one of my absolute favorites!
It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
View MoreJust intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
View MoreTrue to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
View MoreBIGFOOT is another Asylum monster movie in which a giant CGI bigfoot rampages through the woods and terrorises people, in particular the organisers of a woodland rock concert. Like previous Asylum movies before it, this film's remit is to grab of a bunch of past-it celebrities and throw them into a non-existent storyline, one that's full of cheese and lame action sequences.That I enjoyed this a little more than the majority of Asylum offerings is only because the ones I usually watch are so very poor (like THE DAY THE EARTH STOPPED, the one I watched right before this). The CGI bigfoot is poor, but not quite as poor as some of the CGI monsters you see in SyFy Channel movies, but the scenes of him going on a destructive rampage, climbing Mount Rushmore and smashing diggers and helicopters, are kind of fun in an ultra-cheesy way.Cast-wise, we get old-time stars Bruce Davison and Sherilynn Fenn, both looking incredibly aged, as the small-town sheriffs on the trail of the beast; Davison also directs for some odd reason. Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams are the rival old-time TV actors/musicians who square off as the running time progresses. It's an attempt to re-do the Tiffany/Debbie Gibson antagonism/pairing in MEGA SHARK VS. GATOROID although it doesn't work as well here. The best part is Alice Cooper's amusing cameo.
View MoreOh my God, what a travesty. This should have a tagline - "How Not To Make A Movie"I love bad movies and The Asylum make some of the baddest around. However, they know that they are bad so they film them tongue-in-cheek. The Asylum films have been a secret love of mine and now they are giving us the great Z-Nation I'm proud to shout their names loud. They have also done some pretty decent films - The Reeker 2 was even better than the original and had a more defined storyline. Their adaptation of "War of the Worlds" brought the H G Wells novel up-to-date and was so much better than the dreadful Tom Cruise vehicle, even though they had a far less rich budget. I even liked their version of "The Day The Earth Stood Still" over the big budget remake. Then there are the AWESOME SHARKNADO films which show you how a B-movie should be filmed.So with their output, it's no surprise that one day they would make a really atrocious movie.The other thing, after The Asylum, which drew me to this film was nostalgia. The had Bruce Davison playing the Sheriff, and has been a favourite actor of mine since I saw him in Harry and the Henderson's... yes, he was back in Bigfoot territory. Along with Sherilyn Fenn, Howard Hesserman, and a cameo from the great Alice Cooper; who was the best thing, by far, in this film.So what made this film so bad?Everything. I know it was 2012 so I can let some of the CGI effects slide, though on the whole, they were bad and a worst, laughable.Next was the acting itself, only Alice Cooper seemed to put any effort into his character, where all the other actors just turned up on set and read their lines. The worst were Bruce Davison (who seemed tired and dispassionate), and Barry Williams (who seemed disjointed from the entire movie and cast).The writers of this trash, Brian Brinkman and Micho Rutare, are the main reason this movie and story are so terrible. They hit every cliché in the book, which isn't such a bad thing as this is what The Asylum, is all about. However, the characterisation of the cast is so two- dimensional that you just don't care. The reason why Alice Cooper is the best character on screen is because he's portraying himself, and we already relate to him and the persona he creates. The writers just don't bring any depth or interest to the rest of the cast, so you don't care what happens to them.Lastly, the direction was all over the place. Which I'm really sorry to say as Bruce Davison directed the film. This movie is not his finest hour. Ah, well, at least it's far behind him.If you have a chance to see this film... Grab some paint... go paint the room you've been putting off until tomorrow while listening to Alice Cooper... Then sit back and watch the paint dry. This would be more appealing than watching this film.
View MoreBigfoot is another of those SYFY movies that is pretty bad. But they all are like that so you have to throw your expectations out the window when you see a movie like that and that will help you enjoy it more. I did so when watching this film and only was mildly entertained.The story is about a giant bigfoot that attacks a city during a rock convention. Simple as that.Bigfoot is done with CGI, just like all the other films like this. He looks OK, but when he moves sometimes he looks really bad. This bigfoot did not do anything that stands out besides bite peoples heads off.Human characters are all horrible actors like usual, Danny Bonaduce does play a great jerk in this film tho. All the others are your typical SYFY characters. I thought it was cool that Alice Cooper appeared in this film, he was probably the best part of this movie.The action scenes are typical, nothing special.Pretty standard film, nothing really stands out. I do not really recommend it.
View MoreThis is probably one of the worst pieces of television I have watched in a long time. The CGI is appalling, the physics of how the Bigfoot moves is comical and borders on stop motion quality.The so called "concert" has no more than 30 people in the crowd, and this is obvious from the camera shots, yet the dubbed sound suggests there are thousands in attendance. The stage looked like it was constructed by drunk children as well. And to think Alice Cooper made an appearance in this is just sad.The acting is ropey at best, the characters are unbelievable, The so called "master hunter" cannot even hold a rifle correctly.To summarise, THIS IS GARBAGE and should never have been made. Waste of time for all involved.
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