Official WTFDetroit Movie Review Thread

[Uncle Mxy]

Big Man Japan is a strange slow movie, a deconstructionist take on the "Japanese giant good guys fighting monsters" genre. There's lots of good ideas, but they're poorly laid out. The last few minutes are a hoot for anyone who digs old-school Ultraman, but otherwise I can't recommend it.

[Uncle Mxy]

You know that the straight-to-video Princess Of Mars (with Traci Lords) is a crap movie when there's no nudity, and only line you can remember is "That was her pee bucket!" It also stars Antonio Sabato Jr. as a jarhead. Oh boy. The sound is kinda fucked up (dialogue too soft, explosions too loud) so you have to fuck with the volume all the time if you care about the shit dialogue. The production values bounce up and down. My sense is that a (somewhat) bigger budget production was green-lighted, then scaled back as the production actually happened.

[Pharaoh]

Mxy, you seem like a super intelligent motherfucker so the obvious question has to be asked:

Why are you watching a non-porn movie with Traci Lords?

[Uncle Mxy]

Because I watched pretty much every porn movie Traci Lords has ever been in, and I keep hoping she'll return to form.

Also, I read the John Carter Barsoom novels and had a morbid curiosity for how badly they'd fuck up the adaptation. But that's boring so it belongs in white text.

[geerussell]

Because I watched pretty much every porn movie Traci Lords has ever been in, and I keep hoping she'll return to form.

Be happy when old porn stars keep their clothes on. Porn miles are hard on the chassis, it's like being a taxi cab.

The last few minutes are a hoot for anyone who digs old-school Ultraman, but otherwise I can't recommend it.

That alone is enough for me to need to see this movie.

[Glenn]

I grabbed "Extract" out of the Red Box this afternoon and we're about to watch it. Should we bother?

I hate you all. You had the ability to save an hour of my time and no one stepped up.

Turned it off 3/4 of the way through.

[geerussell]

Way to pay it forward, now I know not to watch Extract.

[Uncle Mxy]

I missed that post about Extract -- the title isn't that memorable to me, and I was in a "watching weird movies" groove, hoping to occasionally find shinola amongst the shit. I saw Extract awhile back, when it first came out on DVD and Netflix. I might've led you astray because I thought it was "ok". If you go into Extract expecting Office Space, you'll be sorely disappointed. If you go into Extract expecting something on the order of a decent King Of The Hill episode, you'll do ok. It's blandly pleasant but, like the title, not especially memorable.

[Vinny]

Tried to watch In Bruges last night, is it really that boring or was I just too tired?? Made it about 30 minutes before giving up, should I try again? It got great reviews.

[Fool]

It's a great movie. Try again.