Forrest Gump is knocked unconscious when he falls off a boat near Cape Cod and
he would have drown if he hadn't been saved by a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who
falls in love with him. Stuff happens and the mermaid follows him back to
New York City. They hook up (she can somehow magically grow legs when
she's out of the water) and then all kinds of "only in the movies" problem arise
simply because she refuses to tell him she's a part-time mermaid. Stuff
like a mermaid obsessed scientist (Eugene Levy) stalking them, the government
getting involved, her hiding from the rain, him being confused as fuck all the
time, etc. Also, at one point he illegally parks directly in front
of a police station and doesn't get murdered by the police. Totally
unbelievable.
This was my first time seeing SPLASH and I'm kinda confused as to why it made so
much money in the theaters back in 1984. It's a okay film, but nothing
special. Yet somehow it made three million more than
THE TERMINATOR
and THE LAST STARFIGHTER combined!!! It was the #10 money maker for
the year! I guess it was a good date movie or some of it could be
attributed the desperate nerds wanting to wack off to
Daryl Hannah's ass. Who knows. I've never been a part of normal human society so maybe something
in this film was lost on me.
Mediocre story, average acting, no real laugh out loud moments only a few
chuckles, John Candy in a few scenes not doing much, Ron Howard's dad, Ron
Howard's brother, cool NYC street scenes including (in the highlight of the
movie) an awesome looking theater showing a double-feature of THE EVIL
DEAD and XTRO playing right next to a porno theater(?) showing films called THE MISTRESS, SWEET
CHEEKS and SKINTIGHT...not even sure if those are real movies.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
TICKS (1993)
A group of twenty-year-old looking teenage city slickers go out to the woods with two social workers as part of a wilderness retreat. The group is your standard early 1990's horror movie teenager cliches: brooding dude, quiet girl, wannabe gangbanger and so on. Luckily for the viewer none of them are annoying and their banter is kinda funny. Like when the gangbanger keeps loudly lamenting that he should have brought his piece. At first, things go alright, but then our heroes find out that the patch of woods they're in is about to be taken over by very large ticks! Nasty.
TICKS, or Infested as it was originally released, is an alright movie. No real ups or downs, steady pace, okay special effects, tolerable acting, mild violence, zero nudity, zero tension. Overall, it's an alright time-waster, but just too bland for it's own good. There's never any shocking or stand out moments. The movie just plugs along and then it's over.
Worth a nostalgic watch for fans of 90's horror, but others will probably be bored.
TICKS, or Infested as it was originally released, is an alright movie. No real ups or downs, steady pace, okay special effects, tolerable acting, mild violence, zero nudity, zero tension. Overall, it's an alright time-waster, but just too bland for it's own good. There's never any shocking or stand out moments. The movie just plugs along and then it's over.
Worth a nostalgic watch for fans of 90's horror, but others will probably be bored.
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