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Transformers (2007)
Save your money, wait for the DVD
I was very excited to see a live action movie about Transformers. However I was disappointed with the results. It seems like the movie about robots wasn't really centered around the robots. While this might have been to give the movie a more human touch, it ruined it for me. Again it's a movie about robots and their interactions with humans not the other way around.
The good: *The robots were cool looking (hey, this is a movie about robots) *some of the human robot interactions were masterful
The bad: *The action sequences were many times too close up, it was hard to tell who was fighting who, and when you could tell who was fighting who it was hard to tell what was going on. * This movie should have been 40 minutes shorter, much of the plot was aimed at bringing inconsequential characters more screen time and did not move the story along. *the cheese factor: it seems like they couldn't decide if they wanted this movie to be serious or cheesy, so they said "oh let's go for a little of both" (e.g. the transformer introductions, or the whole "bedroom" scene) *The character build-up is so poor that you don't care what happens to most of them (the people not the transformers)
The Hunted (2003)
A Live Action Droopy Cartoon
This movie was basicly a hour and 1/2 chase scene. The plot is weak and not very well thought out. The viewer doesn't care about the characters at all in fact you hope one of them dies just to end the movie, and in all preferablility that they will kill each other at the same time.
The ads for this movie make it seem like a rambo remake, or that it has some combat action, don't be fooled, they are very misleading. The actual combat is in the first five minutes of the movie, and that is ALL!
If you've ever watched a Droopy cartoon, where the Wolf runs away, and gets on an airplane, a boat, a car, a donkey and boards himself up in a house in the middle of nowhere just to wipe the sweat off his forehead and turn around only to find that Droopy is standing right behind him, well that's pretty much the plot of this movie.
The only good thing about this movie was the hand to hand combat, but it is not worth sitting through the rest of the film to see. If I wasn't sitting through this stinker with my friends I would have walked out!
The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
Not even bad in a good way
I watched this movie last night, it was horrible. They took what could have been a scary situation, and made it stupid. The women were much more annoying than the guys, because they were all stereotypes of people. Madison kept talking about the "white light" that surrounded them, but no one ever asked what she was talking about, they just let her go with it. And after a few "purifications" that obviously didn't work they decide on the classic cliche of splitting up, and trying them seperated from each other?!?!?. The scares were all jumpy scares "oh no something jumped out in front of me", nothing with actual fright value. There are also scenes where doors open for people....and they go in them! And spaces open in the floor, or they find a hole and they STICK THEIR HANDS IN THEM WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO SEE!! Yeah right... Also the fact that people lived in the house, and yet these people didn't get rid of the "bloody medical equipment" in the basement, or seal up a hole in the wall, make it seem more staged. And finally they are standing in the house for five minutes before they try turning on a light, when I, a normal person, go into a house that's the first thing I do.
An American Vampire Story (1997)
It Stinks!! Total Trash!! Not worth 2 hours of your life!!
I saw this movie at Blockbuster and saw Carmen Electra on the cover, and thought. Oh, she was so funny in "the chosen one"......was I wrong about this one. First of all she's in the film a total of 5 minutes, secondly this film was just boring. It wasn't bad in that good way....it had no plot and left you thinking, "why doesn't this guy just call the cops?" It simply frustrates the viewer.
Someone said it was a coming of age film....please, coming of age films have people we can relate to. Sorry but no vampires live in my town, I can't relate.
Angel of Destruction (1994)
Funny, and entertaining
This movie is overacted, and it's great! If you like watching B movies this is a great one. The line that sticks in my mind and will stick in yours once you see it because of the ho-hum delivery "did your father rape you?" as if she is asking if stamps still cost $.32. This is an example of a film that if the actors were replaced with mainstream actors would cause the film to suck, but the way it is so overly done makes it funny and entertaining. If you feel like making fun of a movie this is the one to rent.