Just got back from a midnight showing of Piranha 3d and I have to admit it was more enjoyable than I thought it would be.
To be honest I had a few drinks before the movie so I was rip roaring and ready to go. First off the beginning of the movie has a cameo,a somewhat surprise cameo from a well known actor, reviving one of his most beloved and famous roles. Side note alto of the sheer enjoyment of the movie were scenes that were featured in the trailer, but now you get to see them in 3D. Anyway the movie starts off slow after "said" awesome opening and doesn't really get moving for another half hour.
But when it gets going the blood, guts and nudity don't stop for the rest of the movie. The characters are really ho-hum so who cares as they slowly become chum. But I did end up rooting for some characters to live but felt nothing when they died because their deaths are carnage candy, realistic flesh wounds and bite marks. Blood clouding the water and there is a symphony of body parts dropping through the water. I would expect nothing less from the director of the remake of The Hills Have Eyes and Haute Tension.
I could rip on the 3D, but that's kind of passe, it accents a couple scenes of the movie but otherwise no real purpose. However there are two scenes that are interesting. 1. A nude lesbian scene underwater and another that I wont spoil I'll just say Sausage!
The last thing to note is the awesome cast in the movie, Elisabeth Shue, Richard Dreyfuss,Ving Rhames, Christopher Llyod, Eli Roth and Jerry O'Connel. they are all in on the joke and each bring something to the movie. Once again I can happily say "Don't Go In The Water"!!
P.S. See Scott Pilgrim!!
Friday, August 20, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
Me: Hey roomie, I just rented 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams. The only movie with Bill Mosley and Ahmed Best.
Roomie:Mesa is the Devil and Mesa is here to do the devils work.
The following exchange and maybe a couple moments of dialogue are the only moments of enjoyment I got from the movie.
The sequel to the remake of 2000 Maniacs is very much an acquired taste. Bill Mosley replace Robert England as the mayor of a southern town that was raped, pillaged and burned to the ground by Union officers during the civil war. Now as Ghosts?Zombies? Unknowns? They must kill 1000 northerners to avenge each lost soul. Kinda of a goofy story but I've heard worse and sometimes no story whatsoever in horror movies. In our sequel they take their show on the road and meet up with two royal celeb princess, think The Simple Life, and their crew filming a show out of a van. Well the two meet up about a long 20 minutes into the movie and the southerners proceed to kill them one by one.
Now there are a decent number of deaths but they are spread out over the movie and when there is no carnage there is only joking around by the towns folk and some screwing around by the t.v. crew. The main problem is those jokes are not funny, most cringe worthy and the screwing around is in no way sexy. Maybe the movie tries to be to many things but I would give them that much credit.
The gore and violence are as uninspired as the joke. Cheap effects including a saw that looks card board and a fake eletric chair are all they got to go on. the rest goes downhill. As for the characters, I'm use to having unlikable villains, but in this everyone is unlikable. I could care as much about villians as I do the stupid victims. Now it is just a shot at reality t.v. and celebulites but who really cares anymore, you making jokes proves you still want to talk about them.
In summation, maybe its just a really big laugh than I'm not in on. My only other thought watching it was they want to end their curse, but they choose to kill so slowly that one might assume at this point they really are monsters and care more about inflicting pain then getting vegence. But on that note half of the crew on the show arent from the north anyway. I think I just put thought into this than they did.
Roomie:Mesa is the Devil and Mesa is here to do the devils work.
The following exchange and maybe a couple moments of dialogue are the only moments of enjoyment I got from the movie.
The sequel to the remake of 2000 Maniacs is very much an acquired taste. Bill Mosley replace Robert England as the mayor of a southern town that was raped, pillaged and burned to the ground by Union officers during the civil war. Now as Ghosts?Zombies? Unknowns? They must kill 1000 northerners to avenge each lost soul. Kinda of a goofy story but I've heard worse and sometimes no story whatsoever in horror movies. In our sequel they take their show on the road and meet up with two royal celeb princess, think The Simple Life, and their crew filming a show out of a van. Well the two meet up about a long 20 minutes into the movie and the southerners proceed to kill them one by one.
Now there are a decent number of deaths but they are spread out over the movie and when there is no carnage there is only joking around by the towns folk and some screwing around by the t.v. crew. The main problem is those jokes are not funny, most cringe worthy and the screwing around is in no way sexy. Maybe the movie tries to be to many things but I would give them that much credit.
The gore and violence are as uninspired as the joke. Cheap effects including a saw that looks card board and a fake eletric chair are all they got to go on. the rest goes downhill. As for the characters, I'm use to having unlikable villains, but in this everyone is unlikable. I could care as much about villians as I do the stupid victims. Now it is just a shot at reality t.v. and celebulites but who really cares anymore, you making jokes proves you still want to talk about them.
In summation, maybe its just a really big laugh than I'm not in on. My only other thought watching it was they want to end their curse, but they choose to kill so slowly that one might assume at this point they really are monsters and care more about inflicting pain then getting vegence. But on that note half of the crew on the show arent from the north anyway. I think I just put thought into this than they did.
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