Will Evil Aliens Ever Descend on the USA?

I heard all the blood is really bad cgi.Somebody please say it aint so.

It's so. Movie really isn't good. I appreciate the effort, I guess. I just thought it was a chore to sit through.

I didn't like it much at all. I appreciate nods to Raimi and Jackson, but these were so overt that it felt like they took over the film. I'd recommend Black Sheep or Severance long before I'd recommend this.

Yeah, I didn't think of it much as well. There a few fun sequences (the one with a harvester, for example), but it felt like a movie where a director wants to be like Peter Jackson and Raimi, but doesn't really have a talent for it. It was evident in the way the film looked, how it was edited and comically timed.

I saw this last year, in May I think, as a midnighter at our local film fest.

The audience ate up the first, oh, forty minutes or so. Then the laughs started to peter out as our energy flagged. Partly that's because it was, y'know, a midnight movie at a film festival, and we were all tired because of (a) the hour and (b) having seen three or four movies through the day before even getting to this one. But the unvarying rhythms of the film, the frantic comedy and the overwrought camerawork and the actors' mugging, became fairly tiresome. And by the end, most of us were checking our watches and waiting for it to be over. Nice smattering of applause when the credits rolled, but not the stomping, cheering enthusiasm a movie like this needs to become a cult smash.

Give the director credit, he clearly made the movie he wanted to make, and with great economy. And I'll happily see his next movie, too. Though I hope he's learned something from this one, and doesn't just make the same movie over again.

Call it a B+ for effort and ambition, B- for execution. Or look at it this way: I'm not going to buy the DVD, but if a friend gave it to me as a gift, I'd put it on the shelf rather than re-gifting it to someone else.

P.S. By way of comparison, Godzilla: Final Wars made a much better impression on the audience at its midnight screening. So if you saw that, you can use it as a point of comparison with Evil Aliens.

It can't be worse than the dissapointing Razor Blade Smile.

I love Godzilla,and Minya...is there a Godzilla thread yet?

Oh.

Well, fuck me then.

Apparently, then, there was one lesson he didn't learn. I have yet to see one of those that isn't utter shit.

Agreed.And Abominable sucked.

I hope sasquatch eats your face off for your insolence.

I met Jake West at TIFF this year and hung out a bit drinking. Before he was introduced to me by a common friend (though someone else I'd just met this year) I admitted that I was kinda embarassed to talk to him, considering the slagging I'd given this movie. 'He really doesn't care' is what I was told.

Fun guy. Wish he made better movies.