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The Omega Man (1971)
Wish they wouldn't have said it was based off of I am Legend...
Overall I liked the movie. It's a pretty decent seventies flick. I really just wouldn't have put the premise that this was based on the I am legend novel.
There are a number of quibbles I have: If the vampire psychotic things were totally against technology. I don't think they would be using sunglasses. Sunglasses are a piece of technology whether or not the "vampires" realized it. Also, their clothes are a form of technology. The catapult they use to attack his house is a form of technology. So, they essentially argue that technology brought down society. However, they still use technology. They just pick and choose what they want to use.
I also look at the fact that his house was really poorly secured. Even without using the "technology" they didn't want to use. They should have still been able to take the house in faster than two years. You could just break his house, and set it on fire. All his windows were boarded up with were wood.
The ending was also nothing like "I am Legend". As there was no real overarching irony which the novel is primarily known for.
All those things aside though. I still like this movie. It is entertaining, and it keeps your attention somewhat throughout the movie.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
It's good if you want to watch the same movie as previous Bonds.
So my plan is to watch the Bond movies in order from the first Bond movie to the last bond. I'm currently on "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". One of the main things I noticed from Her Majesty's Secret Service is the fact that the new Bond doesn't seem to be as sexually assaulting as the previous bond ( Sean Connery). It did seem like the first Bond would like to force himself upon women which seemed a bit off, and was really off putting. For most of the previous Bond films this new Bond didn't seem as bad, but there was still a lot of this bond having his way with the women he wanted to have his way with. which I'm still not in total agreement with.
I think the biggest problem I have with most of the Bond movies is really that they all follow a very very specific formula. the formula itself seems to always be James Bond shows it up at some place. He assumes a new identity. He then starts snooping around. He finds the villain, has contact with the villain. The villain finds out who he is. They then put him in a room or put him in some place that easily escapable. Miraculously, James Bond figures out a way to get out of said room which no one decided to guard and no one decided to put any additional reinforcements on. specifically they put him in a room for the gondola cables. If I was a super villain I wouldn't put somebody in the room which houses the gears which are kind of the only way to get up to said Superfortress. Well the movie is an overall bad. it's starting to really feel like I'm watching the same movie over and over again. which, if you like this same movie over and over again I could see how you would like this movie. However, I don't really like watching this same movie over and over and over again.
Ghoulies (1984)
Not enough Ghoulies!!
If the cover of your movie has a creature popping out of toilet. I your movie, you better have a creature popping out of a toilet. It's Chekhov's gun. There was no ghoulie that ever popped out of a toilet. I was waiting the entire movie for a puppet to pop out of a toilet, and never got it!
Aside from that this movie is still pretty bad. The main actor has some weird green eyes that glow when he "invokes" them (I guess). I don't really know, because they don't explain it, and they show up when he is "more" menacing than he normally is. I also didn't understand why they had to wear sunglasses towards the end. He could turn his weird green eyes off when he wanted. He didn't need the sun glasses. I also didn't get why the main character decided he had to quit school to clean up a house. Why wouldn't you just clean up the house after school??? It didn't make any sense.
The movie is filled with pretty subpar acting. For some reason a female costar that seems like she was already in her fifties, but her actual age hadn't caught up to her yet.
The ghoulies were the best part, but you only see them for maybe, maybe, 10 minutes out of the whole movie.
There were also these two dwarfs that showed up for no real reason except to drink some liquid, and fight against their original master (maybe?)
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Some old things just don't really hold up.
I was hoping that this movie was going to be a lot better than it was. To myself, I thought it would be great as this was one of Jim Henson's more notable films. However, the story didn't really grip me all that much. That could be because today we have a ton of these movies. The one where the is the hero who must overcome an orphan story to become the hero that they are today.
However today, that has been all, but played. There could be the argument that it wasn't done at the time all that well, and that is why this movie is good. However, I'm not a fan of that argument. As older movies can still hold up even though they have the same overarching story as the movies in the genre that succeed them. This one, I didn't feel like had any real differences except it was done with puppets. The fact that you have puppets in a movie should not be the selling point. The selling point should be that you can use those puppets to tell a better story.
In summation. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't all that good. It was right in the middle of the road for a movie.
The Corpse Grinders (1971)
If hot garbage, and medical waste had a baby. It wouldn't be as bad as this movie...
The only reason this movie didn't receive the lowest score possible is, because I kind of sat through it till the end.
This movie was god awful. I couldn't watch more than a couple minutes at a time without looking down at my phone to do something else. The acting was pretty horrible. The quality of the film looked like it was shot on film from the early sixties. The premise of the movie what that there was this cat food company that started up. The main ingredient for their food were corpses. So, the main villain in the movie would grind up the corpse, and then the grinded remains would fall into what looked to be a 5 gallon bucket. The cats would eat the ground remains. Then want to eat people?
This really doesn't make any sense as my cat doesn't tend to want to just go and eat animals
I guess the main shock of this movie was supposed to be the fact that people were being ground up. I think
Mainly due to them showing the grinder and the bucket footage multiple times. Either way
. This movie was horrible.