Greg, who had been absent for a while, showed up with a stack of dvd's that looked more promising that the usual crap he brings. Of course I was fooled by the pretty covers. Greg was particularily interested in seeing Brothers of the Head. It was based on a Brian Aldiss book that he had thought was pretty good. I had my doubts, I gave up reading Brian Aldiss over 30 years ago, but you never know. It's the story of co-joined twins who become punk musicians. It's set in the early 70's and the twins are a right pain in the ass. And we do see their co-joined manass. It's shot in a documentary style that is ok but it moves way too slow and not much happens. And when something does happen, it's mostly yelling. Greg says the book has a third personality stuck in the flesh that joins the two boys abdomens. It has some influence over the visible brothers. The movie barely touches on that, it's mostly about the boys raise in the punk scene and their tragic, and off camera, death. I was bored out of my mind. We were talking during the long gaps in the story. I was reading part of a book. The camera spent too much time on the brothers and the crap going on in the big manor house rented for them by their producer and manager. Most of the actual music was ok but nothing to make these guys stars. I've seen better rock documentaries, fake or real. People seemed to like it on the IMDb. I sure didn't. Don't need to see that again.
Our second feature was handed to Greg, by the director, at some film convention. It's a zombie film and we are all interested in seeing all the zombie films made, so we took a chance. The Resurrection Game is a low budget zombie film directed by Mike Watt, who's also the writer of the movie, the novelization of the movie, and many articles in many horror movie magazines that I don't read. I thought the movie was pretty poor. It was made over 3-4 years starting in 1997. While that worked for Peter Jackson when he made Bad Taste, it doesn't help here. It's pretty hard to watch. It's got a lot of technical problems. Bad and uneven sound. Poor editing of the often poorly shot scenes. What the hell was up with all those close ups? Couldn't see a thing happening at times. And the fight scenes? Sad. Once the spanking nun did a flying kick that was totally embarassing to watch. Fair to awful acting. A complicated story, filled with cliches, that doesn't get explained very well. Too many other issues to list. I'd be more forgiving of these kind of problems if I liked the story and characters better. Neither of which held my interest very well. Sperhauk slept through parts of it, filling in for Mike, who was absent. Lucky Mike. The zombie make up was fair to poor. Occasionally someone would get a cup of blood thrown in their face. There were some light moments that weren't very funny, and some serious moments that were. We all liked Necro-Phil, the zombie puppet. Too bad the movie wasn't just those 3-4 minutes with Phil. Luckily this isn't readily available. I won't tell you where you can get it, you wouldn't want to see it anyway.
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