The other day I watched the film ' The Death of the Titans' and I am ready to share my impressions with you.
The plot is built around the fact that 2 sea titans fight - a huge crocodile and a huge white shark. Why exactly? I don't understand. There is only 1 titanium left. People can’t do anything and only hope that monsters will kill each other.
Honestly, a more brazen copy ' Godzilla vs. Kong' impossible to find. Same story. Same thing with the Titans. So why is 1 film successful and the second one not? Now I'm going to tell you:
1. To begin with, the story is very primitive. The characters of the heroes are not revealed, the monsters are impersonal. In the same film ' Godzilla vs. Kong' the relationship between the main character and King Kong was shown, the viewer was imbued with warm feelings for him. It's all gone. Just 1 Monster Model Fights 2 Graphics Model.
2. Graphics. The graphics are really terrible and low-grade. How can the viewer enjoy the battles of the Titans when they look like hell knows what? They never inspire horror, because you can see computer graphics.
3. Heroes. The cast is terrible and there is not 1 familiar face, they outplay, the viewer does not sympathize with them and in principle, all the action on the screen feels very detached. It seems like a low budget, but that’s an excuse.
4. The shark makes roar-like sounds. In principle, you can put a greasy point on this. It is impossible to imagine more nonsense.
I advise you not to waste your time and better watch ' Godzilla vs. Kong' He is 10 goals higher and the essence is about the same.
2 out of 10
The production of this picture was done by the legendary studio Asylum. I don’t even need to explain what they’re doing. The films released by this sharoo come out so bad that it is simply impossible to watch them. Mostly they release parodies of famous blockbusters. But in 2009, they decided to launch their new original project, the Mega Cycle. It includes films about huge monsters that must fight each other.
The Death of the Titans is the third film in the series and the sequel to the thrash hit Two million years later. In the original, most Asylum films are called completely different, and a new title, more intriguing, gives them a distribution company Lizard. So, the Death of Titans in the original is called Mega shark against Crocosaurus.
The production was handled by a regular guest of Asulum, director Christopher Ray, and the main roles were played by Harry Stratch, Jalil White, Sarah Living and Robert Picardo. Produced by David Michael Latt, who produced all the studio films and founded Asulum.
As the title suggests, the film is about two prehistoric computer monsters. In Congo, a huge crocodile wakes up in a mine. At the same time, a military vessel in the Atlantic Ocean is attacked by a surviving octopus shark Megalodon. Charismatic crocodile hunter Nigel Putham and surviving scientist Terry McCormick must team up with FBI agent Sarah Living to destroy the monsters.
I liked the movie. I postponed watching it for a long time, but after watching it I was very happy. This is the best Asylum film and the best Mega film of the cycle. The story was the most satisfying. He stood in the best traditions of all Godzilla films. The film is dynamic, the action is constantly evolving and does not let you get bored. The actors play well, Harry Stratch looks especially expressive as a macho crocodile dundi, who is rude to everyone and Robert Picardo as an admiral. The special effects in the film are horribly clumsy and computer-generated, but from a $100,000 budget, it is foolish to expect more. The main thing is that there is a lot of action, it is very spectacular and thrashy.
Most of all, I liked the scenes when in the beginning a shark was sinking a warship, jumping over it; the scene where Crocosaurus is ugly in the city and jumps into a huge supermarket and the final fight of a shark and a crocodile.
It's also a good soundtrack. Perfectly complements the visual. He's playing in the trailer.
Blood and meat don't count, yes, the movie has an R rating, but it looks more like an action-adventure movie like Godzilla Emmerich than a horror movie.
As a result, Death of Titans is a good thrash, a worthy representative of the genre and the best film of Asulum. For those who love movies about Kaiju monsters and know about the activities and existence of Asulum, I recommend the film to watch, the rest can safely pass by.
