Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-17 (Thursday)

On 7/18/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 In The Lost Lands (Hulu) - Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista... are... In The Lost Lands!!
    Another Paul W.S. Anderson special starring his wife.
    OMG - Jovovich's character's name in this is "Gray Alys"! - Her name is "Alice" *again*?!?!!
    Interesting - this is apparently based on a short story from George R.R. Martin!
    Note: This was also filmed "300"/"Dark City" style

 - I'm sure that about 100% of this was filmed in greenscreen with the cool visuals added in later in post. (And this is a "budget" operation, so unlike, say, "Colonials" (Colonials!), this film's greenscreen/CGI work doesn't look like sh*t!!)
    Gist: Post-apocalyptic sword/western & sorcery flick. After a nuclear war, an age of monsters and magic is ushered in! (I know I've seen this angle done somewhere before! Hmmmmmm...  ;p  )
    Jovovich's "Gray Alys" is a "witch", hunted (as a witch!) by the "church" (with the main baddie being a warrior/enforcer "nun"(?) played by Arly Jover). For some reason, she *must* grant any wish/quest asked of her. The "Queen" (Amara Okereke) does make a "wish" - that Gray Alys kill the resident "werewolf" and take his power to make the Queen a werewolf too.
    The "werewolf" lives... In The Lost Lands! so Gray Alys needs a guide, Boyce (Bautista) to track him down.
    Wackiness ensues on their 7-day quest to get to the werewolf by the full moon, while being hunted by the evol! enforcer nun and her band of church crazies!
    Meanwhile, the Queen has to fend off various forces on her way to ascend to power.
    This was an OK timekiller, but it wasn't the best from Anderson or Jovovich, or the best of sword/western & sorcery flicks or all- greenscreen/CGI flicks (though most of the visuals are pretty cool looking).