They’ve made enough of these that I could probably finish the shark movie reviews just watching them. But we’ll see how many I actually sit through. This is very much an intentional B-movie, or as they’re mostly known today, “A Syfy Original.” This one spawned a whole franchise (six movies), so clearly they got something …
This is the sort of shark movie you’d expect to come out lately: action-packed and not really scary in any way. And this movie accomplishes what it set out to do. It’s visually awesome, with a lot of good work done under the water and some reasonable science behind the submersibles. (Not so much the …
The fourth, final, and worst of the Jaws franchise. This is the worst movie in the franchise by far. This might end up being the worst movie I review in this series: next week I’m doing the Meg, which was pretty damned entertaining. This… this was hard to sit through. The things we do for …
On vacation, still gotta update Jaws 2, too. This movie is great, and a lot hokier and B-movie-er than the other two. It’s really funny, and a couple of fairly decent actors turn in 80s 3D movie worthy performances. But since I’m on vacation and a Scotch regimen… Report Card: Running Time: An hour thirty-nine. …
I hate to short-change a movie, but I’m short-changing Jaws 2 because I’ve got a plane to catch early tomorrow. This is a decent sequel and an above-average shark flick. I enjoyed it, and the scene where Brody thinks the swarm of fish are a shark is something I saw as a kid that stuck …
The first movie in our new series: Shark movies! Jaws is a special one, too, since it’s the original summer blockbuster. All right, so here we go: Jaws. There’s a bit of a format change for this genre, since it isn’t straight up horror. Monster Type goes without saying: they’re all sharks. Also, violence goes …
The final movie in the Conjuring-and-Blumhouse modern horrors series: The Nun. It’s the only major title left off as of the time of this writing — I hit all the Paranormals and all the Insidiouses, all the Conjurings. Now for the one Nun. I’ll start out with the first note here: I could do with …
Probably never a good idea to work “Last” or “Final” into your movie title unless it is just that. Like the third movie, this movie is a prequel to the original two movies. But aside from shared characters and a shared universe, it isn’t really a “sequel” in that traditional sense. The story isn’t being …
The 11th entry in our Conjuring/Blumhouse series’ reviews, Paranormal Activity 4 has something in common with Insidious 3: we’ve moved on to a whole new family. The question becomes: How do they handle it? Rather than focus on one movie, I’m going to review the last three movies in the series since we’re running out …
How does it hold up without a large chunk of the cast? We’re back to “they didn’t make these in any sort of order” mode with this one. Like Paranormal Activity, the third part is a prequel-sequel of sorts. They did this because (in my opinion) they made the mistake of killing a central character …