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Hard Ground (2003)
Mostly blank shots!
Well, I Happened to see this movie.
I'm not a particular Western-Fan, but when a movie is good, then its good no matter the genre, and vice verse. This one is quite dull (even if it had been a Sci-fi flick).
Im not gonna go deep into details, but my opinion falls somewhere similar to the lower scored comments here.
The actors feels a bit wooden, the sound-effects are bad, the action moments lack "umphf", the bad guy is stupidly, annoyingly portrayed and overacted, the relationships between the characters is so embarrassing, the special effects ... well there is not that many SFX, etc.
If you really have the crave for "Wild West" movies, go see "Young Guns" instead, or why not "Deadwood" - another TV-production that really oozes quality. But if you're in some personal quest, that you have to see every western there is, well, go ahead. Or if you do some research like - How Burt Raynolds Carrier is going down ... then this also could be helpful.
I Gave it a "2", mostly because the horses did some nice acting. Acting like embarrassed animals in a low budget badly script, dumb movie, or was it acting?
Overall, you don't miss anything by avoiding this.
2012: Doomsday (2008)
Nominating! the worst film ever.
I must say! I actually don't think I have the required skills in English to actually reject this movie in the proper flavor, but I'll give it a try.
OK ... I honestly think that I just gazed upon the worst movie that have ever been taped (or filmed), and probably that ever will be filmed - since this "Doomsday".
Now I'm not counting some Youtube homemade crap out there, cause they don't have a proper "studio" or "budget" what so ever, Im talking about a "movie", but the comparison wouldn't be so far away anyway ... thats how awful this movie is. The quality is better, I give it that, but the script, screenplay, acting and the choice of soundtrack, and so on, drops well below most of the junk you can find at Youtube (for example).
Plan 9 From Outer Space - Beware! Ice Planet - Throw yourself in the wall! Space Fury (In the deep of space) - go and fetch your Oscar, and Nobelprice!
Im actually rather exuberant to have seen this ... "bandersnatch" (in lack of better variations), because now all movies I will ever see will make sense and feel as good as masterpieces like Aliens, Matrix, LoTR, Star Wars (The original 3), Pulp Fiction and so on.
But if you're not into that sort of sadism, then please - RUN for all your life if you see it in the shelf.
Oh! a Spoiler! almost. If you happen to be Religious Christian, then it probably could earn one point extra, up or down, depending on how serious you take your religion. It could make you frantic or concerned at best. Im not religious! so this movie only looked more whacked out and foolish to me. Don't get me wrong, I usually can enjoy a good movie with religious connections - about Armageddon, Angels vs Devils, Is the truth out there etc. Like "Gods Army" (Prophecy), but this ... this is just a dump of Holy crap (excuse my expression).
AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem (2007)
This is OK.
Im a fan of the Alien and Predator franchise. When I first read about an Alien Vs Predator Movie (the first) I was very hopeful, since I've read many of the Comics around this subject, in fact, its from the Comic books that this AvP idea was originated, almost - An Alien Head did actually show up in the Predator ship in the Predator 2 movie, that was a fun and cool thing to do back in the 80s, and still is :) It was really cool, and it was that what sparked the idea of Aliens vs Predators.
Avp 1 molested a Comic manuscript, by changing the setting from a more chronologically correct place with the Alien Movies. In other words, in the future, out in space, but on a Colony (a small prospering colony on a planet out in space). This was sad ... But anyhow. I was a bit disappointed.
So when this came, I was a bit careful, and didn't think much of it at all. The Details of what was good or bad I leave to the other reviewers here, or to the viewer (as taste is diverse). But the Aliens, and Predator, and their Tech looks really good, a bit murky from time to time. And the who movie is a bit Easy-chewed. It had the "foundation" to be better, but ended up with not being any scary, tense or traumatizing (like the first one :). But it was somewhat enjoyable. Cant really place it, but it was nice to see the Aliens and The Predator running around again.
The R rating. Well, We where younger and more naive back then, so i guess that stuff changes over time. But this one doesn't really know where it stands. The setting, feeling, action and so on often smells a bit Teenage, Highschool, American Dream scenario horror flick, and therefore cant be taken seriously, but there are a lot of blood? and there are some rather nasty (or cool) scenes with dead people and bits of dead people. But i guess it got an R rating cause it has no nudity? (Blood is OK, a naked breast OH MY GOD! ...) It has no nudity, OK give it an R! or something.
Anyway! o don't want to blurb about the plot, story or acting. Many have already noted many things about this ... their bad or just doesn't exist ;) But there are many references to the old series.
** SPOILER WARNING ** (dont read this last thingie)
Finally! Many reviewers here have noted that the movie ends as if it should have a Sequell, well I didn't really feel that. I guess they have referred to the Case with the Predator weapon, and the Guy talking to a mystical Asian Lady called Yutani. Well I just see it as a connection to the Alien Movies! The Big bad company that sent Nostromo and the whole crew to LV4 (the planet) in the first Alien movie, and later shipped the expendable marines to the colony, and that owned the prison in Alien3, And finally experimented on the Aliens in Alien4, was the company of "Wayland Yutani"! got it? Yutani? thats how they got so big! they had an Predator GUN! ;)