OMG, so hilarious! It was so unexpected, because I've been watching these videos for about a year now and can't recall anything like the dubious zoom-in and sound fx. Great stuff!
I had seen komodo dragons in the zoo, but when I actually saw them on their own turf in Indonesia I literally almost pissed in my pants. Giant lizards that can literally hunt humans, it's like a prehistoric horror story.
At first glance, I thought "How scary could a movie about a Japanese garment really be?" I'll give this to the komodo: they're quite adept at the long game. They'll bite a water buffalo or the like on the foot or leg or ass, then they'll follow the wounded animal around for a few days as it slowly dies a painful death from the lizard's venom. Then they feast. The roar of the komodo at 3:41 is from King Kong 1976, I'd wager.
CGI aside, the film also shows its age by touting the outdated theory that Komodo dragons kill their prey through bacterial infection, when in actuality they are venomous
So what, if that was the science at the time? That sounds like complaining a movie is "showing its age" because the characters refer to Pluto as a planet.
So he has an early 19th Century Victorian spinster aunt AND a 1990s psychologist named... Victoria. At the same time. Yep, the Tardis reference was pretry well deserved. 😂 I miss the days when movies believed they could pull an elderly spinster as something that doesn't require any explanation.
due to his childhood trauma and deeply unhealthy way of processing it, Patrick is well on his way to becoming Komodo Dragon Man. HIS PARENTS ARE DEEEEAD!
One movie that really irritated me was ROCKETSHIP X-M. They spend the opening minutes of the film establishing a certain amount of scientific verisimilitude -- however imperfect -- only to cast it all out the airlock a matter of minutes later. If they were going to have their spacecraft reach 25,000 miles per hour only to hang suspended when the rockets quit working, then accelerate and miss the Moon and accidentally end up on Mars, they could have disposed with all the scientific background earlier. My attitude toward the movie has mellowed mostly because once the Xpedition reaches Mars, the movie finally starts telling a real story about the discovery of a Martian civilization that destroyed itself in an atomic war. R X-M may have been the first movie to contemplate the horrors of nuclear war. I think we may have script doctor and blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo to thank for that.
Reminds me of that Wandering Earth movie, where humanity apparently decided the best way to escape the sun going supernova was to cover the whole planet in giant thrusters with cities built under them and move Earth into a different solar system. At one point, some of the giant thrusters fail and somehow that immediately causes the Earth to make a hard left into a collision course with Jupiter.
It feels like the people who made this watched Anaconda, and said, "what if we made that, but shittier?" Which is incredible, because Anaconda is already very shitty.
@@davidlionheart2438 And Sue Lyon of LOLITA notoriety is one of the cast. But she's the one who's actually trying to put the bite on Richard Burton, who plays a defrocked minister.(Is that what makes him so irresistible to flirtatious Lolita Sweeta? Some food for thought there.)
Titanic triggers me. Damn it, the boat is sinking. Am I really expected to believe a selfish character like Billy Zane’s character would be running around a sinking ship trying to gun down Rose and Jack and not save himself?!? Sorry never could stand that movie.
I actually like this film...despite it's INCREDIBLY huge flaws. If you want the "worst" film featuring the Mighty Komodo Dragon try Curse of the Komodo (2004)...it's a Jim Wynorski Classic.
This will always be one of my personal favorite creature features. I love Komodo Dragons, and out of all the sci-fi films that have featured them as the main monster, this one is the one I feel did them the most justice.
@@mikehunt4986 these movies lack the script writers of the 50's and 60's who knew they had limited special effect so they focus on the dialogue and on the few special effect they knew they could make. of course in that time period a lot of the writers came from broadway stage writing and shifted to film and tv as stage show started to become less popular. You can see some amazing dialogue exchanges as they also had to keep thing from being notice by the haze code.
What film makes me properly angry? 'Cops and Robbersons' (1994.) To paraphrase Roger Ebert: I hated, hated, REALLY hated this movie. Why? Because the script was stupid from first to last, Chevy Chase was in take-the-paycheck-and-run form, and it asked us to accept a creaky, wheezing Jack Palance as a dynamic police detective (winning an Oscar for City Slickers will blind your producer and casting director.) Worst of all was seeing how low director Michael Ritchie had sunk. The guy who gave us The Candidate (1972), Smile (1975), and The Bad News Bears (1976) got stuck with a sub-moronic Clark Griswold type teaming up with a rough, gruff cop to catch crooks, etc., ah who cares, it royally sucked. I mean, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot was better than this. But if you get stuck watching it and can't escape, take comfort in the fact that, unlike me, you didn't waste 5 dollars on a ticket (this was 1994 remember) and spend the entire movie thinking, "I could've rented TWO movies for 5 dollars...I could've gotten chicken wings and beer for five dollars...I could've (insert fun activity here.") After all these years, I *still* want my money back!
