The week on TheAvod, The Divemistress is pretty unhappy so Count Vardulon kindly takes a break from his rantings to cheer her up by doing his very best Sanchez impression. In between bouts of dour pessimism and uproarious laughter, the two manage to cover a handful of topics. Listen to the Count complain about FlashForward's terrible writing, and hear The DM get him excited about upcoming TV show Happy Town. Somewhat unbelievably, both your hosts really enjoyed Ninja Assassin despite its terribleness. They didn't much like The Final, however, which was equally terrible.
Based on your response to THE FINAL, you guys need to see my favorite misguided Columbine commentary flick: HEART OF AMERICA. For starters, Uwe Boll made it. He was sincerely trying to make a message movie and the end results are hilarious because it takes its basis from every popular myth about Columbine that has since been proven untrue. It's structured and written like the high school-set version of a disaster movie (multiple subplots building to a big "who's gonna die?" finale) and stars Michael Pare, Jurgen Prochnow AND Maria Conchita Alonso. I'd to love to hear TheAvod's take on it.
ReplyDeleteAnd I forgot to mention that Clint Howard has a cameo as the alcoholic, psychologically abusive dad of one of the teen shooters. He delivers a great monologue to his son about how his life is essentially over after high school and he's doomed to a blue collar existence just like his dad.
ReplyDeleteHmmm...we might have to lift the moratorium on Uwe Boll for that one.
ReplyDeleteThanks to this review, I stopped a buddy from buying this movie in Best Buy. Instead I put Lake Mungo in his hands, and he wouldn't stop talking about it afterward. Thanks guys. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteThank you! So happy we were able to help get him on the right path :)
ReplyDeleteTo be completely, and absolutely fair to The Final, there is ONE single good thing about it: the girl playing Emily. (The girl among our gang of "protagonists".) She's actually pretty talented, despite how little she gets to show it. I think that may be part of why it feels like her character has more depth than the rest of the cast.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's because they somehow actually roped in somebody with a CAREER for this mess- solid character voice-actress Lindsay Seidel. Why she agreed to be in this I have no idea. I would say money, but that one role, bizarrely, is the only one played by an actor with pretty much any previous work, so it doesn't seem like that could be it.
Aside from voice acting she actually only seems to be in genre fiction (this, a couple other flicks, and apparently a horror TV show called "Throwing Stones"). So maybe she just likes horror films and basically takes the gigs she can get?