While I was looking at lists of upcoming new movies in theaters, my eye just happened to catch a movie with the title Rim in it. I took a double take and sure enough, there it was, Atlantic Rim. And the splash image seems to have giant monsters in it.
Upon closer investigation, I see that The Asylum has done it again, and like many porn producers who play with movie titles to make bad rip offs, The Asylum jumped on board their gravy train once more to make what is obviously a complete and total rip off of del Toro's Pacific Rim.
Oh, where do I start?
This one is called Atlantic Rim and stars Graham Greene (Defiance, The Twilight Saga), David Chokachi (Rage of the Yeti), the busty Jackie Moore (Who cares what she was in... she just upped the ante in this movie), and Anthony 'Treach' Criss.
With Atlantic Rim, their tag line goes as follows:
"When giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard, the U.S. government is forced to trust A.I. robots to defend the country."
Here's their trailer:
[youtube link]
(It's funny how related videos on YouTube include a Concorde Jet crash, like how this film will probably crash!)
The movie goes so far as to have very similar names to the robots from Pacific Rim, and dropping them to the ground to go into action.
It's pretty frustrating to watch this company slap out these mockbusters. They've been sued time and time again by movie studios, but they continue on.
They've recently come out with Jack the Giant Killer, and the Bell Witch Haunting. As you can see they're keeping their low-budget production machine running on all cylinders.
After such "hits" as Transmorphers (Transformers), The Day the Earth Stopped (The Day the Earth Stood Still), American Warships (Battleship), and Age of Hobbits (too obvious to need explaining), it's apparent that they fool or suck enough folks in to keep the knock offs coming.
I had finally lost my patience with this production company when they put out Battle of Los Angeles (Battle: Los Angeles). The production was so horrible that that I swear they had no real film editor. The man behind the camera might have been the on-the-fly editor.
And then there was Almighty Thor (Marvel's Thor), where the lead character's name playing Thor wasn't even on the DVD box, and in addition to his hammer, he had his Uzi. (Yes, that was not a typo or wordo.)
What I find interesting, or disappointing, was the origin of the company, and their financial performance track record.
They had started out creating straight to video horror films but had a tough go at it. Then they produced a low-budget film adaptation of The War of the Worlds in 2005 and Blockbuster ordered 100,000 copies. (Now we know who we can really blame!)
Suddenly, they saw the niche they could fill.
After that, they never lost money on anything they put out.
It's been said they spend four to six weeks on a script, a few weeks for pre-production, and a few weeks for production. (And it shows!)
Normally, you can catch their "stuff" on the Syfy channel. Syfy loves these guys. But more often than not, if you see something of theirs on the schedule, I can't find myself recommending their product any time soon. I think of them as scalpers or content thieves and I can't condone what they do.
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wikipedia: The_Asylum
-Bruce
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