Hey folks, Harry here with TheMark... now I just posted Capone's review - where he liked it, though he had hated Rob's first film. So we have ObiSwan and Capone liking this movie... and TheMark hating it. We'll see where it comes at some point. Here ya go...
Last night, here in Cincinnati, I was invited to a screening of Rob Zombie's "The Devil's Rejects." Having read on your site how most of the people who'd seen screenings thus far felt it was better than "House of 1000 Corpses" and overall was a pretty tight little 70's homage to road-horror films, I went in pretty excited. I think Rob Zombie has a great eye for visuals, and his music is pretty good; HOWEVER...This was the worst fucking movie I've ever seen.
In true Aint It Cool News fashion, let me describe some of the people around me before I even review this...I had to sit behind this dual-couple of half-tards who kept laughing everytime Zombie set a scene of violence to an otherwise happy sounding song. For those of you not in the know, if we're watching a montage of people getting maimed while all I can hear is..."Spill the wiiiine, take that peaaaaaaaaarlllllll" courtesy of (I believe) War and Eric Burton, it is done for comic effect. Regardless, this is not the funniest thing you've ever seen, and you should never turn around and make sure I think it's funny too, because I will mind-fuck you.
Ok, back to the movie. The flick looked as though it was done in the 70s, and Zombie's learned to reel it in from all those wacky camera shots and hyper-kinetic editing. Unfortunately, he's not learned that when writing a screenplay, you should focus on having a plot to the story. I'm also a mild gore fan, and i'm definitely down on some violence in my movies. Too bad that the violence in this movie had no point to it; it seemed to simply be there for shock value. The only thing I took away from this was: "The bad guys from House of 1000 corpses are on the run from the police because they're crazy and mildly inbred, then they show up at Brian Posehn's motel room and murder 4-5 people just because, and then they meet up with Ken Foree (aka "the black guy from the original Dawn of the Dead")...oh and make sure to cut to an insane William Forsythe every few minutes spouting off how he's God's arm of justice."
It's a brief moment of *SPOILERS* here when I say the best thing in the entire movie is when they flip a major horror convention on it's ear. Towards the end of the flick, the "monsters" become the victims, and it's a great idea. However, this idea lasts for about 5 minutes, and then becomes the most overlong victim-torture sequence you've ever seen.
So in short, make sure that you all don't see this movie. Avoid the shit out of it. I love Rob Zombie, but he should not be writing his own pictures. In the words of my friend who accompanied me to said flick: "This wouldn't have even been good if I was high."
And that says a lot.
Remember kids, make good choices...
~The Mark
P.S. Star Wars is in fact better than LotR.