Michael Ritchie did indeed turn out some excellent movies. One of his best has been mostly overlooked: RESURRECTION (1980). Ellen Burnstyn portrayed a car crash victim who emerges from a coma & discovers that she may have been endowed with real honest-to-God healing powers. It's a film that examines the nature of spirituality---if there really is such a faculty---and how "free" spirituality (i.e., one unencumbered by dogma) can come into conflict with religious credulity. And please don't be put off by the subject focus, because it's quite an entertaining film. BTW: Yours is a thoughtful well-informed post.
A movie as recent as 1999 in the regular “bad movie” series? 😳 Skirting this closely to the 21st century is certainly a rarity for Dark Corners! Was a bit worried for a moment, but then remembered there’s still countless more vintage bad movies yet to review as well 😁👍
@ I do suppose it was inevitable… but if you need another list of bad old genre movies still in need of critiquing, just say the word and the suggestions will flow 🤓
@@Gappasaurus They reviewed Battlefield Earth and that Neil Breen garbage. I'd love to see reviews of Blackbird (Lord of the Dance as a 007 stand-in), Southland Tales, and (of course) MEGALOPOLIS.
I remember this one! Yes, and the special effects were shockingly good, but the plot dragged. Iike Robin, everytime I see a reptile or Dino look around, I say, "clever girl...!" 😂
Fun fact: the guy who plays Oates in this movie is character actor Billy Burke, who is best known today for playing Bella's dad in the Twilight movies. personally, I find those movies to be so bad there funny, especially the last one.
Okay, now you are frightening me, as just yesterday or the day before that I'd somehow gotten curious about the intelligence levels of reptiles. Turns out, monitor lizards, of which Komodo dragons are related to, are considered to be the most intelligent of lizards.
The movie that angered me while watching it was Divergent. A movie so unoriginal that I could accurately predict where it was going 20 minutes ahead all throughout the movie. It started to genuinely piss me off that my predictions kept being accurate. The movie really didn't have any other legs to stand on either. Boring plot, boring leads, bullshit "specialness" for our main protag, awful worldbuilding, etc. I genuinely hate that movie just due to how much it wasted my time and how imagination-less it is. It was a franchise that deserved its fate.
The playing Patrick looked familiar. Checking his credits he played an newly minted FBI agent in the TV show, The Rookie: Feds. I wonder if anyone asks him about this Oscar nominated for Best Movie of 1999 (spoiler - it didn't win!).
Oh man, I remember renting this one from the video store back in the day and being disappointed as hell. In hindsight, I'm not sure what I was really expecting from a movie about giant killer komodo dragons.
That bullshit reverse-Vertigo camera effect when you say "oil company" was genuinely scary. It's rare that I see a review where the Cockney guy in the film turns out to be the bad guy and the Cockney guy doing the review also turns out to be the bad guy. I've seen a number of bad movies, but the only time I got righteously indignant at one was when I saw "Red Zone Cuba." I personally resented Coleman Francis for expecting me to sit through the film clips he had strung together. There's an expectation in place whenever someone agrees, if implicitly, to watch a given film. I felt that Coleman Francis had made a film that was so bad that it was on this basis unethical to present it to me.
I haven't seen that one, but I wonder how it would compare with Errol Flynn's inglorious swan song CUBAN REBEL GIRLS (1960). His co-star was his then 17-year-old "protogee" Beverly Addland (Ol' Errol liked 'em young, apparently). Flynn wrote the screenplay (!). The producer-director was Barry Mahon, later the NY-based soft core exploitation filmmaker responsible for such edifying fare as THE BEAST THAT KILLED WOMEN. Presumably the actor-screenwriter had fallen on lean times. You failed to mention that Coleman Francis was no less than the maker of THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, one of the absolute worst horror flicks ever made. That pretty much says it all.
