Dark Country is a film about a newly married couple driving through the desert. It tries to combine the cheap budget of a single setting of Phone Booth and the comic book like photography of Sin City – and fails painfully every step of the way.
My main problem with this movie was continuity. It jumps all over the place and has too many holes. I noticed when I checked IMDB that I’m not alone. Since I don’t advocate watching this piece of trash, below is a little bit of a spoiler.
There are two timelines set in present day and some time period that is hard to detect and is only once vaguely refereced as 30 years ago. They drive around in cars from the 50’s, 80’s, and 2000’s and use cell phones intermittently. If you’re trying to decode all of this nonsense, then you’re probably putting more thought into it than the makers did.
A lot of time is spent in a car with very bad green screen. The backgrounds are a joke. Everything is just a black background.
Wikipedia says this movie had a budget of $5 million. Where did it go? I hope every penny went to the actors, because even though they didn’t do an amazing job – everything else was a complete flop.
Rating: 
(1/5)
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Anyone who disagrees, I’d love to hear why! Leave me a comment or tweet @KristopherIves with your two cents.
Over the last few years I’ve listened to progressively less music, and the reason was mainly because:
- Most new music really irritates me. I know there is some good stuff coming through the noise, but I hate subjecting myself to all the horrible crud to find a diamond in the ruff, all while getting spammed with advertisements the entire time.
- I don’t want to wear myself out on the music I do like. A lot of bands have been put on hiatus to pursue other interests.
- Also a lot of bands that used to be good got drastically worse, probably just because they had contracts saying they had to keep making music – or they just want more money.
It’s gotten so bad that I’ve basically outsourced my musical taste to trusted friends of mine. With services like Last.fm and Pandora it’s easy to just clone someone else’s musical taste. Today I saw a simple Facebook status update from Daniel O’Connor about becoming a fan of SoundPond.
These are folks from Australia that use UStream to offer a nice rotation of DJs making original mixes. They have a very simple (and limited) chat room, and they communicate with their listeners, which can be quite engaging. The folks I spoke with had a great attitude and everyone seemed to be having a great time, and it was 2:30 AM in their timezone!
I don’t know much about the service under the hood, or who is really behind it all, but I think it’s some of the folks from LibertySound, which consists of Ka$h, Penny Drops, and Kim Savage. This is another world for me, so if I’m drastically wrong please help me out.
Give them some love on facebook by becoming a fan (button on their homepage too), tweeting @SoundPond, and most importantly – enjoy the music.
Having just watched Zombieland, a comedy-horror film, I’m giving a great review. This movie was refreshing because it mixed elements of survival with comedy in an interesting contrast. Without giving any spoilers, the film draws you in and delivers a good laugh at the right moment. It’s narrated in a somewhat Wonder Years fashion and involves a colorful cast, each with a surprising amount of depth. The film never breaks the third wall, but comes quite close, and once you see the movie I think you’ll know what I’m referencing.
The movie does have a lot of action (including a good shoot-em-up scene with Woody Harrelson), but it’s at the heart a comedy. The film uses the non-comedic elements as bait, but you don’t feel cheated by any means. As Ebert said, it truly has “well-tuned comic timing” and creates a good atmosphere like 28 Days Later and fellow serious apocalyptic movies do.
You should be able to make it through this movie without checking your Twitter a single time.
Rating: (4/5)
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