Escape to the Movies: Monsters

[Sheinen]

Watched it, hated it, god I wish I could claw back the 2 years I lost through watching it. Seriously, it dragged on like Luitenant Dan before he got new legs. And the 'surprise' ending is a ploy that is traditionally more interesting when it's a good surprise, as opposed to 2...for want of a better word 'alienpusses'... doing the dirty in the dark.

I'm all for low budget indie films with statements to make, I mean Ink is still on my top 10 favourite movie list of all time and Paranormal Activity (1, not 2, dear mustapha not 2!) had me all gooey!

 

[Julianking93]

You should have been watching Glee anyway. ^_^

My hatred of Glee burns with the intensity of a thousand suns! I guess its just not for me. lol

I second this, Glee is BULLSHIT.

I honestly don't get what all the hype about it is.

I can't talk much since I haven't even seen it passed a few random clips I've seen but even that was intolerable for me. It's a high school musical. Big. Fucking. Deal. We've seen how those turn out already >>

 

[Impluse_101]

YAY! YOU USED CHARLIE BROWN FOR YOUR HAPPY HALLOWEEN THING!

Violet: By the way, whatever happened to the World War I flying ace?
[Charlie Brown visualizes what happened: Snoopy, in flying ace gear, climbs atop his doghouse like a plane]
Charlie Brown: Oh, he's probably getting ready to take off in the Sopwith Camel on the next dawn patrol. His mission is, to find the Red Baron and shoot him down. Here's the World War I flying ace climbing into the cockpit of the Sopwith Camel.

 

[Necromancer1991]

....Reallly, the Syfy movie "Sharktopus" is better than this....that's just sad, I mean really, really, really sad.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Hey I love gle-...

Oh shit your all gonna crucify me aren't you.

 

[Wolcik]

I wish I was spoiled about the ending so I wouldn't have to suffer for it - like with the Orphan

Glee... meh. I have porn for sexual themes - I rahter have art in my movies.

 

[llamaquest101]

That's a shame i was looking forward to this. i was looking forward to another district 9. oh well skyline might be ok so there's still some hope.

 

[JaredXE]

You had me at Anne Hathaway and Cool-Whip....lets just leave it at that.

It's funny, 'cause that's where he lost me.
Good to know the Escapist is still employing a sexist teenager who posts pictures of women in lingerie whenever he gets the chance.

How is he sexist? There were no comments on her being in the kitchen, or barefoot and preggers or even that she shouldn't vote. All it was was a picture of a beautiful woman who makes her living by being beautiful (btw, I didn't see a gun to her head in that picture, so maybe she chose to pose for it on her own) and MovieBob's hope that she would give him a tasty pie.

Stop seeing sexism where there is none.

 

[Alar]

I may just see this movie for cheap laughs. It's sad, because I was hoping for a genuinely decent movie to see some time soon.

 

[d43dr34m3r]

I was really looking forward to finding a great horror movie for Halloween.
Any suggestions on that front anyone?

Trick 'r Treat got me into the Halloween mood. It was really fun in a devilish kind of way. Let the Right One In isn't scary, but it's interesting if you're cool with subtitles. It is hard to find a good scary movie though, most are just going into it to gross people out or are just movies that have monsters in them. Or, you know, they go the whole psychological route that just ends up giving you Rob Zombie's Halloween 2.

On topic, It's easy to summarize the entirety of my experience watching Monsters a few weeks ago. It was mildly interesting at first, then about fifteen minutes in I started struggling with wanting to turn it off and wanting to keep watching just in case something interesting happened. That struggle continued throughout the movie. At the hour mark I was only watching because I didn't want to feel like I'd just wasted the past hour. I literally laughed out loud when they revealed what the monsters looked like. I didn't remember the movie until after I hit play on Escape to the Movies. I don't even remember the ending. I wasted 94 minutes on this movie, and I can guarantee that in an hour, if someone mentioned this movie by name I wouldn't recognize it.

 

[Da Joz]

I still put this on my netflix queue for the hell of it, along with sharktopus of course.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Just watched the trailer for Sharktopus and it looks fantastic, have to see it now for sure. As for Monsters you made it sound so good in the beginning and then I was sad to see how bad you said it was.

 

[Stabby Joe]

I don't know, I'm not sure what's more cinematically insane, Sharktapus or Tommy Wiseau?

...the latter.

As for this movie, I already heard it was more of a "love story" than, well, MONSTERS. So a disappointment is hardly surprising.

 

[lokiduck]

Oh bob you shouldn't watch Glee just for that.

I love Glee, and believe me that scene only happened once, and it wasn't even worth it.

 

[Upbeat Zombie]

Eh never even heard of it before. =/
So can't say i'm all to disappointed.

 

[gabrieldevue]

I believe this was the sold-out, highly anticipated movie at the Fantasy Filmfest in Germany in August. The Director was present and explained among other things, that the whole team was pretty much crushed, when district 9 came out, because they were trying to say the same, but with way less money and not in that league, so midway in shooting, they took up another angle... that is, what i remember. I am not sure, if i am phrazing this right.
I sometimes wondered about stuff like that - how it must feel, that one is working on a thing with all his/her heart and suddenly... somebody way more experienced publishes it. better. than one could ever do it. that must be crushing.
I was surprised a bit by the very end (not the climatic end...).
But while watching the movie, i was ashamed of some lines, the actors got and even more by their motivation. There are movies, where one is not allowed to ask: why. but this had so many situations, where the actions of the characters were simply unbelievably unbelievable.

In the beginning of your review, the horror was growing. I was really scared that i did not get it... but then came the relief... for all its worth though... the support characters were great : D

 

[DTWolfwood]

omg a low budget genre film getting railed?!?! :O

is it strange that i still want to see it just to see your point?

 

[TraderJimmy]

You had me at Anne Hathaway and Cool-Whip....lets just leave it at that.

It's funny, 'cause that's where he lost me.
Good to know the Escapist is still employing a sexist teenager who posts pictures of women in lingerie whenever he gets the chance.

While this puts me off, and I invariably disagree with his reviews, he knows a lot more about movies than I do, so I at least listen to him. He usually helps me place a movie, because he reacts to them entirely honestly, and with a great deal of knowledge of context. Very helpful.

 

[Random berk]

Wow. Moviebob built my expectations thirty stories high, crammed it full of TNT and pushed the plunger in just 4 minutes.

All those critics are better off for not having been shown Saw 3D. I can never get a refund for this evening.

Damn it, I'm intrigued by this surprise ending, but I don't want to waste money or time on this film now.

Also, Glee must be condemned to hell! DAVID LEE ROTH DEMANDS IT!!!!