I watched SHADOW IN THE CLOUD on Netflix last night. I've had this movie on my watch list for 5 years now, lol.
The film is a WWII gremlin monster movie, at least on the surface. It is so, SO much more though....
Sometimes I watch a movie, and a certain plot point will make me wonder "Why did they do that? Didn't anyone involved with the film think that was a bad idea?"
This whole film had me saying that.
A fairly straightforward plot- A courier has to guard a top-secret maguffin on a flight that is targeted by a gremlin- goes completely batshit crazy, with weird plot twist after weird plot twist.
Chloe Grace Moretz stars, and as she boards the bomber, she is immediately belittled by the flight crew, has her maguffin taken away, and is locked into the belly gunner turret. Since we are supposed to feel empathy for the crew once the gremlin starts picking them off, what better way for the audience to get to know them and bond with them, than to have them vividly recount all of the different ways they want to gang-rape and assault our young heroine? Not just rape her and pass her around, but also beat the shit out of her? Truly what you expect from "The greatest generation"!
This part of the movie almost becomes a one-man-show, as the camera inexplicably stays on Moretz for, like, 30 minutes, while the rest of the cast becomes almost a dirty radio play. These guys really have some deep-seated rape fantasies.
The gremlin pops in and out, to the point where, when they do show it, you think "Oh, yeah, I forgot about the gremlin..."
To say any more about this film would be to do any potential viewers a great disservice. The true reason Moretz is on the flight, who one of the flight crew really is, the truth about the maguffin Moretz is carrying, the Mission Impossible-esque midair fight...this is one of the craziest films I have ever seen. I kept saying "They wouldn't..."......BUT THEY DO.
This is not a GOOD film....Buuuut....It sure was fun. I had a smile on my face the whole time. I'm not at all a fan of "So bad they're good" movies, but this was worlds more entertaining than LONGLEGS or THE MONKEY. Weta did the effects, so the gremlin and the dogfights look like a million bucks. Moretz tries hard, and I feel bad that this movie seems to have killed her career dead. But I had fun watching it, that's for sure.
Someone else needs to watch this film, please, so I have someone to discuss it with.
The film is a WWII gremlin monster movie, at least on the surface. It is so, SO much more though....
Sometimes I watch a movie, and a certain plot point will make me wonder "Why did they do that? Didn't anyone involved with the film think that was a bad idea?"
This whole film had me saying that.
A fairly straightforward plot- A courier has to guard a top-secret maguffin on a flight that is targeted by a gremlin- goes completely batshit crazy, with weird plot twist after weird plot twist.
Chloe Grace Moretz stars, and as she boards the bomber, she is immediately belittled by the flight crew, has her maguffin taken away, and is locked into the belly gunner turret. Since we are supposed to feel empathy for the crew once the gremlin starts picking them off, what better way for the audience to get to know them and bond with them, than to have them vividly recount all of the different ways they want to gang-rape and assault our young heroine? Not just rape her and pass her around, but also beat the shit out of her? Truly what you expect from "The greatest generation"!
This part of the movie almost becomes a one-man-show, as the camera inexplicably stays on Moretz for, like, 30 minutes, while the rest of the cast becomes almost a dirty radio play. These guys really have some deep-seated rape fantasies.
The gremlin pops in and out, to the point where, when they do show it, you think "Oh, yeah, I forgot about the gremlin..."
To say any more about this film would be to do any potential viewers a great disservice. The true reason Moretz is on the flight, who one of the flight crew really is, the truth about the maguffin Moretz is carrying, the Mission Impossible-esque midair fight...this is one of the craziest films I have ever seen. I kept saying "They wouldn't..."......BUT THEY DO.
This is not a GOOD film....Buuuut....It sure was fun. I had a smile on my face the whole time. I'm not at all a fan of "So bad they're good" movies, but this was worlds more entertaining than LONGLEGS or THE MONKEY. Weta did the effects, so the gremlin and the dogfights look like a million bucks. Moretz tries hard, and I feel bad that this movie seems to have killed her career dead. But I had fun watching it, that's for sure.
Someone else needs to watch this film, please, so I have someone to discuss it with.
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