MONSTER was on this weekend, on Sci-Fi.
Was i the only one to remember those filler bits Roger Corman did a while back, on AMC?
Intresting flick, but maby a bit too self referential?
I wanted to actually see that
...I loved it! Forget the one user comment at IMDB, which trashes the film and trashes the CGI monster.....I thought this was a fun homage to so many cheesy 50's teens-vs-monster flicks, particularly THE BLOB. The design of the monster itself was neat, and sure....the CGI work of the monster was obviously low rent CGI, but to me that made it all the more like so many 50's monster films with cheesy monsters. Some great acting....Tobias Mehler may have been the leading young guy, but the knock-out star was really veteran character actor M. Emmett Walsh. Emmett certainly has a hell of a lot of energy at his age! Some great poking at monster movie cliches in MONSTER!....all in all, this was one of the B grade movies, so often shown by SciFi (this one originally aired on UPN, and somehow I missed it), but MONSTER! was a hell of a lot more enjoyable than the usual crappy drek SciFi shows so much of.
This one is worth your time....Catch it if you've never seen it!
I liked it, but I thought they shouldn't have made Walsh sound so crazy. I mean one minute he's talking about the movies and the next minute he's talking about the monster being real. You know going into it that the monster is going to be real and that he's going to be right, so why try to make him sound like a loonatic. Have him say to his grandson "Look, I know this sounds crazy, but somehow the monster from my movies has come to life and is going to attack this town." I guess they wanted to make it look like he wasn't completely in touch with reality, but that part just seemed a little too over the top to me.