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Outlander (2008)
Entertaining Film
If you like scifi and monster movies this is the film for you. Don't over think it just sit back and enjoy! I would have paid to see this film but was pleasantly surprised when it showed up on my satellite TV menu. So much garbage that passes for film today and finally something to write about. Where has this little gem been hiding?? Anyway good cast, good monster fx, and good entertainment for a change! Jim Caviezel's spaceship crashes on Earth and brings something deadly with it. After being taken prisoner by one of the viking tribes that inhabits the area, Caviezel's character Kainen tries to convince the vikings that it's something other than other vikings that is responsible for the killings and disappearances occurring in the area. Eventually Kainen shows the vikings how to build a trap to catch the alien monster but surprises ensue. By the time a rescue ship from Kainen's home world arrives Kainan must make a fateful decision.
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
A Sound of Thunder-Who's to Blame?
OK-It looks like I may be the only person here that actually enjoyed this film. It obviously had serious production problems but being a child of fifties sci-fi I guess I'm able to overlook more of the poor FX in this film than say the CGI generation. I found the story to be engaging, the acting adequate and the monsters scary. I did have to use some imagination though to get through some scenes in the film especially the "walking treadmill" scene but all in all an enjoyable watch. I don't know that I would have had the same feeling had I spent $10.00 to see it at the multiplex. The studio should have released it direct-to-video.
There are so many aspects to a production of a film that the public is not aware of that it is hard for me to blame the director for the finished product. To me the failure of the film should fall directly upon the shoulders of the studio and the production company. The former for releasing it in it's "unfinished" form and the latter for not having enough money to properly render the special effects so critical to the success of a film of this type.
Behemoth the Sea Monster (1959)
Behemoth a Generation Favorite
This film was made before the days of cgi and therefore must seem painfully dated to younger viewers but to us who grew up in the atomic monster age it is both scary and charming. We do not look with judgment on the film but rather on the times in which it was produced. Fond memories of drive-in theaters and Saturday night scarfests with friends. Carefree times of youth and adolescence. That said "Behemoth" is ultimately more entertaining with it's challenging fx than many of our modern day films which completely lack any charm. Simply filling a film with eye catching Cgi does not a movie make. Willis O'Brian's painstaking stop-motion effects and Eugene Lourie's talent with a minuscule budget unite to make a scary premise very entertaining and certainly fondly remembered.