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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses
under the ‘About Me’ section).
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Godzilla vs. Kong OK/G
I finally got to see this much-discussed film that I was in
no rush to see; I’ll see it when I see it thought I. I’m not even that much a fan of the movies
featuring either titular titan; I haven’t even seen them all either, but I know
I saw the last couple for both and I believe this crossover was in relation to
the most recent titles. Now, when I see
a movie called Godzilla vs. Kong,
that is primarily what I expect to see.
I know, I know, all the expected exposition has to be there (and an
entire film of fighting would’ve likely been redundant), but it seemed like
there was a whole lot of exposition here, especially in the beginning. Even though I’ve seen films featuring both
creatures, like I said, I have no idea who any of the human characters are, nor
do I keep track of any of them, usually reminded of them if they’re
re-introduced or we’re presented with a flashback, but I think others would
agree with me when I say the humans are ancillary in these films regardless of
how much screen-time they get. Now, the
scenes that do feature the behemoths duking it out are rather impressive (I saw
it on a small screen too!), and there are other beings aside from the main
attractions that provide equally impressive scenes. Adam Wingard directed, who was also behind
films like You’re Next and The Guest, so it was in very capable
hands (although those two films are much different, of course). I hate to say it felt a bit lacking in what I
expected (the film was almost 2 hours too) and I ultimately didn’t enjoy it as
much as other action movies involving monsters of some kind, and [SPOILER] I
didn’t like how both creatures ended up being the good guys at the end, but I also
wasn’t anticipating much (like I said).
It is what it is and I enjoyed a decent amount of it, so I’m definitely
not dismissing it. 8/3/2021
Bonus reviews:
Sharks of the Corn EH
Obviously the title is a reference to another film
(franchise really) ending in “of the Corn.” In an even less subtle move, Steven Kang’s is atop the title! I looked at the entire cast and crew
information and found no one with that name, or pseudonym. I even Googled the name and other names with
different spelling came up.
Interestingly, Tim Ritter, the director, also made that crazy 80’s film,
Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness, which I rented on VHS
ages ago and didn’t know until I did my aforementioned research. Anyway, watching a movie called Sharks of the Corn (Steven Kang’s Sharks of the Corn, at that) and having seen a
trailer before, I knew not to have the highest expectations going in. By the way, I didn’t recall any
references/homages to any Children of the
Corn film, nor any shark film for that matter, unless they all went over my
head (you do get to hear some tidbits on great whites though). The film involves exactly what you think it
does---there are sharks in a cornfield somewhere in Kentucky (geez, all they
had to do was set it in Nebraska to be even less
subtle!). Obviously, since it’s a
105-minute movie (yes, really), the film can’t entirely consist of sharks
eating people in a cornfield; Bigfoot and mob dealings are some of the other
things involved. Now, I can forgive a
movie featuring an entirely asinine concept if it was actually fun. This started out like it could’ve been fun; unsurprisingly,
the shark attacks were poorly executed (there is blood though) and they didn’t
even try hard at all with the look of the shark in the cornfield, and, frankly,
I was bored more often than I should’ve been; I don’t think that 105-minute
run-time was necessary. At least I
allowed myself to wait until it was free to watch, because I was considering
renting it for a price for a while, and, had I done so, I would’ve been even
more disappointed than I already was! 8/3/2021
Land Shark EH/OK
(haiku review)
It’s bad. You
surprised?
Short, bloody, laughably
bad.
They tried. Ha…sort
of. 8/4/2021
Other movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Cannibal Corpse Killers >>>EH
Lilith (2018) >>>EH
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase >>>OK
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness >>>EH
---Sean O.8/7/2021
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