Saturday, 22 November 2008

"Plan 9 from outer space"


This movie is debatably the worst film of all time!

From director Edward D. Wood Jr, come the cult classic Sci-fi thriller................more like sci-fi comedy.

Let me just say that this movie is so bad that it's good, there are so many errors that this makes for a great treat just to watch it.

Lets get to it, the plot involves aliens who are trying to stop the people of earth from inventing a bomb that could destroy the whole universe by resurecting the earths dead, and that's pretty much it, all thats left in the movie is a series of continuity errors and well, let me explain through some examples.

For starters one of the zombies is played by Bela Legosi who played Dracula in the 1931 movie "Dracula", but remember this movie was made in 1959, almost 2 years after his death, so how did Ed Wood make it work, well before hand Ed Wood shot silent footage of Legosi wondering around in his dracula cape just days before he died, footage of him walking out of his house and smelling the flowers, footage of him at funeral and thats about it, and then he incorporated those shot into the film and got his wifes cyropractor to fill in the role by covering his face with the cape, and throughout the movie it is so god damn obvious that it is not Bela Legosi.

One thing that was really weird and pointless was that the movie began with an introduction from Pshycic Criswel, now let me quote part of what he said "Future events such as these, will effect you in the future". Do I need to point out the total stupidity of this line, nope, didn't think so. He also narrartes over some of the film, but only the silent footage shot of Legosi and that is it, after a while you forget that he was even there and we he returns at the end of the film you realise how fucking pointless it was having him there in the first place.

Lets move on, every now and then the film would cut from footage shot in a studio and footage shot outside, just to say the footage shot in the studio look like noght time, and all the footage shot outside was filmed during the day so, whenever there would be a cut from studio to outside it would shift from day to night, now let me just say this happens a lot, and when it does you will be laughing your ass off.

All the actors in the film are just so fucking bad, let me give you an example of the worst actor in the movie, thank god he dies early in the film, woops spoiler. Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson plays a police officer would couldn't act to save his life, the only time he ever acts moderatly good is when he becomes a Zombie, why, because, HE NEVER TALKS!!! When he was alive you could not undertand a single fucking word he said, he just mumbled a lot and gets on your nerves and makes you laugh at the same time.

Then theres as funeral seen and the man playing the preist can't act either, you know what scratch that, the only person who can mildly act in this movie was Paul Marco as the cop Celton who is constantly confused and sometimes acts like an idiot, this has to be a comedy.

What else was there.......................... oh yeah there was a scene where the army attacks the flying saucers (Hubcaps on strings, lol) but all it is, is just stock footage of tanks and jeep shooting into the sky at either airoplanes or they were just testing or something.

There are so many memorable scenes in this movie that I could go on for ages but I am not going to let's just rap this up.

The whole movie has strange use of voice overs, bad acting, bad editing which cut out some diologue, weird special effects, strange use of stock footage, it begins like a really bad documentary and is more like a comedy than a thriller.

WHAT THE HELL!!!!

***/*****

Fuck it.

Sunday, 9 November 2008

No country for old men



Wow!

This film is pretty damn good.

I'm not going to waste too much of your time so lets just jump right into it.

First off, there is no music in this film what so ever, there is only one moment of recorded music and that is in the end credits. But I would have to say that the lack of music just enhances the suspense factor, other films might just try and use loud noises or creepy music to create and element of suspense but this movie doesn't need that and for that it woks very well.

The plot of the movie involves some guy played by Josh Brolin is out hunting or something like that he stumbles across a whole load of dead bodies, a tonne of herion and over 2 million dollars in cash, after he decides to take the cash he finds himself in a suspensfull game of cat and mouse when an assasin played by Javier Bardem starts going after him to get the cash back, and killing him if neccaserry, even if it's not. And in the mix of all this Tommy Lee Jones is the sherrif of a local police station and he is out to investigate.

So thats about it really, theres only really one more thing left to say, and this is probably regular with Coen brothers films and that is, it gets to be a little bit confusing in places but appart from than that this film is very goodand to be honest with you I really don't know what to give this film.

****1/2/*****

Yeah, that ought to do it for now.

Oh and I know what your thinking, what the title about?

Well to be honest, I don't know, I think it might have something to do with Tommy Lee Jone's character because he starts going on about how he old, but really I have know fucking clue.

Thanks for reading.

Saturday, 1 November 2008

Quantum of solace


JAMES FUCKIN BOND!!!!!!!!!!!

Daniel Craig is back as James Bond in the new movie "Quantum of solace".Well after Casino Royale it would be a big job to make the follow up and well by watching this movie you can see that it was trying it's best but it didn't surpass unfortunatly, but that doesn't mean to say the movie's bad, lets take a better look into it, shall we.

Before we go into it lets just sort something out here, what the hell does Quantum of solace mean? Well I have a vague idea, Quantum is the name of the secret organisation in the film and solace,.......well I haven't figured that out yet, whatever lets get going.
From begining to end one things is for sure this film has got way more action than the last one, however even though the car and boat chases were filmed pretty well, the other action sequences all seem to suffer from a prblem that many other films seem to suffer from, the camera's are too close and theres a lot of fast editing, you still get the idea of whats going on but it's still annoying in some places.
The other problem is that well the story line was rushed through a bit too quick and doesn't reall give you a lot of time to catch up and get the idea and fully understand whats going on, but by the end you should have a vague idea of what it's all about.
But in the long run apart from these 2 flaws Quantum of solace is not as good as Casino royale, but I do understand that the film makers were obviously under a lot of preassure to delliver a movie that would surpass Casino royale, but in the long run it does develope the characters further and does a pretty good job in carrying on from Casino royale.
***/*****
There you go.
By the way, yes the gun barell sequence is in the movie but it is not at the begining, it's at the the end that will be something to look forward to.
P.s. the theme by Allicia Keys and Jack White wasn't too good but it goes well with the title sequence but of course it is no here near as good as the last theme.