The Cable Guy is one that makes me angry when I think about it. Jim Carrey is seemingly friends with everybody in Los Angeles, so why is he so obsessed with Matthew Broderick? I got so mad that I looked it up and learned tear the script was written as a slapstick vehicle for Chris Farley and David Spade but retooled as a dark comedy/attempted satire. I get angrier knowing that while the writer's career suffered while those responsible for the rewrite (Ben Still and Judd Apotow) excelled. F. Hollywood!
I remember how those jc psych majors thought they were smarter than the rest of us strutting around like their Long Beach city college AA was equivalent to a Harvard doctorate, so at least that part of the movie was legit. The lizards were pretty cool though.
Okay, so this movie sucked, but it had a small budget. To make a truly infuriating movie, you need lousy character development, illogical plot, inconsistent setting and mediocre acting--all of which this movie had---but also a giant budget to squander on noisy special effects that clutter every scene. And that's Star Trek: Into Darkness. Screw the Kelvin timeline.
Okay I am sorry Dark Corner but I am gonna fight you so much on this!! Komodo is decent, goddamnit!! Definitely not the best of the CGI monster feature mini-boom of the late 90's but the exploration of trauma, the sets, the tension, they all work!!
The film that makes me properly angry? Looper. Its core time-travel mechanic makes absolutely no sense on any level, rendering the whole film utterly nonsensical. And yet people still seem to treat it like some kind of masterpiece. It was almost responsible for me skipping Knives Out, but fortunately I decided to give Rian Johnson another chance.
I don’t care how broken it proves my sense of humor is, “the O I L C O M P A N Y” sent me into a fit of laughter after a long day at work, so thank you for that
We all went out to have a good time and someone said hey, let's go see Komodo. It was playing at our local cinema in a double feature with Casablanca. So we did and afterwards we all discussed which film we liked better. Turns out we all preferred Komodo. It might be that we were all too high on LSD and red wine. And of course those of us still alive from that night continue to feel the same way. The end.
Don't think I've heard of this one, may have to check it out. And yes, I've wathched the odd movie in my time that also made me angry instead of scared..
I also hate this film, but admit it - the visuals are too good (by 1999 standards) to justify what was essentially a direct to video release (it did have a limited theatrical run).
“execrable”? did you receive a word of the day calendar for Christmas? 🤣 just kidding, it’s a pt for the film as it’s too high row for the content being discussed- like the special effects!
Almost all films today drive me bonkers! From sounds, that should be heard by anyone with ears, to not seeing or smelling smoke from fires at distance; films just plain act stupid sometimes. The Walking Dead and it's ridiculous spin-offs are prime examples. Zombies shuffling through the woods would not be able to sneak up on people! I forget what I just watched where a fire truck plowed through an intersection with horns blaring, but we didn't hear it until it hit the car! ARGH! Enough of that...Komodo did have one very bright spot, the beautiful Jill Hennessy...
There was a fun onslaught of big monster films after Jurassic Park and Godzilla (1998). Unfortunately, I remember Komodo was a disappointment. As for a film that makes me mad, that would be Alex Garland's Civil War (2024). If you know the US Constitution, you know why.
We're off to see the lizard, the wonderful lizard of Oz.
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This wins the interest!
Stop dragon my heart around 🎵🎵
but it’s Indonesian not Australian! 🤣😎
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This is a delightfully timely quip. 😂 Also, hiiiiiiiii-larious.
The OIL COMPANY bit had me rolling 🤣
I am never going to be able to hear or read it the same way again.
OMG, so hilarious! It was so unexpected, because I've been watching these videos for about a year now and can't recall anything like the dubious zoom-in and sound fx. Great stuff!
'Oil is EVIL. It kills ducks!'
- Doug Walker
I had seen komodo dragons in the zoo, but when I actually saw them on their own turf in Indonesia I literally almost pissed in my pants.
Giant lizards that can literally hunt humans, it's like a prehistoric horror story.
@@robwalsh9843 but do they growl in real life like it is shown in the movie ?
@@shatnermohanty6678 I think they kind of hiss
2:38 Annie is he ok? Is he ok Annie?
Alien Ant Farm or Michael Jackson Annie?
@@Prohass I see what you did, you smooth criminal.....lol
He has being been hurt... he has been hurt by a small dinossaur
so glad someone else thought of that joke
it's so rare to hear someone call a movie's dated CGI effects its BEST quality. it's actually kinda refreshing.
“I should be the one eating people “ lol your asides are brilliant!
You are driving a Volvo 240 estate, which is basically a tank without a turret, try reversing over them.
