Jason Goes to Hell - The Final Friday

For the first few minutes I thought they were actually making this film to intentionally look retro-80's. Then, after that didn't wear off, I checked - 1993. That's why it looked so old.

Which is odd, because that's only 16 years ago, but I suppose that we have all become so used to the CG and other special effects that these old movies pale in comparison.

But that's not the worst of this flick - because boy does it stink! The plot is paper-thin, the characters are about as deep as a puddle, and music is overblown, and even the gore is silly.

I suppose you could watch it for a laugh.



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Resident Evil: Extinction

In a word: Disappointing!

This movie made the second one look good. And I hated the second movie. I loved the first Resident Evil, it had everything a movie lover could want - an evil corporation, a team of highly trained marines who valiantly become zombie food, a horde of bloodthirsty zombies, an insane computer that projects itself as a creepy little girl, and a kickbutt heroine.

Sadly, though, the height of this wonder was not replicated in the second movie, and I was hoping that the third could be called redemption. But, no.

It had really nothing to offer. There was a good scene in the desert where they spend ten minutes of killing zombies in what used to be Las Vegas. Slightly cool, but without any actual movie on either side of that ten minutes, it leaves a guy hollow . . .

even with the cliffhanger, which would be cool if someone were still interested in the whole mess.

To continue the rant - the first movie was like a mixture of Aliens (that's the second one), The Andromeda Strain (the first movie - made in the 60's), Dr Strangelove (which should be made mandatory viewing for every single living person in the country), and Night of the Living Dead (the first and STILL the best).

Whereas this movie is much like Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome . . . yeah, that one that ruined the other two Mad Max movies for every fan out there - but at least that trilogy had TWO great flicks instead of one.


If you haven't seen any of the Resident Evil trilogy, let me advise you well: watch the first one but none of the others. You will have had a satisfying movie experience without the letdown that the rest of us have unfortunately suffered through.


Now, here's some pics of mighty cool Milla Jovovich:



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Where is the Movie for this generation?

I was thinking the other day that the problem with this generation is that there is no movie for this generation - no film that captures the sheer "essence" of what it means to be young at this point in time.

Look, the 60's generation had The Graduate - that paean to restless youth entering into the world of adulthood, looking straight into the heart of some "plastic" (i.e. meaningless) void. And the final, rejection of it, symbolized by riding off on a bus bound for who knows where.









The 80's had The Breakfast Club - that ode to youth who were much better off than they knew they were, and that realization that even though we all have different masks that we put on to take on the world, underneath everything we're all scared spitless of what our responsibilities are, so let's take it day by day and maybe we'll be friends tomorrow and maybe we won't but either way, our defiance is in the knowledge that authority will never really have control over our spirit . . . and in that way we are truly free.

But this decade, this generation . . . I can't really find anything. No movie that is so symbolic of our youth that it in future years it will stand as the most succinct definition of this place and time.

Hm..

The only thing that possibly keeps coming to mind . . .


is Superbad.





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