Troll Hunter

Well I am having a great time here in my new home in Austin.
I really love it especially the fact that I live so near the Alamo Drafthouse.

Now let me talk a little about this here Drafthouse.

They recently received a lot of headlines recently because some girl was inside of the place and was texting in the theatre and was kicked out. Well our infamous texter called and left an angry voicemail saying that she was allowed to text in a THE-A-TER because this was the MAGNITED STATES OF AMERICA…Which I am still trying to figure out there that is.

Anyway Kiddies I can tell all of you something about the Alamo Drafthouse. You see there not only is no commercials for Sprite or lame Coca Cola short films.

What you get instead is a pre movie reel that is relevant about movie that you are about to see.

For example the first flick that I checked out there was Scream 4 and what they showed was a trailer reel of the previous Scream flicks as well as other Scream Rip offs and a few more obscure flicks that many of you may not recognize.

Then when it is Showtime you are shown a funny video making it clear that cellphones, Talking, and Texting is not allowed which makes it clear on no uncertain terms that you will be thrown out and not get a refund.

Another thing that she said is that it was too dark in the theatre and she was using her phone as a flashlight to find her seat. I’ll tell you something a real good friend of mine works at the Alamo and his job is to run food and drinks to the tables and it is not that dark so.

This chick has to be legally blind and if that is the case then what in the blue Hell is she doing going to the movies anyway.

Needless to say what we here Kiddies is a spoiled brat who can’t handle being punished for her actions. I tip my hat to the Drafthouse for using this to their advantage.

Now on to the flick.

Last week Eric and I decided to head over to the Drafthouse and check out a screening of Troll Hunter.

The plot is about a group of filmmakers that are following what they think is a hunter that is illegally poaching bears only to find out that he is in fact following trolls and that he works for the government keeping the local troll population under control while finding a way to humanly dispose of them.

This is one of the more interesting of the found footage genre in the fact that you actually get to see the monster in all of it’s glory and not in fleeting glimpses like many other flicks such as Cloverfield and Blair Witch.

Generally this a pretty good flick it makes you laugh and It keeps the suspence up when it matters.

I was impressed mostly by the special effects in the fact that the trolls looked real though clearly CGI but good CGI there are some model scenes but they are cut well into the movie.

Now this flick is Norwegian and it does have subtitles but you don’t have to be fast to read the dialogue and watch the movie and you won’t even notice after a while like most international flicks.

1 Dead Body
0 Breasts
8 Trolls
Exploding Trolls
Stone Trolls
Man in Armor vs Troll Scene
Truck vs Troll Scene
1 Car Chase
Human Fu
Christian Fu
Troll Fu

3 Stars

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