5 out of 10
Studio "Asylum" is known not only for its fakes for famous blockbusters - in addition, they indulge in the usual "Three about mega-monsters", filming it as wretched as mockbusters. There is, however, an even more incompetent film than their work: the absolute bottom of the monster horror genre I consider both parts of the Tentacles, but also an independent creation by all the cursed studio, which showed the battle of the shark against the octopus (in Russian license, called "Two million years later"), also showed the sheer negligence filmed in the scenery of the submarine with periodic three-second special effects. Mega-shark against giant octopus, if anything, can please, it is only the beautiful views of the glaciers at the beginning, and the battle of giants at the end (although the latter was lousy, but still better than staring at a submarine and listening to the stupid conversations of “smart” scientists in this submarine). Perhaps the DVD with this creation was successful on sale, so the authors decided on a sequel, which will feature one monster from the first part, which, as it turned out, survived, and the other will appear... but what does it matter where it comes from? Peeple's eating. As long as there are children sitting at computer screens, for whom there is no control; while inexperienced viewers buy discs with beautiful wrappers, not knowing what is written on them, this slag will walk on the Internet.
Perhaps the authors took into account their mistake, which took place in "Mega-shark against a giant octopus" and was that the whole film was shot in the scenery of the submarine, and shot "Mega-shark against Crocosaurus" in nature. Again, the main characters are suspiciously intelligent scientists, they all know how to cope with giants, but the viewer does not even understand what they are talking about. No, the audience isn't stupid. This is a movie called "pseudo-intellectual". This is not “Interstellar”, not “Inception” and “Martian”, in which there are many scientific terms that are not all understandable to an uneducated viewer. Here marasmus, which is passed off as a smart movie. Remember that TV horror movie "Dinocrock vs. Dinosaur" that many people mixed with dirt because of bad special effects, and some liked it? So, the second were right, because there is a plot, and normal main characters, and good dialogue, and adequate action, plus the dinosaurs themselves were well painted, albeit without much pontiffs (this is not “Godzilla” Emmerich, the film “TV”, do not forget), and action with the participation of dinosaurs, and beautiful landscapes – all this pleased the eye and kept at the screen. There’s a dinosaur crocodile here too, but it won’t do anything worthwhile like the survivor of the battle in the first part of the mega-shark. The film is much more beautiful than the first part, but it does not benefit from this. Because there is no pleasure in listening to pseudo-intelligent speeches, looking at the senseless actions of humans and predators. The picture is more solid than that of the first part, but both parts are equally senile and treble. If there is no meaning, no plot, or even normal dialogue in the film, it is garbage. And garbage is exactly the product that our “favorite” studio “Asylum” diligently produces. Don’t be fooled by a beautiful name.
Epic from Asylum: a shark with the roar of King Kong
A year after the first film about the megalodon overgrown, everyone’s “favorite” studio Asylum released a sequel – “Mega Shark against Crocosaurus”. But, as it will be a year later with “Mega-Pyton vs. Gatoroid”, in Russia, this film came out with a stunning DVD cover, on which the inscription “Death of the Titans” just catches the eye, waiting for a mega-blockbuster, and what you get – judge for yourself.
The plot here is no less banal than in the first part: in the wilds of the jungle of the black continent (in the Congo, if I am not mistaken), a super-predator Crocosaurus awakens in a cave. This is essentially an ordinary crocodile, only very poorly painted, but with the root "Zaurus" its name (according to the creators of the film) sounds more epic - as if this reptile came to us directly from the Mesozoic era. At the same time, in the Atlantic Ocean, an American aircraft carrier is attacked by a megalodon survivor of an octopus battle. So what do we have? Who are our main characters this time? Experienced crocodile hunter, military guy and government woman. Of course, they will join forces to rid the world of two computer monsters. I will not say anything about the acting game, which is completely absent here, but I will say that the characters themselves, although not catching, do not cause such a negative as in the first part.
