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Last night I saw the 9pm showing of Eight Legged Freaks and I must say that I am impressed. After some brilliant XXX and Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions trailers, the film began.
The basic story is this - after a lorry, carrying hazardous chemicals swerves to avoid a cat, its contents are thrown into the nearby river, where they contaminate everything in it. There is a man called Josh who runs a spider farm nearby, and uses crickets from the river to feed to the spiders. These chemically-altered crickets are like steroids for the spiders and soon everything gets out of control, with spiders the size of cars running around the town, with no link to the outside world, as you will see when you watch the film.
On a first mention is that there's a lot of black humour in here. Whilst a lot of it is welcome (like Doug E. Doug's various cracks), some of it is just too good to be true:
"Shall we run?"
"Yeah, I think we should..."
Anywho, it makes the film a step more light-hearted in its approach, though. The acting wasn't really a question. As the storyline was unbelievable, the acting too a nosedive with it, in that there was nothing special, not that I expected anything more than decent. To be honest though, acting wasn't really an issue, as you'll be captivated by the special effects. However, Scott Terra put up a decent performance as the too-intelligent Mike.
I found it quite corny how the plot unfolded as you went along, with one memorable line:
"Remember? You left 10 years ago, after your father died."
Despite the above the gripes, there were some very gripping and intense scenes in tow, namely the biker-attack scene, and the humor and rock soundtrack all added too nicely.
Now let's talk about the spiders and the CGI. Obviously, at the start when the spiders are regular size, there's nothing out of the ordinary, but when you get a spider the size of a one-person apartment, then things really get catastrophic. Even though there is a massive size increase, it does the film justice, and doesn't end up looking stupid, like has happened with many CGI-part horror films. At some times (especially when they bleed) it does look CGI-animated, but most of the time (as most of the film is at night), they look ever-so-realistic.
The ending is believable, although unoriginal. Well, I'd rather have the ending we had than Evolution or something. Ah well, I give it:
9/10 - Very good. I'll be getting it on DVD. Does anyone know when XXX is coming out for definite? Or is it out?
The basic story is this - after a lorry, carrying hazardous chemicals swerves to avoid a cat, its contents are thrown into the nearby river, where they contaminate everything in it. There is a man called Josh who runs a spider farm nearby, and uses crickets from the river to feed to the spiders. These chemically-altered crickets are like steroids for the spiders and soon everything gets out of control, with spiders the size of cars running around the town, with no link to the outside world, as you will see when you watch the film.
On a first mention is that there's a lot of black humour in here. Whilst a lot of it is welcome (like Doug E. Doug's various cracks), some of it is just too good to be true:
"Shall we run?"
"Yeah, I think we should..."
Anywho, it makes the film a step more light-hearted in its approach, though. The acting wasn't really a question. As the storyline was unbelievable, the acting too a nosedive with it, in that there was nothing special, not that I expected anything more than decent. To be honest though, acting wasn't really an issue, as you'll be captivated by the special effects. However, Scott Terra put up a decent performance as the too-intelligent Mike.
I found it quite corny how the plot unfolded as you went along, with one memorable line:
"Remember? You left 10 years ago, after your father died."
Despite the above the gripes, there were some very gripping and intense scenes in tow, namely the biker-attack scene, and the humor and rock soundtrack all added too nicely.
Now let's talk about the spiders and the CGI. Obviously, at the start when the spiders are regular size, there's nothing out of the ordinary, but when you get a spider the size of a one-person apartment, then things really get catastrophic. Even though there is a massive size increase, it does the film justice, and doesn't end up looking stupid, like has happened with many CGI-part horror films. At some times (especially when they bleed) it does look CGI-animated, but most of the time (as most of the film is at night), they look ever-so-realistic.
The ending is believable, although unoriginal. Well, I'd rather have the ending we had than Evolution or something. Ah well, I give it:
9/10 - Very good. I'll be getting it on DVD. Does anyone know when XXX is coming out for definite? Or is it out?
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1 film which I think will be good is going to be reign of fire, it looks good and it comes out on the 23rd of this month so I'll be able to see that and sum of all fears on the same weekend, gonna see spy kids 2 tomorow at the advance screening so ill tell you if its good or not.
Lawless Fever wrote:
> Well, xXx does have a sex scene in it.
Well if you call Vin saying "Things I do for my Country" as he climbs onto a fully clothed lady a sex scene, then yes it does have one in it.
> Well, xXx does have a sex scene in it.
Well if you call Vin saying "Things I do for my Country" as he climbs onto a fully clothed lady a sex scene, then yes it does have one in it.
xXx is out on October 19th. Looks cool, though I'm sure many will be dissapointed by lack of porn. Just look at the title for chrisakes!
Oh, and some will be disappinted by lack of spicy hot sauce. Hur Hur Hur.
Oh, and some will be disappinted by lack of spicy hot sauce. Hur Hur Hur.
I might be seeing it tomorrow with my mates, sounds alright.
im scared of spiders too. I thought the film was crap.
Bah!
Bah!
6 quid? Thats one expensive cinema you've got there.
Oh dear, I certainly didn't enjoy it, not once did I jump and I was laughing in disbelief at both the cheap 'comedy' and the fact that I was smiling in disbelief.
£6 down the drain.
£6 down the drain.
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