Saturday, April 21, 2007

Night of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave

Night of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave B-

the movie wasn't brilliant or anything, but the film and makeup quality was good, the was a scene with a bazooka, and the main girl was liek omg.

-MilkmanDan

Fangs

Fangs D-

This lionsgate atrocity is set in the year 1998 and is about a race of genetically altered bats that are reeking havoc on a small town. The two main actors are horrible and have about as much chemistry as a creepy crawlers lab, and you think the main dudes daughter is hot until you realize that she weighs 30lbs and has no ass. Overall the script is predictable and lame with all of the jokes falling flat on their faces. The best character is the main dudes daughters boyfriend but he has about 3 lines rendering him ineffective. This movies bite is weak and sucks the blood out of the horror genre.

-Cook

zodiac

zodiac A-

this film might go down as fincher's quintessential work. its got classic fincher darkness, swooping camera effects, plot/character elements are revealed rather than just shown, and he adds some time elapsed shit to his repitare that works well in this film. fine performances all around the board. it works as a period piece, thriller, murder mystery, and character sketch. wtf the animal cracker bit was pretty lame.

-granola attack!

Fearless

Fearless: B-

Asshole arrogant unstoppable fighting machine Huo Yuanjia beats the shit out of every fighter in the city and gets so full of himself that he ends up destroying or alienating himself from everyone he could ever care about, with exile as the only true option. That is, until he rolls into Shanghai for a politically motivated fighting tournament that is created for the sole purpose of humiliating China. Jet Li has to save the reputation of China as a strong honorable nation through a series of fights, both physical and spiritual. The action moves at a strange pace though and I felt there was less action than there needed to be with Li's mediocre acting acting as a foundation for the film to be built upon just as much as his fighting ability.

-Josh C

Enron Smartest Guys in the Room

Enron Smartest Guys in the Room: A

This film chronicals the development of Enron as a company and traces its unethical evolution from a loop-hole exploiting corperate entity to a black hole of debt that it sought to repair itself by raping California to death amongst other things. I wash my paychecks were given to me on a mark to market basis.

-Josh C

Hills Have Eyes 2

Hills Have Eyes 2 B+

Gore was awesome and characters were surprislingly well developed and the movie actually made you care about them. Craven helped write the script so thats probably why it was acceptable.

-Cook

TMNT

TMNT: B

I was impressed with this film. It has rejuvenated my faith in computer animation in movies. The action was fast paced and reminded me of the old-school cartoons except amplified; their personalities were exaggerations of their traditional cartoon personas, the fights were better than anything the old animation could have delivered, and the new characters they introduced were actually badass instead of being fucking pokemon like I figured they would be. My only (I think only) criticism would be that I wish Donnie and Mike had bigger parts in the move. And that Casie Jones didn't listen to emo. Oh and who new that April knows how to fight? Anyone?

-Josh C