Andy Van Scoyoc
Of a truly unique idea.Nothing chaps my hide more than to see an original idea (because they are so rare) so poorly executed.The scenery was pretty, the acting lame and the execution seriously poor.You've got your typical obligatory boobs (not just guys watch horror, folks) which is about the lamest thing anyone can include in a movie.Really...so disappointed in what could have... SHOULD have...been a really innovative movie.I'm not going to go into detail about the lacking parts of the movie. No need...I see that others have done that, justice.And...what on Earth was Midnight Syndicate one of the premier musical talents of all things macabre and creepy...thinking when they agreed to do the soundtrack for this movie?Pickings that slim nowadays, fellas?Oh and sorry slapping tired old Grizzly Adams in the story and then killing him off at the beginning, didn't do much to help, because the story just went all the way down the hill, then.Until that point, it looked like it might have been okay.Not sure what the deal was with all the extra footage at the end, but...yeah...still didn't improve the movie.Unless you plan to have a party and watch "legend and lore" type films...this one is left better, dead and buried in the woods.
Cary Stacy
You know most ppl have too high of opinion of themselves to accurately rate anything outside their closed off little paradigm.Axe Giant, upon watching it, has heart. That is the first thing I noticed about the movie. The second was that Kurtzman as in the K in (formerly of) KNB effects company oversaw the sfx.The biggest flaw with the movie is that it's not the fact that the violence is cg, it's that the lighting in the mating of studio work and the natural backgrounds. Paul Bunyan was much too brightly lit for some of the daytime outdoor scenes he was in. I think utilizing more nighttime attacks could of ramped up some of the tension/scares a bit with the added benefit of making PB look more realistic.Again ppl need to realize that not ALL movies pushed out today having the backing of that 2-dimensionally thinking Hollywood producing elite.Again a Axe Giant is a movie with heart, good enough sfx to convey the plot, a lil subpar nudity but a lil more blending between live-action subjects and the studio-recorded Paul Bunyan.Would definitely recommend if you like those old timey monster movies.
Paul Magne Haakonsen
While "Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan" isn't among the worst of movies that I have seen, it is far up on the scale.This slasher movie tries to incorporate the Paul Bunyan tale with some good old fashioned teenage slash-fest. But ultimately the end result was rather tame and less than interesting, to say the least.A group of young delinquents are sent away to a reform boot-camp in the middle of a forested mountainside, under the supervision of gung-ho police officer Sgt. Hoke and a psychiatrist. However, the group run afoul a giant that is stalking the mountainside. The giant is wielding a massive axe and is ferocious and hellbent on killing anything in his path.Storywise, then "Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan" was a very generic and genre stereotypic slasher movie, although trying to put in some legend and folk lore - which failed miserably.The effects in the movie were adequate at times, while at other times they were so low-budget that you can't help but shake your head in disbelief and laugh out loud at them.I don't recall a single face seen throughout the movie, and as such I suppose that is a good enough thing, as it is nice to see unfamiliar faces in movies, as to not draw associations to previous roles the actors or actresses have portrayed."Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan" wasn't entertaining and it was very tempting to let one's attention drift towards something else as the movie trotted on mundanely on the screen. Sometimes you just wonder why certain films gets produced, funded and even makes it off the drawing board.
bledrules
I watched this because Dan Haggerty is in it,I remember very well growing up and watching Grizzly Adams on TV He doesn't have much of a role in this (lucky for him)but the acting is pretty bad and the cgi is also very bad I wont say anything stupid like I want that 90 minutes of my life back (that expression is so annoying) The blue ox was just terribly done Acting was bad cgi even worse Just not a good movie I also thought it might be one of those horror movies that was so bad it was funny no such luck At the end of the credits it says Paul Bunyan will return I certainly hope not.I searched and searched for something positive about the movie,it took a while but finally it hit me.The scenery is very nice,I don't know where it was made but the mountains and deep woods were very nice
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