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intertribalWRONG TURN 2: DEAD END
A Uwe-Boll-directed sequel to a The Hills Have Eyes ripoff, so I came in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. The Too Dumb To Live young adults are competing in an "apocalyptic survival" reality show that for some reason takes place in the West Virginia boondocks. All the deranged cannibals have the same pathetic mutant-jello-mold face and do cliched deranged cannibal things, but they also say grace before meals. The two survivors, angry blonde girl and black guy, are actually fairly likable, and A. J. "The Racist Rapist" Weston from Sons of Anarchy plays a hoo-rah military guy who dies Boromir-style. Recommended (If You're Into Deranged Cannibal Stuff Like Me).
JOY RIDE 2: DEAD AHEAD
A psycho trucker menaces four traveling youngsters. He kidnaps the tough guy of their ranks and then makes demands of the others: plz to be cutting off one girl's finger, making the other girl get naked, getting the Hot Topic guy to dress up in drag and ask for crystal meth. The acting and dialogue are passable, which is almost too bad since the characters aren't engaging and the plot doesn't hold attention. It's not even scream scream scream, just blah blah blah, the trucker is God on meth and where the fuck are the police. I got bored with this one. Not Recommended.
100 FEET
The heroine has just been released from prison, where she was serving time for killing her abusive husband in self-defense. She has to wear an ankle collar because she's under house arrest. Too bad her husband's ghost is still hanging out, throwing plates at her. A bland and dreary movie despite the inventive premise of the ankle collar as obstacle-to-escape. The only un-bland part comes when the ghost kills the heroine's new boytoy in the most grotesque and poorly special-effected death scene ever, and even then you're puking more in disdain than wonder. Not Recommended.
* Of course, I mean SyFy.
A Uwe-Boll-directed sequel to a The Hills Have Eyes ripoff, so I came in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. The Too Dumb To Live young adults are competing in an "apocalyptic survival" reality show that for some reason takes place in the West Virginia boondocks. All the deranged cannibals have the same pathetic mutant-jello-mold face and do cliched deranged cannibal things, but they also say grace before meals. The two survivors, angry blonde girl and black guy, are actually fairly likable, and A. J. "The Racist Rapist" Weston from Sons of Anarchy plays a hoo-rah military guy who dies Boromir-style. Recommended (If You're Into Deranged Cannibal Stuff Like Me).
JOY RIDE 2: DEAD AHEAD
A psycho trucker menaces four traveling youngsters. He kidnaps the tough guy of their ranks and then makes demands of the others: plz to be cutting off one girl's finger, making the other girl get naked, getting the Hot Topic guy to dress up in drag and ask for crystal meth. The acting and dialogue are passable, which is almost too bad since the characters aren't engaging and the plot doesn't hold attention. It's not even scream scream scream, just blah blah blah, the trucker is God on meth and where the fuck are the police. I got bored with this one. Not Recommended.
100 FEET
The heroine has just been released from prison, where she was serving time for killing her abusive husband in self-defense. She has to wear an ankle collar because she's under house arrest. Too bad her husband's ghost is still hanging out, throwing plates at her. A bland and dreary movie despite the inventive premise of the ankle collar as obstacle-to-escape. The only un-bland part comes when the ghost kills the heroine's new boytoy in the most grotesque and poorly special-effected death scene ever, and even then you're puking more in disdain than wonder. Not Recommended.
* Of course, I mean SyFy.
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Date: 2009-12-21 01:40 pm (UTC)LOL!
The first two being sequels reminded me of a marketing paper that I just read, the premise of which was that while people like book adaptations that hew closely to the plot of the original book, they get bored by sequels that repeat the formula of the original movie too closely.
What do you think?
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Date: 2009-12-21 02:32 pm (UTC)Judging by the rabid reaction of Harry Potter/Twilight/LOTR fans, I do think people like very faithful movie adaptations of books. But of course, only if you've read the book. Some dead-on book-to-movie adaptations have probably failed in test screenings because the audience doesn't care about fidelity to the source and only sees a convoluted plot that doesn't make sense on screen.