Then, there’s The VelociPastor. It would appear to not take itself too
seriously. It doesn’t necessarily poke
fun at other horrible movies. Rather, it
revels in its own incompetence. Rather
than aim higher than it can achieve, it asks what it can do with what it
has. It may not be the funniest you’ve
ever seen, but it is good for a smile or two.
The movie is about a pastor named Doug
Jones. (No relation to the actor of the
same name.) When he sees his parents
killed in a fiery car crash, he loses his faith and goes off to China to see if
God can still find him. Instead, a
dinosaur claw finds its way into his possession. Now, when Doug gets angry, he turns into a
velociraptor who will often eat the offending party.
Back in the United States, he saves a
prostitute named Carol from a mugger.
She repays Doug by sleeping with him, which immediately makes him
uncomfortable. Between killing and
breaking his vow of celibacy, he’s not sure what to do. After he kills Carol’s pimp, she convinces
him that maybe he’s meant for vengeance.
It’s a great way to take out lots of bad guys.
What follows is a bunch of stuff that
you know shouldn’t be taken seriously, but kind of makes you wonder. Instead of a car explosion, we get a cue to
use VFX Car on Fire. Instead of China,
we get some guys in a forest that could be anywhere. There seems to be a fuzzy line between genius
and apathy. (For instance, using “priest
college” instead of seminary.)
It’s a low-budget parody of low-budget
movies. Sure, there are others that have
done it better. Kung Fury and Kung Pow:Enter the Fist come to mind, but I don’t think the movie is striving for
greatness. It’s not going to be mistaken
for high art. It brings new meaning to
the saying, "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
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