Last night I finally saw all of
Future War. Wow! This was bad. I mean, I sorta found it entertaining in a 'how stupid can they get?' kinda fascination, but make no mistakes, this is just plain a bad movie.
Basic plot: Cyborgs from the future go to the past and kidnap humans to use as slave labor ( I think). One human escapes to 1997 or so, and the cyborgs use dinosaurs as 'trackers' to hunt him down. He is aided by an extra-prositute turned nun working in a halfway house (I think) and a street gang
I think the main actor, Daniel Bernhardt, went to the Oliver Grunner School Of Acting.
I will always use this movies as Evidence #1 when people say that puppet monsters are better than CG. The use of a 2 foot tall puppet and some rather heavy forced perspective was painfully obvious, and the puppets looked like solid models bbeing waved around by a hand just offscreen (think of kids playing with plastic toy dinosaurs...now film them up close and catch people in the distance and use this to portray 20 foot tall monsters).
I didn't know underground sewers had wooden slat walls?
I didn't know a T-Rex could shrug off bullets but would be vulnerable to a single knife strike to the throat?
How do labor slaves learn advanced martial arts?
LA street gangs have five to six members?
All those boxes in warehouses? They're empty!!!
...and it goes on...
I will give credit, it was certainly creative...in a "we don't know what kinda movie we want to make so let's throw a little of everything in" kinda way. It wasn't boring.
Post Edited (02-14-05 09:59)
