Yeah I got to agree with
@BrunoMattei on The Colour out of Space (although I think we agree on most things, except Eyetalian and micro-budget horror), had a couple of decent mood building pieces, and I give credit to Cage for giving it a shot, but the second half was just a big let down. I think with Lovecraft you have to decide to go completely understated or completely over-the-top, and Colour tried to have it both ways, and wound up mediocre on both fronts. It's been quite a while since I've seen it, but I think with another editing pass, there
might be a good movie in there; take out a solid half hour, mostly from the tail end, focus a bit more on the characters' reactions rather than entities or whatever, and you'd have a much better movie.
Also, it's not exactly a horror movie, but I don't have anywhere else appropriate to vent about the biggest piece of shit I've seen in a while: 65. How the fuck do you turn advanced technological society fighting dinosaurs into the boring ass shitfest that this was? Oh, you make the protagonist bland and retarded, you shoe-horn in as many out-of-place niggers as possible in a man vs. nature movie (3), and you put in a bunch of little girl saves the day because the space marine is too weak and stupid bullshit. I will say, they did have a somewhat interesting take on the dinosaurs, making them have traits that you don't usually see in movies; although I'm told by my dino-nerd friends that they got just about everything wrong. There's just a lot of really stupid decisions in the making of this movie.
1. If you're going to make a hyper-realistic movie about going to Earth at a specific time period (65 million years ago, hence the name, so clever it's dumb), then you should fucking get everything right about the dinosaurs and flora of the time. Otherwise, just set it on a different planet, and you can do whatever you want. It's not like literally
anyone went to see this movie because they were specifically interested in a human-like alien fighting Earth's (and only Earth's) dinosaurs. And if they did, they came away disappointed.
2. You have a man vs. nature scenario. There's lots of these, they don't have a lot of dialogue, because the guy is by himself, and you want to focus on his isolation. So we give him a partner, in this case, a little girl. Ok, now we have a Lone Wolf and Cub scenario, also perfectly cromulent; except let's hamstring ourselves by making them unable to communicate, because they speak different languages! And like they can't communicate AT ALL. Like we, regular humans right now are
almost at the point where we can use a cell phone to overcome almost any language barrier on the planet. And these guys have space travel. And they don't even know like a few phrases from each other's languages. It's just pointless and makes your movie more muddled and much less interesting. Also, not going ot lie, when he finds the little girl, I swear to christ she looked so much like a caveman I thought they were going to make it where she was the progenitor of humankind or something (even though that'd be like 63MY off). Maybe don't put a kid with a pronounced brow ridge and troglodytic features just randomly in your dinosaur movie.
3. What's the point of making them aliens if they're just going to be essentially humans plus a few decades of technology. Other than the spaceship, they have a gun that's slightly better than anything you can get now, some grenades that are smaller than anything you can get now, and an area scanner/imager/motion detector that's slightly better than you can get now (and all combined into one thing). Well that just sounds like humans in 20 or 30 years (except the gun, which I can't tell if it shoots something like BBs or energy/compressed air; but whatever it does, its only advantage over current equivalent weapons is it is lighter, more wieldy, and doesn't need reloading (unless my BB theory is right)). Like if you're just going to give them human shit, then just make them humans. Although I guess that would involve time travel, which would make your movie waaaaay too much like Dinosaur the ride from Disney World.
4. They arrive 65 million years ago, but also literally the day before the meteor that kills all the dinosaurs. Hurr, I get it, the meteors and its accompanying trash ware what knocked them off course. Maybe don't steal your plot from the Dinosaur ride at Disney World.
Anyway it sucked, don't watch it, even if you're drinking. 0/5 stars, pile of shit and a waste of a good premise.
Sperg over. For now.
