KillerWolf
06-25-2006, 09:58 AM
here are my reviews on two movies i recently rented:
THE HILLS HAVE EYES (Remake)
i had never seen the original. what interested me in the trailers were the still shots of the mutated fetuses. that was just at the opening credits, but it was a fairly intense part of the film. over-all the movie was not bad for a horror movie. it broke conventions in that A) the young woman was raped (even most horror movies wouldnt show that), and B) the three people who (according to horror movie logic) you would think would be the first ones to die, end up being the only ones to survive the movie. the movie did start to fall apart a little for me towards the end. a lot of the deaths (of the bad guys) looked very muppet-like. so, it started off better than it ended.
2 out of 4 stars
SYRIANA
i had pretty high expectations from this movie, and i was basically disapointed. let me start by saying that i am on a work detail that has me 800 miles from home. at home i have a big screen and surround sound. at the moment i have a basic 25 inch Sanyo and a PS2 for a dvd player. i say that to say this - some DVDs have a louder volume than others and the volume on this DVD is very low. on top of that, most of the movie is a series of hushed conversations in dark corners, making an already confusing and hard to follow plot even more difficult. even with the volume on the television maxed out, it was difficult to hear much of what was being said, so i had to watch it twice.
the movie played out a lot like the movie, TRAFFIC,with the jumping around from location to location, but without the solid performances by the likes of Benicio Del Toro, and the black guy whos name escapes me. it had a relevant topic, but the delivery was just way to dry. seems like a movie that people are likely to praise merely to avoid seeming foolish.
and btw, George Clooney mis-casted himself into this film.
i would say this film would have made a much better documentary or docu-drama.
2 out of 4 stars
THE HILLS HAVE EYES (Remake)
i had never seen the original. what interested me in the trailers were the still shots of the mutated fetuses. that was just at the opening credits, but it was a fairly intense part of the film. over-all the movie was not bad for a horror movie. it broke conventions in that A) the young woman was raped (even most horror movies wouldnt show that), and B) the three people who (according to horror movie logic) you would think would be the first ones to die, end up being the only ones to survive the movie. the movie did start to fall apart a little for me towards the end. a lot of the deaths (of the bad guys) looked very muppet-like. so, it started off better than it ended.
2 out of 4 stars
SYRIANA
i had pretty high expectations from this movie, and i was basically disapointed. let me start by saying that i am on a work detail that has me 800 miles from home. at home i have a big screen and surround sound. at the moment i have a basic 25 inch Sanyo and a PS2 for a dvd player. i say that to say this - some DVDs have a louder volume than others and the volume on this DVD is very low. on top of that, most of the movie is a series of hushed conversations in dark corners, making an already confusing and hard to follow plot even more difficult. even with the volume on the television maxed out, it was difficult to hear much of what was being said, so i had to watch it twice.
the movie played out a lot like the movie, TRAFFIC,with the jumping around from location to location, but without the solid performances by the likes of Benicio Del Toro, and the black guy whos name escapes me. it had a relevant topic, but the delivery was just way to dry. seems like a movie that people are likely to praise merely to avoid seeming foolish.
and btw, George Clooney mis-casted himself into this film.
i would say this film would have made a much better documentary or docu-drama.
2 out of 4 stars