Clay Loomis
Calm down now, all of you calling this the worst movie you have ever seen. I agree, it IS a really horrible movie and rates its space on the IMDb Bottom 100 (and why isn't it on that list? It rates a 1.7 and has over 1500 votes, but it's not there! It should be listed somewhere between 27 and 38). I'm of a firm belief, however, that we need another 1-10 rating chart for those movies that get below a 2 on the regular IMDb voting system. I mean there's bad, worse, and THE WORST. Not all of them can be THE WORST.As bad as this movie is, I can think of three others that I would call The Worst before this one. Depending on my current mood, Night Train to Mundo Fine, Monster a-Go Go, and Manos: The Hands of Fate all are worse than Future War. But when it gets down to movies that have no talent associated with them, not actors, writers, directors or crew, the voting gets very tight and personally subjective. (For me and Manos, for instance, that music(?) made me want to smash my DVD player with my TV set.) Which brings me back to my belief that we need a new chart for those movies that rate in the 1's on the regular voting scale.But don't get your panties in a bunch. They're just movies after all, and we DO watch them on purpose. The fuss reminds me of a line from a good movie, at the end of Animal House: REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL!
Scott W. Larson
Of course this is a terrible movie, but perhaps it could teach other aspiring film makers who are short on cash to adopt its techniques more effectively.Say your film is running short and you need some filler to stretch it out to 90 minutes. This film is your guide. Start the movie with a cold opening in what you will think will be the highlight of your film. Run it for about ten minutes before the audience has any clue what's going on and before the scene peaks, run the intro credits. Now you've just gotten ten whole minutes of movie for free and you've milked ten minutes of what will be the best part. Brilliant.And those credits? Run them for as long as possible. If you give each name 20-30 second of screen time, you can squeeze another five minutes out of your production. While this may seem awkward, if you have sounds of action while they're on the screen, that is less awkward than if you show them with silence or some cheesy music. Just snip some sound clips from other parts of the movie.Upscale action movies will use props which will crash and cause exciting destruction when our hero and the bad guy fight. While cardboard boxes do neither of these things, they are practically free. Tell your friends you're moving and you can fill your set just like this movie did. Most importantly they are reusable so feel free to use them in as many scenes as possible.One problem this film had was the scale of the dinosaurs. One moment they're the size of buildings. The next they're about six feet tall. By the time they attack our hero, they were barely the size of a domestic dog. If you don't have a Ray Harryhausen at your disposal, don't stumble down this path. Use the monster technique that Spielberg did in Jaws and Ridley Scott did in Alien: less is more. If something is going to look cheesy, show as little of it as possible. The audience knows what dinosaurs look like so why disappoint them? There are some other lessons like hiring attractive actors regardless of their acting ability but those are pretty obvious.
garyb04
I first saw this piece of crap on MST3K when it was on Sci-fi channel and I couldn't believe what I saw because it's so bad.How bad?? Well,the acting for one.Second,the so-called effects because the dinosaurs are smaller than they actually are.Third,the script...I have a question:why do the nun and Runaway get on the train after the dinosaur attacks them and the others at their house??? Did anyone notice that there's a cardboard box factory during the fight between the cyborg and Runaway??Nothing but empty boxes..I wouldn't advise anyone to watch this by itself.Please only watch it with Mike and bots and that's it,then it won't be so painful.Not unless you're into that kind of thing..Fun to watch?? Maybe.Painful? Could be.Really bad??? Definitely!!!!
rekcilorf
In the climactic fight scene, the escapee seems to be hurt and Sister Anne kneels down and holds him the the classic "Pieta" position. I am so surprised that Mike and the 'bots did not pick up on this (as they did for other religious references) and I don't see any other posters who noticed it either. This is such a sorry excuse for a movie! And,as others have said before me, maybe the saddest of all is the cardboard box camera. Also, the dinosaurs sometimes seems like giants and sometimes like small critters and this is not just the false perspective. It's part of the movie that their sizes seem to change. Still, with Mike and the 'bots, it's a fun way to waste a couple of hours!
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