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ZekeyLizard
05-01-2006, 07:55 PM
I figured someone might enjoy these.

Here they are in a tinier font so as not to damage the eyes:
The Movie Reptilicus starts off with a bunch of clean-shaven gangly “miners” mining away at some sort of hole. Why are they making a hole? Who cares! Its what happens next that gets this film off on the wrong foot.

A Yelp Of Dismay comes from the miners. The giant corkscrew machine has come out of the ground and GASP there appears to be a roast turkey smeared on its end. The Turkey is supposed to be the flesh of Reptilicus who, luckily, is buried under the ground, and apparently hasn’t rotted despite being 360million years old. Smart. So, the miners toss the turkey flesh into a wheelbarrow and go about their business as if nothing happened. Then the camera pans down and we see that the Turkey is pulsating!!!! Dear Lord!!!! Not Pulsating Turkey!!!! Whatever shall mankind do?
Then, the corniest beginning to a film ever as the words “Reptilicus” leap from the Turkey flesh.



What transverses next is a mish-mash of random events that leads us to the first main setting of the film.

A laboratory of some sort.

And like most bad films, we have the 2 cent actors, with typical stereotypes. First, we have the kind-hearted good scientist senior citizen with a beard. Next, we have the word-slurring slack-jawed hick who wears his OVERALLS at work and has a glazed look in his eye. Next we have the skinny, hero character who will contribute nothing to this film in any way, shape, or form. And finally we have the hot blonde who looks like a fembot from Austin Powers, and can’t act her way through a door without bashing her huge hair into the frame. The 60's was a screwed up era.

As it turns out the turkey was actually a chunk taken out of the tail of Reptilicus. The Fab Four of the laboratory, peek into a room where the tail is being kept. There is not a tail inside. But there IS a paper-mache cylinder with guava jelly plopped into a hole on its side. We see the tail several times.
So for the next few minutes we see an ad-libbed story with these individuals. Every now and then, the camera lets us see the tail again, which is repairing itself about 1 cell per hour by the looks of it.
Then it happens. It’s a dark and stormy night. The Good Scientist With A Beard is working in his lab as the thunderstorm rages outside. It’s a frightening thing to behold. No its not. There is a cracking sound. The camera pans away to a small model toy of the laboratory, and what comes bursting at 1 kilometer an hour from its roof? A small puppet.

By the cover of the film. One is led to believe that Reptilicus is going to be some sort of badass sea serpent. No. Reptilicus is a green puppet. He is made of a rubber brontosaurus body with the legs hacked off. They then welded a toy cobra head to the end of the neck. Large useless butterfly wings protrude from its back. And to top it all off, they reattached the feet onto his chest. Thus, Retilicus has hands for nipples. Because he is a poorly made puppet, his mouth constantly hangs open, his head bobs about because there is one string controlling it. The rest of his body spends the rest of the film being dragged from model to model by another string.

So what happens?

Reptilicus visits a farm. And rather then plucking the chickens or slopping the hogs, he proceeds to eat a tiny cardboard cutout of the farmer that was ripped from a photograph. It is perhaps the most painful thing I have ever watched since the French Guy in the Green Mile combusted.

The Military moves in. The military, consisting of about 3 soldiers and about 5 tanks then chases Reptilicus about the country side, reusing their same footage. Might I also add that the military in this film can’t aim. They have the aiming skill of a blind armless monkey retard who has just been given a bazooka to hold and 2 seconds in which to fire it. The Hunt is on. The Game is afoot. My lunch is lost.

Just so you know, Reptilicus never remains the same size. At one point, he is slightly larger then a house. The next time you see him, he is large enough to peak his head over a mountain. And then he shrinks to the size of the Golden Gate Bridge.

So what are his powers? He shoots green slime. I don’t know what the slime does. Because when he shoots it, all we see is it flying. We never see what happens when it hits an object. And as we all know, nothing strikes fear into the hearts of men like glowing green slime.

Now I could go on for hours about the idiocy of this film. But I wont. It ends as Reptilicus enters a large city, where the windows have been hastily scribbled onto the buildings by a 5-year old. The Military finally shoots enough missiles at the stupid puppet until the strings holding it snap and the thing falls down dead. The “missiles” are actually firecrackers.

