[algo448]

Guys! Guys! Space Ninja Char!



Got your attention? Nice!
Let's sit back and enjoy the abomination that is Captain Of Cosmos.

Known in South Korea as Space Black Knight and in early releases in the US as Johnny Destiny: Space Ninja, what we got here is a bootleg movie brought to us by the delightfully zany Joseph Lai, best known for making ninja movies.
This time he gave us a movie that clearly stole all the animation it could from Gundam and fused all 80s cliches into something that can barely be called a plot.

I watched the version known as Captain of Cosmos so let's dive right in!

In an alternate unvierse where the UC developed way differently and Char and Amuro are somehow the same person (aka "Captain Leo") a group of guardians known as "Cosmos Warriors" protect the unvierse from all kind of threats.

The current villains are the "Green Empire" lead by their queen in a crusade to ensalve mankind and rebuild their ravaged planet, which is something that nobody bothers teling you about till halfways through the movie.

Prepare for an adventure of incredibly unengaging space fights, terrible audio editing, incredibly stiff animation and deligthfully cheesy screams that make Bruce Lee's voice sound low pitched, drop all expectations as you are forced to endure a series of poorly connected and completely unineteresting sequences that go nowhere but are thankfully short enough to keep this monster under the 90 minute mark.

This is bad, terrible, cringe inducing.
And oh boy, it is so 80s it hurts.

As far a s so bad it's good stuff, it woudl do very well if it weren't for the terrible audio, every single stupid scenen is prime rifftrax material, but the audio is so terrible, you have no diea what anybody is saying at any given time, I didn't even learn the name of the protagonist til the third act.

So brave viewer, I hope you can survive the only movie where the main chaarcter is both Char and Amuro, and yet has neither of the traits that makes them likeable or interesting.
Beware the terror of Captain Of Cosmos.



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[Dr Kain]

Friday the 13th 3 - This movie sucks. None of the characters have any sort of development and their acting is down right atrocious. It's like they just offered people they saw walking down the street a role in this movie because they didn't have the time or money to actually hire actors. The back story of Chris makes no sense because Jason does not have hair even though he had it just a day or two ago from the incident of 2 (even though he seems to have lost it again in the matter of 12 hours). Granted, it was nice that they wanted to do some type of back story, but the lack of any acting skills on the main character makes it hard to believe. The worst part is the staff seemed to prefer putting in as many 3D gimmicks as possible rather than write a good movie because the plot is just awful. Not only that, but the three bikers and the married couple at the beginning served no purpose other than for someone to say, "Yes, we now have a higher body count than before." Sure, Jason is a lot better in this movie than the last one, but still, for someone who had a machete sliced into his shoulder a few hours ago he seemed to have healed quite quickly. And now he gets an axe to the face that will not be present later. Overall, I give this movie a 4/10 stars.

RZ Halloween II - Well I'm not really sure where to begin, as this movie does some really great things, but at the same time, it does so much wrong. First off, I will say that the movie was not as bad as I initially thought it was last year. It does have an interesting premise of showing Laurie's life after Michael and how messed up she is from it. Unfortunately, this movie really should have been called Hoboween as Michael is just that, a hobo. I also do not like how they have him making grunt sounds whenever he kills someone or has him talk. Another issue is the timeline is all messed up. In the first one, it says 17 years have passed after Michael's mom killed herself but now it says 15. That just does not make sense. Nor doe this new kid even pull off young Michael. His mannerisms are completely different from the last kid and he does not even try to act messed up. He is just there. Nevertheless, the biggest problem with this movie is that it is just way too damn long. There was no reason for it to be 2 hours when 90 minutes would have just been fine. In fact, if they were to cut out every scene with Sheri Moon in it, along with the pointless kill run at the Red Rabbit (which for some reason I thought had Michael setting the place on fire), that would probably fix all of the movie's pacing issues. Other than that, this movie is still terrible, but it could be worse. As such, I'm going to give it a 2/10 because it is just slightly better than Resurrection, but Michael has been humanized way too much to give it anything higher.

