Another surprise. Certain stinker turns out to be pretty good dumb alien invasion scifi.
| Title: | Battleship |
| Director: | Peter Berg |
| Score: | 4/6 |
| Alien: | Surely it’s the Master Chief? |
#262: True Grit [1969]
I was going to do another make/remake fiasco, but I’ve already seen the remake! Frustratingly, the remake was very good. Now we’ll never know if it’s just that I saw it first, or if it really is the first example of a remake that doesn’t suck. On the other hand, if it were just the viewing order, then this original should suck.
| Title: | True Grit |
| Director: | Henry Hathaway |
| Score: | 5/6 |
| Best voice: | The duke. |
#261: Sharknado [2013]
You’d think it would be horrible, but I say it’s better than any big-budget monster movie Hollywood’s produced for twenty years.
Plot-wise it’s super stupid, of course, but that goes for pretty much all monster movies. I think maybe the low budget cheese has a certain disarming effect on the stoops. Maybe a big budget is exactly what monster movies don’t need?
If Jurassic Park only had a budget of two million dollars, they probably wouldn’t be able to afford Goldblum.
| Title: | Sharknado |
| Director: | Anthony C. Ferrante |
| Score: | 5/8 |
| Verdict: | Safe to watch, but maybe bring some distractions. |
#260: Bad Milo! [2013]
#259: Death Note 2: The Last Name [2006]
#258: Death Note [2006]
Not bad. Maybe it’s just that it’s not american, but as a supernatural-psycho-serial killer-cop chase-crime-thriller it’s very refreshing.
Not sure how I feel about there being four more films.
| Title: | Death Note |
| Director: | Shusuke Kaneko |
| Score: | 4/6 |
| Better than the manga? | Hmmm… Tough one… Probably not… |
