Carnosaur & Carnosaur 2

Super fun to watch. You won't regret picking this masterpiece up if you like gorey corny movies

Love these old Corman films. Unfortunately only the second film would play.

It arrived earlier than estimated time of arrival. It looks exactly as what's in the picture and qualiy is great!

I remember watching this movie as a kid and recently I been rewatching movies that I found scary as a child. This was one of those movies. What I remember is a scene where a woman got her arm ripped off and I wasn't sure which Carnosaur it was so I bought the 1&2 dvd pack. I found the movie I watched as a child was indeed Carnosaur 2.First, I'd like to say the major issue with this movie is that it doesn't have Closed Caption. I am hard of hearing, and while I got most of the movie, I felt I would get the most benefit with closed caption or subtitles enabled.Now for the review of Carnosaur 2. When I first watched the movie, I couldn't quite put my finger on it as it felt similar to another movie out there. It wasn't until the helicopter pilot said, "Turning on final" that I finally got it. This movie borrowed the entire Aliens plotline, and simply converted it to their own movie about dinosaurs. I couldn't tell you the exact reason why they did it. If I had to speculate, I figured the movie makers probably thought that since Aliens gave the franchise a major boost, it would do the same for this movie. You can identify each of the major characters from Aliens movie in this film. It doesn't have Ripley, but it does have Newt as a male teenager, Cpl Hicks as a sort of dual role with Ripley, and you have Lt Gorman, Apone, Ferro the ace pilot, Burke the evil corporate person, and a lot of other characters. Of course their names changed, but you can definitely see each character I mentioned in this movie in one form or another in terms of personality type and their purpose in the script.Whatever reason it was for the stolen plot, the movie failed for more than just borrowing a plotline. While the plot works, what failed is the fact that the movie made zero sense. Absolutely no sense at all. Well I should say at first it made some sense: a team of mercenaries/contractors are sent to a facility that lost contact. The team was supposed to make the facility operational but when they came, they found it was empty and broken down. Now this is where the movie starts to make no sense. While the movie initially started as a expert team who can get the facility up and running, nobody, minus one person, seemed to know how to get the place running. Matter of fact, you have no idea what each character was suppose to do. At first they seemed to be simply contractors able to get the facility running, then they seemed to be ex-military types acting as mercenaries but they have no weapons of any kind. They just all came into this facility, went crazy, and died. Basically it's like Aliens but making zero sense. Oh yeah, at the end, everything blew up for no reason. At first it sounded like the facility was going to be blown up on its own, then they got dynamites, then there was a count down, but when the clock reached zero, it didn't actually blow up until they blew up the dynamites.The dinosaurs were the worst. I mean the movie could have really done fine with the bad dinosaur design if it actually made sense. Again, the facility was just overtaken by dinosaur, but they were just running around killing everything for no reason. The funny thing is in one part a character managed to kill a dinosaur by a simple flare gun. It seems like if they had actual firearms, they could simply go in, clean out the place, and go on home. But that isn't the case, for whatever reason.The only part I was excited to see was the arm rip off scene. It was the most brutal scene of the entire movie. Matter of fact, the mercenaries or whatever the heck they are, were standing not more than 10 ft from where this poor woman was getting her arm torn off by a dino and brutally killed. I'm sort of glad this is all I remembered of this movie because everything else is forgettable.A final thing: they not only stole the plot but props too. The part where the pilot was coming in and stealing the line, "Turning on Final" I notice the helmet she is wearing belongs to the movie Robocop. The helmet is the exact same as the movie itself. I thought that was funny.It seems like this was a ultra low budget film where they stole a plot, and stole props to make something that made zero sense. My overall thought is you could probably skip this movie.

Arrived on time and as described

first movie does not play in bluray player

Here's my review of CARNOSAUR 2:Roger Corman does it again. He had Michael Palmer recycle the script of THE TERROR WITHIN (1988 - which was a rip-off of ALIEN [1979], which was a rip-off of IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE [1958]) and substituted dinosaurs for mutant creatures. A cleanup crew go into an underground nuclear dump site and become trapped, being picked-off one by one by genetically engineered dinosaurs who were exposed to the leaking radiation. That's basically the entire plot. There are some juicy dismemberments and gut-munching scenes but not nearly enough to forget that this is basically deja vu all over again. It's of interest if only to see how low the careers of John Savage (TV's DARK ANGEL [2000 - 2002]), Cliff DeYoung and Don Stroud have sunk. Also starring Rick Dean (ISLAND OF BLOOD - 1982), Ryan Thomas Johnson and Arabella Holzbog. Directed by the numbers and without imagination by Louis Morneau (QUAKE - 1992; BATS - 1999). This sequel definitely does not have the weirdness factor of the first CARNOSAUR (1993), which was really only a quick cash-in of Spielberg's JURASSIC PARK (1993), but turned out to be one of Roger Corman's best films of the 90's. A New Horizons Home Video Release. Rated R.

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