And that was it.
The credits go up, and I attempt to not scream in frustration as to how his crap could have gotten the green light to be produced. Darn you, Reptilicus, and your horrific film!!!

ZekeyLizard
05-01-2006, 07:56 PM
Frogs:

Wow.
Never in my life have I seen a film that made me question my own unstable sanity.
But now, I have. Today’s film is titled: Frogs.
I don’t know who directed this film, but rest assured that if I ever meet him in public, I will make certain that the next waking minutes of his life are filled with pain and suffering.
We rented this film on DVD. Thus, we bravely clicked on the “extras” menu to see what was there. And as hard to believe as this may sound, the sad sacks who beefed this taco actually made a theatrical trailer for it.

The film starts off on an “island.” Its strange to see an island that appears to be Virginia floating in the middle of a forest. Its not an island. It’s a clearing for God’s sakes! The film begins with some random guy paddling his way down a river in his ridiculously long canoe. He must have amazing arm strength to lug it down the water, because I could probably lay 6 Rosie O’ Donnels end-to-end in this thing.

As he floats, a large mass of rubber snakes greets him, dangling from the tree branches above. These rubber snakes are made even more frightening when the camera zooms in on them and adds needless musical flourishes.

Meanwhile , in a lake somewhere, a large ugly guy and his petite ugly girlfriend attempt to steer a motorboat whilst drunk. What are they drunk on? BUDWEISER!
Why Bud? Why?

The motorboat splashes some water on Nature Boy in his canoe, and those few droplets manage to capsize him and his canoe. The motorboat then rescues the man and takes him to his house. Apparently the people in the motorboat and the canoe guy know each other. I cant tell. Nor do I care.

Fast Forward. These three people, who have no point in the story are at the mansion of a little old man. The Old Man is the main character. I couldn’t discern what his name was, so I shall call him Old Fart. Being a typical white senior citizen from the 70's, his house is brimming with black servants who do his bidding.

He grumbles something. Then the camera pans and we see them. THE FROGS!!!!
They are floating in the bog looking perfectly harmless. At least they seem to be harmless until the giant logo for the Movie’s title springs up, and then the frogs look amazingly intelligent. Throughout the entire movie the animals show more smarts then any of these idiots running around in the mansion.

So.
Why are all these people at Fart’s mansion? Well, about 9 hours into the film, they tell you that it is Fart’s Birthday! And he doesn’t appear to have any left by the looks of him. Old Fart looks like a heart attack waiting to happen. And what does Fart want for his birthday? Skin cream? Ear Cleanser? Talent? No! He wants all the reptiles in the forest to feel his rage. So he hires some guy to spray white glop everywhere, which kills the reptiles for some reason.

This makes the animals angry. So the cock who directed this “movie” subjects us to another stirring hour of close-ups on cute little TOADS, and snakes and lizards. And even a truly frightening butterfly! Fear the monarch butterfly! It will chew your babies!!!!!

Have I mentioned that there is not one single frog in this film? Its toads. They are all toads. You can tell they are toads because in the scenes that require swimming, the animals are frantically trying to escape a drowned fate. So eventually the director of this mishmash places the toads on a log that floats. He then reuses the Toad/Log footage about 34 times in the film.


Here is an interesting Fun Fact. Although the cover of the film clearly depicts a toad eating a human, the Frogs don’t kill anybody. The Lizards kill one man by knocking poisonous chemicals in a greenhouse over and creating a lethal gas. These Lizards obviously graduated with PhD’s in Chemistry. The Tarantulas then kill some slow-moving dumbpiss by throwing moss at him and then covering him with their silk. Which is interesting, seeing as the silk is clearly cotton and shoots out in such huge amounts that you know these spiders are hopped up on Viagra. The snakes kill two people, not by injecting their lethal venom, but by posing in front of the camera. They posed so well, I hear they will be on “Queer Eye for the Snake Guy” next weekend. Why do I keep cracking these horrible hackneyed jokes? Please kill me.

A Snapping Turtle kills someone by swimming. A crocodile kills a man by wrestling with him. And then the most terrifying of all Nature’s Creatures attacks! The Crabs kill! Crabs that pine for the taste of human flesh. Or human stupidity. Either is good. Ineffable.

Crabs:.

