Sunday, January 30, 2011

The terminators


















http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1350512/
In the suburbs of Los Angeles humanlike robots (cyborgs) goes on a killingspree, they have turned against humans. A cybertech warfare program has gone way out of hand and we have seen movies like this before the terminator quadrology for example.
The cyborgs (actually just one actor who they have duplicated into various scenes) are big, buffed, muscular and with no facial expression at all, just like Arnie back in the days, they shoot rather before asking questions. They even has red glowing eyes and one of them heals himself as T-1000 did (after a gunshot) in T-2.

The backstory isn´t exactly needed in a movie like this, action, various acting but with a potential as the original terminator movies had, simply becouse they all are about the same thing.
The special effects (CGI explosions for example)



and the bloodsplatter are thypical b movie and if my ears aren´t going bananas - aren´t the sound bad like if it echoed or something?






A group of survivors flee L.A. and after meeting a man who saves their lifes our group of survivors plans to strike back at the cyborgs before all the humans have died.
It may sound like a really explosive big blockbuster hit, but as many of the b movies with smaller budget they (the movies that is) more concentrate on the caracther driven monologs, in some cases it is understandable in some cases I wonder why some of the big hollywood movies even was made in the first place. The terminators is one of those movies that actually has potential and yes I really like Sara Tomko ..




and yes the movie has it faults and all that but it is something about her presence on screne that just grabs me.





As long as you are fully aware this is a lowbudget b movie you might find it enjoyable in some point and specially if you like tough girls with big guns kind off movies. Sarah Tomko can soon be categorised as a b movie queen as much as Vicky Pratt - whos movies are also lowbudget and done with a passion. Not being biassed since I find both Sara Tomko and Vicky Pratt attractive ^_^


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- We have confirmed list of cities destroyd; Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Houston, San Antonio, Seattle, Portland…
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Official site with trailer and info
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=154

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Grizzly Man



















http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/

A stunning, sometimes surrealistic documentary about Timothy Treadwell who lived 13 summers with wild life grizzly bears in Alaska.
Timothy was in october 2003 killed by a grizzly bear and this is the story about his life.

Early on we see Timothy as some kind off naive man, maybe even a dreamer, who loves bears more then anything. By the scenery, the beautiful landscape of the Alaska wilderness and the beauty of the bears, I can in some way understand him and feel someway the same thing he felt.
Halfway into the documentary, we get another view of Timothy, a man who is maybe more dangerous to himself then the bears was and that is the surrealistic part in this.

Timothy lives close with the bears and consider them as his friends, he even speaks with them as an adult does to children. Timothy was spending most of his time there all alone and it got me thinking, if the lonelyness somehow got the best of him, turning him into this (somehow) naive and lovefull person (his love for the bears).

Werner Herzog, who have done the documentary out of over 100 hours photage that Timothy has shoot narrates us through the story - it actually feels more like a fabricated story then a real life story. Or as Herzog says; It seems to me like this landscape of termoile is a metaphore of his soul.

It is hard to grasp, to understand or to know a man who lived and shoot over 100 hours of his time with the grizzlys, the documentary is in 103 minutes, but we get a somehow reflection of him and his dedication.
If this review or the documentary does Timothys life and passion justice? We will probably never know, but what we do know is that he loved bears more then anything and sometimes that is more then enough.


Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogYDUmIigw0

Timothy Treadwell (1957–2003)

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Kyonyû doragon: Onsen zonbi vs sutorippâ 5


















http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1642252/
a.k.a. Big Tits Zombie
From the creator of Kiseichuu: kiraa pusshii comes a zombie movie that contains quotes from Shakespeare and Georges Bataille. References to Italian zombie movies, Italian spagetti westerns, Evil dead, Night of the livning dead and also japanese zombie movies. It is ofcourse none other then Takao Nakano
who have written and directed.












Rena Jodo (Sola Aoi) is a stripper, who have just after a one night stand with a bump (she was actually to drunk and slipped into his cardboard…) gets an offer to be a stripper at a spring resort. She accepts and goes there, she meets Ginko (Risa Kasumi), Maria (Mari Sakurai), Nene (Tamayo) and Dana (Io Aikawa). There are not that many in the audience, but soon there will be many of them there moaning, not so much though after their bodies, but more moaning after their flesh..

It is lowbudget and computer effects or plastic tools or other cheap theatrical props, as for example an well out of stone is actually built out of wood and paper. Renas chainsaw is out of old milk carbons - but it is done good so you don´t think of it that it´s fake. The blood is computer generated in afterwards and for when Rena slice her chainsaw through someones chest, the blood splitter but no mark on the shirt is showing.
We also get head spliced from her chainsaw, samurai swords driven through the back of the head and trough the mouth, attacking flying sushis, breasts sprayed full with blood, infected wounds that plop and plop so they almoust burst, flamethrowing pussies… yeah


, if these premises don´t make you interrested - nothing will. Oh, and a department manager from hell is also in it, he also has a card with he gives Rena, just in case she wont believe him, he is Blue Ogre.





There are a lot of funny scenes, the funniest perhaps is after our girls has had a sumo fight and a small man gives Rena some sake - in hope she will get drunk so he can take her to bed later on. The following conversation starts;




- You´re a strong drinker.
- Yes, I am.
- Hey, will you sleep with me tonight?
- No way! That´s totally out of the question.
- How dare you?
- It´s totally impossible to sleep with a creep like you.
----------------------------------- Cut to next scene Rena in bed with….

The movie is in only 73 minutes and it hasn´t got as many nude scenes as Kiseichuu: kiraa pusshii has. Kyonyû is infact in 3D ^_^
Beside all the close ups on breasts and butts it is a funny movie to watch mostly becouse of the dialogue.
Been a long time since I saw such a rater short movie with so many oneliners and memorable quotes and scenes that fits the acters. I can´t lie, this movie isn´t good, it… it it´s just so funny and that is something I love it for, it kept me entertained and for that the verdict most be; buy it now

Rena Jodo













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- You are to active to be dead. Just act like corpses.
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhKQHFIxZ2I

Official site
http://kyonyu-dragon.com/