World Without End 1956 6 out of 10

World Without End 1956  6 out of  10

The movie plays out like many Twilight Zone and several Star Trek episodes I've seen before .  Four Astronauts are returning from Mars and are propelled through space and crash land on a planet.  After exploring a bit they discover that they have crash landed on Earth  (but not Earth as they knew it).  Instead it is an Earth with some mutants in bad makeup on the surface and some meek dorky dudes in colored head gear living below the surface.  It is a very typical movie of the era that follows a similar theme to many lost civilization movies.  The main characters don't just assimilate to their new circumstances, but instead insist on rebuilding the society they once knew.   If I were them I would have just been content living in the underground city with the hottie futuristic space babes that seemed to like the astronauts over their own meek  men, but no they had to go and fight off the mutants in bad Sci-fi makeup.    It was a decent sci-fi film with a good yet often seen sci-fi elements.   A time travel precursor to what would be Rod Taylor's big break out role The Time Machine, which has similiar themes several years later.

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After Dusk They Come 2009 5 out of 10

After Dusk They Come  2009  5 out of 10

While watching this movie the other day on Chiller TV I had the feeling that I'd  seen this movie already.   And I was right....Apparently the theme of a small group of people going out on a Gilligan's island excursion and getting lost on an island with cannibals is intriguing enough to me to watch it again.....But it has a completely different cast.  The last time I saw this movie it was called The Lost Tribe.  See my brief review of that version of the movie below.

http://bradgeekness.blogspot.com/2011/08/lost-tribe-2009-4-out-of-10.html

The Story behind this movie existing twice with a completely  cast is simple.   The movie was made starring Jewel Staite of Firefly fame which is this version.  The filmmakers finished the entire movie --didn't like it and decided to completely remake the entire film.   The movies are pretty much exactly the same.   It is LOST meets Predator.  I liked the original version that they scrapped slightly better and that may just be a result of Jewel Staite that I already have a connection with from loving Firefly as the main character.  

 Both movies were underwhelming Predator rip-offs where the girl in the Arnold role spend more time hiding than actually fighting back.   This version was really slow at getting going for the first 40 minutes or so and finally gets decent within the last 10 minutes when Jewel's character is basically stripped down to her underwear.

Pick one of these to watch based on which cast you like better---there is no need to watch it twice like I did.

  

P.S.  Is every movie involving water filmed partially in Long Beach?   There trip leaves from Long Beach , The Queen Mary is clearly seen in the background just like in Megashark vs Mechashark   (which was supposedly in Australia) ...  This time they leave Long Beach and in two days end up in the Antilles???   Go Figure.



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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 2013 7 out of 10

Anchorman 2  2013   7 out of 10

The Movie

Anchorman 2 was an a really mixed bag of a movie.   As a full movie is was a little underwhelming and typical of a comedy sequel that doesn't live up to the expectations of the original.  It was a very silly film with a plot that was really unimportant to the experience or enjoyment of the film.   Some moments in the film were just plain dumb,  other moments were laugh out loud brilliant (like the Cruise control RV crash).  So despite it flaws any comedy in this day and age that can make me laugh out loud has done something right.  Too many modern day comedies feel like a bunch of unconnected sketches and Anchorman 2 suffers from that as well. The only recent movie that succeeds for me in having a fully functional 1980's era comedy plot was We Are the Millers. 

How to rate this film?

 It is really hard for me to rate it.....I remember the first time I watched the original Anchorman and gave it a 6 out of 10, but like many other Will Ferrell movies.... it grew on me to eventually be a 9 out of 10 and a comedy classic.   Will Ferrell just makes me laugh for some reason  (unlike say Jack Black).   Even in a bad SNL sketch--he found ways to shine and as a result this film will probably grow on me as well,  despite its not having a quality plot  and re threading on much of what it had already done in the original.  The star studded newscaster battle was great in the original and just fell flat for me the second time around.  It was a very inconsistent film and yet its high moments help to wash away some of its really dumb moments when reflecting on it a day later.

So for now it gets a 7 out of 10 for me.....

The DVD

 The DVD definitely enhances the movie.  The menu screen is super funny ---watching the stars doing bad disco dancing (Carrell kills it with his lackluster dance moves.)   The gag reel is almost more enjoyable than the movie itself.  Watching the extras it definitely looks like the actors truly enjoyed making the movie.  I haven't even dug into half of the extras yet---but with all the different improv lines and behind the scenes features, it is definitely on its way to being a great DVD and definitely worth buying for any Will Ferrell fan.

