Nerd Rage! Movie Review
Welcome machete wielding maniacs, pretty boy would-be heroes, and bouncy hotties to Nerd Rage movie review. Today your good pal cerberus has a treat for you. That’s right kids it’s time for everyone’s favorite genre: “Campy Horror Movies.” No don’t worry I’m not reviewing “Monsturd” or “Aswang”. Today I’ve got two different movies for you filled with screams and laughs: “Friday the 13th” and the direct to DVD Bruce Campbell Movie “My name is Bruce”.
I went to the midnight showing of “Friday the 13th” and I learned something: if at all possible don’t sit next to the heavy-set guy covering his ears and making snide remarks to himself in order to keep himself from being too scared by a slasher flick in front of his friends. I’m just saying any time you can avoid that it’s a good thing trust me.
Friday the 13th is a remake… oh I’m sorry a ”re-imagining” of the original, not a sequel. I must admit it was a more than decent Horror/Slasher. Unlike his predecessors this version of Jason is way more adamant then he was in any of the other Friday the 13th movies. He’s more then a slow moving dimwit waiting for the next white woman to trip in a frantic run for her life in the middle of the woods. This time he hunts, fights, runs, and sets traps. Which makes him more inventive this time around. That being said once you strip down all the hype, that is all that changed in the series. There was really nothing new about the movie itself. It followed the same formula, and the same cast of stereotypes from dumb blonds, token black dude, nerdy asian kid, spoiled rich boy, and of coarse the pretty boy hero trying to rescue the girl.
If you just go into the movie not expecting much more then to be entertained by cool yet fairly predictable death scenes, good ‘ole fashion nudity (hurray boobs), mindless slaughter and a film that doesn’t let a small thing like tripping over a few plot holes slow it down, then this is the movie for you. However if you are expecting anything else you will probably be disappointed. Overall if you’re a fan of the series or just a fan of the genre itself then it is a fun movie to watch, so enjoy.
So tell me this, with movies like “Halloween”, ”Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “The day the Earth stood still”, and the ever frightening “Charlies Angels”, what movies would you like to see be remade?
Do you find yourself wanting to be alone in a cabin with a good book to resurrect the corpses in the basement? Wonder what it would be like to lop off you’re hand and replace it with a chainsaw? Or split your brain in two and share with a friend? If so you may have a case of Campbellitis or you’re a complete screw head. Either/or there is a cure and it’s more Bruce Campbell.
“My name is Bruce” is about a fictitious version of Bruce Campbell down on his luck from making so many cheesy B-horror movie sequels. However his luck turns from crap to suck when one of his uber-fans Jeff (Taylor Sharpe) accidentally awakens Guan-Di the chinese god of war and patron of bean curd…(I’m not kidding) who goes on a killing spree. So Jeff seeks out the one man you would want to have your back if there is ever a monster, zombie invasion, or pesky apocalypse. That of coarse being Bruce Campbell. After kidnapping Campbell and dragging him to Gold Lick, Oregon. Bruce assumes the whole town is really part of some birthday hoax perpetuated by his agent (Ted Raimi) and agrees to do battle with the demon god Guan-di…..hilarity ensues.
If you are not a fan of Bruce Campbell then this movie is not for you, and you should be beaten to death by angry pumas. For the rest of us this movie will make you feel nostalgic for the times you and your buddies rented crappy horror flick to poke fun of and did your own rendition of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
… Ahh the good old days…
How does My Name is Bruce match up against Bubba Ho-Tep? Cause honestly, I think his movie career piqued playing an aging Elvis accompanied by a wheelchair bound black JFK both fighting a resurrected Mummy.
My name is Bruce is even campier then Bubba Ho-Tep.Still not to take anything away from Bubba Ho-Tep, but there were times that the movie got a little depressing and a bit slow for a movie that wasn’t supposed to take itself to seriously.My name is Bruce doesn’t even try to do anything serious. Like I said if your a fan of Bruce Campbell it’s worth the rental.