Sperhauk had found a copy of Martial Angels for a dollar at the Half Price Books clearance tent. It's a movie worth a dollar, especially since it's a single disc dvd that comes in a two disc case. Put the movie in a single dic case and switch the paper insert and you have a two disc case to use where you need one. Nearly worth as much as the movie. I have taken to putting dvdr's in the cases of store bought movies. This, rather than putting them in their own seperate jewel cases. Most of the dvdr's that I have made reside in paper sleeves. They are much cheaper than jewel cases, and while I got several hundred cases for free, the space saved by going paper is more important than saving a few bucks. The paper sleeves take up a fifth of the space of a jewel case. They take up even still less room when they are stored in something nearly hollow already is taking up some cubes.
Back to Martial Angels. It's fair to middlin', a bit slow in places and filled with giggling girl/women crammed into tight fitting leather outfits who occasionally kick some butt. Actually they gun down a lot of Russian Mafia with high powered weapons, but that's just one scene. The rest of the action is hit or miss, with the latter slightly in the lead. Some of the fights are pretty poor, both in execution and in capture by the film crew, while others have some nice action elements. The MA's are a gaggle of orphans, who became The 7 Beautiful Catburglars in the movie's back story. In a plot with elements pulled right out of someone's ass all kinds of movie's you've seen before, the girls reunite to steal some software. It's to be traded for Cat's ex-boyfriend who's in the hands of the evil Russian Mafia. There's some fighting and a lot of girl on girl action, but sadly the only intercourse is verbal, and it's not that. Just girly chit chat and lots of flashbacks to past love. The movie pretty much stops to engage in romantic subtext with smeary soft focus teary eyes. This happens way more often than you might appreciate. Eventually it's over. All the boyfriends are dead. That makes you think. Some pussy has just too high a price. Time for some more fare from the Craptastic, with a Capitol C, Drive-in Classics 50 Movie Pack.
Death by Dialog is an aptly named film. The story is about a cursed script that kills people. The dialog of the film kills me. The first guy who reads the script gets burned up pretty good, and it's a nice long fire scene, but after that it's pretty average. Unfortunately the sound is not good and the cameraman is not your award winning type. Tha actor's are fair to poor and their characters are not endearing. As our cast is picked off one by one their deaths are depicted in different ways. Some better than others. In one scene a woman is blasted off a guy when they are having sex in the hayloft. She's blown through the wall of the barn and out out of camera range. Wow. You don't see that very often. Well, not that often with bare boobs. The rest of the movie isn't so good. There is a rubber monster that's pretty bad looking, and one of the guys looks like Willam Katt, and the black guy, who's wearing a red shirt, doesn't die. Weird. Greg kept saying this or that scene was the worst he'd ever seen and some people over at the IMDb seem to think this is just another bad horror movie only to be enjoyed for that aspect of it. I think it's just below average and nothing one can care about in the long haul. I don't think I've ever seen the worst film of all time. Something new and stinky keeps showing up, and worst of all time, what does that mean anyway. Certainly not 33 cents worth of entertainment but that chick shooting through the wall was worth a good nickel, that's a start.
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