I admire a man who follows up his attention-getting debut feature with a giant crocodile movie. That takes some moxie. And while Greg Mclean may never be taken seriously again as a result, at least he’ll have Rogue to fall back on.
Truth be told, I didn’t think much of his first movie, Wolf Creek, so Mclean doesn’t have too far to fall in my eyes. All he has to do is deliver something marginally better than Primeval (or, if you wisely skipped that nonsense, half as good as Lake Placid), and I’ll give him a pass. Judging from the exclusive trailer just posted to ShockTilYouDrop.com… I don’t know that he’s pulled that off. It’s not so much that the film looks incredibly cheap; the real problem is that the crocodile ain’t big enough. If you’re gonna go big with your reptiles, go stupid big. If Primeval gives us a twenty-five-footer, you’ve got to double that shit. Bring the nasty. I expect nothing less than a fifty-foot motherfuckin’ crocodile with four rows of teeth, razor-sharp ridges across his back, and a bitchin’ racing stripe down his abdomen. It would also be a good idea if he could fly, ‘cuz then he could attack airplanes and go to the North Pole to fight the Abominable Snowman.
Rogue doesn’t appear to have anything like that, and this displeases me. Still, get me drunk enough next Friday (April 25th), and I’ll probably stumble into the theater to see this garbage. Love that poster.





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"…and a bitchin' racing stripe down his abdomen. It would also be a good idea if he could fly, 'cuz then he could attack airplanes and go to the North Pole to fight the Abominable Snowman." – Jeremy Smith, I fucking love you.
That poster reminds me of Jaws poster
So this isn't a prequel to Crocodile Dundee? Damn. (Sorry, i'm on drugs) Oh well. The world can always use a good monster movie. So there's that.
Godammit, Jeremy. You got me all excited for a Killer Croc cameo in The Dark Knight with that article title.
"It would also be a good idea if he could fly, 'cuz then he could attack airplanes and go to the North Pole to fight the Abominable Snowman." Damn that'll be a good movie! Oscar material!
I think this was already out in Australia months ago – I can't remember, because I and everyone else didn't bother going to see it – which is weird because we love 'Dile carnage down here.
What a tagline!
"It would also be a good idea if he could fly, 'cuz then he could attack airplanes and go to the North Pole to fight the Abominable Snowman." Someone make that into a film! ….talk about a visual masterpiece!
"If Primeval gives us a twenty-five-footer, you've got to double that shit." Kind of like instead of the shark from Jaws you try and make a movie about a Megalodon, because y'know it's WAY bigger. No way a movie like that wouldn't get made…….. Sorry, does that hit a little to close to home? Couldn't resist….. My bad.
This movie's a fuckin' croc! (canned laughter)
What have you done with Owen, you sons of bitches!!!!!
This is an abomination. This news piece, I mean. Who posts a news piece about a crocodile movie from Australia, says that the crocodile is too small, and does NOT say "That's not a croc. This is a croc!"… followed by a link to a big crocodile…? *
(* A requirement which, by the way, a pliosaurus would fit very nicely: http://www.toyen.uio.no/pliosaurus/BT/Pliosaurus-1.jpg)
I plan on seeing it, because I feel that it is my duty to support movies about giant animals eating people when they get theatrical releases. Cause it's gotta be better than the weekly Sci-Fi channel crap.
why exactly is this movie titled Rogue?
I think I got this one, Monsoon– an animal is known to go Rogue when it goes on a rampage and attacks a human out of the blue for no apparent reason (to the humans at least–I would say the reason is 'because humans keep fucking with them'). I'm glad that my hours of Animal Planet watching paid off today.
Okay, some attention needs to be paid to the fact that the tagline is:
Welcome to TERRORtory!
That tag-line is TERROR-ble.
samuraisix – thanks, that makes sense.
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