herurubin Reviews

Cassanova Was a Woman (2016)

Nice try! There's a movie in here somewhere

[5/10 · 13 March 2018]

The trailer was very funny and interesting ideas but the film feels very long and somewhat awkward. I really liked the trailer, this might have worked well as an episode of a series. A+ for effort and C for watchability.

Salute Your Shorts: Zeke the Plumber (1991) Season 1, Episode 2

Most horrifying vision of terror ever

[10/10 · 30 May 2015]

this is one of the most horrifying looks for a movie monster ever presented. The vision of a burn victim wearing a stiff human mask and wig. I once saw a documentary about a poor soul whose face had been burned leaving him without many facial features left, just something of a smooth distorted visage only capable of conveying a faint echo of the humanity within the man. A special effects artist crafted a realistic mask that resembled the burned man's face before his misfortune. The mask allowed him to go to the store and run errands around town without being subjected to the screams of terrified children or the piteous stares of his former friends. I thought about Zeke the plumber, a war hero who served his country in the humid hell of the South Pacific only to lose the sense of smell that might have prevented his disfigurement from a gas leak set ablaze. After returning to his duties as plumber and maintenance man at the children's camp he was continuously subjected to the ungrateful children of privileged background leer at his distorted state. Being of meager means he could only obtain a crude mask and wig that might let Zeke regain some of his humanity, or at least the children might not fear him...might not scream and flee at the sight of him... That sort of scorn, rage and dehumainization can created a powerful curse... a curse that lives on in the nightmares of the children of Camp Anawana.

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004 Video)

finally an original sequel... well, a spin-off really

[10/10 · 5 November 2012]

people always complain about sequels, one of the main complaints is sequels tend to be a rehashing of the same material or the same story except bigger and worse... like MIB2 Starship Troopers 2 feels like it is part of the same universe as part 1... but in a small, cramped, disgusting corner of that universe I think if this film was marketed differently if would have been better received.. it should have been titled "Starship Troopers: The Hero of the Republic" as it doesn't advance the story presented in the first outing.

Starship Troopers 3 Marauder plays more like a true sequel Forget about the world that exists outside this film, and enjoy it on it's own merits... pretend it's called "Space Soldiers" and you'll discover it's a fantastic, tense, scary with amazing creature designs that will give you the creeps...

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

haunted me for years

[10/10 · 3 November 2012]

I saw the last half of this on TV once when I was about 7 years old and it stuck with me all these years. By chance I just recently found out the title of this movie. the main character is a monster and a victim a bit like Frankenstein. The final scene the Melting Man wears out and dissolves into a pile to be cleaned up by a janitor soon after. No epic battle, no fight to the death just a sad ending to an astronaut hero exposed to strange radiation.

The makeup design is horrifying and is probably closer to what would happen to you if you were exposed to strange cosmic rays - rather than getting superpowers like stretching and invisibility.

Turns out the makeup was created by Oscar award winner Rick Baker and it shows... it's really horrifying, You will not be able to eat while watching this film.

Highly flawed in many ways, excellent in many ways

The Dana Carvey Show (1996)

too controversial? really?

[10/10 · 31 December 2011]

When googling the Dana Carvey there's a lot of articles about the demise of the Dana Carvey show was because of the controversial nature of the content, really? I missed the show the first time around and am watching it on Hulu now more than a decade after it's brief run and I've really enjoyed it.

The controversial aspect of the show was more likely the way it pokes fun at the nature of advertising and of real potential sponsors. There's a very "controversial" set of mountain dew that I don't think inspired the good folks at Mountain Dew to sponsor the show.

The show would open each episode with a show sponsor like "the Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show" reminding me of the old black and white Texaco Theatre show where singing Texaco gas attendants would introduce the show each night.

I've read that the "sponsors" of the show had nothing to do with the show and actually requested the Dana Carvey show stop listing them as sponsors.

Maybe I'm a sucker for classic television but I quite like the singing Mountain Dew can as a legitimate homage to television history... but I soon realized it was a satire of commercialism and advertising... oh, well.

The actual content of the show is fast paced, fun, and perhaps ahead of it's time. The pace and format of the show reminds me a lot of the brilliant season 1 of the Chapelle Show

Mars Needs Moms (2011)

less creepy than polar express

[10/10 · 14 August 2011]

at several points in the film I forgot the characters were 3d animated as I watched, unlike previous "realistic" animated movies like Beowulf or Polar express I thought the characters were not intrusive or creepy, actually Gribble was very expressive and likable and Joan Cusack looked like Joan Cusack

This is a movie for kids? i rented this because I like 3d animation and as a grown man I didn't mind a darker story line ,details of a heartless matriarchal society, firing squads, your mom getting exploded at sunrise - I can get behind a little dark stuff in a kids movie (like Bambi's mother) but this just seemed gratuitous.

maybe they should have just gone full tilt and made an aniamtion for adults like Beowulf or Avatar

Supermarket Woman (1996)

My favorite part is when Goro Judo tossed the meat thief

[10/10 · 11 October 2006]

This is now my favorite movie, it's, another movie made by the same director starring the same woman s "Tampopo" - which i also loved

My favorite part is when Goro Judo tossed the meat thief - brilliant- hilarious and it made me cheer even though i was by myself, i still did, i don't care

apparently Goro was on every team in college, i just finished watching it and I'm still laughing

the carchase was great too, i was thrilled , the car chase was more exciting than any car chase I've sen in action movies in recent memory.

the 'love' scene was hilarious and refreshing too, and somehow - while not immediately apparent Hanoko's energy and personality is sexy - well, maybe just to me

10 out of 10