tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16773593.post5325948282711008702..comments2024-02-04T02:14:18.640-08:00Comments on Out of the Inkwell: Mike Dobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00694483252375913277noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16773593.post-16494768873226951462008-05-14T05:48:00.000-07:002008-05-14T05:48:00.000-07:00PTERODACTYL remains the most fun I've had with any...PTERODACTYL remains the most fun I've had with any of the SciFi Channel movies, thanks in no small part to a seasoned exploitation filmmaker being at the helm (Mark Lester, who directed CLASS OF 1984 and TRUCKSTOP WOMEN, among other gems since STEEL ARENA, the first Lester film I caught at the drive-in). <BR/><BR/>LOCH NESS TERROR had the usual SFC liabilities -- a cheat title (ahem, NO LOCH NESS -- even Larry Buchanan did better!), mock heroics, stupid deaths, a genuinely lunkheaded premise, lame CGI (nothing ever looks like it's anchored to anything, and the movements are fragmented; it doesn't cohere like a living animal, or even a poor stop-motion puppet), phoney gore, and extenuated 'action' sequences so telegraphed and s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d that they become inaction sequences. It's a snoozer, indeed.<BR/><BR/>CLOVERFIELD is an instant classic, RAIDERS holds up (I was never a fan of the other two, despite Connery's presence and playing), but I gotta see that serial!SRBissettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14426874992235196378noreply@blogger.com