There are genuinely good Roger Corman movies? Clearly I missed out on my research!
I forgot to mention that, this weekend, along with rewatching Joe Black with my uncle, we also watched Keanu and the new Fahrenheit 451.
Keanu was all around excellent, though near the end the DVD was skipped, and a whole 5 or so minute long scene was skipped over.
Fahrenheit killed me. It started so good. The casting was excellent and character portrayals were excellent, aside from Clarisse who is totally ruined. Clarisse is supposed to be an optimistic and happy child who is interested in the old world. In this, she's a rebellious teen who develops a freaking romance with Montag who should be about 20 years older than her. But I digress. Montag is missing his wife, which was odd, but okay. The movie went pretty well for the first, maybe first and a half acts. Then there's added plotlines that don't make a lick of sense, there's no mechanical hound, no Doctor Faber (those last two weren't in the old movie either, but that doesn't excuse this, it should be another adaptation of the book, not a remake). There's a strand of DNA with all the knowledge on it that is inside of a bird and they plan to extract it from the bird and insert it into every animal so that knowledge will spread? But it's knowledge that will only aid a human, so what's the point of it being in the animals? Do they get the knowledge from eating the animals? That's not how DNA works...
I hate it because there are so many great scenes in an overall bad movie.