Gun Town (2009) Notes & Spoilers

6/10

Gun Town (2009) viewing notes

ALL KINDS OF SPOILERS!!!!!!!!

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!!!

(by the way, not edited, so don't get in my grill about spelling errors and such)

we start with a title card explaining Frank and Victoria worked at "Gun Town" in 1979. Something went wrong.

Old timey-type footage shows a shooting.

Frank gets sent to looney bin for 30 years, comes back

Park is shut down, except for the Bailey family who somehow still lives there (huh?)

Girl running through woods, gets picked up by guy, then cellophane to death (in 2 seconds?) (OK, I know you gotta get that shit off her head pretty quick to not really kill her, but she couldn't last like, say, 10 seconds?)

Credits over various shots of random things. Bonus- credits have a nice font.

Girl (Shelly) gets a message on phone. Calls for Tracy.

2 morons show up at gas station. 3rd guy, nerd (Jerry) shows up. OK, Kevin (beard guy) is just an ass. Matt is the guy who invited Jerry for some reason (childhood friends)

Wow, Jerry stole wine coolers! Hard core! And a road trip!

On to a farm like place. Morons meet the 2 vapid girls. The dialogue is, ah, painful. Girls are pretty, though, so that's something.

Mentioning of Michelle. Foreshadowing! And she's lost for the road trip.

Jerry rolls up. Guys want to kick him out, girls like him for some unfathomable reason.

Off on the road trip! And now they're lost after being "on the road for an hour now." Ah, can anyone drive for an hour and inexplicably lost? Pee stop for Shelly. Black guy stumbles through bad lines. Yes Charlie, you are a gem.

Broke down truck, who's owner looks suspiciously like one Mr. Vervoort. Kids are asses, he says be careful because someone sabotaged his truck. Kids roll, and hey! there's Michelle's car off to the side of the road near an old western theme park. Coincidence? Well, yeah, since they are basically lost, but oh well. So they stop and get a flat tire, (random booby shots) and find an abandoned western theme park.

Bar scene was kind of funny.

Jerry finds a car. They want to steal it. It starts, but it's out of gas (huh?) Jerry is an idiot.

Guy is wheelchair shows up. Part of the family that is still kinda running the place. As in they put on bare bones shows. Badly. Clown show. Ugh.

How do we get help? Several bad ideas. Walking. Mostly boring for a while. Back to the park- survival training on the level of a 2nd grader ensues for a bit.

1/2 way through.

Cool makeup on beard guy, looks likes a Klingon (ah, it's Bobo; wait, they stole my monkey?!). Spooky masked theme park Sheriff. Meet the rest of the family). OH, shit just got real!

Much running, evading, imprisonment, bitching, tripping, killing. Dude loves his cling-wrap. The director writes in an ass-spanking for himself… wow.

Cannibalism, OK, why not.

Backstory time! Ah, why the hell did they let a tourist load the gun? Why the hell were real rounds even available. WTF. C'mon, you don't know how to gas up a car? Woman, you are completely useless except for the jiggly bits you keep bouncing around. I really didn't need to see that from Victoria.

Chainsaw Massacre twist. Ugh. She's (supposedly) dead, but they don't collect the meat? Oh, the real sheriff was also the clown.

Ah, tourist's girl is getting revenge in backstory.

Going back for Shelly meat. Oops, she's gone. Truck guy runs into Shelly. Turns out he's Michelle's dad (blarg- never met on of your friend's parents?). Oh oh, man with super hair (Vervoort; what, I'm half bald) is going to kick some ass! Yup, he has some stuntman in him. Hey, truck dude's name is Jake! He has a bow now; damn we're going all 'First Blood.' Or 'Rambo 3,' take your pick. (Fairly meta to kill yourself in a movie) Poignant music! Blood!

Reflections on what has already happened to get Shelly to wobble her breasts some more, er, kill off Bailey.

Face revealed, and it must be bad by her expression. And she walks off to the sunset.

Credits.

Starts off well. Some character exposition. Drags in the middle when they are bitching about the drive. Picks up at the bar scene. Slows for a bit, then hits the action. Gets a bit silly with the twists. Mr. Vervoort is by far the best actor. Action kung-fu scene is a bit silly. Ends OK.

Cinematograpy- pretty nice. Don't know what Vervoort used, but it looks like good film stock.

Dialogue- from iffy to good. "Does anyone have a tire changer?" Errrr….

Sound- nicely equalized, no inaudible talking followed by shrieking banshees attacking the speakers. The sound did drop out some times. May be a flaw on my disc.

Acting- better than your average DTV movie. I'd put it around the SyFy range. Considering this was the 1st movie for most of them, kinda impressive.

FX- not really, except for some meat being chopped. Actually a smart move- if you can't pull off something at least decently, don't try to.

Makeup- had to put this in because that mask is creepy as all get out. Give Mike Myers a run for "oh shit!' factor.

Music- minimal, but nicely timed.