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Dog Soldiers (2002)
Not as great as they say...
Score: About an hour in I was thinking of rating it a "5", but by the end "3.5".
It just seemed that the longer the movie went on the more the "actors" began to grate on me. Don't get me wrong, I love British humor, and thought that "Shaun Of The Dead" was one of the funniest movies I'd seen in years. But the humor in this movie seemed strained, the acting non-existent, and the whole "twist" at the end with Megan? Gah!
I especially hated how in one scene the werewolves are running, snarling, ripping beasts, and in the next they're tip-toeing around, silently waving their hands in the air as if they were interpretive dancers. (The scene where one crept through the window on "little cat feet" to sneak up on the sleeping Sarge had me LMAO!) And if you're a werewolf with claws, teeth, enhanced strength and animalistic fury why would you just bounce your victim around the room before tearing him apart? Is that to tenderize him before you chow down?
Personally, I'm still waiting for a GREAT werewolf movie. (And no, it's not "Underworld" or any of its sequels!) I used to think it was "The Howling", but I first saw that when I was 18, and haven't seen it again in 20+ years so I'm not sure how well it would hold up to my scrutiny today. And though I tried like the dickens to enjoy "An American Werewolf In London", David Naughton made that difficult with his overacting.
Some view this as the greatest werewolf movie EVER(!) but for me, that movie has yet to be made.
-Slaughter
100 Million BC (2008)
Total crap!
Don't waste your time.
Unless of course you like poorly-acted crap, featuring characters you couldn't possibly care about, annoying music, and the filmmakers' inability to agree on just what the "dinosaurs" in this mess should be constructed of. As a result they gave us big rubber "crocs" (at least I THINK it was a croc), stop-motion animated "raptors", and the dreaded poorly-rendered CGI T-rex.
Ugh! What garbage.
A pity you can't award "0" stars. I LOVE dinosaurs, and gave this movie 1 star based entirely on that.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Big disappointment.
As I sat watching this movie I had an inescapable sense of deja vu. All I could think was, "I've seen this movie before." And the truth is I have, only when I saw it the first time they called it 'Terminator 2'. The "liquid metal" terminator? Bad one liners from Ah-nuld? They even reshot some scenes from T2. Such as the classic Arnold clearing an area of police vehicles then doing a scan to compute how many casualties he's caused. (0%)
The TX seemed to be doing her best to mimic Robert Patrick's T-1000, and that too is part of the problem. I know the T-1000. I've spent years studying the T-1000. Dear, you are no T-1000. You'd think that since she's supposed to be even more advanced than the T-1000 SkyNet would have been able to make her less "robotic" in her movements and speech. Hell, the way they look at you with glazed, steely eyes you wouldn't need dogs to detect them.
All in all the movie proved to be a big disappointment for me.