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Could have been better
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""Seth" is a scientist who has made every Trekkie's come true -- he has invented a a transporter device. However, like every invention made in a movie, something goes drastically wrong. When taking the next step in the experimentation of the device, he uses himself as the guinea pig -- and has his DNA fused with a fly which has snuck into one of the transporters with him. And to complicate things, his journalist girlfriend, "Veronica" (Geena Davis), is carrying "Seth's" possibly deformed child. And she seeks help from her former boyfriend, "Stathis" (John Getz). This has got to be the worst movie I've seen that has only one thing going for it -- good make-up effects. The first problem is that it is very slow. I found myself checking email and message boards pretty frequently. The script is the problem here. There is no action, and very little horror. Because of the weak script, the performances are not that great. Goldblum appears to be playing every character he's played before to ... "
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"Director: Shawn KuUS, 22 minutes, colorCinema 4 Rating: 5Despite a title sure to be at least partially tempting to any horror nut, Pretty Dead Girl: A Musical Necromance turns out to be rather tame. And if you could get the subject of necrophilia past the initial tsk-tsking of your grandma, there is a good chance that she would end up at film’s end thinking the movie was rather sad and sweet, and would hardly take offense at all to what is being suggested by its potentially creepy premise.I first saw Pretty Dead Girl on some cable network sometime about a year ago. I am not sure if it was Sundance or IFC, but honestly, I mix those channels up so much that I am never able to check out any of their shows regularly. Of course, most of the shows I have seen on there are of the variety about which I don’t give a rat’s ass, except for the ones done by Henry Rollins and Jon Favreau, but honestly, even thinking really hard, I can’t remember which one of the channels ... "
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"Hancock made $107.3 million over the five night weekend, giving the Will Smith fractured superhero tale the third best July 4th opening of all time. It’s considered a victory for Smith’s star power, but it’s still almost $50 million less than Spider-Man 2 managed in a similar time frame. Meanwhile, The Wackness enjoyed the highest per-screen average of the weekend, earning $24,177 on each of its 6 screens. SAG is expected to make an announcement today about AMPTP’s “final offer”––although they might just announce that they need more time to think it over. Meanwhile, at a press conference at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival over the weekend, Robert DeNiro argued against a strike, accusing his fellow actors of not having “done their homework” on the economics. “I do not know if it is the right time to be doing this at all with the economy the way it is,” he warned. The opera directed by David Cronenberg based on his movie version of
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Hancock Not Huge, But Good Enou ...
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"Hancock made $107.3 million over the five night weekend, giving the Will Smith fractured superhero tale the third best July 4th opening of all time. It’s considered a victory for Smith’s star power, but it’s still almost $50 million less than Spider-Man 2 managed in a similar time frame. Meanwhile, The Wackness enjoyed the highest per-screen average of the weekend, earning $24,177 on each of its 6 screens. SAG is expected to make an announcement today about AMPTP’s “final offer”––although they might just announce that they need more time to think it over. Meanwhile, at a press conference at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival over the weekend, Robert DeNiro argued against a strike, accusing his fellow actors of not having “done their homework” on the economics. “I do not know if it is the right time to be doing this at all with the economy the way it is,” he warned. The opera directed by David Cronenberg based on his movie version of
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Cronenberg Crash Course. Clip o ...
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"“No filmmaker has more daringly and relentlessly explored what it means to be human than David Cronenberg,” writes Jim Emerson at Scanners. He’s put together a 12 minute highlight reel to prove that point. Written in the Flesh: A Crash Course in David Cronenberg incorporates images from nine Cronenberg classics, including Videodrome, The Fly and A History of Violence.?? It doesn’t seem to be embeddable, but you can watch it here. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog "
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Rabid
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"Aside from laughably horrible acting and low budget production values, this is actually a pretty decent horror concept. An early effort from David Crononberg that echoes a lot of his recurring themes, disquieting bodily transformations, disease and societal breakdown.A young woman undergoes "radical plastic surgery techniques" and as a side effect ends up growing a strange little bloodsucking orifice in her armpit. This portion of the story is less interesting than the side effect of her 'victims' who get a rabies-like disease that causes them to go on murderous rampages and as a result martial law is declared and the victims are shot down in the street. Similar in many ways to 'Night of the Living Dead', and while there are certain scenes will provoke laughter and disbelief, there are also some very effective suspense scenes, and the final shot with the garbage truck is quite memorable. Better than I was expecting, but not by much.Cronenberg is not my favorite dire ... "
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