Comments on TREMENDO TIME: QUARANTINE (2008)

Is there that part where they go "no no no, keep t...

2008-10-15T21:38:00.000-07:00

Is there that part where they go "no no no, keep the cameras rolling", and then something happens that makes the a lot of the people in the movie scream really loud and say stuff like "go go go!", then they start running and the camera work gets all nutty, then they stop and one of the people looks at the camera and whisper something like "what the fuck was that?", then after a beat or two of silence something jumps out and gets one of them, then the chase continues and continues and continues??? If so, I've seen this movie... too many times.

Looks like someone needs a hug. Worst movie of the...

2008-10-14T16:13:00.000-07:00

Looks like someone needs a hug. Worst movie of the year? No, not even close. Bad story structure? Well, yeah, it's premise is that it's found footage. Expecting Altman? Otherwise, well said, Film Geek Schu. I will let you live.

After reading Tremendo's review of Quarantine, it ...

2008-10-14T13:03:00.000-07:00

After reading Tremendo's review of Quarantine, it is now clear he has taken way too many piledrivers to the noggin. Quarantine is not spooky, it is not innovative, it is barely mildly entertaining. The flaws? Well, for starters the night-in-the-life firefighter lead-in has no purpose in the progression of the film at all. No foreshadowing, no potential firefighter heroics, just 15 minutes of beefcake firefighter fill, which might be fine for El Tremendo, but it certainly doesn't make for good film making. Instead, it comes off more like "we don't have enough material to fill out a feature length flick almost entirely inside one building, so let's pad with something." Let's talk about the lead a bit. Now you'd expect, in a movie like this, for the lead, who is nothing but a fluff reporter, to somehow stand up in a situation of real peril. Instead, she completely melts down and screams in hysterics almost entirely the last half of the film. We want her to die. And how about that tacked on we-have-to-make-up-some-explanation-as-to-why-this-has-happened ending? Forget worrying about its comparisons to Blair Witch, foreign remakes and the distancing effects of documentary style film making. Those would be acceptable if this had a base understanding of actual story structure and some semblance of competence. Quarantine is anything but an intense thrill ride. More accurately, it is among the worst films of the year.
And that's my finisher.