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Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Masterpiece of Science Fiction Fantasy
Bought the 50th anniversary Blu-ray about four months ago and never got around to watching it until 2 days ago and it's such a masterpiece of set design and science fiction fantasy.
Dr. Grant is chosen to go in with a team of four other scientists to be shrunken down to microscopic size and injected into the body of a fellow scientist in order to save fellow scientist who is now in a coma following an assassination attempt. However, there is growing suspicion among the higher-ups that one or two of the members aboard the Proteus might be trying to finish the assassination.
The main reason to give this film a view is due to the grand and incredible set designs, whenever the scientists must leave the Proteus (the small sub in which they pilot) to either refill their air tanks or remove reticulated fibers from the heat intake of the ship, inner body they explore is astounding. The lack of a green screen for the out of the sub excursions was rightly rewarded with two Oscars.
The film is also a great exploration into one of my favourite words, Verisimilitude. Something appearing to be so real despite you knowing it's not, you're aware it isn't real but it's done at such an incredible level it's almost plausible.
Set design, art direction, colour and masterwork of cinematography in Fantastic Voyage was an incredible sci-fi classic and if you're a fan of 60's cinema or magical science fiction, Fantastic Voyage is definitely for you
Mama (2013)
Where did it go wrong?
Originally seeing the trailer I thought this was a great concept and an interesting idea, I was really excited for this but when I actually saw it in theatres I was a little less than pleased.
The children are by far the best actor's in the film, playing the role of animalistic kids fairly well but this also leads to a lot of laughable moments as they appear more like Gollum than anything truly scary. The movie is very laughable sadly, the appearances of Mama with her head half out of the floorboard looks like somebody put a wig on a roomba and let it scoot around.
The film goes really down hill during that dream sequence, as it appears to be a video game cut scene out of a FPS Rail shooter, the over use of CGI in a terribly contrived ending makes the movie feel like it's running 20 minutes too long.
Also, having a jump scare a minute and twenty seconds in doesn't help your case.
It was a fairly decent attempt for a first theatrical release from the director but hopefully his next projects are a little better.
The Thing (1982)
John Carpenter, The real horror master!
John Carpenter doesn't just push the cinematic envelop, he rips it open and reads the letter! The Thing has to be one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. Graphics were simply amazing considering the technology they had in 1982. The film's special effects were simultaneously lauded and lambasted for being technically brilliant but visually repulsive. Even Film critic Roger Ebert called the special effects "among the most elaborate, nauseating, and horrifying sights yet achieved by Hollywood's new generation of visual magicians", and called the film itself "a great barf-bag movie" Sadly The Thing fared poorly at the box office. It was released on June 25, 1982 in 840 theaters and was issued a "R" rating by the MPAA. The film grossed $3.1 million on its opening weekend. It went on to make $13.7 million in North America. Carpenter and several writers who have covered him, such as Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell, have speculated that this was due to the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial two weeks later, with its more optimistic scenario of alien visitation.
Technically brilliant as said before, this movie contains some of the grossest scenes in cinematic history! Such as the dog ripping is own face open and then off to reveal a hybrid 'Thing' Dog. Attacking and swallowing the other dogs. and Wilford Brimley disgusting transformation into the 'Blairmonster' (called so by the Crew). In which the man's head is detached (by itself) and dropped to the floor, where it then grows spider legs and tries to crawl away but not fast enough before McReady (Kurt Russell) blasts it with a flamethrower.
This movie was nauseating and yet, overall unbelievably entertaining! I would gladly recommend this movie to any horror buff's who have not yet seen this cinematic Masterpiece! 8 out of 10 stars!
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
Worst Movie Ever? I Don't Think SO
This movie (from director Ed Wood) is considered to be the WORST movie ever made, it's true, but it's so bad its good. An extremely fun film to watch with the family. The film is known to go from Day light to the middle of the night while still in the same scene, and constant mistakes made by actors. Flying Saucers look no more like Swiss Chalet containers glued together and held up by fishing wire. The movie has a huge OOP'S when one character comes out from his house only to walk across the street (off screen) to get hit by a car, although the film is somehow paused and you can still see the shadow of the man (Bella Lugosi). Sadly Bella Lugosi died before the film was finished, so Ed Wood used the same shots of him over and over again throughout the film. The are too many mistakes made for me to go over them, it's just that this is the worst movie ever made, its the greatest movie ever made. 10 out of 10
Friday the 13th (2009)
Friday the 13th
This movie wasn't a total let down, it did have its scares and some what funny moments. Unfortunately this movie is just like all the others, full of clichés. Animal Scare, Jason breaks through a window, Jason comes back at the end and teenagers having sex are killed horribly. All too common in movies like these. Jason was well portrayed by Derek Mears, big, bulky and scary...just like all the rest.
Not all the acting was bad, Aaron Yoo gave a terrific performance as Chewie, the stoner. As his first words in the movie are 'Babies have more room in the uterus' as he gets out of the back of a van. The movie had more nudity in it than it did violence, which brought the level of the movie by a lot. A total of 3 nude women. Anyway, the movie was most agreeably better than its original 11 remakes, but not enough to redeem itself. I liked this movie, but I would say wait until it comes out on DVD to watch it, and save yourself 53 dollars on a movie that you may or may not like I'd give it a 6 out of 10