Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Ketrivie
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Jenni Devyn
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
sgcim
I bought this DVD with a gift card I got for Christmas in a compilation called "Hotter Than Hell". It consisted of 4 horror movies for 9 bucks so we're pretty much talking about cheap thrills here. The other 3 are lousy and one of them was edited so poorly that they included one scene that was shot twice- one after the other!!"Sore Losers" however, didn't belong with the other 3 because it had a lot of creativity, a hip sense of humor, good acting and a consistently imaginative visual style.When the director showed anything, there was always something going on that made the scene more interesting than a realistic approach would show.For example, in the beginning of the movie, the J.D./ alien robs a convenience store and we're shown an old guy playing an acoustic guitar and singing a country song with his eyes closed and you wonder where the heck he is. Is he in the back of the store? Does he have anything to do with the scene at all? We're never given an answer and the film goes on as if it never happened!There are many examples of craziness such as this, and every scene is done with the director's personal touch.If you're looking for a typically slick, SciFi Channel alien flick, you better go somewhere else. The unconventionally beautiful D'Lana Tunnel takes care of the cheap thrills department, with scenes of her fighting in the nude with another woman towards the end, with both of them being electrocuted in the electric chair of a prison as they're fighting!The music is basically a bunch of garage band-sounding rock with the only redeeming track being a minor-key, jazzy sounding thing with tenor saxophones that sound like kazoos.With better music, this could've been made to seem less ramshackle, in spite of its being shot on 16mm, Super VHS, or whatever.
guyfromjerzee
Anyone with a half a brain can tell this was made by a group of amateurs with a budget that couldn't be more than a couple thousand dollars. I liked the film's use of lighting, as well as the costume design, but other than that there's nothing good I can say. The story's an incoherent mess. It's one of those confusing story lines that goes in many different directions and is hard to follow, yet at the same time it's not worth following. Besides the lighting and costume design, the film is a stylistic mess. It's like one of those student films where the director is simply trying to show the professor all the different things he can do with visuals, but totally ignores the concept of making a "good film." The sound is terrible. There's one scene where we're watching two characters get out of a car, from a distance, and it sounds as if the characters are right in front of the camera (an obvious use of ADR). Some of the camera-work is shoddy as well. In one scene, two of the characters are in an amusement park, and it's shot on a cheesy home video camera. And no, it wasn't a stylistic choice. I guess the filmmakers weren't able to sneak a film camera into an amusement park, so instead they used a mini-camcorder. That's the kind of stuff you can only get away with in film school. And like in many bad films, there's a good deal of nudity. Some of the girls have pretty nice bodies, but the use of nudity is simply a ploy to distract us from the fact that this movie really sucks and doesn't make a lick of sense. Some viewers may be able to interpret something from this micro-budget flick, but I was lost. Then again, I'm not a fan of movies that jump back and forth, nonchalantly, from one reality to another, and there's no surefire way of telling what's real and what's fake ("The Matrix" being a big-budget example). I'm sorry, but I actually like to understand a movie. Is that too much to ask? There are some complicated films that are worth uncovering the mystery in subsequent viewings, but this is not one of those cases. Besides, why should I take any film seriously that's made by a director who doesn't even bother to put any effort into hiring good actors or using good cinematography?
tattoo-robb
I picked this DVD up with several other low budget flicks at a store going out of business. It was the best $3.00 I've spent in a long time! The Sore Losers is about aliens sent to kill 12 hippies each. The only problem is, if you don't kill enough, or you kill too many, you are screwed. This movie has plenty of what most low budget sci-fi and horror fans look for, ie lots of nudity and a surreal story line that borders on nonsense.The thing that really got me is that the actress D'Lana looks an awful lot like Melissa from the reality show "Joe Millionare." I've tried to search and see if it was her, but can't really tell. If you are looking for a good way to kill an hour or so, and you like the low(est) budget stuff you can find, this film is worth it.
giggles-4
If you love ´The CRAMPS´ you love this thrash-movie. It´s like a CRAMPS-song come true in picture and sound, it´s all that you like : catfights,cool clothing, great music(the thrash/garage/ one),a weird story and a red-haired-hell-of-a-women like Poison Ivy. This movie is great to watch with a couple of friends and a couple of six-pax !!!Lots of FUN!!!STAY SICK!!!