'Eight-Legged Freaks' runs out of gas scarily fast - its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of the crossbreeding of the suffering-from-gigantism movies of the 1950s and the 1990 B-picture classic 'Tremors.'
The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.
Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome.