As an Australian ,
as much as i enjoyed seeing,
a christian-hopeful's obsolete-'wisdom' being useless and being outstaged-out of most scenes in the remaining of the film, the, a bit slow concerned-about-the-wheat-price Farley get a horizontal slice at about where a pouch's edge would be when he could've JUMPED aside , the classic tension building done relatively well (especially the careful light use of atmospheric-music) in this movie, as well as the camerawork being OK for close-up human responses during crisiis, the realistic mess during an emergency and other physical realisms, and the few self-doubt puns or moments of humor,
This movie's got some script/production to-not-dos , to learn ;
1 When a praticed radio operator is turning on their only chance at communication out of their isolation, is sitting at the controls, and UNlike a trucker, actually knows what communicaitons signalling and codes to exchange with whoever might answer their call , 1-2 Do NOT , have a mere trucker who's put one foot up on a chair showing off his balls , take the radio because he's the lead male actor.
2 When a female lead has just pointed out that they could wait for the emergency response after they've attempted an SOS , even though their responder has initially said try using a phone, (since they might make sure in a number of hours/days).
2-2 Do NOT , have her reponse to being driven out into the beast's lair , one of accepting the driver's / male-lead's choice , even if she's been a bit enamoured towards him , nor leaping to cling to the same decision-maker's chest like a helpless, hapless fawning weakling , when his descision's almost got her killed , and she should be ANGRY about him being wrong about whether or not it'd detect them, when her choice was disregarded and he just went ahead and did it anyway.
3 When in a crisis like this, with fuel for your generator running low , coffee is not everyone's n1. Priority , comapred to ... oooo i don't know ... how about their emergency radio?
4 Although some of the audience might've identified to a small degree with the male lead's truckie identity, do not PUSH YOUR LUCK , with whether or not the defeating of the beast ; 4-2 needs a truck to do it, 4-3 needs a rocking-riff to start when you're starting your truck in a near suicidal plan when if wanting to make it maybe more realistic , the other survivors would've tried to convince him to do something else or to keep waiting for the potential response from their SOS, 4-4 needs an absurd amount of 'wrestling knowledge' , were somehow that a reliable thing, to make sure that "a dragon" will end up clinging to the front of your truck and not say, clenched on the top, and trying to tear open the straps on the egg to release it , or say, simply STOPPING the truck , lifting it to get it's wheels off the ground, etc if it was meant to be that large.
4-5 have an cringeworthy woman-to-come-back-to supposedly heartwarming close-up of the female lead standing there with her rifle upon his return, while one of the truckin'tracks starts up because every hero 'deserves' a babe at the end. Tired, sexist (especially considering how much her own decision making and leadership was gender-downplaying-constrained for the most part except one scene), and it brings the conclusion down, from a foreboding/scare-movie, into-a ... feelgood- , -something...
when-what ... if a trucker KEEPS DOING, what a trucker can already do, then everything will be ok?
Give me a break. One of the main reasons why jobs are often lost in industries where single-skill-sets are FRAGILE ... not reliable ... is that there are not enough at-least dual or more COMPLIMENTARY skill-set people AMONGST them, when profit will looks the other way to making sure long term work will continue through investment, compared to SHORT TERM profits.
( in this case, plantations for logging-in-forestry )
So say , another survivor, being a plantation-owner/scientist , could've been 'the scientist' , compared to the sleazy? Doctor, who could still get munched, and there could've been ... pffff ... something useful at the plantation - supplies, ammo, doesn't matter. BEING THERE, is enough for the mixture and (vague) presentation of COMPLIMENTARITY.
Like that, there are quite a few B-grade action movie imbalances / believability nick-picking flaws with it that you could go over,
BUT, to it's credit, it does keep the pace-going mostly, there is one longer than it needed to be scene with the main leads sharing a few tender moments over a coffee (were there brand names? Probably) ,
plenty of humans get munched, :)
and, again as-an-Australian,
the hilarious lack-of-consequences for one of the female leads, pushing what's-his-name, the dopey one going on about the price of wheat, OUT THE DOOR, into "the dragon"s path, also gave me reason to smile, even though one might criticise that for realism. Not even apologetic. Not mentioned, no screaming from one survivor to another, nothing. Completely rolled over. :D
I could've given it less for the fairly ordinary believeability flaws, and it definately lost a few stars from the gender-bias and banging on about truckers,
but although the who was put on a podum was tedious, the who got-munched , was satisfying.
