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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 31 2015, 08:11 PM (208 Views) | |
| Baby Firefly | Jul 31 2015, 08:11 PM Post #1 |
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The Devil Himself
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![]() Scientists re-discover Creature! Creature discovers lust! The "Creature From The Black Lagoon" is back and this time he's shipped to Marineland in (north) Florida for study. While in the aquarium he spies the love of his life. Naturally, the creature escapes in pursuit of beauty, down the St. Johns River, all the way to Jacksonville where he kidnaps his love from a downtown waterfront hotspot (dig the neon skyline in the background). |
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| GL84 | Aug 26 2015, 03:35 PM Post #2 |
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Killer's Therapist
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On the whole this one was a highly enjoyable and even superior sequel effort. One of the better elements here is the improved action on display, as this one has some overall impressive and exciting scenes here, among the best starting immediately with the capture in the Amazon. From the diving suit encounter which is a fun, savage underwater brawl to the eventual escape, this goes along nicely with the capture method that gets really fun. Likewise, further enjoyable action scenes come from the transport into the observatory tank where it goes after the carriers which requires all sorts of outside help to put an end to the situation as well as the lengthy scenes of the two attempting to train it underwater which comes off very nicely with the creatures' best interests at heart. Still, the best scenes here are from the final half with its escape from the facility and rampage across the park and the large-scale chase for the finale as he manages to capture her forcing a rather enjoyable manhunt by the police along the swampy marshlands in a series of thrilling encounters that really get this one ending on a high note. These high-quality action scenes carrying this along so well that there's a relentless pace here that keeps this going along quite nicely even with the clichéd elements here of the scientist romance burgeoning alongside the creature's romance with her, so even these breeze by quite nicely here. Sa well, the carry-overs from the previous effort of having absolutely gorgeous underwater scenes of the creature both in his native habitat and at the institute that captures it's regal beauty quite well and a fantastic costume for the creature are featured, all of these more than enough to hold this off from its small flaws. While the romance angles here come off rather nicely, there's little reason why the creature here falls for the girl beyond the fact that she's there. She doesn't display a lot of kindness that would warrant that kind of affection back and seems to be there merely as an obstacle to overcome. Lastly, the 3D gags here are atrocious and stick out quite obviously for the hokey-nature they appear in here. Otherwise, this one was quite fun and even better than the original. |
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| Neurotic Chainsaw | Aug 29 2015, 01:51 AM Post #3 |
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The creature movies are just so darn cool. :3 |
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| Baby Firefly | May 28 2016, 10:29 AM Post #4 |
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I was surprised that the opening credits went on as long as they did. I don't think I like the nickname "Gill-Man" - too cheesy, even for this trilogy. The explanation of why the creature was still alive should've been in depth. "Here goes nothin'!" *KABOOM* I expected the boat scenes at the beginning to just be a basic opening instead of a fifteen minute chunk of the movie. The waterpark-ish stuff made me feel like I was watching a good version of Jaws 3D. This was faster paced than the first film was and I liked that. I kind of felt bad for the creature for being put on display. There's some awkward dialogue scattered throughout this that could easily be seen as sexist. The guy thinking that the brain does not function AT ALL during sleep made me giggle a bit. I loved the big escape scene and the randomly placed car flip (and how the cameraman freaked out and jumped out of the way, making the shot kind of bouncy). Of course Helen (who I liked) turned into a screaming, helpless, whining damsel in distress toward the end of it. I swear, anyone who wants to bitch about how female characters are underused and not empowered in movies nowadays are clearly stupid and haven't seen anything from the 30s, 40s, 50s, or 60s. I wasn't terribly happy with the ending but I think this one might actually be my favorite of the trilogy.5.5/10 quality, 6.5/10 entertainment. |
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| Lon Of The Dead | May 28 2016, 01:31 PM Post #5 |
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Did you happen to catch the uncredited Clint Eastwood as a lab tech? It was his first film role. |
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| Neurotic Chainsaw | May 28 2016, 09:31 PM Post #6 |
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I really, REALLY need to see this one. |
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| Baby Firefly | May 28 2016, 09:33 PM Post #7 |
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I didn't catch him, no. O_O And Aaron, I thought you saw it already? Your last post made it seem like you had.
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| Neurotic Chainsaw | May 28 2016, 09:39 PM Post #8 |
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Haha I have seen a few of them, but I'm not sure if I've seen this one. I just know the few I have seen, I liked as a kid. I thought the creature was really cool.
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| Baby Firefly | May 28 2016, 09:56 PM Post #9 |
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Well there's only three so it shouldn't be that hard to remember which you've seen.
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| Neurotic Chainsaw | May 28 2016, 10:13 PM Post #10 |
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I haven't seen any of them in like ten years, so yes it is.
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| Toyland Chairman | Feb 11 2017, 01:11 AM Post #11 |
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Bought the trilogy set on DVD. Finally got to see the non-MST3K version. Still a decent film, and we see more of the couple spending time together. But nothing much more to say was worthwhile. |
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