The movie finally starts to wind down when people start SHOOTING at the SNAKES. As we all know, you have an amazing chance to shoot a snake with a revolver when it hangs from your chandelier and is made of plastic.

All the Morons run from the island except for Old Fart. He is too full of Birthday Pride to get his wrinkled ass out of the house. He sits in the dark all alone. Then we get to see what the entire budget of this movie was spent on. A TOAD sails through a window and lands on the record player which slows to a stop. Brilliant. The Old Fart wheels away from the cavalcade of amphibians which are not trained and thus, are hopping all over the place and bonking their heads into objects. Animal Cruelty at its finest. The Old Fart has a heart attack and keels over as someone on the film staff desperately chucks toads at his body to make it seem as if he is being attacked. The Credits then went up. That was it.

About 10 minutes passed, I excused myself from the house, and screamed many bad words at the clouds until I passed out.

Youlikeyams?
06-01-2006, 11:20 AM
Carries your usual dry wit as always Zekey, nice one :)

Dyakson
06-01-2006, 09:54 PM
Ineffable crabs? That's rather good. :)

I enjoyed reading those!

Nuclear Spoon
06-01-2006, 10:03 PM
Oh fucking god. That cracked me up. Even "dumbpiss". The throwing of toads in desperation was particularly amusing.

BlueberryMuffin
06-01-2006, 10:09 PM
Oh man, now I really want to see them :(

Well written zekey.

HeavyT
06-01-2006, 10:09 PM
Yes, those were brilliant. I truely laughed-out-loud.

La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo
06-01-2006, 10:22 PM
Nice one Zekey, loved them, made me piss.

DJ Nufonia
07-01-2006, 08:45 AM
True MST3K material, eh Zekey?

This makes me want to use my nonexistant biting wit to make a movie review of my own.

*goes off to review Manos: The Hands Of Fate or Pod People*

HeavyT
07-01-2006, 12:59 PM
MST3K FTW!

I've only seen that movie about 14 times, god I love it! DJ your thr first person I have ever met* that knows what MST3K is. I've felt so alone on the subject, Im squealing like a school girl right now.

I also agree Zekey's stuff does have a certain MST3K feel to it.

Cloud Trifle
09-01-2006, 02:44 AM
As soon as I saw the announcement, I thought Zekey would enter, and I reckon he could win.

He must be the most experienced writer of all of us forumites :).

Also: MST3K FTW!

DJ Nufonia
09-01-2006, 02:57 AM
Trumpy, you can do MAGIC things!

ZekeyLizard
10-01-2006, 05:51 AM
caw caw:
Hell Comes to Frogtown

I was blessed to see a horrible film over the weekend called "Hell Comes to Frogtown"
It seems some japanese company managed to get ahold of some of America's lamest cinema and are transferring it to DVD.
This is quite obvious, due to the extremly low quality of the DVDs and the fact that when placed it in the player I was granted with but 2 selections "SCENE SELECT" and "STRAT MOVIE"
That's right. It said STRAT.
I wont go much into this movie, but basically Roddy Piper, former wrestler, stars as a weird mixture of a nerd and an Indiana Jones wannabe who is escorted to a massive Frog City by some marginally hot women soldiers. What follows after is alot of hilarious sport-mascot-esque people dressed as athropomorphic frogs running around trying to capture Sam Hell (Roddy Piper). Sam cant seem to decide if he's a badass or a complete wuss. At times he runs around with shotguns blowing up people dressed as frogs eevrywhere. At other times, he runs about squealing in fright like a 7-year-old girl. One particular scene has the second main character whose name escapes, me doing a "sensual" "dance" for the leader of the frogs, a guy named Toady. Toady is so enamoured by her "dance" that his 3 PENISES become erect. She then screams and runs away. Sam finds her, gets into a jeep with a bunch of Asian supermodels who came out of nowhere, and rides into the dessert. Toady gives chase on another jeep, shooting roman candles through the air with his missile launcher. Sam knocks the crazy forest ranger guy from the beggining of the movie off a cliff (where he falls on a very obvious soft cushion). Toady falls off the cliff too, and Sam, for whatever reason, feels sad that he must now impregnate the hot asian supermodels.

For the life of me, I have not seen a more hilariously bad action film.
But it at least had a budget of some kind. (there are ACTUAL explosions!)