Reviews #2

As mentioned on the previous page, this is as many links as these free preset pages will allow me.  Luckily, I was able to finish off my OTF reviews with this page.

One of the Crazy Baby Month movies, and may I say, it was my first exposure to this director, as far as I'm aware, and it was a powerful one.  Freaky monster babies have a greater impact on me, now that I'm a father myself; I wonder what my reaction would have been if I'd seen it for the first time AFTER my kid's birth?

The sequel to It's Alive!, and as far as these things go, quite well done.  Manages to flip things around again, as a good sequel should.  They really haven't improved the crazy baby effects, though, so that was kind of an issue.

This particular film was a labor of love.  I don't think Krull has ever really gotten the props it deserves for being such a cool attempt at a new take on the standard fantasy/fairy tale story.  Well, maybe this review will help explain why I think that is so.

This was the first review I wrote for OTF where I actually disliked the movie.  Usually, there was something for me to get a kick out of, even if the overall film sucked.  This one... it angryed up my blood, is all, so I hope that shows through in the review.

One of your standard shape-shifting monster movie, done mmmmmmmm decently, I guess.  I go on at some length as to why shapeshifters and monsters of all sorts have to be gooey, but that's a minor point.

Sam Rami does a Western!   With Russel Crowe, of course, and Bruce Campbell entirely edited out.  This is one movie where I thought Leo DiCaprio was pretty good... and then he got all that media overexposure and at times seemed to buy into his whole stardom thing, and now I'm pretty much over him.  His early work, though... man, he was good.  Who knows?  Maybe he'll pull a Johnny Depp on us and get all cool and quirky and good again.  It could happen.

Inexplicably one of my more favored movies, I think because of what it tries to hint at as opposed to what it shows.  I know the ending kills the whole movie for some people, but I myself have come to just accept it as a crappy finish to a crappy but sometimes fun film.

This is a hard-to-find movie, but it made me fall in non-sexy man-love with Dean Cameron.  Sure, I liked him in Summer School, but this movie just hit all my personal good-buttons.  Plus, he keeps trying to pay my friend who makes DVDs for his copy of the film, and my friend keeps returning the money, because, damn, the man's the star, right?  He deserves a free copy.

I remember when I thought this movie would be cool... then we watched it.  In the theater, of course, but I also ended up getting it for home.  It wasn't until later it grew on me how misogynistic it really is.  Still, hey, that cast is worth seeing -- lots of great, skilled people, doing fine work for a crap film.

The sequel just made me angry.  Anything vaguely subtle about the first?  Blown up in the second.  Plus, stupid effects, which will kill for me any movie that already is deficient, plotwise.

I have been accused of over-praising this film, but I think it's clear I admit it's a silly, cheesy film -- it's just got certain moments, and I like it anyway.  It's a snapshot of when Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis were in love yet had the sense not to star directly opposite each other (I'm looking at you, Earth Girls Are Easy!).