![]() Room 6 $2.99 Who in there right mind gave this thing the green light to be written, produced and then released? Take my word, the plot SOUNDS better then it is. Marcia Brady is in a car accident with her boyfriend and weird things begin to happen. First no one is helping them get out and no one seems to care very much. An ambulance arrives and takes the boyfriend away, but has not told miss Clueless what hospital there taking him to. She goes to the local hospital but he was not taken there. She meets the Sliders guy who was in the other car and he can't find his sister either in the same situation. So they try to locate them, only to discover they have been taken to a hospital that burnt down years ago for being devil worshipers or something. Like I said, if that sounded interesting, beleive me, thats all there is thats any good. The movie is completely stupid and makes no sense. She sees all of these burnt up monsters type of people who keep telling her she won't get her boyfriend back, then the scenes in the hospital with the boyfriend are just.... *cringe* what are they supposed to be? Demons, Zombies, vampires? Yet at no point in the movie did i feel anyone was really in any danger or something bad would happen to them. Just a few weird scenes here and there that make no sense. I guess the writer thought it would be scary to see blood sucking nurses in the shadows, but they have a lot to learn about the actual viewers of these things, cause with no tie ins, or explanations, some kind of gore factor, then these movies get rated low... very low. There is much more I could say about the scenes that don't make sense, but I wanna point out the title. Room 6.... r66m 6... was there any point in this movie they referred to the ward as room 666? It hardly seemed like a scary room. The movie should have been, "St Marys Hospital, and it's un-spooky spooks" To have nurses and doctors who you hear are this and that and are going to do these bad things, you hardly feel entertained when they act normal, keep backing away from the table, talk about golf and then say calmly, "we should burn in this fire, it's where we belong" ... those who have seen this will know what I mean, where is the suspence factor in waiting for something to happen, needing something to happen, or there should have been something happen to improve the movie, and there just standing around smiling? They don't have demon faces, no odd surgery, no devilish thoughts, no nothing...ZZzzzzzzzzzzzz... and they just stand back when Barbie runs in to save her boyfriend and walk him calmly out of the hospital to live happily ever after. P.S: For those obsessed Jason fans, Kane Hodders appearance in this movie isn't worth &^%$. So don't go giving high reviews just because he was in it for 5 seconds. ![]() Skin & Bone $29.99 A disappointing movie, full of logical inconsistencies. First and foremost, the mysterious madam whose way of dealing with wayward merchandise is to rub them off. What? She kills her own golden geese? Second: the directors obvious fixation with anal sex--including at least two totally gratuitous "rape scenes, both happening to the "top" male character. Third, an ending that makes you want to shoot the director--a total cop out in the most classic homophobic tradition. And i could even add a fourth, a character that does naked cleaning while covering his jewels with one hand, whereas seconds later he is supposedly administering to the sexual needs of his paralyzed client!!!! ![]() Gunsmoke:One Man's Justice [VHS] $5.99 In the hundreds of episodes of Gunsmoke, Dodge City seemed to be in a time capsule - unchanging. This contributed to its classic and classy quality. The final made-for-TV Gunsmoke movie changed this with the recurring theme that retiree Matt Dillon was approaching the threshold of the 20th century. This is acceptable because, after all, Wyatt Earp lived well into the 1920s. Signs of modernity included eyeglasses on an reservation Indian, a victrola in a baudyhouse, turmoil in Revolutionary Mexico, a bandit leader who perhaps escaped famine in Europe and not an American civil war survivor. But most of all, a lever-action shotgun that changed the odds in the final gunfight. The signs of change added to this movie, like the Bicycle Scene in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Matt Dillon is depicted as becoming a successful cattle rancher after starting his retirement as a humble trapper in the first Gunsmoke movie "Return To Dodge." Nostalgic baby boomers who enjoy the legendary Gunsmoke series might be inspired by how the legendary US marshal made a second career in an age before pensions and social security. It is extraordinary when fictional characters take on a life in our collective imaginations. One can think of Don Quixote in Spain, Sherlock Holmes in London, Evangeline in Louisiana, Huckleberry Finn on the Mississippi River, Captain Nemo on the ocean floor. Matt Dillon and his friends in Dodge City, Kansas, have achieved the same iconic stature |
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