http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/01/primeval/ The Review of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Films Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:44:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/01/primeval/comment-page-1/#comment-13893 kachunchuli Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:20:17 +0000 http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/01/12/primeval/#comment-13893 Terrible movie! And why the hell doesn't anybody do any research???? People from Burundi DO NOT speak swahili! Terrible movie!
And why the hell doesn’t anybody do any research???? People from Burundi DO NOT speak swahili!

]]> http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/01/primeval/comment-page-1/#comment-7453 » Retrospective: Agressive Alligators and Killer Crocodiles Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:08:11 +0000 http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/01/12/primeval/#comment-7453 [...] PRIMEVAL (2007). In this pretentious political allegory, a man-eating crocodile is a metaphor for civil war in an African country. Although loosely based on a true story about a crocodile known as Gustav, the concept is hard to take seriously, and you get the feeling that the screenwriters are talking down to their audience, lecturing them with redeeming social consciousness instead of getting down to the nitty-gritty with the alligator action. Gustav himself is fun as long as you give up any hope of actually believing he’s a real animal. The computer-generated effects go for broke, showing the animal runing like a gazelle, leaping from the water like a marlin, and pretty much doing anything else the effects people can think of. In the end, the film is actually entertaining, though not in the way intended: because the scenario takes itself so seriously, the result emerges as unintentional camp, good for a laugh. [...] [...] PRIMEVAL (2007). In this pretentious political allegory, a man-eating crocodile is a metaphor for civil war in an African country. Although loosely based on a true story about a crocodile known as Gustav, the concept is hard to take seriously, and you get the feeling that the screenwriters are talking down to their audience, lecturing them with redeeming social consciousness instead of getting down to the nitty-gritty with the alligator action. Gustav himself is fun as long as you give up any hope of actually believing he’s a real animal. The computer-generated effects go for broke, showing the animal runing like a gazelle, leaping from the water like a marlin, and pretty much doing anything else the effects people can think of. In the end, the film is actually entertaining, though not in the way intended: because the scenario takes itself so seriously, the result emerges as unintentional camp, good for a laugh. [...]

]]> http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/01/primeval/comment-page-1/#comment-7379 » DVD Review: Rogue (2008) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:28:19 +0000 http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/01/12/primeval/#comment-7379 [...] augmented by some full-scale and miniatures mock-ups) tend to be more convincing than those in PRIMEVAL (2007), although that may largely be due to the relative restraint of the action, which is scaled [...] [...] augmented by some full-scale and miniatures mock-ups) tend to be more convincing than those in PRIMEVAL (2007), although that may largely be due to the relative restraint of the action, which is scaled [...]

]]> http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/01/primeval/comment-page-1/#comment-1690 » Top 10 Hottest Scream Queens Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:29:20 +0000 http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/01/12/primeval/#comment-1690 [...] Brooke Langton in PRIMEVAL [...] [...] Brooke Langton in PRIMEVAL [...]

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