Friday the 13th 4 - Now this one is great. Yeah, a lot of the characters are still there just to die, but there is a great amount of development with some of them. Not to mention the Trish and Tommy are the best characters to be featured in the series thus far. The story is well told for what it is and I liked that they have a character who is looking to get revenge for his sister's death at the hands of Jason from one of the previous movies. Another thing I like is this is probably the bests version of Jason on screen as he is just oozing with awesomesauce. I love that he still has the bruise from the axe to the face (even though I wonder how a machete to the face can kill him when an axe couldn't) and he just looked like a threat to everyone. Another aspect I enjoyed is that not everyone was killed on camera, but I really love the creativity in showing the shadow of the one twin being killed instead of just showing her die. It feels like the filmakers went above and beyond what was expected when it came to the deaths. This is a solid entry in the series and if I recall correctly from the other movies, this is the best one in the franchise. I give it a 7.5/10.

[thunderstrike541]

In honor of Elizabeth Peña/ Mirage

Day 15:
The Incredibles (2004):



Wow. I need a moment.... Childhood overload..... OVERLOAD!!!
Ok. Now that that's over, let's get on to the review.
The Incredibles is a film about a superhero family. Bob Parr (a.k.a. Mr. Incredible) is tired of living in hiding (did I mention that being a Super Hero is illegal in this movie?). After losing is job at a corrupt insurance company, Bob goes off and accepts a job where he can finally be a hero again. He gets kidnapped by his ex-fan-turned-psychopath, his wife comes to save him, and...... Shit goes down in the city. THIS is how a superhero movie should be done! It's the PERFECT superhero movie! Let's just hope Big Hero 6 can live up to this masterpiece.

I give this movie 10 Wannabe-Bohrok out of 10.

[Dr Kain]

The Thing - Getting to see this on the big screen was freaking amazing. I have nothing more to say about this movie that I haven't said in the past outside of that it features the two greatest F bombs in cinema history. Carpenter's best movie with a 9/10 stars.

Zombieland - I just flat out love this movie. It is hilarious, has good characters, and the music kicks ass. Not to mention the awesome cameo towards the end of the movie is just amazing. I always go back and forth between whether I like this more than Shaun of the Dead or vice versa, but either way, you cannot go wrong. Although, it is funny to see how many times Tallahassee could have had his Twinkies if he had actually looked more closely as there are bags of them sitting in the Hostess truck on the right side where they don't look and there is a box of them in the super market when he is beating the fat zombies up. I give this rollercoaster ride an 8/10 stars.

[thunderstrike541]

And now, for a new series that I will try to make a weekly thing:
Fandom Night: Day 1:

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001):



This is the first time that I have watched this, and I have to admit, it's pretty entertaining.

The movie is based off the book Fellowship of the Ring, by JRR Tolkien. A young hobbit named Frodo is given a ring, which he finds out is the one ring of power. Magne..... I mean Gandalf tells Frodo that the ring must be destroyed. Then the rest of the movie is made up of Frodo and his companions traveling to Mordor, battling different creatures along the way.
And..... credits. That's right, the movie (and I'm assuming the book) ends in a freaking cliffhanger.

If there are any problems I would have with this, it would be the amount of jumpscares. There were so many jumpscares in here that I decided to give the movie a nickname: Fellowship of the Jumpscares.

*gets booed offstage*

I give this movie 8 Very Tall Midgets out of 10.

Tune in next week for The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

[Dr Kain]

Friday the 13th V - Wait, I thought Jason was gone for good, why is there another one? Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it isn't Jason. Unfortunately, unlike Halloween III, this movie feels unfocused and rushed. The writers clearly had no idea what they wanted to do with it, as it seems like they plan was to have Tommy actually be the killer and then they chickened out in the end to make it some half assed reveal from a background character with a reasoning thought up in seconds. That is just lame and this movie is lame. ON the positive side, it does have some good deaths in it, but whatever. I give it a 4/10 stars. Also, the Not-Jason Jason Mask is terrible looking. Oh yeah, and please, I really hope we never have another character that went to the Crispin Glover School of Dance.

