Showing posts with label Timothy Olyphant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timothy Olyphant. Show all posts

The Crazies (Devil's Advocate Review)

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Posted by Rene Alvarado | Posted in , , , , | Posted on 10:14 AM

Iowa is full of random craziness. Slipknot, meth heads, guys named Ezekiel all live in Iowa. In The Crazies, that insanity is taken to a new level.

Sort of. It all seems so familiar. Wait a minute. It's a slick looking horror movie in 2010. Yup. It's a remake. Of a George Romero movie that nobody saw.

The town of Ogden Marsh is a typical farming town. It's the kind of place where everyone knows each other and they actually listen to the local police.

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The Crazies

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Posted by Joe Wilhelm | Posted in , , , , | Posted on 10:13 AM

To gear up to watch The Crazies, I watched George A. Romero's 1973 version a few days beforehand. While more modernized for our time, you can still see and feel homage to the 70's style that made Romero known for.

While Romero serves as executive producer, Breck Eisner (Michael Eisner's son) takes the helm as director on this one. Eisner does well setting up the premise in a fast pace, but tails off at times to give us more of a b-movie tone.

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A Perfect Getaway DVD

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Posted by Joe Wilhelm | Posted in , , , , , | Posted on 7:30 PM

With The Crazies starring Timothy Olyphant coming out, which Rene and I are reviewing, I wanted to take the opportunity to watch A Perfect Getaway beforehand. This movie was released on dvd a little more than a month ago after little publicity in the theaters considering it came out the same day as G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra.

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