peep said:
@ Furie. What the hell do you mean Sleeping beauty is the worst Disney film? Have you not seen the complete waste that is the Black Cauldron or the trash that is Oliver & Co?
They're not Disney, Disney though. Even so, I still reckon that they're better. Sleeping Beauty is exceptionally poorly animated, badly scripted and badly executed.
Black Cauldron and Ollie & Co may be trash films, but in terms of effort that went into them, they are still light years ahead of Sleeping Beauty - they also don't pretend to be anything other than pap.
Talking of pap, I watched
The Hive. A swarm of ants if infected by a mysterious meteorite and becomes intelligent and starts to aggressively attack the local population of an island... somewhere (it's never really made clear).
Great premise so far, flesh eating ants working together aggressively to eat everyone in their path.
The film makes it easy for you to work out the character depths and relationships. When the beautiful scientist is on screen, there's a loud and overbearing sweet tune played. We soon discover she's an old squeeze of the scientist fighting the ants. I wonder if they'll ever end up back together? Let's put it this way, there's lots of that music by the end.
The head scientist (it's explained subtly) helped out his old lecturer who was a drunk and a gambler five years ago. He paid off his debts and got him sober, but he spends the film descending into alcoholism... I wonder if the melancholy music which always surrounds him may turn to music of triumph, overcoming his inner demons and that of a hero by the end of the film?
So, we're two minutes into the film now, and we've learned this from the hard nosed fighter of the group. He's big, he's bald, he's black he's badass, he's going to die - but not before apologising for not trusting the above drunken lecturer I'm sure.
Lastly, there's the single blond clever techy woman. Could she be in peril at any point? Is there unreleased sexual tension between her and the head scientist? Could this film be any more ham fisted in execution?
All we need now is a Prime Minister who just wants to "nuke them", an enigmatic (read - doesn't speak English but got the part anyway) army captain and an orphan to rescue and we've got the makings of a great film!
To be fair, the film started dreadful, and rapidly descended in the ludicrous. It really has to be watched for you to understand just how piss-poor this film really is. It's just about well made enough to be watchable, and dreadfulness (and ever worsening plot) make it exceptional entertainment.
Truly, one of the worst films I've ever been able to sit through :lol:
10/10
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