agreigboy Reviews

Skinwalkers (2006)

Yes, You Should. Time Well Spent

[7/10 · 11 August 2007]

I liked this movie enough to recommend it to everyone I know who enjoys any combination of the following:

a. Werewolves b. Hot girls c. Hot guy d. Guns e. Monsters fighting with guns f. Monsters fighting with claws g. Leather straps h. Biker babes i. Biker dudes j. Evil k. Grandmas with arsenals in their handbags

If you enjoy any of those things or more than one of those things go see this movie. It's a hoot and fun time for the whole family. Seriously, though it's a good solid popcorn flick with plenty of action. It's pretty scary but not too scary. You could take your little brother like I did and he probably won't have nightmares but will have good time.

The Gravedancers (2006)

Nice change of pass

[6/10 · 18 November 2006]

I didn't know what to expect from the so called horror fest this weekend but I liked the trailer for The Grave Dancers so I picked this one to go see at the theater. I liked the way the movies characters both live and ghostly inter acted together and how the story moved and flowed through different characters' personal issue. The film had really good make up and the camera work and shooting was a real eye opener. It was well done. The story at times was predictable at times but the last few scenes really kicks it into high geared as the ghosts let it be known that they are not happy and become completely visible. At times it was a actually funny but I like to be positive and not just trash films because you have to have a level of respect for anyone who creates a film and gets it into a theater of any kind. I did like the fact that the writers didn't feel they needed to be a complete gore slasher type film, so often now blood and guts is king and I don't always need to see all that if it isn't needed to pull off the story. I recommend this film to anyone looking for a good horror type film that doesn't have to have blood coming from all angles to make you feel a little spooked.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Such a great adaptation of Heart of Darkness

[8/10 · 20 April 2006]

It carries the tone of voice that narrates the book into the jungle of Vietnam and into the wild-eyed look of Martin Sheen and Dennis Hopper and the mystical morbidity surrounding Colonel Kurtz.(I don't say Marlon Brando because after watching the documentary, "Hearts of Darkness," I am skeptical as to how much credit Brando is due for that quality). The tone of voice I'm talking about is brooding and dramatic without being overbearing: "Everybody gets what he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one. They sent it up with room service." It is indulgent without being narrow and alienating. A good example of is Hopper's indulgence into aphoristic madness, generously installing lines written by T.S. Eliot and Rudyard Kipling into his stony monologues: "I mean, the man's a genius—sometimes he'll walk right by you without even saying a word, and sometimes he'll grab you by the collar and say "did you know that 'if' is the middle word in 'life'…if you can hold your head while all around you they are losing theirs" and then "I mean he's a wise man, he's a great man; I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas" (The first one's Kipling, the second one's Eliot.