In the west, that is. The effects and the scenery were far more spectacular than anything in The Day After Tomorrow. While Dragon Head has its flaws, I would say it's easily one of the best disaster movies out there.
shareI completely agree with you.
Out of every disaster movie, this is by far the best.
Leaves The Day After Tommorrow in the dust (no pun intended).
I enjoyed it....I knew nothing about the film, or what it was about when a friend lent me it...this helped as I had no idea what to expect.
"What kind of bugs have you seen?"
"I dunno man......do I look like an ichtheologist to you?"
I think it suffers because of a lack of action which means most people will find it boring, personally I think this movie was solid from start to finish and is easily one of the better disaster movies out there and really bleak and depressing which makes sence since I doubt the apocolypse would be all fun and games in reality.
8/10.
but please no major stars...
The effects in this movie at times is very spectaclar and of the flaws only a few rewrites would fix the main two.
And that's why it got so little attention: because it's japanese/asian/non-western/non-american. It's sad but true.
shareis this gonna be on a dvd any time? i saw a trailer on adam and joe go tokyo and it looked worth a watch.
edit, oops never mind, found it. its on the to buy list now :)
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This movie was good but I thought it was reminiscent of The Day After-- NOT the Jake Gyllenhaal movie, the TV movie that came out in the early 80's (?) that was about nuclear war. Both are extremely depressing But the images in this one certainly looks much more harrowing.
shareProbably because it's a dumb, horribly paced, and poorly acted movie.
It should be called "Watch the Lead Actor Fall Over Himself Every 10 Seconds"
or "Oh Sh*% What Happened to my Equilibrium?!"
or "What's a Pacing?"
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If the point was to realistically portray a post-apocalyptic scenario, then the poor pacing and the lead actor being ordinary make perfect sense. You didn't at all defend your claim of the movie being dumb or poorly acted, just like I won't defend my claim that you're probably an idiot.
shareI gave 4 reasons!
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Maybe it should have been called "Don´t watch if you´re a ritalin addict with an IQ below 70"?
sharei liked the realism of the movie-- that every new interaction they made with other people raised more questions than answers. imagine if you were in that situation, i'm sure i'd be in the dark too.
but really, how many times do you have to fall down before you get a walking stick or just watch where you're going? i made a connection that something as traumatic as that could dehumanize people to primal survival....thus walking on 4 legs instead of 2. but i don't think that's what they meant with all that gratuitous tripping.
-i need a nap-