"I Am Omega"

We got this movie on a DVD with two other movies (cough, cough): “Monster” and “AVH Alien vs. Hunter”. Well I actually wouldn’t even call the other two, movies. IAO could have been a decent movie with a plot change. Or any number of plot changes…

Of course, if you haven’t seen the movie "I Am Omega", which I really can’t recommend, you won’t understand my alternate plot.

The movie was okay up to the point when Renchard answered the incoming video message, the second time. And the entire story line of Vincent and Mike was, in my opinion, just wrong. The actors weren’t bad; it’s unfortunate that the movie wasn’t better, as The Asylum might have achieved a slightly more legitimate reputation.

Anyway, here goes my basic idea of one possible alternate version.
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Renchard would have set out to rescue Brianna, after answering her second video message.

Along the way Renchard would have came across Vincent and Mike engaged in a heated battle with zombies. Where Renchard would have saved Vincent from certain death, by killing an attacking zombie.

Mike gets killed in a subsequent zombie battle. Then later Vincent gets killed heroically during the battle in the parking deck scene.

Then the movie would have ended the same as it did, with the trick ending (which didn’t hurt at all).
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And a final criticism; they shouldn’t have shaken the camera during some of the zombie scenes. That would have only been necessary to hide some deficiency in the makeup, which didn’t seem to be the case. In fact, for a low budget movie, the zombie’s makeup looked fine.


Note to the folks at The Asylum: put a bit more effort in your movies and you might get taken seriously, at least perhaps by those of us who enjoy fairly decent “B” movies. And Please Don’t ever make another movie like “Monster”. You hired two reasonably attractive actresses, and then really blew it. (IMHO)


(I wish I had the resources to make a movie, but alas that’s not the way the world goes round.)

"Corpse Bride"

Earlier this morning I watched (for the first time) the 2005 Tim Burton movie "Corpse Bride" on DVD.

As much as I enjoyed the movie I must say I was absolutely amazed watching the special features portion to see what wonderful mechanical marvels the puppets, especially for the main characters, actually were.

Watching the movie I would have never guessed such workmanship went into the creations, but after seeing how it did I can see how they managed to pull off such a feat, all while using the oft considered obsolete form of stop-motion animation.

This movie could certainly have been produced (a whole lot easier and cheaper) using CGI, but I'm certainly glad they didn't. My hats off to Mr. Burton and the entire crew who made such a masterpiece come to life.

As an afterthought; I'm guessing the puppets used in the movie would bring a small fortune on e-bay.