There are more special effects here than in the first film, but the quality is no better. What are only episodes with the emergence of the megalodon from the ocean, destruction in the city and on the coast of the Crocosaurus and take-offs of fighters from aircraft carriers? What shocked me the most was the unexplained anomalies that occurred with Crocosaurus throughout the film: its size varies from 20 to about 200 meters. When a hunter with a grin shows off a trophy he had taken in Africa, we see a Photoshopped frame with an enlarged conventional alligator (not a crocodile, mind you). Later, in another scene, Crocosaurus becomes so gigantic that several tanks are crushed with one paw. Otherwise, as a mockery of the audience, it is difficult to call it.
In addition, many of the plot moves of the film are suspiciously reminiscent of Supercroc, a 2007 film also directed by Asylum. I think they just decided to remake it, but only adding a megalodon and deploying the first quarter of the film in Africa.
And most importantly, everyone knows that sharks cannot growl (in the fourth Jaws it was a big blunder). But Asylum has prepared a “surprise” for the audience: the megalodon in this film does not just growl – it emits a growl of King Kong from the 1976 film! I wonder if the director of the film was fined for copyright infringement or not?
Imagine now: a wretched painted megalodon emerges from an equally wretched drawn stream of water rushing into the city, publishes the well-known roar of Kong and, as if on ice, begins to roll through the streets. Some may find it funny, but I personally have a little blood from my eyes.
But, as much as I criticize this film, it is still not as terrible as the first part, so I still add one point:
2 out of 10
Believe it or not, the mega-shark survived a fight with a giant cephalopod, and again swam on the warpath with military destroyers and murky computer submarines. In addition to everything, the Negroes in the Congo dug a cave in which a hefty Crocosaurus lived, and with the help of the moronism of one monster hunter, the animal was taken straight into the ocean with a shark, and now the poor fellow will have to wave with a scaly dummy. Again, stupid people run around them, but, alas, the characters from the first film in the second are not even mentioned, perhaps the actors specifically paid the studio to keep their names from popping up in this disgrace. The plot this time rolls into the depths of horrifying idiocy with the speed of light, the whole film is one continuous misunderstanding, even the characters themselves sometimes on the next idiotic order of the command with surprise ask "What, seriously?". Okay, let's do this, let's set up an electric flash at a nuclear power plant and transport Crocosaurus eggs across the mainland, we live once anyway. Speaking of eggs - this is the real Holy Grail for lovers of bullying thrash in the company of the same comedians. The main character for some reason calls the Crocosaurus eggs his own and phrases like “My eggs were eaten by a shark!” and “How will we defeat them without my eggs?” in Russian translation will give you many minutes of exhausting laughter.
If from the beginning of "Death of giants" kind of tries to keep his face and look like a standard stupid thrashing about giant creatures, then the entire second half of the film is occupied by impassable, painful, incoherent nonsense, I'm awesome plans of the characters, expressed with barely restrained grins, ceased to understand in the middle of the film, and then everything slides into such an abysss that even now put on the film straitjacket and drag electricity. When the shark and the Crocosaurus do meet either in battle or in a love dance, in this graphic can not be seen, I already did not care, in fact, my brain had softened enough that I relaxed and began incoherently shouting “Go shark!” and “Crocodile get!”. So until the finale of the comedy, I was in blissful thoughtlessness, after which, however, I was gripped by intense heat, nausea and other joys of poisoning with heavy fumes emanating from this film, and I began to remember how terrible it was. The graphics are murky and clumsy, the characters are unpleasant, the acting is disgusting, the plot ... I wish he hadn't. The first film was not a very great mind, but everything is very bad. Logic discarded skates at the first appearance of scaly dinocroc, and the rest of the film on her cold body trampled forged boots and did various terrible things with him. This movie is extremely bad and dangerous for the brain, but if you tune in the right way, and disinfect the body with a large number of known drinks, then you can laugh at it well, most importantly, do not overdo it with a dose. Of course I mean the movie.