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Stealth (2005)
Awful Time Consuming Movie with good CGI & statue scene
*SPOILERS: Quotes from movie, and mention of scenes.
The awful moments: The soundtrack is horrible. It is so bad that it diverts attention from the movie. Pointless socializing. Character development is choppy. Cast looked confused in the dialog. "Do it for henry" is an example of choppy. The movie is time consuming and boring. It takes a long time to get to the main point of the movie. The stealth has a ridiculous personality.
The good: The cgi is done well. There is also a scenery with a Buddha statue that looks nice.
Overall: The cgi scenes & pilot dialog scenes should have been used for a stealth flight simulator video game. The rest of the movie should have been avoided.
ADVICE: If you have PowerDVD watch it on 2x speed, It is hilarious!!! Espcecially when she ejects from the stealth and crashing through the trees.
Today You Die (2005)
Segal Haters: watch out for the Colt M1911 Automatic Pistol
Finally! A Steven Segal movie where the lead roll is NOT a cop, anti terrorist agent, cia agent, fbi agent, etc. We are tired of seeing Segal play the same rolls. This one is unexpected and excellent. The high speed chase through vegas was actually filmed in Vegas on the strip, and one of the craziest High speed chase ever filmed outside the studio.
First of all, I put this movie up with "Hard to Kill". I saw this movie and enjoyed it several months ago, and then for the hell of it i was wondering what others thought, and was shocked and appalled by the idiotic comments posted about this movie. Lets look at some of them: 1. Posts: "Steven Segal is B(L)ack", "Buddhist or Rapper", Etc.
Response: Steven is Black? No, Steven Segal is an actor. Steven is playing a role. There do exist white people with an accent. Actors are allowed to play this roll. Steven played this roll good. Are you retarded? Don't take Steven Segals roll as a personal attribute of steven. And Treach is playing a felon, not a rapper, just because Treach made hip hop music in his past, doesn't mean that Steven has reduced his standards to working with sub-par actors. Working with rappers does not mean you have reduced your standards, picking up a mic and busting a flow does not mean that you do not have the ability to act. Treach played the part well. Jesus.
2. Posts: "Steven used doubles" "Steven leaves early" Response: So. Most underpaid quality actors do. The only martial arts actor you can find now a days that does his own stunts is Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan and Steven Segal are good friends. Steven Segal is doing us a favor by accepting a roll in a straight to video release. What do you expect, Steven Segal is a quality actor and if you pay him below is level of quality wouldn't you expect him to leave early? I think I would too. Even actors in theatre releases uses doubles, for example cornballs like ben afflik and mat damon who take action rolls and have no evident experience in martial arts, use doubles. Arnold used obvious doubles in Terminator 2 which was considered one of James Camerons best movies. When the budget is low, expect doubles. When the budget is high, expect doubles. You get what they paid for. The movie went straight to video. Get over it.
3. Posts: "Steven put his daughter in the movie" Response: Steven is an actor, he is teaching his daughter how to act. The bad guy is also an actor. Why do you people think this movie is real? Whats wrong with you? You have no right to judge how a parent passes their trade on to their offspring.
A fair post about this movie stated that: "James Bond fans don't like Steven Segal movies" Response: This is probably why: Steven broke Sean Conneries wrist when teaching him martial arts during never say never again filming.
If you have a problem with the movie, don't base it on the budget or the personal life of the actor. Because like the mooninites on Aquateen would say "That sounds like a personal problem"
The Gingerdead Man (2005)
The best first 5 minutes of a film ever created.
This movie is horrible. However it receives an 8, because the first 5 minutes are the best first 5 minutes of any film ever created. Gary Busy is hilarious, and the only 5 minutes you truly get to see Gary Busey act, is excellent.
Various Spoilers start here: He blasts everyone with a hilarious attitude and blatant disregard for someones feelings about it.
After this, the movie falls, and it falls hard. The main problem is that it seems like the producers were too concerned with how the gingerdead man would appear. They started with cgi, and moved on to old school make up. As a matter of fact so much thought and concern went in to the creation of the gingerdead man, that it seems like they forgot about the rest the movie. (If you watch behind the scenes, you will see that most of the thought from the producers went into creating gingerdead man).
The Plot: Childs play, Chucky 1-4 revisited. Evil man kills, evil man dies, evil man is burnt, evil man ashes mixed with cookie dough. Evil man comes back as childish goodie, in this case a gingerbread man.
The Acting: Gary Busy great! Without Busy, this movie should not be released. The others seemed like they were reading lines from a school house play. This is a low budget movie, and Gary Busy deserves the entire budget, the rest should feel rewarded that they had their name alongside with Busy.
The killings (spoiler): Oh you mean the 3 people that died. The killings were stupid. I know this is intended to be funny, but where is the creativity. A gingerbread man sets up a knife trap. A gingerbread man crashes into a cowboys legs with a car (they don't even show it, i could have done this effect with an old camera, i don't know why full moon needed expensive equipment and lighting for this). A ginger bread man cuts off a ladies finger (she doesn't die). He made a cherry nipple cake out of a girl and tried to freeze her. The only other victim of this so called terrifying ginger bread man is the tuff guy wannabe that eats the cookie, and is possessed by the soul and cooked in the oven.
FACT: Most of this movie was filmed in a kitchen setting, which got old quick. It is suppose to take place in Texas, and you can tell its LA in the background with all the traffic. It is low budget, but why not just say it takes place in LA? A guy starting a major cookie chain with a cowboy hat can live in LA. Like I said this movie lacks creativity, with the exception of Gary Busey.
Bottom Line: Rent it for the first 5 minutes, as a matter of fact, buy it for the first 5 minutes, you can watch the first 5 minutes over and over again and laugh about it later. The rest of the movie is a waste of time, however there are funny parts here and there.