . Another one of those commentaries with long silent parts. And Bruce Willis is a lot quieter than you might expect. He is VERY low key here. This commentary is fairly technical, some behind the scenes.
The only other extras is a Music Video and a behind the scenes for that music video. I skipped them, as music videos is only a half step above trailers as NOT extras.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Day X - 2005
One part Night of the Living Dead
One part Dawn of the Dead
One part Day of the Dead
One part 28 Days Later
Not too bad, if a little derivative. A good zombie flick.
Commentary has a single actor, Ken Edwards. Weird that the director didn't take part. And he spends WAY too much time just describing what's going on. He's WAY too gushy, he loves everyone, and thinks they're all awesome. These kind of commentaries are SO self-serving and pointless.
Other extras include X Days: Making of. Five parts, 50 minutes, VERY complete.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Anita: Swedish Nymphet - 1973 Sweden
The print looks pretty bad at the begining (you see what the Grindhouse flicks are making fun of with all the scratches), but cleans up pretty good shortly. Looks like a 70's softcore Eurosleeze. Got that crappy washed out look. But lots of natural boobage, so that's always a good thing.
People sure stood around and looked puzzled a lot back then. And wounded easily. She gets a cut and a black eye from a single open-handed slap.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you. I don't know why, but I was expecting a downer ending right up until the credits rolled. There wasn't one, but I sure was expecting it. Couldn't tell you why, just felt like it was gonna end badly.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Call of Cthulhu - 2005
Silent with appropriate music & dialogue screens. Very nice, arty and clever. My only complaint was that it was too damn short.
Other extras include Making of/Behind the scenes - nearly half as long as the movie and very good too. This is kinda a specialty thing, but the HP Lovecraft Society should be proud.
Icons of Horror Collection box set - Sam Katzman
The Giant Claw - 1957
Unknown throughout the horror community as the movie that has the stupidest looking monster in all movie history. A giant vulture looking thing that is SO obviously a puppet that I define anyone to look at it and not laugh. But there's more to a movie than it's special (as in short bus) effects.
Real uneven. Dialogue and acting pretty good, considering. And there's Morris Ankrum. This would be a decent B-movie, if it wasn't for the fact that every special effect is laughable.
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