Other than the surprisingly competent effects, everything else on display just screams "SyFy Original."
Komodo dragons.... who roar like lions.
They're mutations🙂It's the horror version of "it was a wizzard".
I'd bet that the roar was actually lifted from King Kong 1976.
*THE OIL COMPANY* better be a new returning gag😂😂
Yeah but ... Jill Hennessy
She is very easy on the eyes.
@@BarryHart-xo1oy but has she ever done anything worth watching?
At first glance, I thought "How scary could a movie about a Japanese garment really be?"
I'll give this to the komodo: they're quite adept at the long game. They'll bite a water buffalo or the like on the foot or leg or ass, then they'll follow the wounded animal around for a few days as it slowly dies a painful death from the lizard's venom. Then they feast.
The roar of the komodo at 3:41 is from King Kong 1976, I'd wager.
CGI aside, the film also shows its age by touting the outdated theory that Komodo dragons kill their prey through bacterial infection, when in actuality they are venomous
Glad I checked the comments to see if anyone else had already mentioned this detail.
I was unaware that that theory is now outdated, so thanks for the info.
Thank you for pointing this out.
So what, if that was the science at the time? That sounds like complaining a movie is "showing its age" because the characters refer to Pluto as a planet.
@VonWenk it's an observation, not a complaint. Chill out
So he has an early 19th Century Victorian spinster aunt AND a 1990s psychologist named... Victoria. At the same time.
Yep, the Tardis reference was pretry well deserved. 😂
I miss the days when movies believed they could pull an elderly spinster as something that doesn't require any explanation.
Way down in Komodo...Aruba, Jamacia, ooh I want to take ya........
"King Dinosaur" 1955 from Bert I. Gordon- astronauts nuke a newly discovered planet because there is a dinosaur on a remote island there.
@@marlasotherchannel9847 "we did it....we brought civilization to planet nova!", cue profound moment, l I l
@@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat Yes, yes yes!
due to his childhood trauma and deeply unhealthy way of processing it, Patrick is well on his way to becoming Komodo Dragon Man. HIS PARENTS ARE DEEEEAD!
One movie that really irritated me was ROCKETSHIP X-M. They spend the opening minutes of the film establishing a certain amount of scientific verisimilitude -- however imperfect -- only to cast it all out the airlock a matter of minutes later. If they were going to have their spacecraft reach 25,000 miles per hour only to hang suspended when the rockets quit working, then accelerate and miss the Moon and accidentally end up on Mars, they could have disposed with all the scientific background earlier.
My attitude toward the movie has mellowed mostly because once the Xpedition reaches Mars, the movie finally starts telling a real story about the discovery of a Martian civilization that destroyed itself in an atomic war. R X-M may have been the first movie to contemplate the horrors of nuclear war. I think we may have script doctor and blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo to thank for that.
Reminds me of that Wandering Earth movie, where humanity apparently decided the best way to escape the sun going supernova was to cover the whole planet in giant thrusters with cities built under them and move Earth into a different solar system. At one point, some of the giant thrusters fail and somehow that immediately causes the Earth to make a hard left into a collision course with Jupiter.
OIL COMPANY
It feels like the people who made this watched Anaconda, and said, "what if we made that, but shittier?" Which is incredible, because Anaconda is already very shitty.
Though the creature effects look better.
I dunno, Anaconda was kinda fun.
This is what I thought 'Night Of The Iguana' was!
Nuns?
As I recall, Richard Burton did bite a few people in it......
@@davidlionheart2438 And Sue Lyon of LOLITA notoriety is one of the cast. But she's the one who's actually trying to put the bite on Richard Burton, who plays a defrocked minister.(Is that what makes him so irresistible to flirtatious Lolita Sweeta? Some food for thought there.)
@@davidlionheart2438 In his defense... he was still drinking at the time!
Tinman: _"OIL can..."._
Scarecrow: _"Oil can WHAT?!"_
Still... those komodo dragon effects are cool.
Prometheus.
Don't get me started.
I am shockingly fine with an "oil company" being dragged in this. It wasn't a baby food company that brought King Kong to New York 23 summers before.
4:59 closed caption 😂 You have my sympathy.
Titanic triggers me. Damn it, the boat is sinking. Am I really expected to believe a selfish character like Billy Zane’s character would be running around a sinking ship trying to gun down Rose and Jack and not save himself?!? Sorry never could stand that movie.
Why does no one in a movie know how helicopter controls work?