Friday the 13th 6 - Okay, so now we have begun with the start of Super Ultra Zombie Jason, and this one is a pretty solid entry. There is a little bit much on the comedy side, but it does work with the movie instead of taking away from it. That and I love the line, "I've seen enough horror movies to know that a man wearing a mask is not one to be messed with." For the most part, the characters are well done outside of the random couple (which from what is discussed in the extras, they were forced into the movie just to up the kill count), but at least they have a good death scene. The only annoying this is watching this movie right after the previous entry and having a different actor for Tommy. That and the way it starts makes it feel like the fifth movie does not even exist. Overall, I give this one a 6/10 stars. It isn't as good as the fourth movie or the original, but it is definitely one of the best.

[Matrixbeast]

I can't imagine how much of a slog it is to go through all the Friday the 13th movies.

[Dr Kain]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I can't imagine how much of a slog it is to go through all the Friday the 13th movies.

I enjoy them. They aren't as good as the Halloween movies, but they still have great moments and a few really well done movies.

Anyway,

Friday the 13th VII - This is such a weird movie. It has an interesting idea, what would it be like to see Jason take on a telekinetic, and yet, it does so little with it in terms of execution and plot. That just flat out ruins it as none of these characters are there to be anything more than canonfodder. Yes, that sounds weird, as most of the time, the characters are there to die, but at least the previous movies try to make you want to see one or two of them survive. Here, none of them are worth saving, even Tina as she is just a freaking idiot. It does have some great kill scenes though but I think even Jason was tired of it. I do love how much battle damage Jason was shown to have on both his mask and on his face, so that was nicely done. Nevertheless, I just don't give a crap about the characters, which is where this movie ultimately falls flat. Another thing that seems strange is how the name went back to Crystal Lake after being Forest Green for several years. Did they just decide to own up to it? And why would anyone want to still live there? Overall, I give it 4 points as a movie, but I'll give it one more point for its awesome music, so it gets a 5/10 stars.

[Matrixbeast]

I decided to rewatch Oliver and Company for the first time in, like, 15 years.
I found it to still be pretty fun. It wasn't as good as I remembered, but nothing really is.
But I'm rather glad the character I remembered the most from the movie--

--Georgette, was still just as great as I thought she was. I don't know why that, of all the characters, it was the poodle that my 9 year old mind held onto, but *Shrugs* She was awesome.
The movie moved at such a fast pace that I now remember why I remember so few of the gang, but I was surprised how little I remembered of Oliver (Hell, I didn't even remember that the main antagonist had 2 dogs. I only remembered the one). There was so little to hold onto with this movie that I guess I gravitated towards the most memorable character (Which, surprisingly, wasn't Dodger, since he's the generic "Cool dude" that fucking every movie from the 80's-mid 90's had).
The humans weren't that memorable, half the gang didn't do much (The literal only other character I could remember before my rewatch was Tito), the movie moves far too quickly for it's 70 minute run time, and despite the climax being fun, it didn't really fit in with the rest of the movie, seemingly coming out of nowhere.
But, still, of all the flaws, it did have one thing.

