Showing posts with label episodes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label episodes. Show all posts

Sunday, March 9, 2014

V/H/S 2

This is actually not as bad as the first part. Who'd have thought?

The one story that ties all the others together is of a pair of PI's breaking into a house because they are looking for some college kid and what they find instead is a collection of video tapes. Some of the footage has no business ending up on ancient VHS tapes, but let's leave that aside for a minute.

A few of these stories are sort of intriguing...in a WTF? kind of way.

The guy with the artificial eye, though? Really? It's all well that he sees dead people walking around, but why does the eye camera record them? Isn't there a horror film law against that?

Of course, there would be zombies, as they are all the rage these days. The excuse for the footage here is a camera on the bicycle helmet of a mountain biker. No point asking again why this would end up on a video tape rather than, say, youtube.

I got into the suicide cult one. Here, it actually made total sense that there would be cameras as a team just happened to interview the cult leader when it suddenly "became time" and everyone started killing each other and themselves. Then at some point, the whole episode turns sideways and gets really, really weird. We are again entering zombie territory and what may well be the devil himself makes an appearance.

What is the best way to piss off your sister who is having some friends over on the family jetty, ready to dive into the water at any second? Squirt guns? Water balloons? Seriously? Aren't those people there to get wet? But then, right when your imbecile brothers and their friends (those little shits) are getting really annoying, the aliens arrive.

....and in case you're wondering how long it takes to reach full frontal nudity, the answer is 1 min.

4/10

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Nine Lives

These are snippets of the lives of nine different women. The situations depicted are difficult for each one of them, mostly in different ways but always in the settings of some relationship.

Every episode bears the name of the woman at the center of the story. Some of the scenes are done in one lengthy shot, which is interesting/impressive.

All stories are unresolved, most feature well-known and well-respected character actors (Holly Hunter, Robin Wright Penn, William Fichtner).

And of course there is the insufferable Dakota Fanning.

3/10