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Predators (2010)
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I'm so excited about this movie, i don't know where to begin.
i'll start with my personal mindset. i saw one single trailer for it, and that's it. i didn't get into any hype, or watch as many trailers as i could find on the internet. i just knew it would be good. i like to wait in suspense for a film to be released. i wasn't sure if this was a direct sequel, or a remake, but the title should have been an obvious clue. PREDATOR to PREDATORS, ala ALIEN to ALIENS. how do you make a monster movie even scarier? make another one with a TON of monsters! brilliant! its a great concept that sort of came up in predator 2, but that sh*it was just too silly for me. I'm not even going to talk about the AvP series, because that was just some gimmicky, childish, video-game-movie B.S.
i'm also not going to do what most other reviewers do and just sum up the entire plot in four paragraphs. no, this movie is worth paying to see, and is most definitely worth the surprise.
film and cinema should be an experience. there are very few films i have ever seen that you can actually FEEL the energy of everybody around you immersed in the world on screen. this film is one of them. as an example, whenever a predator died, the audience would cheer "YEAH!" not to mention the scene with the Yakuza in the field, having a one-on-one sword battle with a predator. when the battle ended, the entire theater was roaring with applause! that scene would have nearly got a standing ovation if only it were at the end of the film. people never actually clap in theaters any more!
this is very surprising and exciting to me, because usually sci-fi and horror films are just generally very shallow and tired. i really, really, really hope another predator movie as good as this one is made in less than 20 years.
there have already been some other reviews saying the movie was very serious, and humorless compared to the original. i couldn't disagree more. there were quite a few times where the audience was gut-laughing, maybe even a bit too much for my comfort. i mean, chingao! so get off the internetz, get out there, and see this movie as soon as you can!
-eric
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
i will at least give this a 3 since they tried. i mean they made a movie, what did you do?
6:59pm - i received a text message from an old friend: "im watching the human centipede. im really creeped out by the concept of the movie. terrible terrible. u gotta watch it. don't look it up just see it."
after watching it, i drove home at midnight and almost had to pull over cause i thought i was gonna puke. but... i felt the same way after being tricked into seeing 2girls-1cup and other awful images.
i agree that the characters all lack any depth (o hai Japanese guy with playboy tattoo!), but some people seem to be curious about why the doctor does what he does. i didn't get a mad scientist vibe from this character at all, as others do. the first scene of him caressing the picture of his dog/s - obviously some kind of strange fixation. and when our girls ask him, "do you live here with your wife?", he says something like "no... i hate human beings." isn't that reason enough? he sees us as dogs. but again, due to bad writing, we are never sure if he's creating a creature out of passion or if this is just torture for the humans he apparently hates.
the blown up images of siamese twins around his home might offer some insight though. it seems as if his career and skill revolved for years around separating beings to save their lives, now he wishes to put beings together and destroy them instead.
11:47pm - i replied to above text message: "dude, i f*ckin hate you for recommending that movie to me."