Various Junk

I watch a lot of movies I shouldn't bother writing about. Here are a few of them!

PINK KILLER was made in Hong Kong in 1996. It was hard to follow since there were no credits in English and the sub-titles were very hard to read. It's about a group of women who take revenge on various bad guys (wife beater, gangsters, etc.). There's a few shoot-outs and car chases and slo-mo action scenes and a lot of talk. Charlie Cho Cha-Lee (PLAIN JANE TO THE RESCUE, POLICE STORY 2) is in it. I've seen two different directors credited for it.....So I also watched SEATTLE SUPERSTORM (2012) and you can probably guess what that was about. Two soon to be married scientists (Esai Morales and Ona Grauer) bicker over their kids who argue over everything while trying to battle some kind of man-made super storm that kind of looks like "the smoke monster" from TV's LOST. It's a triple threat of bad acting, talky script and topsy turvy direction (by Jason Bourque, the Canadian director of the similar DARK STORM)...

In a similar stormy Canadian vein, there's SPACE TWISTER (2011) about a school science project gone wrong. Electrical storms from outer space destroy NYC and Boston (well, a news report says it anyway) and much of the story revolves around the survival of some teens who are in detention. I didn't know anyone in it except Mitch Pileggi. The story is fairly predictable and boring but the SFX and acting this time out aren't bad. Director/co-writer Sheldon Wilson also made SNOWMAGEDDON. Warning: This movie is now known as MEGA-CYCLONE! I guess Canada can't stop making bad horror and science fiction movies! 

SWAMP DEVIL-(2008)-A woman (Cindy Sampson) goes looking for her estranged father (Bruce Dern) after she's told he's gone crazy and killed someone. The real culprit is an evil Ent-like creature who can take human form and uses roots to kill its victims. It's pretty boring and talky.




And finally, there's: PROMETHEUS-20I2-I'd rather watch Ed Wood Jr.'s BRIDE OF THE MONSTER backwards than have to had to sit through this pretentious, tedious, idiotic 2001 rip-off disaster. A spaceship from Earth arrives at a far distant planet (the crew is in suspended animation) where it seems humankind began. Charlize Theron is the tight ass commander. An android named David (Michael Fassbender)) takes care of them. They are looking for some very tall beings and you'll be looking for another movie while watching this!

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What Thing?

THE THING-2011-A biologist, Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a team in the Arctic to investigate a UFO and it's frozen occupant in this prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 version. The pompous scientist (Ulrich Thomsen) leading the expedition decides to get a tissue sample by drilling through the block of ice. While everyone is partying "the thing" breaks out. They burn it after it kills a guy and dissect the body. Unfortunately they learn too late that the alien can turn into other people. Since nearly every horror movie today has disgusting SFX there's nothing new here (and the SFX in Carpenter's version were better....).

Joel Edgerton and Adewade Akinnuoye-Agbaje are also in it.

Once again Hollywood takes an untested director, in this case a Dutch director of TV commercials Mattijs van Heijningen to helm a big budgeted remake. Do they really care?

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