5.9 | / 10 |
Users | 4.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 3.4 |
When Bigfoot attacks an 80s themed music concert, a concert promoter and a hippie burnout will do anything to protect the "endangered species."
Starring: Danny Bonaduce, Barry Williams, Bruce Davison, Sherilyn Fenn, Howard HessemanSci-Fi | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-2
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
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25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 1.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 1.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
The show will go on.
Are these movies made with the purpose of making them as awful as humanly possible? Bigfoot is an absolute joke of a movie, an abysmal
motion picture, an insult to the cinema medium. Here's a movie that encapsulates everything wrong with Asylum/SyFy fare. There's minimal plot
(but give it credit for actually having a plot, unlike Alien Origin, probably the single worst movie ever made), laughable
special effects, numerous continuity errors, poor characters, and on and on. It's not even a frustrating watch, just a boring one, save for those many
moments when it's easy to laugh at the mess playing out on the screen. Yet even those aren't enough to salvage the experience. Basically, this is
"King Kong" squashing people on and around Mount
Rushmore. He becomes offended when a nearby 80s flashback music festival microphone emits feedback and proceeds to kill everyone he sees.
Meanwhile, a couple of aging rock stars fight over music, who slept with whom's mother, and of course capturing Kingfoot, er, Bigkong, er, Bigfoot.
This thing is just so miserable it almost defies logic. For those who wish to read no further, here's the bottom line: skip, skip, skip, and stay far, far, far,
away.
Watch out Alice!
Bigfoot features an Asylum-typical transfer. It's MPEG-2 encoded and 1.78:1-framed. The picture was shot digitally. It's clean and clear, nicely detailed, and stable. It's not too glossy or flat and represents a fairly nice, easy-on-the-eyes texture that's not as good as film and not as bad as the lower-rung video sources where banding and blocky backgrounds run rampant. In fact, this is a very precise transfer with minimal banding, often seen only in fade-outs and fade-ins. Details are crisp and sharp; facial lines, clothes, small town wood and brick elements, and natural vegetation all sparkle. Colors are even and accurate, whether the snowy South Dakotan surroundings, clothes, cars, or the colorful music festival stage. The image can appear a bit fuzzy and artificial around some edges, and the special effects shots lack crispness and pinpoint definition, but overall this is a satisfying transfer and of the expected quality of an Asylum release.
Bigfoot also features an Asylum-standard soundtrack. Once again, there's no lossless option and listeners are presented with a hobbled but efficient Dolby Digital 5.1 presentation. The track offers acceptable clarity and good spacing. The presentation makes good and fairly consistent use of the surround channels. There's a fine sense of envelopment in the concert scenes, for instance, even if the cheering crowd sound effects that encircle the sound stage seem many times bigger than they should according to the corresponding visuals that show but a sparse assembled crowd. There's good musical clarity and a natural sense of space. The heavy action effects offer fine power, though not refined power. Bigfoot's stomps are strong but repetitive and sometimes a bit unnatural. Still, they shake the stage well enough, and gunfire, buzzing helicopters, and other action-oriented effects are suitably implemented. Dialogue is even and focused, playing naturally through the center and never lost to surrounding music or effects. Though it's a DVD soundtrack, this one serves this low-budget movie well enough.
Mercifully, Bigfoot contains only a scant amount of extra content. There's a brief making-of featurtte (1080p, 6:32), a gag reel (1080p, 1:16), and an assortment of Asylum trailers. As always, included is a DVD-style non-seamless menu ported over to the Blu-ray.
The legend may be alive, as the box says, but Bigfoot is DOA. This is a miserable movie that, to be fair, has its moments of high unintentional humor, but it's otherwise so awful and dull that it's not even worth watching as a Comedy. Miserable special effects (seriously, this is the best that can be done on the cheap in 2012?), a ridiculous pairing of aging television stars, a thoughtless script, and no care for continuity all make Bigfoot one of the worst movies of the year. The Asylum's Blu-ray release of Bigfoot does feature good video, fair audio, and a couple of throwaway extras. Gluttons for punishment should rent, others should stay away.
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