Too many fans seem to be blown away
Lack of good storyline.
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
View MoreIt's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
View MoreI didn't really like first one that much, tell you truth , can't remember, none of story had the lasting impact.Thankfully I am not about say the same about this movie, As I thought this sequel was much better then first There were a lot more story I liked and some of them are really memorable The last two X and Z was great fun to watch X was amazing and very funny loved every second of that and as for z Honly crap, that was utter gross and gory , women pregnant for 13 years lol just ace.Those were are one few I really liked and there a lot others , I really enjoy to.There were really bad one here and there.6 out of 10 actually I give 7 our of 10
View MoreLet's get down to business:A - A great start. It cleverly contrasts the glamorous fantasy with the harsh reality in the life of a professional assassin, and has a terrific ironic payoff, to boot. ***1/2B - A little too much shaky cam, but a funny ending makes it worth it. ***C - Gruesome and brutal miscarriage of justice. ***D - Great claymation, but I did not understand the "story" at all. **1/2 E - Imaginative direction, WTF ending. **1/2F - Well-done, sad tale, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (!) The woman in this one gives one of the strongest performances in the entire film. **1/2 G - The first complete dud. Ugly and disgusting, and not in a good way, either. Ugh! 0H - A curious little animation piece. **I - An one-joke premise (old matriarch won't die no matter how many times her inheritors "kill" her) that can barely sustain even three minutes of running time! *1/2J - A disturbing, effective anti gay-intolerance parable, though I don't quite "get" the title (J is for Jesus). **1/2 K - Artistically made, with a beautiful leading lady and hypnotic imagery, but also a nonsensical story. **1/2L - Poorly put together and disjointed. *1/2M - Hard to believe THIS was voted the best entry in the long-running open-for-public competition that was held for choosing who would get to do this particular letter. *1/2 N - A creative N.Y. love story, with a macabre end. **1/2 O - Sounds better than it plays (zombies judge and condemn people to death for killing....zombies!). **P - Awful sub-Three Stooges "comedy", though slightly more bearable than "G" above. 1/2 Q - Smart and funny. In America, can you marry your widow's sister? ***R - Very suspenseful, but a frustratingly incomplete ending. Probably the short most in need of expansion. **1/2 S - Good use of the split screen(s), some unexpected stings in the tail of this tale. ***T - A disappointing throwaway, I expected more from the Soska Sisters. *1/2U - One of the best entries. Eloquently tells a complete story in three minutes - without any dialogue! ***V - A bold and creative technical experiment - largely successful. ***W - Wickedly funny and thoroughly perverse (wait till you see "Fantasy Man"!) ***X - Far from the most graphic, but probably the most extreme and sickening of the shorts, in terms of what happens in it. **Y - Trademark Japanese wackiness - but with a point! **1/2 Z - Astonishingly gruesome "body horror", for the strongest stomachs only. Others might be advised to finish the movie five minutes earlier. **On the whole, "ABCs of Death 2" improves upon its predecessor; the production values / special effects / camera work are superior, there are a couple of shorts that surpass any of those in the first film, and only two - G and P - out of the 26 are completely skip-worthy, IMO.
View MoreAnother 26 short films from prolific film makers and actors, showcasing death, violence, and general filth in all its 18 rated glory.And even though its a massive step forward from the almost pornagraphic first movie, but like a birthday party for children, some people have to spoil it for everybody else.Julien Barratts short is easily the funniest thing here, and there are some wonderful ideas, like a drug that turns people into zombies, and a zombie courtroom are both visceral and standout.But some are downright confusing, like the phone call that ends up with two ladies of the night killing their employees, shouldn't have made the call, and the chapter that spoils the flow and the fun of the film, the letter S.It starts off well enough, in the vein of Carpenters Halloween, and then you hear a baby crying, and your thinking to yourself, 'they won't, they won't, they won't....................I can't believe they did' and it really puts a dampener on what should be challenging fun.So its an enjoyable anthology of unique ideas, but S, and come to think of it Z, are just too over the top and insulting, you wouldn't want to watch it again.I certainly won't be..
View Morefirst what do your expect in an anthology movie that consist of so many episodes... with their limited time they are not able to build a proper plot, but forget about it. i am very satisfied with the disturbance of this movie.''SPOILER'' but what i am proud of is from the episode INVINCIBLE, maybe non Filipino audiences are wondering what is the stone all about?to explain further , the family in the INVINCIBLE Episode are ASWANG (PHILIPPINE VAMPIRE, HUMAN-MONSTER)the stone made the grandmother immortal and that's why she have to past the stone in one of the family member to continue her legacy and to finally die. =)
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