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Meatball Machine
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List Price: $19.99
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Manufacturer: TLA
Starring: Taro Suwa; Issei Takahashi; Aoba Kawai; Ayano Yamamoto; Kenichi Kawasaki; Shoichiro Matsumoto; Tohru Tezuka
Directed By: Yudai Yamaguchi; Junichi Yamamoto
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: TLA RELEASING
EAN: 0807839002898
Format: Color
Label: TLA
Manufacturer: TLA
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: TLA
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-06-05
Running Time: 90
Studio: TLA
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Editorial Reviews:
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Meatball Machine is a wild splatterific experimental sci-fi/horror rollercoaster that will have your entire brain and body shaken and stirred. Capable of making biomechanical weapons out of human flesh alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes it s also a human love story even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy tumor-like globules. Codirectors Junichi Yamamoto and Yudai Yamaguchi (Battlefield Baseball) pull out all the stops and don t let up until the final epic battle. It s a touching testament to young love blood and alien ooze that leaves you screaming for more! System Requirements:Running Time: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â HORROR Rating:Â NR UPC:Â 807839002898 Manufacturer No:Â TLAD178
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Mmmm...meatballs...
Comment: The Good Things
*Grossest movie ever! Loads of blood and perversity! (Reminds me a lot of the anime show "Gantz").
*A few good gory fight scenes.
*Good filming style. Lots of good camera angles. Has a distinctive look and style.
*Production design is good. Imagine the monsters from the "Quake" or "Unreal" computer games in a movie.
*Simple but interesting story.
*Surprisingly good characters. Although many of them are perverts, the main character spends much of the film trying to act noble.
*Romance is not overwhelmingly sappy, and is touching at some parts.
The Bad Things
*The squeamish should avoid this like the plague.
*Pretty low production value (but the quality of the cinematography makes up for it).
Ah, so this is what "Gantz" looks like if it was a live-action movie! Not only are the two gory as hell, but they also share similar themes and attitudes of sexuality. Plus, both deal with freaky aliens and stuff. Unlike "Gantz," however, this film works better at being scary and immersive. This is definately one of the better B-rated movies I know of, but it's not for anybody with a weak stomach.
DVD has good video and sound quality, and contains a couple of featurettes, two additonal films ("Maximum Meatball Machine" and "The Original Meatball Machine"), and trailers.
Customer Rating:
Summary: rubber suit machine
Comment: This movie has a great looking box. This movie has a great title. There are assuredly 20 bar bands at this moment, performing Monday and Thursday nights throughout this great land, now proudly brandishing "Meatball machine" on their fliers passed out in the local community college cafeteria. Terrific bizarre plot that is most assuredly ambitious and I was pulling for this one. Admittedly I'm kinda on the fence with the camp elements in Japanese "cyberpunk" genre. However CITIZEN CANE was not expected. I'm writing this review because it might be helpful for some of us/you B movie fans that are drooling at the dvd box picture and really want to hit that "one click buy" so they can sleep tonight. I know this movie is appealing just being displayed on the shelf or put on your collection list. But some of you should know The MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION before you left click that mouse... hold on... If your a; "I just can't stand rubber suits kinda guy or gal". And you know who you are, then this movie will become tedious fast. I couldn't finish M.M. glad I saw it, but wish I hadn't bought it. Gave it away to a friend who probably didn't even notice the afore mentioned offense. It deserves a decent home where someone can love and nourish it.
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Summary: Boy is this a Bad one
Comment: Well I thought? with all the talk and reviews that this is a good movie, well I just have to say it is no doubt one of the worse B movies I have in my collection. The gore is awful like the rest of the movie, maybe if the movie was English and not English subtitles it might get two stars instead of one. Keep your money stay away from this one, I paid two much for it, I wouldn't even give this movie away for free.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It was alright
Comment: There were some good scenes of gore, but it is in no way gorier than Dead Alive (Brain Dead). Meatball Machine is like a really demented Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie. All of the monsters look like bad guys from that kids show. The fighting between the monsters wasn't that great.
I wasn't looking for a masterpiece, but I wasn't looking for a kids movie with gore added to it. Some of the bloody goodness was awesome. Heads split in half, eyes getting drilled out, and much more. The parasites that take over the humans are pretty cool looking too. It was worth the watch but not sure if I'll watch it again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I expected more gore but still a good flick
Comment: From what everyone was saying comparing this to the Saw flicks, I dunno it wasn't that gory.. maybe I am just weird :)
I think HER transormation was GREAT, and the story was very good however and I DO recommend it, but compared to today's gore-fests it is not as bad as the cover makes it seem. It has a lot of stop-action which is kinda old school and not gory to me.. again maybe I am jaded and just can look at it with a different perspective.
Bottom Line it is a really cool movie, -- a real love story-- but don't be scared off by the gory references.
Not to be a spoiler, but I wish they ADDED 20 minutes to the ending to see what was gonna happen.. oh never mind see it for yourself!
Jim
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