"SS Doomtrooper, okay by me" Topic

Saw this last night. Kind of a fun romp, and probably one of the best Sci Fi Channel movies I've seen. That's not saying much in and of itself, but I thought it was a decent story that clipped on quickly enough. Besides, I enjoy WWII horror/sf/fantasy.

And speaking of WWII horror/sf/fantasy, anybody got any other suggestions? All else I can think of at the moment is Indian Jones III and They Saved Hitler's Brain.

Were you involved in the making of it, or somehow financially tied in with the production?

Worst movie I have ever seen by far…….

How about Bubba Ho Tep? Okay so no WWII but it does have the whole Horror thing down with JFK as an elderly black man and Elvis Presley dying of penile cancer in an old folks home in East Texas. The other option is of course, Hellboy!

Cross-posting my capsule review from a half hour after it ended:
"Dirty Dozen" meets "Wolfenstein" meets that tech school commercial with some 20-something playtester braying "and my mom said I'd never get ANYwhere with these video games."
Hundreds of shots fired to no effect other than to raise the (negligible) tension at as next to pointblank range as makes no difference. Attacks on fortified positions in broad daylight. A wrist as thick as a leg being severed by a knife in the hands of the comparatively slightly built hero.
The horror. The horror.

Here you go

imdb.com/title/tt0071650

I couldn't stand to watch 15 mintues of the wretched thing.

It felt like it was shot on the set of Call of Duty 2 – if Call of Duty had actually been shot on a set instead of being a videogame.

Then again, I didn't expect anything out of it.

Ray

I liked the US sniper using a Mauser sniper rifle and the US pugilist using a Bren…

James

And lets not forget the Panther34-85 with the crew of 2!

James

So no one noticed the lead actor, Colin Nemec, was also in the quirky 80's comedy "Parker Lewis Can't Lose", while one of the allied team was also named Parker Lewis?

Hard to tell. I returned home for only the last 15 minutes but unless those were the only horrid, awful, eye hurting, brain numbing 15 minutes of the film, I'm going with 'Choose a Root Canal' as a more enjoyable alternate use of time.

How about the 'snow one minute, none the next' effect? How about eight pounds of high explosives going off next to Brit Marine's head and he doesn't have a scratch? And why did they blow the radar anyway? How about the fact that monster SS boy weighs eighty tons but leaves no prints in the snow? And the accents! Wonderful. This sucker would have beat Brokeback hands down in Oscarville if it was made in 2005 and not 2006.

I wanted to watch it but I had to watch the LSU trouncing instead.
TB

"So no one noticed the lead actor, Colin Nemec, was also in the quirky 80's comedy "Parker Lewis Can't Lose", while one of the allied team was also named Parker Lewis?"

Well, it's Corin (or Corky) Nemec, and we recognized him from playing "Jonas Quinn" on "Stargate SG-1"—and thought, "How the mighty have fallen…"

Allen

Cool concept. Crappy CG. Goofy choice of vehicle weapons. But hey, at least the actors playing the Germans tried to have German accents. I think it had enough good puply fun to be worthy of a note for possible source material. I could have taken most of the crap in there except for when the tank shows up. The rest of it wasn't much worse than any other crappy war movie.

Two things that crossed my mind…
1: Where did the chick get the cow from?

2: Has Ben Cross's career gone so downhill from the 90's when he played in the Dark Shadows mini-series that he is now tied to this schlock?

and finally…why did the castle, and the light pouring out of it, (which made no sense), remind me of that other awful nazi film…"The Keep"?

Why is it that people try to heap great expectations on movies that were never intended to be anythign more than B movie schlock? Schlock is never intended to be more, not should it be. The world needs its schlock.

Schlock, Schlock, bring out yer schlock!! As I've said on the other two SS Doomtrooper posts, if you approach a B- movie about a Nazi Atomic Death Mutant Rampage with low expectations (ie, expect nothing but schlocky action fun), then it was enjoyable. If you insist on comparing it to Saving Private Ryan, then yes, it falls a bit short. Too bad Bruce Campbell missed out on the lead on this one!!

Once again Sci-Fi Channel proves that it can blindly throw money at anyone with a script in hand, just not a good one. Honestly, this has to stop, I keep seeing and try to disbelieve every time another "made for Sci-Fi exclusive" gets advertised, and it hurts every time I see them. How many awesome novels are out there just begging to get the movie treatment,(Uwe Boll STAY AWAY!!!), and all we get is this CRAP! Anyone know the location of Sci-Fi's home office, cause if they're tossing out cash, I might just have to staple some blank pages together and hang around outside till that cash-loaded briefcase comes flying down from above? God knows they aren't expecting results of any kind!

emu2020 "Why is it that people try to heap great expectations on movies that were never intended to be anythign more than B movie schlock? Schlock is never intended to be more, not should it be. The world needs its schlock."