I'll be right back, I have to use the komodo.
1:32 so THAT's what that sounds like. (check the subtitles)
Mwahahahahahahahahahahhaha
Yeah, she should have stayed on Law & Order.
2:47 Perfect line delivery. No notes.
If only there was a Dark Corners resident Psychology Adviser to try to make sense of what we've seen.
we all need one after seeing this review
I actually like this film...despite it's INCREDIBLY huge flaws. If you want the "worst" film featuring the Mighty Komodo Dragon try Curse of the Komodo (2004)...it's a Jim Wynorski Classic.
This will always be one of my personal favorite creature features. I love Komodo Dragons, and out of all the sci-fi films that have featured them as the main monster, this one is the one I feel did them the most justice.
hope you all had a great chrimbo and newyear?!?!😁😁😁
Well it’s only fair, how often were Komodo dragons used as stand-ins for 1950’s creature features.
I distinctly remember a scene where they talk about how they shouldn’t split up, then they immediately decide to split up.
7:24
'I wish I was in Tijuana
Eating barbecued iguana'
Is it just me or are B-movies from the late 90s and beyond way less interesting than previous eras?
Bad CG just isn't as fun as bad practical effects.
You are 100% right about that. They're just not as interesting. The charm is gone.
@@mikehunt4986 these movies lack the script writers of the 50's and 60's who knew they had limited special effect so they focus on the dialogue and on the few special effect they knew they could make. of course in that time period a lot of the writers came from broadway stage writing and shifted to film and tv as stage show started to become less popular. You can see some amazing dialogue exchanges as they also had to keep thing from being notice by the haze code.
1:03 "Ohhh, you redecorated! ...I don't like it."
What film makes me properly angry? 'Cops and Robbersons' (1994.) To paraphrase Roger Ebert: I hated, hated, REALLY hated this movie. Why? Because the script was stupid from first to last, Chevy Chase was in take-the-paycheck-and-run form, and it asked us to accept a creaky, wheezing Jack Palance as a dynamic police detective (winning an Oscar for City Slickers will blind your producer and casting director.) Worst of all was seeing how low director Michael Ritchie had sunk. The guy who gave us The Candidate (1972), Smile (1975), and The Bad News Bears (1976) got stuck with a sub-moronic Clark Griswold type teaming up with a rough, gruff cop to catch crooks, etc., ah who cares, it royally sucked. I mean, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot was better than this. But if you get stuck watching it and can't escape, take comfort in the fact that, unlike me, you didn't waste 5 dollars on a ticket (this was 1994 remember) and spend the entire movie thinking, "I could've rented TWO movies for 5 dollars...I could've gotten chicken wings and beer for five dollars...I could've (insert fun activity here.") After all these years, I *still* want my money back!
Michael Ritchie did indeed turn out some excellent movies. One of his best has been mostly overlooked: RESURRECTION (1980). Ellen Burnstyn portrayed a car crash victim who emerges from a coma & discovers that she may have been endowed with real honest-to-God healing powers. It's a film that examines the nature of spirituality---if there really is such a faculty---and how "free" spirituality (i.e., one unencumbered by dogma) can come into conflict with religious credulity. And please don't be put off by the subject focus, because it's quite an entertaining film.
BTW: Yours is a thoughtful well-informed post.
Renamed "The Night The Crap Really Hits The Fan" 😳 not the best film. But a mighty darn fine video. Another winner.
A movie as recent as 1999 in the regular “bad movie” series? 😳 Skirting this closely to the 21st century is certainly a rarity for Dark Corners! Was a bit worried for a moment, but then remembered there’s still countless more vintage bad movies yet to review as well 😁👍
We have been doing reviews for almost 15 years, so it was going to happen.
@ I do suppose it was inevitable… but if you need another list of bad old genre movies still in need of critiquing, just say the word and the suggestions will flow 🤓
@@Gappasaurus They reviewed Battlefield Earth and that Neil Breen garbage. I'd love to see reviews of Blackbird (Lord of the Dance as a 007 stand-in), Southland Tales, and (of course) MEGALOPOLIS.
"What the hell are you basing that on?" lol "the oil company"! lol! Your asides are brilliant!
Classic “Bob and Ray” skit about the Komodo Dragon doesn’t include all the mutilation, but this movie is funnier. Not in a good way.
I remember this one! Yes, and the special effects were shockingly good, but the plot dragged. Iike Robin, everytime I see a reptile or Dino look around, I say, "clever girl...!" 😂
Does Robin drag?
