We don’t normaly do straight to DVD fare here at STS (unless it’s a really gnarly gore-fest of course), but until Ryan Reynolds decides to show us his ring there’s a distinct lack of superpowered action on screens at the moment, and DC’s animation department is currently firing them out like a lone baby rocketing away from an exploding planet, so we figured we’d take a look.
And anyway, it’s my blog and I like comic books, so balls to you….
Complete Disaster!
Ah Roland Emmerich, where would we be without you? Along with Michael Bay, Emmerich is almost totally responsible for sucking anything even resembling plots out of Summer Tentpole movies over the last few years. In the case of transformers, at least Bay had an excuse-he wants to flog you toys – so it’s hard to work out why grumble like this ever gets greenlit. One can only assume that Hollywood junior execs are now so young they’ve never seen Ghostbusters, and actually think this is a real movie.
Zombie apocalypses may be all the rage these days, but it’s heartening to see that other cretures that go bump in the night aren’t being completely ignored. Witness the new trailer for Daybreakers, with the always value for money Sam Neil leads a particularly stellar cast fighting a Vampire plague ridden Earth.
Let’s face it-any movie with Willem DeFoe firing a crossbow at Dracula has to be worth a look right?
Let’s face it, no one likes a downbeat ending, which is why we’re all grateful to studios for changing the end of ‘Brazil’ to make it happy, and while there’s a million one-minute movies doing the rounds, this one from Whycantihavespaces gets special kudos for taking a light hearted approach to that most bummer-ist of genres –the zombie movie.
