Comments on: Halloween III: Season of the Witch

By: neal2zod

neal2zod — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:31:33 +0000

Quick question – WIFN happened to the villain? The movie does have two very effective scenes (the ending and the child’s death), and Nelkin is really appealing, but damn was the villain’s comeuppance(?) incoherent or what?

By: CJ Holden

CJ Holden — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:28:41 +0000

Seriously, there was no CGI! That stunt gained lots of attention and respect within the international stunt people community and even was the main reason why that movie won the 2005 World Stunt Award for best Action In A Foreign Film.

By: frankbooth

frankbooth — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:07:27 +0000

Holy crap, that blowed up REAL good. They do that on TV over there?!!

(But are you sure there was no CGI? Cars were sailing past a helicopter, man.)

RRA: The Virginia Madsen/Maximum Overdrive crack made me laugh — and then the fact that I understood that joke made me cry.

By: CJ Holden

CJ Holden — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:07:27 +0000

Thanks for the link. Although I didn’t really laugh about the captions, but I always love to read foreign reviews of German productions.
(And to clear this up: Yes, German shopping malls ARE closed on Sundays. All stores are closed on Sundays, except for gas stations and kiosk’s. Our stores aren’t even open 24 hrs!)

By: RRA

RRA — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:45:51 +0000

http://www.foywonder.com/current_columns/foy_0506.html

By: CJ Holden

CJ Holden — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:48:53 +0000

No, do you have a link?

By: RRA

RRA — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:20:03 +0000

Holden, you ever read Foywonder’s review of DER CLOWN?

His photo captions are Vern-esque fucking comedy gold.

By: CJ Holden

CJ Holden — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:24:22 +0000

Nah, “Der Clown” isn’t that amazing. In fact it’s pretty bad. But HOLY SHIT, do the action scenes rule most of the time!

By: Mr. Majestyk

Mr. Majestyk — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:13:10 +0000

I can’t watch that clip right now (my boss blocks practically everything) but the synopsis of Der Clown, both the TV show and the movie, sounds amazing. Do I have to be a German citizen to partake of this multimedia extravaganza in which a clown fights crime with a rocket launcher? If so, what’s your immigration policy like?

By: CJ Holden

CJ Holden — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:25:50 +0000

Mr Majestik: Y’know, you are not the only one who asks this question. For any reason “German action” only seems to make a profit when it’s made for TV. The few tries of bringing it to theatres caused some of the biggest box office bombs in German history, while the show “Alarm für Cobra 11″ is on the air for more than 10 years. (and wins pretty much every year at least one “World Stunt Award”.) The production company of it (”Action Concept”) probably doesn’t invest any cent into good scripts or actors, but HOLY SHIT, they can blow shit up! Just look at this scene from the movie “Der Clown” (which was one of the afore mentioned box office bombs), which was done all practical, without any CGI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cldUg41u5TM

It also may have something to do with the mafia-like German film industry. (Uwe Boll may be a questionable filmmaker, but you should try to find some of his interviews in which he talks about the impossibility of making a movie in Germany. He is 100% right!) While we have meanwhile a good working “independent scene” (Everything that isn’t produced by Bernd Eichinger and Constantin Film can be considered as independent), which gives us every year several great movies from (almost) all kinds of genres, the producers who have the money to build up a whole action film industry are only making comedies or “the history drama of the week for the Oscar jury”. (I’m not saying that “Das Leben der anderen” or “Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex” are bad, but they are to some degree very formulaic.)
It’s sad. If you wanna see well made action made in Germany, you have to turn on the TV.