Thursday, March 11, 2004
Having gotten things working again I settled down to watch a couple of movies.Have you noticed how now DVDs have become popular the movie distibutors are re-releasing absolutely everything in their back catalogues... stuff you've not been able to get on vhs for years, if ever? A lot of it's on budget release too.
A couple of months ago I spoke about watching the cold war doccumentary style drama Threads, depicting a nuclear attack on the uk. Well, yesterday I picked up a DVD copy of the other nuclear war film released around the same time. The Day After depicts a nuclear attack on the US, more specifically, Kansas City.
The production values are higher, but I found the typical Hollywood gloss detracted from the outright horror of what it was trying to portray... especially with Steve Guttenberg in a lead role. I just kept waiting for the Police Accademy gags to slip out.
The other film I picked up was one I wasn't sure if I'd actually seen, or just read about in a magazine... coz I recognised certain screen shots on the back and remembered thinking how cool they looked at the time.
Turns out I hadn't actually seen it... and still haven't bothered to watch all of it, coz it really is quite crap. That'll be The Incredible Melting Man then.
Good(ish) effects for the time, but it seems that's where all of the budget went, coz the script, acting and directing are diaboical.
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Steve 11:32 AM [+]
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