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Old 25th June 2019, 06:58 AM
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There Was A Little Girl is certainly 'saner' than The Visitor for sure. Remembering of course that those moral guardians were shown a 'best of' reel with all the 'good bits'. Hence the disparate nature of that list. Glad you enjoyed it nos!
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Old 25th June 2019, 07:23 AM
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Jaws 4 - The revenge - Not as bad as i'd heard, at least in terms of watchability, Michael Caine talks a load of shit and seems slightly pissed, the shark still looks like something Spitting Image threw out, it's reasonably shot but shitly edited.

But what makes it bad is that nothing really happens, a couple of bland kills, no tension and a randomly explosive shark.

Apparently the reason Jaws could track the family to take revenge was originally because of a voodoo curse, if they'd have gone with that it might have at least been interesting in a stupid way.

Bland 4/10

Independence day 2 - Utter bollocks, the first wasn't great but was watchable for the explosive carnage, this is just a rehash with shitter destruction, dull new characters and an abundance of random CGI shit flying around the screen with no impact.
Shit blows up but nobody cares.

2/10
I found independence Day 2 to be a schlock masterpiece when I saw it at the cinema. It was utterly hilarious, that moment with judd hirsch on the boat

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Old 25th June 2019, 09:21 AM
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Somebody asked if anyone had seen this the other day but no one said much, i have the old Uk dvd and it was a video nasty i'd never seen so was getting round to it sooner or later, so thought i'd give it a watch.

I enjoyed this quite a bit, the director had something to do with that other Arrow freakout "The Visitor" and the exorcist rip off "Behind the door" so i was in from the Gecko.

Anyway...basically...some school teacher for deaf kids has a evil twin sister who hates her and escapes from hospital, goes on a kill crazy rampage with her pet dog and proceeds to slaughter all her sisters friends.

Or something.

But there is a twist.

This is really well shot and although shot in America has a slight Euro atmosphere due to the Euro crew involved, it's not exactly blood soaked but there are enough kills to keep the interest.

It's not top tier Nasty but if you are drawn to these kind of films it is perfectly decent, more along the lines of Butcher, Baker, Nightmare maker i thought as it's well acted and a pretty decent film.

Not mind blowing but i enjoyed it.

There's an infamous drill in dogs head sequence but this was pretty entertaining due to a substandard Sooty type joke dog head...nice.

Don't blame me if you buy it but there are a lot worse (craptastic.) nasties out there.

I enjoyed it more than i expected to.

7/10
Yes, I enjoyed this. Was a blind buy for me, and a really good one!
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Old 25th June 2019, 09:35 AM
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I was inspired to watch Train to Busan last night. While not really reinventing the genre it was a very good take on it, replacing the isolated cabin/farmhouse/mall with a high speed train that can't stop because the stations are all overrun by zombies! In the tradition of Korean films, it's perhaps 15 - 20 minutes too long and the later scenes of apocalypse were bordering on grueling! However, it was highly entertaining, kept the action at the forefront and turned into a gibbering ball of raw nerves by the ending

Was it sponsored by Nintendo though haha, a bit of overt product placement, 2 x Wii consoles and a blatant pack shot of a 3DS

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I was inspired to watch Train to Busan last night. While not really reinventing the genre it was a very good take on it, replacing the isolated cabin/farmhouse/mall with a high speed train that can't stop because the stations are all overrun by zombies! In the tradition of Korean films, it's perhaps 15 - 20 minutes too long and the later scenes of apocalypse were bordering on grueling! However, it was highly entertaining, kept the action at the forefront and turned into a gibbering ball of raw nerves by the ending

Was it sponsored by Nintendo though haha, a bit of overt product placement, 2 x Wii consoles and a blatant pack shot of a 3DS

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Why couldn't they stop the train out of a station where there were no zombies?

All trains have a 'dead man switch' so can always be stopped if needed.
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Why couldn't they stop the train out of a station where there were no zombies?

All trains have a 'dead man switch' so can always be stopped if needed.
In the pretend universe where there is a zombie outbreak, all of the stations were populated by undead and it'd be pointless to stop in the middle of nowhere because, where would they go? So it wasn't a case of the train couldn't be stopped, more that if it did stop it would be overrun by violent dead cannibals
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The Andromeda strain 1971.

After a satellite returns to earth and wipes out a small town, a group of scientists try to figure out the virus before it can spread.

Based on the novel by Michael Crichton, Robert Wise takes the directors chair for this Sci-Fi flick full of tense moments and how scientists from different areas try to work together and develop different theories that may work to contain the new alien virus. Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson and Kate Reid star as the four bickering people chosen to asses, control and cure the disease before it goes airborne.

Most Sci-Fi movies require big budgets, monsters, desolate cities as their main areas or enemies, for this film it requires High Tech underground facilities, a small infection, claustrophobic and good acting for it to work which it does. well worth a watch. 8 out of 10.
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In the pretend universe where there is a zombie outbreak, all of the stations were populated by undead and it'd be pointless to stop in the middle of nowhere because, where would they go? So it wasn't a case of the train couldn't be stopped, more that if it did stop it would be overrun by violent dead cannibals
Oh it's pretend? Well why didn't you say so in the first place.

They managed to stop it at a yard in order to look for another train i believe.

I haven't seen it, but do fancy seeing it. I just get the feeling it will be populated by screechy Korean women who get by in the end by singing a song to survive.

I smiled at this. Isn't the middle of nowhere preferable to being eaten by 'violent dead cannibals'? It didn't bother those in the helicopter at the end of Day of the Dead. Was that pretend though? I really can't remember.
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Oh it's pretend? Well why didn't you say so in the first place.

They managed to stop it at a yard in order to look for another train i believe.

I haven't seen it, but do fancy seeing it. I just get the feeling it will be populated by screechy Korean women who get by in the end by singing a song to survive.

I smiled at this. Isn't the middle of nowhere preferable to being eaten by 'violent dead cannibals'? It didn't bother those in the helicopter at the end of Day of the Dead. Was that pretend though? I really can't remember.

You expecting them to sing this???

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Oh it's pretend? Well why didn't you say so in the first place.

They managed to stop it at a yard in order to look for another train i believe.

I haven't seen it, but do fancy seeing it. I just get the feeling it will be populated by screechy Korean women who get by in the end by singing a song to survive.

I smiled at this. Isn't the middle of nowhere preferable to being eaten by 'violent dead cannibals'? It didn't bother those in the helicopter at the end of Day of the Dead. Was that pretend though? I really can't remember.
There is a song yes
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