American Warships
There’s no denying, however, that I made this particular purchase owing to the fact that I have recently enjoyed watching SYFY’s Super Shark which is why I bought this low-budget direct to dvd movie that was produced by The Asylum a short time back. Both these films were produced by the same company.
The alien invasion theme was put to good use in the film ‘Aliens from Outer Space.’ Now here is where the plot changes some. Somehow a race of outer space creatures learned our politics. Maybe they get C-Span broadcasts in the outer regions of the Universe? No matter how such intelligence was acquired, a species from another planet decided that by provoking countries on Earth to engage each other in warfare, is the best way to conquer humanity.
In essence, we can kill each other off who can spare the planet’s resources, which are dwindling anyway. Consider the destructive capability of nuclear weapons for a moment. In analysis of all this, I feel, this is a rather clever plot for a B Movie. Some other movies of the same genre I have viewed are far more absurd than this.
The Asylum does not present itself in such a way that any reasonable observer would think they have the same kind of resource as, let’s say, some Hollywood bigwigs. They still tend to look for big stories and big movies to make, spending only a fraction of what other studios consider a norm – Asylum, for the most part, manages pretty well. Of course one can always whine about CGI Effects or storyline. All that comes with having smaller wallets.
How high the ratings? Quite high, I would dare to say! The SYFY Channel reels in their productions and broadcasts them as SYFY Original Movies. As Asylum has good distro too over 100 films with back-catalog. The US big stores like Walmart sell their movies either alone or in a box set.
The filmmakers’ website does not avoid the point of the fact that their films bring in a dividend. It’s an industry. If there are no profits there will be no more films. Well, whatever. Here is a little known independent motion picture company based in Hollywood, which obviously makes money. If you think that their films are bad, you have to take a 90 degree angle. These people are making a profit and it seems they are enjoying the act of ‘destroying the world’ while doing so.
The story of American Warships was good enough, In fact it worked quite well as it was shot on a retired real war ship. One of the story line involves the battleship being prepared for docking so that it could be converted into a museum, in fact it already was a museum. This was a great idea because it lent a lot of realism to the whole film.
This film also stars Mario Van Peebles and Carl Weathers. Both put in solid performances. Of course, we’re not talking about performing Shakespeare here. It’s an action movie. They delivered suitable performance given the crudeness of the script. There were also good supporting actors mostly guys. They all acted like soldiers quite well. There were also two women supporting their script. One is Johanna Watts. Fans of Star Trek Enterprise might know her from the two episodes she did back in 2005. The other is Nikki McCauley who plays a civilian. Neither of the actresses did anything too sexy, but the point of the film does not rely on T & A assets anyways.
In general, the special effects were well aligned to the respective scenes. There were a few times around the film where I found myself nearly bursting into laughter because it appeared that the special effect could have definitely been better. I am sure they did their best given their allocated budget. Or else they knew that accomplishing the real effect would be too expensive so they just threw in some half-hearted substitute to get a laugh. It’s probably a combination of both.
In all honesty, these movies were not so bad. I gave it seven stars on the website IMDb. The current movie in theaters is compared at least in title with the BIG Hollywood movie Battleship. I haven’t seen it, nor do I plan to, at least for the time being. I would most definitely prefer if one member, who happens to be in the cast of battleship, was not in the film.
There are quite a number of such films, and I will not spend my money to encourage such actors. It is my right as a consumer. In that sense, American Warships was a better alternative for me. I feel I made a good selection between the two. Before one goes berserk, one should bear in mind that the primary purpose of these films is to entertain the viewer. American Warships was entertaining, at least for me. He was watching this with me, my seventeen year old nephew. Popular culture appeals to him. He liked it as well.
Being a fan of B horror and sci-fi movies, I got myself accustomed to the armchair critics who feel the need to tear apart movies like these. For the most part, these so-called fans of the genre do not come across very well when they have to distinguish between a straight-to-video production and a full Hollywood production. You find these haters on the web.
Most I believe did not even see demos of the films that they so readily criticize. How can someone compare flicks at independent studios like Full Moon Features or The Asylum with companies like Paramount or 20th century Fox? Please, you need not go to any film school to know that they are apples and oranges. Perhaps when such fools based on unknown behavior, get to know that, the rest of us who love such films, at least, do not have to suffer their one star review which seem very targeted and aim to place abuse to any such B-movie which does not exceed a million dollars budget and in what way is it comparable to work that took 250 million dollars and two years to produce and present at the cinema.
To each his own. There are some who’ll be perfectly happy if he/she sees a movie that has a weak script, terrible acting, bad direction, production values that could make anyone laugh, and wires that are clearly visible because they hold the imaginary flying saucer somewhere in the middle of a quiet town, or a bustling metropolis where the saucer is apparently destroying, whatever the case may be.
After all, when I watched Plan Nine From Outer Space (1959) popcorn by Edward D Wood Jr., it was simply comical. I developed a passion for what the critics of the ’70s appropriately called; Turkey Movies. Since that time back in the 1970s when I came across Wood’s masterpiece, I have walkabout deliberately searching for the cheesiest of the outrageous B-grade films if one can call them that. Films which were intentionally created to be played in succession with the main attraction. Like the drive-in’s in the seventies. And now, decades later, it is the direct to DVD home video market in the 21st century.
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