What's Wrong with the Movies Part 1

Trailers. Sure you go to the movies and you get to see trailers for upcoming movies. I find that on DVD we are seeing less and less trailers. I know that there is a question of providing the ultimate movie quality to space taken up on the disk but we should be able to at least have some trailers on DVD’s. The prime example comes from the early full moon releases. On one side you get the movie on the other you get a pile of trailers. We need more disks like that.

The Stuff

Tagline: Are you eating it ...or is it eating you?

Made by: The Man who brought you Q: The Winged Serpent and Maniac Cop(review forthcoming)

Plot: To men are digging and instead of striking oil then end up striking some white substance. Now when we see something white coming out of the ground I think we all have the same reaction: Let's eat. Not so good for the guy who does the eating but great for The Stuff. After that he finds a way to send the stuff on the road to mass consumption. Our hero, ex-FBI agent David Rutherford, decided to get to the bottom of what's really going on.

What makes it bad: Killer frozen yogurt. 'Nuff Said.

Background: I got my first glimpse of the stuff as a trailer on Defcon 4(review forthcoming). What amazed me was the scope . Here was a movie that was not about a bad batch of something, no, it was the whole product line. That more or less sealed the deal.

The Best Moment: What we eventually learn in The Stuff is that after having been ingested, The Stuff seems to destroy your inards and replace them with The Stuff. Logical, no, but hey that's how it goes. At one point in the movie, one of our heroes trying to escape from the stuffies proceeds to punch a good portion of one of the infected person's faces off. At that point in the movie however this just seems as if the puncher has gained superhuman strength. A quick trip to the commentary(yep, you won't hear anything on Unbreakable but The Stuff has commentary) and instead of an explanation we get a tale of how the director once worked with the star of stars: Eric Roberts. Awesome.

What to watch out for:
- Evil frozen yogurt
- Evil just about everything
- Foreign Bootleggers
- A guy who gets most of his face punched off
- Pillows filled with the stuff
- Respectable actors in this crap