Species
90's sci fi horror starring Natasha Henstridge, her fabulous hair and her boobs. Scientists contact some aliens, the aliens send them info on infinite energy and some DNA strands. So they combine these DNA strands with human DNA, making a woman because they are more docile and stuff. They then decide to terminate it for reasons I forget, I think it wore socks with sandals or something, but it's grown into Michelle Williams who escapes, eats a woman on a train then gets off the train having grown into Natasha Henstridge, who's gone all horny and murderous. So Ben Kingsley hires a rag tag group of two academics, a psychic and an assassin to hunt her before she fecks everyone to death. It's a story as old as time.
The special effects are pretty decent considering it came out in 1995 and it's got early CGI. Henstridge is pretty good, coming across as both innocent and predatory. Setting her up for the career highlight lead role in Ghosts of Mars, the best film about ghosts on Mars you're likely to see. Michael Madsen is Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger is there she's just there to be a love interest and didn't have much to do, Forest Whittaker and Alfred Molina are pretty good and could have used more screen time. Ben Kingsley though puts in one weird assed performance, his accent is all over the place and his 1000 yard stare is out of place. There's a scene where I'm not even sure if Sil is controlling him or he's just massively predictable.
The story explores themes of like life and stuff. It also explores Natasha Henstridge's boobs and Michael Madsen's love of crouching, prepare to be confused as to why he's crouching. Why would you get up on a car bonnet only to then crouch? He loves a good crouching session.
7/10
The Man Who Shot Hitler and then The Bigfoot
Sam Elliott plays Sam Elliott, an old man who is a bit fed up with life and keeps thinking about ending it. He remembers that time he shot Hitler, then some government agents come and ask him to go kill Bigfoot because it's spreading disease in Canada and is heading for the US border. So Sam has to go kill it, despite being like 102. It looks nothing like Bigfoot but he kills it anyway. Then he gets reported as dead and his stuff gets buried, but he comes back and digs it up and just carries on with his life remembering stuff. Larry Millar is in it, I forgot he existed.
That's literally the plot of the fillm right there. He may not be called Sam Elliott in the film, but he may as well be. I didn't even have to break it down to sound slightly more absurd like Species, that's the actual plot.
5/10
The Mushroom trips in that film were spot on (I imagine).
