Starship Troopers 3: Marauder

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder explores enough new ground to deem it worth your time for revisiting the ‘Bug War’. Casper Van Dien returns to the series reprising his role as Johnny Rico. After getting promoted to a Commanding Officer position on the battlefield in the first film Johnny is now known throughout the universe as a celebrated war hero. The film begins with Rico, as he and his team are being ambushed by a swarm of bugs (some new, some old) after the power in the facility he is commanding malfunctions causing the electrified wall to fail. Escaping with some casualties Rico finds himself tangled in a political scheme, only to be released to go rescue a downed drop ship on a new bug infested planet.

The movie’s main focus is on this stranded unit, as they annoy their commander with constant prayers, hymns, and discussions about God. ST3 is a cheesy treat that wisely uses it’s time with us to navigate the vast unexplored ’Bug Universe’. Some effects in the film look better than the original, while others (The Marauders) look pretty awful, but overall even they are fun bits of CGEYE candy (See what I did there?). ST3 is a Sci Fi/Horror film with enough, gore, comedy, fan nods, and even a bit of Lovecraftian influence to keep anyone who likes those genres entertained throughout it’s run time. I have seen ST1 many times in the past and consider it a solid 4.5/5 movie, ST3 might not quite hit that mark but it managed to be a sequel, that for fans successfully delivers a completely new experience while hanging onto things that made the first so unique, all within a good bad movie!

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The Colony

Finally getting to check out The Colony, a movie I've been dying to check out since I first saw the Trailer! I've always loved these "end of the world, must survive" type of Movies.

The first movie to be shot at the decommissioned NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) base in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, and hopefully not the last, such a great looking set which would be perfect for many movies. In The Colony, Earths survivors are forced underground by the next ice age, in a struggling outpost the survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.

Not only did I love this movie, I wish it was just a little bit longer to dive deeper into the story of how the ice age came along, even though thats not important one bit to tell the story of the movie, just that I thought it was a pretty cool concept and would have loved to see the world turn to ice. Shot on a low-ish budget of 16 Million it looks great the pace is set at a no time for boring parts pace, even though i would have loved those boring parts to kinda tie in some parts of the movie, where it has this "and with the magic of television feel"  lol.

But overall check this movie out!! you should not be disappointed.

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Future World: City of Mass Destruction

A short while ago I wrote about a piece of rancid shit known as Cam Girl that comes in the seven movie set Grindhouse Galore. Well now I moved onto the second movie Future World: City of Mass Destruction. Given the five dollar price tag on the seven movie set I assumed I got a bargain considering this cool looking movie was 25 dollars on the shelf by itself. Thankfully City is much better than Cam Girl, unfortunately not by much. In Cam Girl nothing really happened, in City everything happens. This movie is all over the place and nowhere at once. I give the filmmakers props for making a feature on zero budget, they've created an entire world of neat characters and creatures using the obvious bare essentials and the thing had potential from the start. Unfortunately the story is too big and overwhelming to care about any one thing (an hour and a half in and I still have no idea what's going on) and this beast clocks in at a little over TWO gruelling hours. The visuals at times are impressive, while other times simple shortcuts bring the whole production down, a good example for anyone interested in making films is this; if someone is wearing a mask, especially one that is to be passed off as actual skin always black out the eyes and anywhere else there might be a hole or its going to look stupid!

It's not all bad there's talent hiding amongst the diarreha for sure and had they focused on the group's strengths I'm sure they could have really made themselves famous here, but instead Future World is a complete mess with very little to hold any interest. It's poorly written, badly structured, and takes itself way too seriously.

Future World is that movie that you make with your friends so you can watch together and laugh at every performance, unfortunately we don't know these people, and as such we're not in on the joke. Viewing this probably should have stayed limited to the makers basement. Two down, Five to go.  Next up House of Sin, I still have hope that there's something worth watching at least once in this set.

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