Creepshow 3

My wife and I made the mistake of renting Creepshow 3 last night. It is, in all honesty, quite possible the worst movie ever made. Do yourself a favor and stay far, far away from it.

Part of the problem is that it came from a Redbox unit, which are automated DVD dispensers that can be found at supermarkets these days.  At any given time, they only offer a handful of decent movies, while the rest is mostly straight-to-video trash (Bring it On and American Pie sequels, for example). I try to avoid renting from it but my wife likes the convenience. Even though she often ends up complaining abotu the movies she gets there…

Film Threat on D-War

The (long-awaited) Film Threat review of D-War is finally online. Their verdict: 1.5 stars, and the reviewer calls it a “disasterpiece.”

I saw it again over the weekend with my wife and father and, once again, I found myself enjoying it in all its goofy glory. It just requires the right mindset to enjoy, I think.

Lost

I was finally able to finish off season 3 of Lost, which I had Tivoed while I was away in Korea. I’ve mentioned by dissatisfaction with the early episodes of season 3 (pretty much everything that occured before I left), but I have to admit that the season took a sharp upswing in my absence and ended very well. I especially enjoyed the introduction of the “flashforward” concept, showing the survivors after they have returned. I guess we won’t be seeing any such stories for poor Charlie, though.

In other TV news, I’m looking forward to the upcoming new seasons of Battlestar Galactica and Heroes.

D-War

After reading comments like this one (”…worst movie I have ever seen”), and comments at this Marmot’s thread, and this review here, I went to the theater to see D-War with very, very low expectations. In fact, one of the main reasons that I wanted see it was just because I’m still kicking myself for not seeing Yonggari in theaters 8 or so years ago when that rotten egg was stinking up theaters nationwide. So I paid my 4,000W for the early Sunday showing expecting to do no more than kill some time. But you know what…

I liked D-War. I liked it a lot.

Sure, the acting wasn’t that great, and the CGI is hardly Lucas Arts quality, and the story was pretty dumb, but all in all, I had a pretty good time watching the movie. I think the director has a real talent for engaging action scenes… the chaotic ending with Chosun stormtroopers, flying dragons, and (unmarked, I noticed) National Guard weaponry was a real blast! I also enjoyed the Lord of the Rings-style Chosun-era battle between rocket-armed dinosaurs, the aforementioned stormtroopers, and some poor Korean village.

It was goofy, goofy fun that I found very appealing; in fact, I found it be even better than 1408, another movie I saw recently.

Iron Man

There is a picture of the new Iron Man suit from the upcoming Iron Man movies online at imdb.com. I must say… it does look pretty cool. And I think Robert Downey will make an excellent Tony Stark.

Two movies, twice

I saw not just one but two movies over the weekend for the second time.

I saw Transformers again on Saturday morning… the 9am show is only 4,000W, which I think is quite reasonable. I enjoyed it just as much the second time around…

I also saw The Descent, a really good horror movie that I saw last year in the states. Besides being scary as hell and deserving of a second viewing, it was also worthwhile to see again because it is the UK version of the film, which is different from what I saw last year back home. The UK version has a different ending (only about an extra 30 seconds), that makes for a much more depressing finish.

Both movies are worht your time and money, I think.

Scariest Movie Moments

Retrocrush put up a list of the 100 scariest movie moments (particular moments, not entire movies). Their top 10 come from the following movies:

• The Shining
• The Exorcist 3
• Night of the Living Dead
• Jaws
• Un Chien Andalaou (?)
• Poltergeist
• Alien
• Carrie
• Pyscho

Looking at the rest of the list, I would add at least one scene from The Others, a movie that truely creeped me out. Also conspicuously absent is the remake of The Fly. Watching it back when I was in high school, the maggot birth scene made me shout in surprise and disgust.

TV Tropes

The TV Tropes wiki is a lot of fun to click through if you have some time to kill. Here’s a funny example of the Red Shirt trope from The Family Guy:

Kirk: All right, men, this is a dangerous mission. And it’s likely one of us will be killed. The landing party will consist of myself, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Ensign Ricky.
Ensign Ricky: Ahh, crap.

God, I would hate to be in Ricky’s shoes!