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Alien Resurrection (1997)
At Least There Wasn't Any Black Goo In It
At least there wasn't any black goo in it.
It's like the Batman & Robin of the Alien Universe.
Paging Joel Schumacher.
Paging George Clooney's nipple-suit.
What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age.
What killed the Alien-verse? The Frenchman... and Fox.
At least it was "hilarious."
At least it had the water scene. I always wondered.
At least Alien: Romulus quoted it.
At least Alien: Romulus ripped it off... same but different... but still the same.
At least David Fincher tried to warn the Frenchman.
At least the cinematographer from Seven also cinematographered this movie.
At least the Frenchman went on to direct Amelie next.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Ice Cream, You Scream, Hackman Screams
Some of the finest scream-acting of Hackman's career. Borgnine comes in a close, screamy second.
The Surface (2014)
Pass The Nitro
I wish someone would've drank the nitro glycerin... Hell, I wish I had it to drink during this movie.
Seven Chances (1925)
I Do All My Own Stunts...
Dem stunts!
Keaton is subjectively my favorite. Objectively, Chaplin has him beat by a mile in the pathos department. But I'd still rather watch BK.
This movie is great, so much economy in the storytelling, but yet so rich and always engaging.
Not my favorite BK film, but the last 15 minutes are almost unparalleled in practical effect movie history. I can't even imagine filming that hill scene with the gear those dudes had.
Amazing to think that the tech these guys had and they could create such great story, contrasted to all the advancements in modern film making that produces much dreck.
BK4EVA
#Keatonzilla
As Above, So Below (2014)
Found Footage, May it R.I.P.
I haven't written a single review for any film in my entire 11 years on IMDb - I just watched AASB today and it compelled me to write. What a terribly transparent movie - like a big automaton that marches on without any reason. I felt it was so awful because, in the end, there were some really strong ideas throughout, some genuinely creepy things. But enough with "found footage" - let it R.I.P. FOREVER, please.
I didn't give a damn about Scarlet or George or whoever else the writers decided to sacrifice to the scary movie gods - boring-ass characters. Watching this movie was like going to Knott's Scary farm, stuff just exists to scare you and we'll tie it in with some guilt stuff that these people carry around and bang, formula for terrible movie.
Also, for the first time in the history of ever, I actually got motion sickness watching this "found footage" shiftiest. And I've seen them all and never got the MS once. Kudos, AASB, kudos.
But, there is some imagery throughout, some nice atmosphere the movie creates and that works well but its just too deep int the mucky-muck to rescue this garbage.
The last shot though, or rather the final scene at the end is very well filmed and actually had me tripping out trying to decipher the physics of it.
too long, didn't read - trite over-intelligent characters, scary stuff pops out, spooky sounds equals really bad scary movie. Watch The Descent Instead.