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The Battles of Godzilla: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus 2000 5 out of 10

Godzilla vs Megaguirus  2000 5 out of 10

Godzilla is back and he is hungry for Nuclear energy.   Some Japanese scientist think that it is a good idea to create a weapon that makes black holes to defeat Godzilla (Not a good idea) .  They try and use the black hole weapon on Godzilla but all they accomplish is opening a pathway for some flying dragonfly creature to deposit and egg.  The egg opens and releases a monster that kills people in the streets of Japan and then lays more eggs which hatch and attack Godzilla in a cheesy battle.   Watching Godzilla battle a bunch of flies isn't that thrilling.  Godzilla blasts the swarm with his laser breath and the survivors return to mom to give her the DNA that extracted from Godzilla which turns it into a giant flying monster.   Then the real battle starts which was a decent by Godzilla standards.

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The Battles of Godzilla: Godzilla 2000 1990 6 out of 10

Godzilla 2000  --1999   6 out of 10

With a new big budget Godzilla in theaters Chiller TV was running a Godzilla Marathon and so I decided to watch a bunch of these older cheesy Godzilla movies.

Godzilla 2000 is the 23rd movie in the franchise and comes on the heels of the big US theatrical release, but returns  Godzilla to his rubber suit roots with a new look.    The movie is called Godzilla 2000 because Godzilla vs the Flying Space Rock sounded too lame.   The flying space rock turns out to be a UFO that wants Godzilla's DNA.   Godzilla and the cheesy flying rock battle.  The rock gets a hold of Godzilla's DNA and mutants into a Godzilla like monster and they battle some more (why not).   Godzilla ends up the winner in this all out battle and then takes off to destroy some more stuff.    It was a decent entry in the Godzilla franchise with some fun battles.  

Too bad the movie isn't as good as this great trailer.

The Battles of Godzilla: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 1974 out of 10

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla   1974 4 out of 10

The Franchise

This entry in the Godzilla franchise is the 14th in the series and is  a jumbled mess.   The one consistent thing in the franchise is that it features cheesy looking monsters as played by stuntman in rubber suits doing goofy WWE wrestling moves on top of set with models of cities.   Other than that the movie series has no continuity to speak of. All the movies are written as if none of the other sequels exist.  Godzilla can be good and protecting Japan in one movie and evil in the next.  It makes no sense, but you can always expect some silly enjoyable battle scenes.     

The Plot

  This movie had a crazy mixed up plot about some outer space monkeymen (in bad Gorilla masks)  trying to use Mechagodzilla to take over the world.   Godzilla is a good guy in this goofy flick in which he and another Guardian monster called King Caesar (that looks look a guy in a dog costume with bat ears)  battle Mechagodzilla.  It features a bunch of mixed in elements like some characters escaping the underground liar of the James Bond like Monkeyman villians. There is also a  strange song that seems completely out of place that is used to summon the  cheesy Dog Monster.  The battle scenes are decent and really the only reason to watch these movies, but the conclusion where Godzilla uses electricity from lightning to turn himself into a magnet and pull Mechagodzilla to his doom was super dorky.

Megashark vs Mecashark 2014 3 out of 10

Megashark vs Mechashark  2014

I was working my way through a bunch of bad Japanese stuntman in a Godzilla suit movies on a Chiller TV Godzilla marathon and after about 3 of those --decided to switch things up a little and watch some Giant CGI sharks battle it out.    Megashark vs Mechashark  is the third movie in the Megashark franchise and wow was this 3rd installment terrible.    The movie poster is awesome and I'm always up for a bad shark movie---but this was really, really bad (unfortunately just bad and not so bad it is good like Sharknado was).

The movie stars a couple of recognizable actors that I have enjoyed in other projects,  Elizabeth Rohm  (from Angel)  and Christopher Judge (from Stargate SG1) .  Unfortunately they spend the entire first half of the movie sitting in chairs talking to each other via intercoms.  This doesn't give them much to do other than read bad dialogue to each other.   Debbie Gibson is also back in a role that literally adds nothing to the movie.   The plot was totally predictable,  after all the previous Megashark attacks the government decides to build a mechanical shark to battle the Megashark which Elizabeth's character (Rosie)  pilots with the help of a computer that sounds like KITT from Knight Rider.   Well things go wrong  after a couple of lackluster battles between the 2 sharks   and the Robot shark loses its programming and goes on a rampage through  what is supposed to be Sydney, Australia , but is actually Long Beach CA.    It was just a really boring and dull giant shark movie that even had a dull and boring climax that wasn't much better than the dreadful low budget Super Shark.    I guess I should have just kept watching the bad Godzilla movies instead.....

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