foxtrotmarie

This was Rob Zombies first movie, and it shows in a lot of ways. I know he's gone back after the fact and said many things on it and it has many flaws but being the first one it was excellent for what it was. You definitely can see his music video directing self come through often with the grainy cut ins throughout the movie but I think they really add to the feel of the whole thing when they aren't also adding to the characters. The characters themselves in this movie on its own are fun. Compared to the movies later to come in the series they are definitely cartoonish and not as fleshed out but there's nothing wrong with them, they just would have to grow and change if the movie turned into multiple and they do just that in later films. But contained in this one alone you find yourself cheering on the bad guys. Especially compared to how just boring or generic or awful the 'good guys,' are. The setting is fun and dark and there's always something to look at. The plot, eeeeh. It gets a little far fetched at the end but taking it for what it is it's a fun ride the entire time. Gore is there, shock is there but this is by no means high up on either list.

First of all the fact that so many of the bad reviews just HATE, not dislike but HATE this movie and Rob Zombie is hilarious.

It is a gore type of movie but with movies such as Human Centipede, Hostel, etc out in the main stream (and that's not including those not so main stream) i don't think it's super high on the gore list. Likewise it is horror, horror is partly suppose to make you uncomfortable. There are several uncomfortable scenes (I'm looking at you Otis in the hotel) but I just see them as doing the job they were meant to do, make the viewer squirm a bit. Now the gore and the shock style scenes may not be everyone's cup of tea and I get that.

But overall the movie was done very well. There are issues and plot holes sure but it doesn't take away from the story. The plot overall is simple enough. The characters are the same we fell in love with in the first but more fleshed out and real. Absolutely love the direction they went in.

It's the same family and same story yet a completely different direction.

I love the Firefly clan. I love Rob Zombie. I really enjoy his work. So I may be going into this a bit blinded. I did not enjoy this movie as much as the previous two in the trio but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it at all. It doesn't hold the same magic as the first one and the characters don't have the same pull they do in the second one. Most of the movie I felt was too rushed while other parts dragged on a bit much. It was like parts I wanted to see more of or that needed to be explained more were run through while others that sometimes felt like they weren't needed at all were super drawn out. The characters are the same mostly and I still love all of them however they didn't have as much... depth as they have in the past while still having more in new ways than we have seen. It's hard to explain unless you've seen all three movies. The plot was good, a few big 'why,' holes that were either not really explained or poorly explained but as a whole the movie was good.