movieville

Chronicling the bizarre viewing habits of Tim Smithies.

Saturday, February 26, 2005

Road Trip

I love Tom Green and he's great in this movie. This follows a dude's rush across the country to rescue a tape that was sent by mistake to his girlfriend that is gonna be trouble if she see's it...
Car's blow up, they get into all sorts of mess and Tom Green eats a mouse. Pretty much it - but funnier than it should be in an Animal House kind of way.

Sky
Colour
***

Friday, February 25, 2005

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

This remake of the 1974 movie is the usual affair. Not particularly interesting, dark enough or with any of the horror of the original... Nah.

Sky
Colour
**

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

This is a neat sequel (seen an odd number of good sequels recently...) which picks up exactly where the original leaves off. Basically we see how the Umbrella Corporation tries to cover up the action of the first movie and meet some new people, a great monster and loads and loads of zombies. Apparently they had to close some of Montreal for a few days to pull off the exteriors and it seemed to pay off.

DVD R2
Colour
****

Monday, February 21, 2005

Ginger Snaps 2 - Unleashed

Watched this on Sky this evening as I really enjoyed the first Ginger Snaps movie back in 2000. It followed a girl who was slowly turning into a werewolf and this sequel follows her sister Brigitte as she tries to avoid the same fate as her sister... great sequel.

Sky
Colour
***

Sunday, February 20, 2005

Resident Evil

Time for this one again - Viruses and Zombies...
This is one of the best movies based on a video game (not usually a great start - House of the Dead anyone?), I guess the main reason was that the game was actually scary too. This is a tight movie with a cool story about a corporation that's conducting research into genetics and viruses in an underground lair. Someone lets the virus out and the computer in charge takes action... loads of moody corridors, zombies and mutant dogs to look out for. Coolio.

DVD R2
Colour

****

Godzilla versus Hedorah

Following an email from George Dawn I dug this one out of the VHS archives!
This is Godzilla versus the Smog Monster - an evil monster that feeds off the polution and smoke of Tokyo. It's a classic and amusing movie - the Smog monster is a large grey blobby thing with evil red eyes. The best scene in the fights was the part where 'zilla blows fire and aims it at the floor to propel himself through the air... The songs are great too, as are the animated scenes that appear throughout.

VHS
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