opietaylor69 Reviews

All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)

Really bad...and not in a good way!

[1/10 · 12 June 2005]

Okay..the Sci Fi channel saw fit to get rid of MST3K, Thriller, and a host of actually well made programs, only to replace them with putrid crap called "made for Sci-Fi" movies. Seriously, has even one of them been watchable? Ed Wood made better horror movies. Low budgets, and bad acting abound. This feces of a movie is poorly directed, poorly written, and incredibly boring. I could have produced better special effects in my basement. Compared to "Sci Fi Channel" movies, "Lifetime" movies, as horrible as they are, are Emmy winners. Yes, as much as they suck, I'd rather watch Melissa Gilbert and Meredith Baxter Birney movies than anything that's "made for Sci- Fi". Not that the Sci Fi channel is a total loss, at least they still air the "Twilight Zone" and "Kolchak". (Now, if they'd just quit trying to make movies, and bring back Night Gallery)

Cutthroat Island (1995)

Not bad..not bad "atoll"..

[8/10 · 27 February 2005]

I like this movie. Yes, it's overblown and over budget. True, there are plot holes you could sail a massive schooner through. (And there is very little on screen chemistry between the two "romantic" leads). But..if taken as an adventure-pirate movie, it's darn good, maybe one of the best. If made a decade or more earlier, it would have been considered an amazing achievement. Forget heavy handed critiques, if you like a good swashbuckler, it's not to be missed. (and Geena is just gorgeous). This movie harken's back to the great 30's and 40's adventure movies, and easily out pirates The "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Home for the Holidays (1995)

Interesting, quirky, but ultimately depressing..

[21 November 2004]

On the DVD narration, Jodie Foster states that this movie sums up her own feelings about family, holidays..etc. I'm glad we're not related. Foster's attempt to copy a Cassavette's style film (frantic pacing, talk over dialogue) proves she isn't Cassavettes. The only saving grace of the film is Holly Hunter, an actress I would watch even in a depressing, strange, mess of a movie like this one. The film, behind it's cutesy, quirky demeanor, has a mean spirited, depressing, and degrading view of life, family, holidays, and all things most people (outside of Hollywood) cherish.

Yes, it's interesting, but mainly to get a manic depressive's viewpoint of family celebration.