@lab483 sure, he loves angora too, just like ed wood, 😆😆😆
Slightly better than Curse Of The Komodo! Good review! Happy New Year 🎉🎉
Fun fact: the guy who plays Oates in this movie is character actor Billy Burke, who is best known today for playing Bella's dad in the Twilight movies. personally, I find those movies to be so bad there funny, especially the last one.
I remember him as the detective in Fracture.
Okay, now you are frightening me, as just yesterday or the day before that I'd somehow gotten curious about the intelligence levels of reptiles. Turns out, monitor lizards, of which Komodo dragons are related to, are considered to be the most intelligent of lizards.
The movie that angered me while watching it was Divergent. A movie so unoriginal that I could accurately predict where it was going 20 minutes ahead all throughout the movie. It started to genuinely piss me off that my predictions kept being accurate.
The movie really didn't have any other legs to stand on either. Boring plot, boring leads, bullshit "specialness" for our main protag, awful worldbuilding, etc. I genuinely hate that movie just due to how much it wasted my time and how imagination-less it is. It was a franchise that deserved its fate.
This kid lost his parents, childhood friend & dog. Not to mention they were forced to kill a last of its kind Komodo. Well he's having quite a day...
You mean she left "Law & Order" for THAT?
The playing Patrick looked familiar. Checking his credits he played an newly minted FBI agent in the TV show, The Rookie: Feds. I wonder if anyone asks him about this Oscar nominated for Best Movie of 1999 (spoiler - it didn't win!).
They are also wrong about Komodo dragon saliva. Its a venom that contains an anti-coagulant.
It’s such a shame that this movie doesn’t have an HD release.
Is it, though?
@ The special effects are the best part of the movie, and I want to be able to see them in the best quality.
Oh man, I remember renting this one from the video store back in the day and being disappointed as hell. In hindsight, I'm not sure what I was really expecting from a movie about giant killer komodo dragons.
Curse of the Komodo from 2004 has an even lower IMDB/Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic score. The poor Komodo dragon can't catch a break.
I don't care. I'd watch Jill Hennessey read a phonebook.
That bullshit reverse-Vertigo camera effect when you say "oil company" was genuinely scary. It's rare that I see a review where the Cockney guy in the film turns out to be the bad guy and the Cockney guy doing the review also turns out to be the bad guy.
I've seen a number of bad movies, but the only time I got righteously indignant at one was when I saw "Red Zone Cuba." I personally resented Coleman Francis for expecting me to sit through the film clips he had strung together. There's an expectation in place whenever someone agrees, if implicitly, to watch a given film. I felt that Coleman Francis had made a film that was so bad that it was on this basis unethical to present it to me.
Lol, that "invasion force" of 7 guys in army surplus crap, jogging up a beach, 😂😂😂
Lmao the OIL COMPANY effect made me laugh every time
I haven't seen that one, but I wonder how it would compare with Errol Flynn's inglorious swan song CUBAN REBEL GIRLS (1960). His co-star was his then 17-year-old "protogee" Beverly Addland (Ol' Errol liked 'em young, apparently). Flynn wrote the screenplay (!). The producer-director was Barry Mahon, later the NY-based soft core exploitation filmmaker responsible for such edifying fare as THE BEAST THAT KILLED WOMEN. Presumably the actor-screenwriter had fallen on lean times.
You failed to mention that Coleman Francis was no less than the maker of THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, one of the absolute worst horror flicks ever made. That pretty much says it all.
Is the oil guy supposed to be British or South African? I honestly can't tell which accent he was going for.
The Cable Guy is one that makes me angry when I think about it. Jim Carrey is seemingly friends with everybody in Los Angeles, so why is he so obsessed with Matthew Broderick? I got so mad that I looked it up and learned tear the script was written as a slapstick vehicle for Chris Farley and David Spade but retooled as a dark comedy/attempted satire. I get angrier knowing that while the writer's career suffered while those responsible for the rewrite (Ben Still and Judd Apotow) excelled. F. Hollywood!
I remember how those jc psych majors thought they were smarter than the rest of us strutting around like their Long Beach city college AA was equivalent to a Harvard doctorate, so at least that part of the movie was legit. The lizards were pretty cool though.
I saw this early as a channel member and watched it again to further help the channel
you have spotted a slight difference in versions.
