RasGold
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I just saw MONSTERS on VOD/AppleTV ... While there were clearly not enough monsters of either Alien nor Human decent, we are left with a slightly heavy (if not preachy) drama of human survival. ... It's recommendable as a piece of curious art. I was left with memories of past relationships and my childhood years watching "War of the Worlds." I would rate this film higher, but it is not a film I would recommend to anyone who does not appreciate film for film itself. On one hand, MONSTERS is a masterpiece of guerrilla film-making, with a cold-cocked human interest story interwoven with a hopeless tale of human survival; on the other, it is a blatant rip-off of nearly every other "monster" story that has come along before it.
If you want to see a better-than-average TV/Theatrical performance on the BIG screen, be prepared to sit through an endless barrage of well tuned dialog, coinciding with impeccable editing techniques, and a story that has no real monsters other than lingering memories of monsters gone by; and we can overcome our misfortunes no matter how other-worldly they may be (tho, this film has a slightly different out-take on that ... obviously, after viewing).
MONSTERS cannot be compared to any one single movie but a group of movies, and never quite brings the scare factor those previous films evoked in their time. The "wow" factor is left all in the viewer's mind; a reference to those days, six years ago, when the malady was occurring, and this film never quite realizes there are people watching ... Real humans that might have gone through this in the past, and are currently experiencing these emotions at show-time.
The aliens in this film cannot be controlled as easily as those of another recent motion picture :::cough-District 9-cough::: and seem a curious cross between two others :::hic-Cloverfield/The Mist-xcuseme::: but still, we have the chill of classic alien invasion movies from an outsider's viewpoint. The military got it all under control.
References to our current Mexican/United States border fence indications were obliterated from this review, as they are obvious to any who are remotely interested in this film.
If you want to see a better-than-average TV/Theatrical performance on the BIG screen, be prepared to sit through an endless barrage of well tuned dialog, coinciding with impeccable editing techniques, and a story that has no real monsters other than lingering memories of monsters gone by; and we can overcome our misfortunes no matter how other-worldly they may be (tho, this film has a slightly different out-take on that ... obviously, after viewing).
MONSTERS cannot be compared to any one single movie but a group of movies, and never quite brings the scare factor those previous films evoked in their time. The "wow" factor is left all in the viewer's mind; a reference to those days, six years ago, when the malady was occurring, and this film never quite realizes there are people watching ... Real humans that might have gone through this in the past, and are currently experiencing these emotions at show-time.
The aliens in this film cannot be controlled as easily as those of another recent motion picture :::cough-District 9-cough::: and seem a curious cross between two others :::hic-Cloverfield/The Mist-xcuseme::: but still, we have the chill of classic alien invasion movies from an outsider's viewpoint. The military got it all under control.
References to our current Mexican/United States border fence indications were obliterated from this review, as they are obvious to any who are remotely interested in this film.
