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Showing posts with label clint howard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clint howard. Show all posts

Monday, January 6, 2020

House of the Dead (2003)

A German Canadian American action horror directed by Uwe Boll, starring Clint Howard and Jürgen Prochnow.
Young people go to an island where a party was happening, but it has been disrupted by zombies. The outlaws who gave them a boat ride there and the cops chasing the outlaws are also drawn into the events.
I never want to see another slow motion bullet or fight move with the camera circling around what is depicted. Sadly, I will see these things again. I will also again regret watching a film based on a video game. This seemed like a 1980s campy horror flick done with 2000s technology. That is a very bad thing. At least in the '80s it seemed genuine. By 2003, characters should know to avoid blue smoke and fog at any cost. We also all know that jumping while shooting makes the bullets do more damage. I am so tired of writing about crappy movies when nobody reads it. I rate this bad. Really, don't watch it.
On a lighter note, I found an alphabetical list claiming to be every film ever made with title and year. Since I had been working on making a "movies to watch" list for so long and it has gone in so many directions that I no longer care what is on it, that is what I shall be using.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Carnosaur (1993)

An American science fiction directed by Adam Simon, starring Diane Ladd and Clint Howard.
A scientist who is genetically engineering chickens makes dinosaurs.
Crappy like a Syfy channel flick. An implausible, threadbare and inconclusive plot was filled with shallow characters whose dialogue was poorly written as they gave bad acting performances. I was unimpressed with most of the sets and costumes. The laboratory was not bad and they did have guys in yellow jumpsuits. Camera-work and editing looked low budget and Syfy production to me. There was some fire used, but the main special effect (the dinosaur (image)) was shoddy. Even a child could tell that it was made of rubber and moved in an unnatural manner. It would actually have been better to show less of the dinosaur. One good head puppet and some big, jointed cardboard to make a believable shadow would have worked and probably have been scarier. Audio seemed to be mixed right and the soundtrack seemed to fit. There was an annoying sound in the laboratory that sounded like the "DROOOOID" android ringtone. This has a 3.5/10 on IMDB and 11% tomatometer, 23% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. A 23% average is like marking "C" for every answer on a test. I rate this bad because it shows a lack of thought. What makes it even worse is that this was supposed to compete with Jurassic Park!