Saturday Night at the Movies

[davywavy]

1) The Last Samurai is better than Kill Bill, which is probably the most comparable film I've seen this year. I like much about it - the Japanese Asceticism and discipline, 19th century fashion, and head choppy-off fighting with Ninjas, all done better than Tarantino managed, and with more heart too.
Am I the only one who feels Tarantine to be a one-trick pony whose time has passed?

2) Highlander: Endgame is the fourth or fifth sequel to the well-received 1986 original, and further sodomises what moldering remains of the original can be found. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Not 'so bad it's good'. Just bad. You thought Highlander 2: The Quickening was bad? You ain't seen nothin'.

3) Inseminoid. A classic piece of zero-budget early eighties British sci-fi horror, in which a Cheryl-Baker-out-of-Bucks-Fizz lookalike has a nasty encounter with an Alien Vampire with a Cyber-schlong, and her day doesn't improve much after that. So bad it's good. Considerably better than Highlander: Endgame, to be sure.

Comments

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Endgame, what an awesomely bad film. Not only destroyed the continiuity of the movie series, but also the television series on one fell swoop.

Totally destroyed the shreads of dignity left after The Quickening and The Sorcerer.

Apparently they are filming number 5 in Iceland starting soon!

I blacked out after the first 10 minutes of Inseminoid, the acting was so bad and the sets were sub Dr Who.