Sperhauk took a chance on Apollo 18 and we watched that first. It wasn't so good. The idea is it's one of those found footage movies. This time it's footage from the secret mission to the moon. Stuff that was shot on the ships camera and the hand held devices the astronauts carried with them. Their trip went bad, all the astronauts died, and we haven't been back to the moon since. The film makers do a pretty good job of re-creating an Apollo capsule and lunar lander. I used to be really interested in NASA and the space program, mostly when I was a teen but over the years I've lost interest. That's what happened during the movie, it really pushed all the fidget buttons. Some guys go to the moon for the DOD and they plant some devices there. On their moon walk they find footsteps which lead them to a dead cosmonaut and a Soviet lunar lander. They guess the Russians had a secret program that continued lunar trips even after they publicly stopped that program in the late 1960's. It's not the Russian's that our guys need to worry about. Turns out the moon is already inhabited. Little deadly spider like critters hide as rocks and come to life so they can take yours. Damn! That seems like it could be good, huh. Nope, pretty damn dull. I was busting my balls trying to keep awake. I wouldn't recommend this one, pretty much all of us were bored. I've just saved you from wasting 84 minutes of your life. You're welcome.
Dead Ball wouldn't appeal to everyone. It's one of those over the top toss everything in but the kitchen sink movies. I take that back there is a sink in there. It's all very cartoony and impossible things happen. In one scene a guy gets hit with a baseball in the eye and he spends the movie with it there. For no reason other than comic relief. That's fine, I like absurd comedy and for the most part it was fun but there's nothing really new going on. that means you have to get pulled along by the characters. There are a bunch and they have some conflict but not much story. Jubei and his dad are playing catch at the beginning of the movie. His dad tells him to really wind it up and toss him a good one. He does and it kills his dad and warps his brother. Jubei turns to crime and after killing over 50 people in a week he gets tossed into reform school. The sadistic warden, a full-on Nazi, makes him play baseball and it's a game of murder with some leather hot pants wearing bad girls. They devote too much time to the game and too little to the story. It's a cheap gore movie that is meant for the splatter crowd and it does that fairly well. There's lots of fakey CGI blood and body parts flying. It's pretty goofy for the most part but not all the jokes work. It slows down for a bit and the big game is kind of so so. I thought it would be better to kill all those team members within the game. Again, not something for everyone. It's not out here yet. Mike picked up an overseas copy from online.
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