ericco79 Reviews

Angel, Alien and UFO Encounters from Another Dimension (2012)

The "Spinal Tap" of UFO documentaries

[6 April 2013]

I haven't written many reviews on here. I figure I can't say anything better than what someone else already put, but I had to for this one. Seriously, this is like a Christopher Guest movie! It's like watching Spinal Tap except with UFO enthusiasts.

So first you have a guy who goes out around a shipyard at night and takes pictures and films things. He also takes pictures of trees with street lights behind them. Then he comes back and points out all the "creatures" and "demons" you can see in these lights. I heard anything from "Jesus and two dark angels" to "A floating reptilian face watching a little dog". Come on! He is just picking out random shapes. Then they do some live action footage around the shipyard at night. I started to get my hopes up. They zoom in on a bright light going by. "That's definitely not an airplane". Really? Then how come there's flashing red and green lights to indicate port and starboard? Do aliens follow our nautical and air lighting patterns too? All it was was an airplane with it's landing light on.

It gets worse. Next you have some guy who has a 2 million candle power infrared beam and he puts on night vision goggles and points it at the sky. He waves the beam around and sees what are clearly dust particles in the air but he calls them "hundreds of spirits swarming around the beam". He even talks to them and says he sees blinding bright UFO's EVERY NIGHT, no matter WHERE HE IS. How come now else sees them?

The only section even remotely interesting was the one on the Petroglyphs. At least that guy seemed to know what he was talking about and if nothing else, gave a good history lessons of the Native Americans in that region.

God bless the director. It seems even he didn't know what he was getting into and you could tell he was DESPERATELY pretending to seem interested in the first two guys. If you want to be entertained by this, then by all means watch it. But it's far from scientific.

Trick My Truck (2006– )

I love it!

[5 January 2008]

I don't watch CMT much and don't know jack about cars / trucks but I love this show! I tried to watch American chopper but the cussing, fighting, drama, throwing parts around, etc got old.

The guys on this show are all top notch professionals in their field. They let each other do the work they do best, and they treat their customers and each other with total respect. They don't waste time arguing, and they get right to the point with what they're going to do. The show follows a good steady format all the time too.

The thing I love the most is the fact they do work for the people who deserve and need it most: Maybe a trucker faced with health issues, or doesn't have the money to fix it. I think a lot of people think truckers have it easy but they work hard, and should be proud of their equipment. The chrome shop mafia gives their jobs, trucks, and the drivers themselves the respect they deserve. This is a great show and I watch it every chance I get!

Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

Actually very good!

[14 August 2004]

**SPOILERS AHEAD, DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE THE MOVIE TOLD**

Let me state first off that I love Bruce Campbell! But even I had my doubts about this movie. An old Elvis Presley living in a rest home, fighting a mummy with a black guy who thinks he's JFK? I didn't see how it could work. One of my friends finally convinced me to watch it, and I was very surprised!

The basic plot is Elvis was tired of his fame and fortune, so he traded places with the best Elvis impersonator around. The fake Elvis goes on to take become the King that we all thought died. Meanwhile the REAL Elvis performs as an impersonator until one night he messes up his hip dancing and falls off stage. He awakes from a coma in an old-folks rest home.

The first bit of the movie covers how Elvis deals with being old. Everybody laughs at him, and doesn't believe anything he says. His first roommate dies suddenly at the beginning, and the daughter comes in to collect his things. While the scene is rather funny because Elvis is admiring this attractive daughter, it does have a subtle message. His roommate was a WW2 Veteran with a purple heart, but no one cared. His daughter was going to throw it away but Elvis kept it. She never came to visit while he was there, he was alone. As we all know, this goes on too much in the real world.

Meanwhile, The remains of a stolen Egyptian mummy on board a bus crash into a creek nearby, and now the spirit of the mummy is lose, praying on the souls of the folks at the rest home.

It sounds rather silly but the movie actually does a good job of pulling it off. As "President Kennedy" explains, the mummy is praying on the old folks because their souls are easy to steal, many have lost the will to live. Each death of a nursing home resident has a hidden message, and it makes you realize how close to home that message really is sometimes.

While studying and preparing to battle the mummy, both Elvis and "President Kennedy" express regret at not being better fathers to their children and better husbands to their wives. Again, we see that even though they are somewhat senile at times, they are still aware of what is going on more than the nursing home staff gives them credit for.

The climatic battle is funny and sad at the same time, as both men die from the mummy, but leave with their souls intact for heaven. Both men are happy with their honorable death, and come at peace with their regrets.

To sum it up, the movie has good humor and comedy, great quotes, and to be low budget, and somewhat campy movie, it actually makes you think about the situation of the people in the rest home. You do feel sorry for almost every one there.

Go see it!