*urrrp*
a christian-hopeful's obsolete-'wisdom' being useless and being outstaged-out of most scenes in the remaining of the film, the, a bit slow concerned-about-the-wheat-price Farley get a horizontal slice at about where a pouch's edge would be when he could've JUMPED aside , the classic tension building done relatively well (especially the careful light use of atmospheric-music) in this movie, as well as the camerawork being OK for close-up human responses during crisiis, the realistic mess during an emergency and other physical realisms, and the few self-doubt puns or moments of humor,
This movie's got some script/production to-not-dos , to learn ;
1 When a praticed radio operator is turning on their only chance at communication out of their isolation, is sitting at the controls, and UNlike a trucker, actually knows what communicaitons signalling and codes to exchange with whoever might answer their call , 1-2 Do NOT , have a mere trucker who's put one foot up on a chair showing off his balls , take the radio because he's the lead male actor.
2 When a female lead has just pointed out that they could wait for the emergency response after they've attempted an SOS , even though their responder has initially said try using a phone, (since they might make sure in a number of hours/days).
2-2 Do NOT , have her reponse to being driven out into the beast's lair , one of accepting the driver's / male-lead's choice , even if she's been a bit enamoured towards him , nor leaping to cling to the same decision-maker's chest like a helpless, hapless fawning weakling , when his descision's almost got her killed , and she should be ANGRY about him being wrong about whether or not it'd detect them, when her choice was disregarded and he just went ahead and did it anyway.
3 When in a crisis like this, with fuel for your generator running low , coffee is not everyone's n1. Priority , comapred to ... oooo i don't know ... how about their emergency radio?
4 Although some of the audience might've identified to a small degree with the male lead's truckie identity, do not PUSH YOUR LUCK , with whether or not the defeating of the beast ; 4-2 needs a truck to do it, 4-3 needs a rocking-riff to start when you're starting your truck in a near suicidal plan when if wanting to make it maybe more realistic , the other survivors would've tried to convince him to do something else or to keep waiting for the potential response from their SOS, 4-4 needs an absurd amount of 'wrestling knowledge' , were somehow that a reliable thing, to make sure that "a dragon" will end up clinging to the front of your truck and not say, clenched on the top, and trying to tear open the straps on the egg to release it , or say, simply STOPPING the truck , lifting it to get it's wheels off the ground, etc if it was meant to be that large.
4-5 have an cringeworthy woman-to-come-back-to supposedly heartwarming close-up of the female lead standing there with her rifle upon his return, while one of the truckin'tracks starts up because every hero 'deserves' a babe at the end. Tired, sexist (especially considering how much her own decision making and leadership was gender-downplaying-constrained for the most part except one scene), and it brings the conclusion down, from a foreboding/scare-movie, into-a ... feelgood- , -something...
when-what ... if a trucker KEEPS DOING, what a trucker can already do, then everything will be ok?
Give me a break. One of the main reasons why jobs are often lost in industries where single-skill-sets are FRAGILE ... not reliable ... is that there are not enough at-least dual or more COMPLIMENTARY skill-set people AMONGST them, when profit will looks the other way to making sure long term work will continue through investment, compared to SHORT TERM profits.
( in this case, plantations for logging-in-forestry )
So say , another survivor, being a plantation-owner/scientist , could've been 'the scientist' , compared to the sleazy? Doctor, who could still get munched, and there could've been ... pffff ... something useful at the plantation - supplies, ammo, doesn't matter. BEING THERE, is enough for the mixture and (vague) presentation of COMPLIMENTARITY.
Like that, there are quite a few B-grade action movie imbalances / believability nick-picking flaws with it that you could go over,
BUT, to it's credit, it does keep the pace-going mostly, there is one longer than it needed to be scene with the main leads sharing a few tender moments over a coffee (were there brand names? Probably) ,
plenty of humans get munched, :)
and, again as-an-Australian,
the hilarious lack-of-consequences for one of the female leads, pushing what's-his-name, the dopey one going on about the price of wheat, OUT THE DOOR, into "the dragon"s path, also gave me reason to smile, even though one might criticise that for realism. Not even apologetic. Not mentioned, no screaming from one survivor to another, nothing. Completely rolled over. :D
I could've given it less for the fairly ordinary believeability flaws, and it definately lost a few stars from the gender-bias and banging on about truckers,
but although the who was put on a podum was tedious, the who got-munched , was satisfying.
*urrrp*