Madmind

Synopsis

Two young scientists ignore all ethical or moral boundaries and conduct an experiment in which they create the first human-animal hybrid.

Key Data

2009: Year
Vincenzo Natali: Director
Adrien Brody: Actor
$16M: Box Office

Madmind Synopsis

All together now: we looooooove to be soooooo stupid allllll the tiiiiiiime…

Before I start the review itself: I fucking love both the teaser and standard movie poster! Both are some of the best designed sheets in recent memory and I couldn’t even think of something fitting better than those two.

Okay, on to the movie…

Do you know the moment when you watch a movie and think “Okay, that was stupid”? Splice is a movie in which those moments occur every five or so minutes.

I.Am.Not.Kidding!

Synopsis

Two soldiers killed in the Vietnam War get reanimated by the military in a secret operation only to start fighting against each other.

Key Data

1992: Year
Roland Emmerich: Director
Jean-Claude Van Damme: Actor
$36M: Box Office

Madmind Synopsis

Idiotic soldiers get a second chance in life. One totally blows it, the other one loves nakedness.

Finding movies to blog about can be hard sometimes. Over the last few weeks I have compiled a list of possible candidates to blog about which basically are movies I have already seen long time ago but are on a good enough level so I will “waste” my lifetime watching them again and write something about it.

Universal Soldier never made it on this list since I never considered it or even remembered that movie in the first place. After reading about this movie in a TV magazine I gave some thoughts about it. And I was close to not watch Universal Soldiers because this blog already has a strong SciFi focus (Rollerball, Akira and Avatar are good indicators for this trend).

Sigh… in the end it would have been better if I ignored Universal Soldier completely.

You know, the first and last time I watched Universal Soldier was shortly after its release on the good old video tape when DVDs only were legends. At that time (yeah I was young) I really thought that the movie was cool as hell. I had fun with it and was impressed with everything.

And now?

Time certainly wasn’t merciful. That much I already knew seconds after the movie started.

After dwelling a little bit for too long in the mainstream world recently with my reviews of Clash of the Titans (kinda hate it) and Kick-Ass (love to death) I think it’s now time again for some much needed deep dive into the obscure.

Do you know Mirai Nikki? You see, that is some deep dive here Mirai Nikki not only is a manga but also Japanese and translates to something like Future Diary.

The title itself sounds interesting at first but then again as thrilling as Matrix 4 after all characters rusted to Neverland and Mr. Smith starts to argue with himself. Too often I got lied to by good titles accompanied by crap. I nevertheless gave the manga by Sakae Esuno a chance. Simply to check whether the full story can hold up to its title and the plot premise I read.

Well, what can I say: WOW. Holy sh*t and f**king wow. This thing for sure melted my brain in good ways.

Synopsis

A no-name with the name Dave Lizewski is a high school student and comic book lover who embarks onto a journey of becoming a true superhero.

Key Data

2010: Year
Matthew Vaughn: Director
Aaron Johnson: Actor
$48M: Box Office

Madmind Synopsis

An idiot thinks reality bends by his delusions about superheroes he got from comic books.

„And I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation”

Go watch Kick Ass! This movie kicks some serious ass. And sorry for the bad pun we all read thousand times already. (And be warned from heavy spoilers (see red flag besides the title if you’re reading this on my site)).

Synopsis

The demi-god Perseus embarks on a dangerous journey to fight the gods who threaten to unleash the monstrous Kraken onto the rebellious city of Argos.

Key Data

2010: Year
Louis Leterrier: Director
Sam Worthington: Actor
$64M and counting: Box Office

Madmind Synopsis

A boring-as-styx fisherman gets some WoW-style character upgrades to fight the endlevel boss.

Wait a minute. Could you please stop for a moment? Hey! Come on…wait. I mean…hello? Please, calm you storm, okay? … Is there a ‘Pause’ key on this one? What the Styx is going on? Could you please wait a….oh man…

The basic premise of Clash of the Titans is not bad in itself. We have Perseus who hates the gods and decides to fight them. On the way to win we got the monster of the minute and a hot damsel in distress. That’s good enough to me. But the execution of director Louis Leterrier is so damn fricking fast and messed up that I didn’t even start to care a shit about what’s going on or the characters – and that’ only one problem of many.