To be fair, the OIL COMPANY is evil by definition.
Wasn't that nice of BP to apologize for dumping all into the Gulf of Mexico?
If this film was trying to vilify corporations (specifically Big Oil), it didn't do a good job.
Any film that starts-a fire by throwing a cigarette into gasoline
It looks like an awful film, but the dragons look fantastic!
The bit where the kid catches the dragon in his trap is particularly good.
Okay, so this movie sucked, but it had a small budget. To make a truly infuriating movie, you need lousy character development, illogical plot, inconsistent setting and mediocre acting--all of which this movie had---but also a giant budget to squander on noisy special effects that clutter every scene. And that's Star Trek: Into Darkness. Screw the Kelvin timeline.
Okay I am sorry Dark Corner but I am gonna fight you so much on this!! Komodo is decent, goddamnit!! Definitely not the best of the CGI monster feature mini-boom of the late 90's but the exploration of trauma, the sets, the tension, they all work!!
Would an oil company even try to cover up any of this? Not in 2025
I would have thought that only someone from here in Arkansas would have been able to get so many syllables from execrable. :-)
It funny the teen was a Goosebumps actor?
The film that makes me properly angry? Looper. Its core time-travel mechanic makes absolutely no sense on any level, rendering the whole film utterly nonsensical. And yet people still seem to treat it like some kind of masterpiece. It was almost responsible for me skipping Knives Out, but fortunately I decided to give Rian Johnson another chance.
loved these late night 90s movies, would be cozy with a tin of biscuits
I guess the Oil, oi oi, oil Company are the bad guys.
I don’t care how broken it proves my sense of humor is, “the O I L C O M P A N Y” sent me into a fit of laughter after a long day at work, so thank you for that
18 summers are 4-and-a-half years.
Your welcome.
Kamodo is wireless animal attack relief from the 90s but I love it. 🦎🦎🦎🦎
I actually try not to watch movies that anger me... this one is too bad as the lead actress was really good in the show Crossing Jordan.
Wait, i don't quite get it. Is the OiL cOmPaNy evil?!🤔
Movie that makes me angry: 'Mile 22'.
The movie DOES look like it can...Drag...On...
OK, saw you saw that coming....
We all went out to have a good time and someone said hey, let's go see Komodo. It was playing at our local cinema in a double feature with Casablanca. So we did and afterwards we all discussed which film we liked better. Turns out we all preferred Komodo. It might be that we were all too high on LSD and red wine. And of course those of us still alive from that night continue to feel the same way. The end.
please tell me you don't vote.
@TheRealNormanBates every time I write in the guy from McHale's navy cuz he's my hero
Don't think I've heard of this one, may have to check it out. And yes, I've wathched the odd movie in my time that also made me angry instead of scared..
What film makes me mad? Pretty much the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. Especially what they did to the Scarlet Witch.
Toy Story 3. That movie angers me the most
Hey, come on - it has special effects!
Saw this again recently, not great but as a popcorn flick with decent creature effects it passed the time.
I call these "moron" movies. Everyone has to act like a moron in order for the plot to work. I rather hate these type too.
Roger Ebert called that the 'Idiot Plot."
I also hate this film, but admit it - the visuals are too good (by 1999 standards) to justify what was essentially a direct to video release (it did have a limited theatrical run).
Do "Curse of the Komodo" (2004), next!
Arty police photo straight out of Psycho
I just bought that 5 months ago
"Execrable" - Is this the same as "excretable"? Is it bug-related?
“execrable”? did you receive a word of the day calendar for Christmas? 🤣
just kidding, it’s a pt for the film as it’s too high row for the content being discussed- like the special effects!
Was this a Sci-Fi Original?
Greetings from south Carolina
Almost all films today drive me bonkers! From sounds, that should be heard by anyone with ears, to not seeing or smelling smoke from fires at distance; films just plain act stupid sometimes. The Walking Dead and it's ridiculous spin-offs are prime examples. Zombies shuffling through the woods would not be able to sneak up on people! I forget what I just watched where a fire truck plowed through an intersection with horns blaring, but we didn't hear it until it hit the car! ARGH! Enough of that...Komodo did have one very bright spot, the beautiful Jill Hennessy...
There was a fun onslaught of big monster films after Jurassic Park and Godzilla (1998). Unfortunately, I remember Komodo was a disappointment. As for a film that makes me mad, that would be Alex Garland's Civil War (2024). If you know the US Constitution, you know why.