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How do you stretch twenty minutes of footage into a ninety minute movie?
Just keep repeating it over and over and over. <
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>Note to filmakers: If your audience is too stupid to remember what happened five minutes ago, repeating it isn't going to help. <
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>No kidding, some scenes were repeated verbatim three times... <
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>This movie is ridiculous. That's the only word for it. The filmography is bad. Sudden jumps in movement isn't artistic, it's just a lazy way to cover a big chunk that was edited out. <
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>The fighting is worse than the old Battlestar Galactica fighting. You can see them miss even as the enemy goes flying. People with knives in their hand and grenades on their chest resort to punching faces before they are disarmed. Perhaps most amazing of all, after the group of heros discovers there are two hundred enemy and kill thousands with bombs, grenades, many many rounds of apparently unexpendable bullets, there are still at least five hundred left to storm the train. A nuclear power plant's rods are exposed and the core exploded creating a moderate explosure with a two mile radius and no nuclear fallout???? All those people at Chernyobl and Three Mile Island must have exagerated the danger. I feel much safer now. Of course now I have live in feat that someone will throw an aluminum pie pan at me and slice off my head. <
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>Perhaps the hardest thing to swallow, other than the acting or lack there of, is the rather convoluted explanations via a druggies bad trip of why Martian Ghosts would take the form of dried dust and wait around thousands of years to steal bodies, then act like the motorcycle gang in mad max two... I think they even borrowed their costumes. Hmmm... maybe it was the same gang, I detected some bad australian accents... <
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>Anyway, the gist of the review, do waste your time and certainly not your money on this pretentious piece of tripe. It's so bad, it makes Vampires look good. *shudder* At least Vampires showed some boobage. <
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Good cheesy fun
Remember when movies were fun and didnt take themselves too seriously? This movie invites you into its world with a smile and a wink. Thats not to say its not a well crafted film I believe it is. However, Carpenter obviously had fun making it because I had fun watching it. Its up to the viewer if they're willing to shut their thoughts off and enter Carpenters world. You can nit pick if you want, but whats the point really, this film isnt about realism its about fantasy. <
> For me Carpenters strength is his ability to create a sense of time and place, an alternate reality if you will. This isnt a real world or even a realistic world but Carpenter invites you into it and it has a sense of place and time. <
> Thats where the fun comes from, the escapism, the strange setting, the slightly off key plot and dialogue. <
> I enjoyed it all and consider it great fun!