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Feast (2005)
Just good fun
I'm giving it a high score because it did what it set out to do, and it did that exceptionally. Yes, there are more intellectually stimulating movies, there are bigger budgets and better effects/stories/acting... but this movie isn't about impressing anyone. It's about good old horror fun. It's absolutely for the people who laugh at the absurd, especially the kind that laugh when they get scared... but also for the ones who chuckle at cheese. You honestly won't notice how rarely you see the monster in this monster flic because it's just really fun through and through. The cast is surprising, there is cameos, legends, fresh faces, and they all do a great job being the characters they are. If I had one complaint, it's the cinematography... there's a bit much on the shaky cam and a lack of iconic imagery, but at the same time, this movie is the kinda movie someone submits to the academy just to piss the academy off, which is great. I usually like to feel like I've learned something, or witnessed some great cinematic skill, but this movie just wanted me to laugh and enjoy. It's just good grotesque fun and if that's what you're looking for you've found it.
Killers Within (2018)
SKIP IT unless you like rolling your eyes
Really, I don't want to knock it too bad, but the writing is awful. There's so much of the writing to criticize, but it makes you hate the characters you're supposed to like. There's a lot of typical plot contrivances, pointless exposition to make it seem like there's detail. The 2 'likable' actors in this, they aren't the leads, and their death scenes are horribly written, so even their characters eventually become tragically ruined by the writers. They also exactly copied choreography from better movies action scenes. One to one on parts of the bar fight and final fight plus another couple moves exactly stolen from another movie. I literally watched a compilation of "modern brutal fight scenes" on YouTube and saw these moves before seeing this film. What's worse, is these are all contemporary films for the most part, it's not like they are revitalizing something from 20 years ago, no, just ripping off a couple other better movies. They took a cool concept and screwed it up with just bad bad bad writing. Now, see how much I'm complaining about the writing? Well, it's because I already looked past the special effects and bad acting. It's just eye rolling obnoxious characters not hitting marks with directors ripping stuff off and writers thinking their clever. I honestly feel bad for the cast. Lastly, it's way too long, it's twist was obviously coming, and it was just totally lame. Does the thing where it does a twist and rolls credits to heavy metal... that only works if the twist is fun, unexpected, interesting, or scary... it wasn't. It was a kid we already knew was evil picking up a phone, slowly turning around, and screaming, with no real consequence or weight on the plot. Could have been done better if he was used as more motive for the villain but no. See I thought about turning it off thinking, "Man, when you get more than half way through a bad movie and you figure just may as well finish it.".. then I check and see I'm just half way through the movie and I go "well, I guess that gives it time to do something unexpected." It doesn't, it just sucks throughout the whole thing. Eye rolling through and through. I gave a star for each of the two SOMEWHAT likable characters, I think mostly due to the actors, and an extra star for, idk, the charity of it, maybe the concept. If I took the time to give this a bad review, it's because I'm actually mad about it being disappointing.