Two Flims

Two new movies for you today:
First The Island starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. This movie was an decent action flick. The tale revolves around McGregor and Johansson as they learn that they are merely clones of real people. They thought that they were the only survivors of a terrible planet wide contamination, and they are waiting for their chance to go to an island that is the last clean spot on the planet. Once they find out that it's a lie, they manage to escape and survive on the outside, a word that they have never seen. There were some logic difficulties in the movie as there always are, but not enough to ruin the film. I'd say go see this one in the cheap theaters (where it is now) because these movies always seem more fun on a really huge screen.
Second movie is called The Brainiac, originally titled Baron of Terror. This is a movie from 1962, made in Mexico, and dubbed into English. It is the story of a baron who was sentenced to death in 1661 by the inquisition for doing magic and seducing women. As he dies he manages to snag a ride on a comet that was passing by, and 300 years later he returns to town to kill the descendents of those who killed him in the first place. It is a horror movie from the sixties, so it is more of a comedy now. It's not so bad that it would make it onto Mystery Science Theatre 3000. The actors are actually not too bad, though the cops on the trail of the killers are almost like comedic relief, though I'm not sure if that was intentional, or if the English voices were just misplayed. Actually, they reminded me of the cop from the Lupin series of Anime films. Kind of serious and funny at the same time. The Brainiac is full of common cliches and bad lines, just like any horror movie from the time. My favourite lines, however, are the following exchange between the main two characters, a man and a woman who are engaged, and who also happen to be astronomy students. They go to search for the meteor that seems to have landed nearby, and there they meet the villain, though they don't yet know he is the villain. They have this to say to him:
Ronny: You see sir, we're astronomers. And we're observing a meteor.
Vicky: Oh but Ronny, this gentleman doesn't understand a thing that you're saying to him.
Apparantly meteors and astronomy were advanced science words back in the sixties. All in all, though, it was kind of a fun flick. And it was only $2, so I'm not complaining.
Until next time, keep it real, keep it tight, and keep your real tight pants to yourself.