"Dragon Head"

So... In our failed attempt to go see a movie, Molly and I went to Blockbuster and got "Dragon Head" instead. It was good... if you ignore the terrible dubbing job which I did after Molly left and thats when I started to take it seriously. Pretty cool concept; train wreck with three teenage survivors. One goes crazy, gets killed by the others. Those two (including some sort of teenage pop-starlet, Sayaka - my goodness is she amazing) find their way out of the tunnel only to find that Japan has been completely destroyed by some sort of unknown force.

The film is stretched very thin as far as dialogue and action goes. It teeters on a thin line between action flick and eerie atmospheric film. It, unfortunately, never figures out which it wants to be, and that really is the worst part of this a-little-better-than-good movie.

Near the end of this over-two-hour epic, we are thrust into some sort of conspiracy theory explaining that some have planned for such a cataclysmic event by placing non-perishable food underground for survivors to find in Tokyo (which our heroes eventually find). This food causes everyone to basically become catatonic. They are completely emotionally numb. The reasoning behind this is that no one is going to survive this combination of meteors/extreme-seismic-activity/volcanic-apocolypse, so why make them feel fear in their last desperate hours?

Its a good ending (possibly because it was the only part I actually watched in Japanese), and there were some fantastic images throughout the film. Low-budget and never-heard-of, it was a solid Blockbuster risk.

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And she was hot.

... I think I have lock-jaw... like all the time.

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