Mangler 2.0!

[systemcr4sh]

I decided to check out MANGLER 2. Man...

The first movie had good gore, but I found it painfully boring.

This is a typical teen slasher with no gore, but it was fun to watch. THe bad dialouge was funny, and attempted comedy was pitifull, but fun to watch. I don't know why. Its just begging to be dissected and laughed at by a flock of bmovie enthusiasts. It allmost could have been PG-13 I'd say. The gore was just A wall and someone screaming off screen then a bit of blood would splatter. Barely any blood shed at all. And the thought that WIRES can slither around and PICK UP AN AXE and have the MOMENTUM TO SWING IT AT SOMEONE is just retarded, yes, But funny.

Anyway its worth the 2 bucks I payed to see it. Actually, We got it for free because we had rented ten movies, and every ten movies you rent you get a free one. So yeah. it was worth the amount I payed.

-Dan

[systemcr4sh]

Oh yeah, And at one part of the movie (Chapter 15 on the dvd) a guy falls into the bleachers, but then our dvd cut scenes to the people mourning over his death? Has anyone else's dvd done this? The timer didn't skip over anything, but it was if a chunk of the movie was missing. It was really wierd. Maybe it was edited out to get R or something. But it was so blatant that they skipped over something.

Hmmm

-Dan

[AndyC]

Yeah, the copy I rented did the same thing. p**sed me off, because it was one of the few places somebody was actually killed by a piece of believable computer-controlled equipment. I figured that's what was missing, since they had an obvious foreshadowing shot of the bleachers in operation early on. The bleachers were motorized and controlled by the computer. Made good sense, except for the question of why you need the bleachers controlled by a central computer when a switch on the wall beside them would be more practical. Rather like having a key card lock on the freezer. Why?

A minor quibble, especially in a movie with so much blatantly goofy stuff. I mean, it would take one hell of a virus to make wiring slither around, cause washing machines to slam shut or make boiling water come out of the sprinkler system, not to mention perform neurosurgery on Lance Henriksen employing some as-yet-undiscovered technology to interface with him.

Agh... Too much crap... Can't... suspend... disbelief... any... longer.

Actually, the biggest laugh for me was in the "making of" piece on the DVD, when the filmmakers start talking, with no small amount of pride, about how this project became so personal for them. Hahahahahahaha!