Change Your Image
Aubeus
Reviews
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
Movie reinforces existing beliefs and ideas about significance of relationships
This movie is more like a philosophical commentary than a story. It uses its characters and story in a very pointed way to push the idea that there is more significance in our lives than we will ever realize. Like someone before me said, it's a re-make of "It's Wonderful Life". It really is more than coincidence that all these events happened in one character's life -- it's a book turned into a script. This movie is just as big a fantasy as The Neverending Story; I definitely wouldn't show impressionable children. A movie that teaches people to constantly seek significance, draw false conclusions, and sacrifice themselves for strangers probably shouldn't be a movie to model one's life after. As for the acting: it's pretty camp and impersonal. The characters don't take anytime to depart from the stereotypes -- men are all angry and emotionally suppressed assholes; women are weak and vulnerable; children are innocent, so on and so forth...
Graveyard Shift (1986)
This is a great movie, if you grab the crack pipe beforehand...
So, I went into this movie thinking: Okay, a hairy Italian vampire who walks around without clothes on a lot of the time, how could it be that bad? Well, as it turns out, they found a way to do it. I was only uh.. 5 when this movie came out but, I still can't figure for the life of me what was going on during the script production. There was just a lot of things that didn't make sense. For example, why was Stephen going to die? How could he make himself die? By not drinking blood? The dialogue lead me to believe he had initiated something that would cause him to die, besides just not feeding. Also, why did the women seem to go insane after becoming 'lovers' with Stephen?
Subspecies (1991)
Things you didn't know about Subspecies
I was ten years old when I saw Subspecies, I instantly had the hots for Michael Watson and Laura Tate, they really do have some great on-screen chemistry in the earlier parts of the movie. I ordered a copy back in 1993 from Full Moon and I learned this: Ion and Rosa, the servants, have much bigger roles in the screenplay along with the King. What most people don't know is that there was an alternate sequence that was supposed to occur in the ending scene: Michelle and Stefan get cornered into a room and Michelle has the idea for Stefan to make her a vampire to help fight off Radu and her demonic controlled ex-friends. However, for some reason or another that scenario never made it on camera. Another scene in the script, that can be confirmed from the original trailer shows Stefan drinking blood from a wolf, or actually in the trailer you see him coming up with blood on his chin.
This movie gets a 9 because it's one from my childhood and I have fond memories attached to the characters; even though my favorite characters were Stefan and Michelle I think Anders Hove's Radu is pure feeling-evocative acting, so much feeling in his work there.