Saturday, September 4, 2010

Troll was Awesomely Bad


    You know how some movies are so bad their good, well the classic campy horror movie Troll definitely falls into that category.  Everything about this movie screams classic.  It featured Sonny Bono as swinging bachelor who gets attacked by a troll and pretty much blows up.  It also featured a young Julia Louis-Dreyfus.  The family in the movie has the last name Potter and the father and son are both named Harry.  That's right their both named Harry Potter.  Granted this movie came out in 1986 a full eleven years before the first Harry Potter book came out.  The film has horrible cheesy special effects, even for the '80s.  It has stars Phil Fonacaro, who you might recognize as the little person whose been in everything.  Just one look at his imdb page and you see what I mean, he played an ewok in Return of the Jedi, he was in an episode of Star Trek: Next Gen, he was in Willow, he played a carnie in the horribly campy '80s horror flick Ghoulies II, Roland in Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and an elf in The Polar Express.  Apparently he was also in some movie called Evil Bong, that sounds like it just might be so bad I'd need to see it. 
    For some reason this movie had a sequel and Troll 2 was even more awesomely bad than this one.  There has been a documentary made about Troll 2 entitled Best Worst Movie.  I think that says it all.
    According to the internets, Troll is planning a remake of the movie now.  Any remake of it won't have of the redeeming qualities and it'll be just bad. 

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Movie Review:Visioneers was a Strange Dark Comedy


Visioneers is a very strange dark comedy.  It starred Zach Galifianakis as Washington Winsterhammerman a level 3 employee at the Jeffers Corporation.  George has an average life.  He is miserable.  He is in an unhappy marriage.  Add to that people start exploding due to unhappiness.  George starts having recurring dreams in which he is George Washington and becomes worried when a doctor tells him that is a symptom of impending explosion.  As the epidemic worsens and his dreams don't stop, George starts rethinking the life he has been living.  I have been a huge fan of Galifianakis's work for years and I heard of this movie two years ago when he talked about it online.  The film was very interesting.  For a dark comedy it wasn't very funny.  It's interesting to watch this after seeing Galifianakis in The Hangover because the two characters he plays are so different.  The film was very well made, but I it was nearly as enjoyable as I hoped.  I posted the trailer for the film below.