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Alien Trespass (2009)

post #1 of 9
4/8/09 at 12:07am
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Well, that didn't work at all. Anyone?
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post #2 of 9
4/8/09 at 1:20am
I figured that sucked. Lost Skeleton of Cadavera did it first and did it better.
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post #3 of 9
4/8/09 at 11:27am
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And I didn't even like that one.

There was no camp or cleverness or commentary on top of the copying here; they just said "hey, let's make a 50s sci-fi monster movie", and then did. They tried to give that Blob-era Technicolor looking, but it just wasn't selling it. And LOTS of green screen. Green screen of a guy walking on the side of a road.

It threatened to be funny a couple of times, but the script needed another pass to get some jokes in there.
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post #4 of 9
4/8/09 at 11:28am
How the hell did they get financing for this?
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post #5 of 9
4/8/09 at 11:30am
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From wikipedia, a smattering of critical responses:

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Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and felt that the film was, "obviously a labor of love. But why? Is there a demand for cheesy 1950s sci-fi movies not met by the existing supply? Will younger audiences consider it to be merely inept, and not inept with an artistic intention? Here is a movie more suited to ComicCon or the World Science Fiction Convention than to your neighborhood multiplex".[1] In her review for The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis described the film as "a charmingly sentimental but ultimately pointless hommage to the sci-fi classics of yesteryear".[2] Betsy Sharkey, in her review for the Los Angeles Times, felt that "there is attention to detail throughout this film, and it's clear that Goodwin loves those old sci-fi movies -- maybe a little too much. While Alien Trespass stays true to the era and the genre, it forgets that its mission in this galaxy is not merely to pay tribute but to entertain".[3] In his review for the Boston Globe, Ty Burr wrote, "There's more simple joy to be found here than in all of DreamWorks' 3-D extravaganza, though - a pleasure that comes from laughing at the movie and with it at the same time".[4] Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B+" rating and Lisa Schwarzbaum praised its "warm tone, along with the picture's bright, saturated, anti-CGI look, is a welcome respite from jokes, irony, and the postmodern malaise of know-it-all-ness"
So Schwarezbaum liked that it brought nothing new to the genre.
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post #6 of 9
4/8/09 at 11:35am
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So Schwarezbaum liked that it brought nothing new to the genre.
She liked it because the picture looked nice and there was a man in suit? Jesus.
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post #7 of 9
4/8/09 at 11:36am
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It looked like Fido. Which is fine; I love faux-50s Technicolor-ish images. Now DO something.
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post #8 of 9
4/8/09 at 11:38am
Saying the picture looked "nice" has to be one of the laziest pieces of praise out there.
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post #9 of 9
4/8/09 at 3:18pm
So, it's an unfunny version of INVASION (AKA TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN) or MARS ATTACKS or LOST SKELETON or the prologue for NIGHT OF THE CREEPS? Hrm.

And for the record, I liked FIDO.
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