Showing posts with label R. Lee Ermey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label R. Lee Ermey. Show all posts

Thursday, July 4, 2013

BODY SNATCHERS (1993)

Lifeless retelling of the body snatchers story.  This time around a young woman living with her family on a military base notices that the people around her are acting like lifeless drones.  Then one evening while taking a bath she discovers that aliens are trying to take over by replacing people with clones.  After that, she and her boyfriend run around all over the joint hiding and fighting aliens.  It's pretty boring and lightweight with a lame ending.

Very little action, two quick nude scenes, boring story, very little blood, zero gore, Dwayne from THE LOST BOYS.  According to Box Office Mojo this film made only $400 grand at the theater and I can see why.  Skip it.  Then again Roger Ebert seemed to love this movie and gave it four stars out of four!  So what the fuck do I know?

Original - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Remake 1 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Reboot 2 - The Invasion (2007)

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

THE SIEGE OF FIREBASE GLORIA (1989)

[Update 10/02/2021: Need to redo this review completely. Fix the screenshots also.]

R. Lee Ermey is a Sgt. Maj. in charge of a squad of soldiers. While on patrol they go to a village they've visited many times before and even befriended the locals. When they walk in they find out everybody's dead. Most have had their heads cut off and rammed on stakes, the children are in a big pile and a bunch of the women have been raped. This angers Ermey so they go off looking for answers and end up killing a bunch of undercover VC. After that they head to their destination: Firebase Gloria. It's just a series of trenches on top of a small hill, but they have to protect it...from the 2,000 plus enemy soldiers that's barreling down on them!

I have no idea how accurate any of this movie is, but it seemed pretty accurate to me. Either way it's a good movie and my only complaint was the budget was too low. More money would have made the action scenes a little bit better.

If you can find a copy I say check it out! R Lee is worth the price of admission alone! He even tells a guy he's gonna to step on his dick.