Change Your Image
Lace_Neil_Singer
Reviews
Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
Terrible movie, but full of unintentional comedy
If you mean to watch this movie as a serious film, you will be sadly disappointed. This film is awful; the acting is bad, the plot is full of holes and the script is laughable. However, somehow it manages to become so bad, it's funny. The first time I watched this, I was just rocking with laughter during the entire movie. The way that Peter's voice is dubbed, the horribly bad acting by the band, the way they seem to be reading idiot boards... I'm a fan, don't take me wrong, but this movie was so not the best career move they could have taken.
To watch this movie, get some beers in and treat it purely as a comedy. Laugh at the way that this mad professor is unable to make realistic looking gorilla and Frankenstein's monster robots, but somehow manages to make a full set of perfect Kiss ones. Giggle at the special effects, especially that weird reverb effect for Gene's voice. And finally enjoy the unintentional comedy that this movie is full of.
Just what is the ending supposed to mean, anyway? I still haven't figured that out. Also, we see Sam walking thru the park and nothing at all has gone wrong... yet, he somehow decides that something is wrong and he has to check it out, leaving his poor long suffering girlfriend alone to wonder exactly why she's with him if this is his idea of a date. And a pretty girl not allowed backstage at a Kiss concert? Never gonna happen.
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Completely flipping terrible
This was, by far, the worst adaptation of a book I have ever seen. I honestly wanted to torture Ralph Bakshi to death after watching this. Not only does it completely miss out most of the important events in the books, it also doesn't even finish! Not to mention the fact that what it does cover, it royally buggers up.
As for what's wrong... well, I'd be here all day if I listed all that was wrong. The main thing that ruins it for me is the complete lack of characterisation, plus the way that Tolkien's characters are ruined. Like Gandalf for example; in this movie, he appears as a boring prophet of doom. Sam is a complete moron, who inexplicably hides in bushes. Saruman (or Aruman; they give him two names for some unknown reason) isn't in the least bit intimidating. Boromir wears a frighteningly short skirt, as do a lot of the male characters; why, I have no idea.
In conclusion, only watch this movie if a) you've never read the books or ever watched the vastly superior movie trilogy or b) you've recently smoked some herbal cigarettes. Cuz otherwise, there is no way you could possibly enjoy it. And if you're, like me, a Tolkien fan, you may too be thinking homicidal thoughts aimed at anyone who had a hand in bringing this travesty to life.