Saw Intruder last night. I've seen this before, but it must be 20 years or more! This campy late 80s slasher sees the night shift at a closing-down supermarket come under attack from a mysterious lunatic. I vaguely remember this, but I didn't remember it being as totally tongue-in-cheek as it was. By the last 20 minutes I was laughing my head off at it. Spectacularly gory but so deeply dippy I found it impossible not to love. I found the music equally hilarious (presumably unintentionally, unless it was some sort of incredibly obscure metatextual joke) as the great majority of it was exactly the same as the "dramatic/exciting/spooky" music they used to use in Sons and Daughters. I found this at first incredibly distracting and then eventually hugely amusing in its own right.
This was a really silly movie but I had a great time with it. I love the bit where the killer pauses in pursuit of his final victim to pick up a couple of items on the floor in the supermarket in order to put them back on the shelf!
Saw Terminator Genysis at the cinema today. Generally speaking, great fun. No, it's not on the level of the first two but then, it was never going to be. It was a fun Arnie kick-ass sci-fi action movie like the good old days, and I had a fun time with it. The CGI Young Arnie Terminator was a hoot, and the 1984 stuff with that and the T-1000 was probably the highlight of the film. The later stuff was a bit of a retread of stuff we've seen before, but it was still fun. Courtney was alright, but he sure ain't no Michael Biehn. Emilia Clarke was pretty good as Sarah, though, and given that this is effectively a completely different version of Sarah than we've seen before, also made the recast a bit easier to swallow. All in all a great slice of cinematic fan-fiction.
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 8:30 am
