Change Your Image
JessePomeroy
Reviews
Doomsday (2008)
Everything times 10
**Teeny weenie little spoilers here**
Neil Marshall is my hero.
Cliché' is a relative term. What do you call it when it is pushed beyond the stratosphere? I call it hilarious.
I kept expecting to be disappointed somewhere, but I wasn't.
Happy to take a somewhat dissenting opinion, I not only enjoyed this, but it's now in my "go to" pile of DVDs. This is not derivative, or rip off, but true homage to the greats of edgy cinema.
I didn't have to suspend my disbelief any more here than for Star Wars, Superman, or Dawn of the Dead. It's got it all (and I mean all) in spades. How can you top, a fetching top-heavy blonde, nekkid in a tub firing a shotgun? Or a heroine who can remove her own false eye and use it as a remote robotic camera? Answer, you can't.
Total gem. If Tarantino wasn't so in love with his dialog, and wasn't so anxious to impress his film school pals, he might be able to do something this cool. Then again, he might not.
If Rob Zombie copulated with Eric Idle, and they had mutant children named Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the kids might have produced a live action gem like this.
This is exploitation perfection.
La lupa mannara (1976)
Hugely boobed Euro-babe obsessed with sex and death
What else do I need to say? Good film? No, but Euro-trash almost at it's best. Superb natural bodies on display, bad dubbing, stupid dialog, big boobs, mayhem, evisceration, big boobs, full moon, and big boobs.
For fans of Italian and Spanish 70's trash in the vein of HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB, but not as good. The nudity and overt sexuality makes it a keeper. Also in the vein of LISA AND THE DEVIL, only a million times better than that one.
Mighty fine, damn fine, sublimely fine, fun bags... with a movie attached.
Just say yes.
Bug (2006)
Poor translation from stage to screen
Ashley Judd is beautiful, and her performance here is superb, but that is not enough to save the failed attempt at portraying a demented and tortured soul.
Far too much time is wasted on pointless and overly-wrought dialog. I imagine on stage the dialog works well, but on screen it is tiresome and annoying. This story needed a much tighter script and it could have done with 50% or less of the dialog.
It is also difficult to follow at times(yeah, I get that we are seeing it through her eyes), with too much herky-jerky scene changes. There are brief moments when it appears we are viewing this from our own POV, and I think there could have been a better balance in order to keep the film on a reasonable narrative pace.
I really wanted to like this, but the over abundance of dialog made me bored much of the time. I get what Friedkin wanted here, and I am open to non-linear story telling, but this just doesn't work for me. For those that think this is some kind of masterpiece of writing and a film for the "thinking" movie goer, I say hogwash and a bag of chips. Quite a few of Neil Simon's plays also didn't translate well for the screen, because the two mediums are uniquely different from one another and must be developed in accordance to their own aspects.
If you want a film portraying a woman's descent into madness, I would recommend POSSESSION from 1981 with Isabelle Adjani. It too has flaws and I wouldn't even call it a great film, but it's better than BUG.