Georgette~
Also, 2 of the songs, "Why Should I Worry" and "Perfect Isn't Easy" are pretty fun and enjoyable.
So, yeah. If I were a critic, I'd probably give it a negative rating of 4 or 5 out of 10, but I'm biased and I'd tip the scales closer to a better score, mainly because of--

Georgette~ <3

[Dr Kain]

Friday the 13th VIII Jason Takes Manhattan - or better yet, Jason Takes a Boat to Manhattan that is Sometimes Vancouver. Seriously, this movie is a mess. It takes over an hour to even get to Manhattan. The chronology is messed up as there is no way this movie could be 30 years later when there was 15 years after Jason died to when his mother got killed, 5 years for the events of the second through the fourth movies, ten years for the sixth, fifteen years for the seventh, and now this. That makes it at least 40 years. Jason has suddenly developed the ability to teleport. On the positive side, I can at least say this movie proves he does not have ADD since he has hundreds of people he can kill at his whim but only sticks to going after the main characters. Of course, he doesn't help then Renney seems to have her character shields on at all times since there were multiple occasions when Jason could have just killed her back on the boat. Finally, that ending is just flat out stupid. Why is NYC flooding their sewers with toxic waste each night? Is that part of a new "Get Rid of the Alligators" initiative? And how does this waste make Jason turn into a boy? That makes no sense. Now the movie does have some great moments in it, especially when it came to the scenes in Manhattan. I love the scene when Jason first emerges from the bay and there is a hockey mask sign. Also the death scenes are awesome, especially the one with the boxer. It was a cool idea to bring Jason to a big city, as I love everything about that, but this movie takes too damn long to get there and spends too short of a time there. At least the pay off is good for the most part. Unfortunately, most of the characters are just flat out stupid to be likable, assholes, or their acting is just really really awful. Some of the worst in the entire series. Overall, I give this movie a 4/10 as it does at least make a good ending point for those who find the next set of movies to be pure crap.

Jason Goes to Hell - Just like its title, this movie can go straight to Hell. It absolutely sucks. There is absolutely no character development. Hell, the movie doesn't even really have an ending as we don't even really see the remaining characters once Jason is gone beyond them walking away in the background. The deaths are bland and dumb. There is nothing creative to be had. Suddenly Jason has a sister and only his bloodline can kill him for good? I think I have heard this plot before. Jason himself looks like a mess. They couldn't even get his mask right. Also, now it is suddenly only twenty years after the events of the original movie? WTF? Who wrote this thing? Did they not pay attention to anything before it? Oh, and for a house that has been left to rot for the last (at least 20) years, it sure is hell looks to be in such great shape. I won't even bother getting into the concept of Jason having the ability to transfer bodies now as that makes absolutely no sense. Add on top the pointless characters like Duke and you have one stupid dumb ass movie that was made by someone who had no idea how to even make a horror film. THe previous entries might not have been the greatest pieces of cinematic history, but at least they felt like an attempt was made to make them entertaining. Here, there is nothing except, "HEY, LOOK, IT IS A JASON MOVIE, GIVE YOUR MONEY!!" all around it. I give this piece of **** a very high dishonorable 1/10 stars. Not only that, but it is also one of the worst movies ever made. Lastly, you know that not even the movie studios care about this movie when every movie in the entire box set has bonus feature documentaries on it, even Jason X, EXCEPT this one.

Jasonator X - How do you know you have no ideas for a long running horror series anymore? You bring the main killer into outer space, that is how. The only positives I can give this movie are for the cool death scenes and that it was at least better than the previous movie. Other than that, this movie sucks ass and gets 2/10 stars from me.

Freddy vs Jason - Normally I do not think crossover movies work, but in this case, it does. In fact, I would say this is the best crossover movie to date. It is fun, it has a lot of great death scenes, and some really cool action scenes. Funny enough, this movie was my introduction to both the Freddy and Jason characters. It does have a lot of issues, such as it's hokey plot, the fact that they completely jacked up Jason's look (he is not supposed to have a left eye), and Jason is suddenly afraid of water. The fight scenes between the duo is down right awesome and brutal though. Robert Englund is definitely at his finest here, but I don't really get why they did not have Kane return as Jason. Sadly, the character development is what your are expected, but at least it is vastly superior to the development found in the last two Friday movies. Overall, I give it a 7/10 stars.