Well, what a week it has been. Or not. I finally got to see the end of Zombie's Halloween and realised that perhaps the doubters had been correct. I previously saw only up until the hillbilly warders decide to show Michael what "Proper" sex is like. I guess that was the good half. The second half played out like a keystone cops version of one of my favourite movies. The only redeeming feature (and it pains me to say this, cos I really don't like the git) is Malcolm McDowell's Dr Loomis. If it was not for him, the second half would be totally forgettable, but he gives us a character we can at least grab hold of.
As for the swimming pool finale. Oh vey, as my Jewish girlfriend of old would say. Or it was shite as my Dad might have said (if he was ever of a mind to comment on a film).
Anyhow, on to Sugar. I think it was pretty good. Trouble is, I never went to film school and I watched it mostly in a window of my PC whilst doing other stuff during my lunchbreak. Some of the stuff on iMDB seems a bit harsh (but it is iMDB!), the student project angle is rammed down our throats, which makes me wonder if it is other film students giving it a hard time.
I liked it. The discombobulation of the main protagonist was pretty well handled I thought. I may be naive, but her visions just seemed like her spirit seeing what er own body had been through. Simple, but I am a scientist, so stick that up your singularity.
As for Chosen Survivors what can I say?
As a child of the seventies (even though I feel a child of the eighties), the movie slotted right in with the Oh My God, we are rogered line of guff. Lots of the familiar faces, lots of the familiar lines. The only McGuffin was the whole vampire bat scenario. What the bezonkers was going on there? The supposed fact that the whole world had been blown up seemed like a fair-enough plot to base a short TV movie on. The has-it-really-happened-and-if-we-open-the-hatch-are-we-doomed plot seemed like a good idea.
Unfortunately, the bloody bats turn up.
Now I know I am a physicist rather than a medic, but I reckon a dozen bat bites would not finish you off. The potential is there for them being crazed, radiation mutated bats, but they just seem to be the normal type.
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