Escape to the Movies: Monsters

[Mosstromo]

Sad indeed Mr. Movie Bob. Because it is as your pie in the kingdom of the mushrooms metaphor. It had all ingredients required for awesome.
It may never get to the country I write from, but still I feel bad that if it does, it will be the let down you emotionally described.
:-(

 

[Chris^^]

well that's what happens when you get really hyped up for something. It's always a disappointment.
That's why I expect all new stuff to be utterly shit, so if by some miracle something good comes out I get to really enjoy it =D

 

[Frankfurter4444]

Initially the math was a little hard to understand, but after the second view I understood it. This is a bummer for me because I think the characters are the most important part of *any* story. Twenty years later the special effects will pale in comparison to the present day's version, but if the characters are still good the movie will still be. It's why Back to the Future still holds up.

So to have a character-focused movie that (from my understanding) doesn't show the monsters a whole lot sounds like a good premise. So I'm bummed out that the characters are so bad.

 

[Keith Ballard]

The funny thing is that this review will probably increase the number of people who see this movie.

 

[Squarez]

I may check it out as a renter. I don't think you can expect great acting performances from unknown actors, you can only hope that you get them, so that isn't really a deal-breaker for me. (See: Evil Dead. (NO! I'm not saying that it was a bad movie; not at all! But if you think Campbell did an Oscar turn in it, then you are batshit-fucking-LOCO.)) I'm willing to endure a lot of bad acting for a good story, or even for good atmosphere-- Monsters might still provide the latter.

Personally, when I read that the director spent over a year doing the CGI himself, I kind of worried that maybe- just maybe- other aspects of the movie could suffer... and from Bob's description, I was entirely correct.

The thing I find with bad actors is that sometimes I can let them off if the writing is good. Which from the sounds of it, isn't the case here.

 

[snow]

That Movie sounds so Bad it's...
(Puts on sun-glasses)
Scary
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

<color= red>HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I laugh every time I see one of these posts you do.

That's funny though because... I think it might ahve been the same movie, could have been something else, but I just recently saw a commercial for that and went.. "Let's put independence day, cloverfield, and district 9 into one giant movie to end all alien movies!"

those exclamation marks are sarcastic... But it's pretty cool how Bob brought most of those movies up, so I'm glad some one else feels the same.

 

[viciouspen]

what exactly is the ending? I'm curious now, and I can't find it anywhere online
please spoiler me, i dont' want to watch this thing, but I'm curious as to what the ending is now.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I normally watch his reviews for the humor more than the reviews; but it's a good thing that he told me this is gonna suck. Because I was probably gonna go see it. But about that humor. "Because Sharktopus, HAS A SHARKTOPUS!" That was hilarious.

 

[Phase_9]

That's really a shame. I caught the tail end of the director's panel at Comic Con, and while knowing nothing about the movie, I became excited for its release and while the director seemed to speak about the movie humbly enough, he showed some clips that actually looked alright (but the scene where they barter for the girl's safe passage on a boat was uninteresting and poorly acted). I assumed that the stilted acting came from the fact that most of the extras were actually natives payed to play the parts, rather than the fault of the main characters since they didn''t show much of their interactions.

Ah well, maybe next year will be better Bob.

 

[Dr Killpatient]

Saw 3D is shit. There, I did you a favor MovieBob.

Review The Town - now that movie kicked some serious ass.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Wow! That just looked pitiful. It was like a butchered miscarriage from a District 9 wannabe and Cloverfield. Shame too because that did look like it could have been a great film.

I completely sympathize with the abominable protagonists if Cloverfield taught me anything. That may as well have been a troupe shooting their own homemade Jackass movie while being thrown into a Sci-Fi disaster in New York. Those detestable pricks were bad enough, but with only two leads through the entire film, you know don't get to look forward to either of them getting killed any time soon, ha ha!

 

[hem dazon 90]

Still will never get why people like white girls (appearance wise)...

 

[SgtJon117]

To be honest I actually liked the movie. I had never heard of it until a few weeks ago, watched it and I thought it was nice flick. Nothing as awesome as it could have been I suppose, but nice enough as is. I think Bob had it right in the beginning, he was letdown because he expected too much imo.

 

[Duffeknol]

don't know if I got ninja'd yet, but:

'The director himself has said it's an internet rumor. He figured the equipment they used cost that, not the making of the movie itself. The movie itself comes under $500,000.

Best Buy asked them how much their equipment for this project cost and they figured it was around $15,000.

No one can make a movie for $15,000 in this day and age. '

 

[Moon_Called]

How is he sexist? There were no comments on her being in the kitchen, or barefoot and preggers or even that she shouldn't vote. All it was was a picture of a beautiful woman who makes her living by being beautiful (btw, I didn't see a gun to her head in that picture, so maybe she chose to pose for it on her own) and MovieBob's hope that she would give him a tasty pie.

Stop seeing sexism where there is none.

I don't think you know what sexist means... Moviebob finds women attractive and is zealously open about it, he doesn't beat them or think they shouldn't have voting rights (or anything along those lines).

Was that sarcasm? Cuz I honestly don't see anything to complain about in there. Except the teenager thing, If I were MovieBob that would be cause for a blood feud.

I'm sure there were pictures of Miss Hathaway in an actual shirt that Bob easily could of used. Some of them much more elegant than attractive than a corset. But no. He chose to use a classless picture of her poorly photoshoped to show her holding coolwhip, which implies a fetish and was completely unnecessary.

And if you think he's not sexist, let me refer you to the Piranhas review, where he blatantly and condescendingly spelled out that lesbian porn is fun. Or his review of Salt where the whole thing was a bunch of pictures of the lead actress in, how surprising, lingerie. That's sexism, and I don't care how you rationalize it to your fanboy minds. MovieBob is a pervert with an ego the size of Jupiter and the self-control of a grade seven boy. People like him are one of the reasons there are so few female nerds, and it's a shame the Escapist isn't telling him to grow up.

 

[Warachia]

I love all of these people who get excited for a movie, listen to one man, and then decide that one man is completely correct about everything, and without checking out other reviewers to see other opinions on the movie, immediately decide that it sucks and is not worth seeing.

 

[Warachia]

They could make a decent game out of that.

they do actually, they're usually called the "Shin Megami Tensei" games.

 

[Warachia]

don't know if I got ninja'd yet, but:

'The director himself has said it's an internet rumor. He figured the equipment they used cost that, not the making of the movie itself. The movie itself comes under $500,000.

Best Buy asked them how much their equipment for this project cost and they figured it was around $15,000.

No one can make a movie for $15,000 in this day and age. '

Paranormal activity, budget: around $15,000. You don't need a giant studio to make everything.