My sentiments exactly. Being a drooling barbarian, and not having the civilized sensibilities of all you genteel folk, I HAD FUN. Pure and simple. Was it a great movie? No. Was it fun? Yes.

It is definitely not "B" quality.

"J" maybe, but not "B".

I didn't get to see all of it and frankly I might never see all of it. The movie just didn't grab me. No compare that to Blade or Underground and wow what a difference. I was very disappointed.

I couldn't make it past the first commercial break. BAD it was, BAD! 8-)

The rip-offs from Dirty Dozen was a tad too brazen and the Doom Trooper was too cartoonish. Oh well.

Re: The Parker Lewis thing. If it had been a throw away, one off thing, i.e.
American Col: What about recruiting this guy, uh, Parker Lewis?
American Cpt: Nah, I know that kid, he's a loser.

Then we would have had something. It got old, quick.

I got to the second commercial break and I could take no more, stopped the replay on my DVR and promptly deleted it. Did I have low expectations? Of course I did. Did they meet the limbo-pole level standard I set? Not even then.

Hmmm I guess I am not alone in my disappointment.

Sci-Fi continues to produce and broadcast movies that are best enjoyed with Mike and the 'Bots riffing at the bottom of the screen.

I started to watch it lastnight, but the urge to head over to Ikea won out after about 15 minutes. It started of pretty good, but once Colin Nemec came on screen it started to go downhill pretty quickly. His acting was very wooden…personally he did a better job on SG-1!

The monster looked like something out of "Castle Wolfenstine" or "Quake," and I just don't mean design wise. The CGI was sub-par, even for TV. Just look at the centuriouns from the new Battlestar Galactica, ten-times better IMHO!

I'll probably finish it up tonight just for the sake of finishing it, but I don't think I'll be buying it on DVD anytime soon. In my opinion the begining of "Hellboy" had it right for pulpy WWII action.

I can see now why they cancelled Farscape. They had so many other great projets to pursue with the money.

Ah, it wasn't so bad, even though the same creature that took an 88mm round to the chest without apparent injury managed to get its hand cut off by a knife…

I want to be fair. My brother played Private Lewis. NOW:

Like all of you, I set low expectations, after all if it was a great story, intersting ensemble, terrific effects opportunity or true Sci-Fi metephore for life an truth, it would have been produced by Warner. 20th Cebtury or Paranount maybe even Lucas, and then sold to Sci-Fi, but it wasn't and Sci-Fi paid (Obviously not very much).

But if it had been any of those, then the A list would have been called and the second string (ie…my brother James) would have been benched.

So, I am glad that the movie met all of my expectations for a B-movie. It failed to develop each of the characters, relying heavily on the "dirty-dozen" explanation to cover that, the CGI failed to maintain any of what little illusion was created by the far from authentic costume and weapons use, and the pyro-effects lacked any kind of scope.

Those are its failings, but lets look at its successes. It wasn't Corin Nemec's Man-Squito, and director David Flores seems to have some idea what he is doing with a camera. My brother James, gave a good performance (excepting his awful attempt at a NY accent, he's from Arizona…)and his transformation from zero-to-hero could have been good if we could have seen some more humanizing shots besides the now imfamous (Bagel-Baker scene). The story wasn't the most creative or origial, but it played as a typical WWII war-monster parody, and radio-active genetic angle gave it some depth, if only the techies could have stepped up the science a bit (ie…HULK).

Comparing apples-to-apples sci-fi original to sci-fi original, it was standard and good clean escapist enetertainment. If you aren't looking for that deep meaning of life metephore, then you may like to have this one for your B-movie collection, and I hope that it leads to A-list opportunties for my brother, as long as they don't ask him to do any more accents without ever going to the places he is supposed to be from. (Remind me to take him to NYC sometime: Fogetabooutit…)

Perhaps we'll see these guys back with more than a film school budget. THis film was perfect: I held a viewing party, we drank, made fun of Jim's accent, laughed and made idol chat over the distinctive azteck/sumarian castle design in Nazi Europe, and basked in the glow of the scary vieny 2D monster.

Now that's entertainment.

Oh my. Judging from the comments, does this mean that "Zardoz" has competition now…? ;)

Yeah gwpomichter, I don't mean to harp on your brother or anything, but since you apparently agree with me, I will this time – that was perhaps the worst New York/Brooklyn accent that I have ever heard in the cinema. It was hard to actually concentrate on what he was saying, the accent was so bad and distracting.

You mean Bruce Campbell missed playing in this one? WOW! Makes me want to see it. It has to be better than the Bruce Campbell schlock! Doesn't it?