http://www.lessthancredulous.com/2009/08/28/62/ Trusting no one, we find out for ourselves Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.lessthancredulous.com/2009/08/28/62/comment-page-1/#comment-45 MichaelC2B Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:25:39 +0000 http://www.lessthancredulous.com/?p=62#comment-45 Good review. I love this movie. It's unusual, it held my interest from beginning to end, and the acting was excellent. Alex O'Loughlin shines as Michael. Anyone who has seen his other work on TV or in films knows that he is a brilliant actor, and he really shows off his range in this role. I was impressed that he and his costar Patrick Thompson came up with the idea for a film after having seen a documentary about feeders and gainers. They took the idea to Brett Leonard and it turned into what was almost a "family affair". Brett assembled almost the entire cast from "Man-Thing" and they filmed FEED on an extremely low budget in about 28 days. I love having the DVD, as some of the best scenes are in the deleted scenes, and "FEED in Philly", with the audience answer and question with producer Melissa Beauford and Alex O'Loughlin is so much fun to watch. I would recommend that anyone who likes FEED get a copy of the UK DVD. It has the option to watch the movie with commentary by Brett Leonard, and some of the info about how the movie was made is so much fun to hear, especially with Brett's sense of humor. FEED was meant to be a thriller and a dark comedy as well. Some of the scenes that are meant to be funny truly hit the mark. From some of the things I have read on the internet I think that some of that humor was lost on some viewers who couldn't get around being "squeamish". Personally, I didn't see anything the be that squeamish about, though Brett himself tells you in his commentary that he hopes that you are "disturbed". He laughs as he says that. I enjoyed the soundtrack so much I got a copy of the CD. Seeing Michael do his little dance to "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" is worth the cost of the DVD all alone, as are his rants about women and body image, etc. Again, Alex is brilliant as Michael, and as his popularity rises as it has over the past few years, FEED is destined to be a cult classic, as I have already seen it referred to many times. Get the US DVD to get all of the extras, and then the UK version to get that commentary by Brett. Good review.
I love this movie. It’s unusual, it held my interest from beginning to end, and the acting was excellent. Alex O’Loughlin shines as Michael. Anyone who has seen his other work on TV or in films knows that he is a brilliant actor, and he really shows off his range in this role. I was impressed that he and his costar Patrick Thompson came up with the idea for a film after having seen a documentary about feeders and gainers. They took the idea to Brett Leonard and it turned into what was almost a “family affair”. Brett assembled almost the entire cast from “Man-Thing” and they filmed FEED on an extremely low budget in about 28 days.
I love having the DVD, as some of the best scenes are in the deleted scenes, and “FEED in Philly”, with the audience answer and question with producer Melissa Beauford and Alex O’Loughlin is so much fun to watch.
I would recommend that anyone who likes FEED get a copy of the UK DVD. It has the option to watch the movie with commentary by Brett Leonard, and some of the info about how the movie was made is so much fun to hear, especially with Brett’s sense of humor.
FEED was meant to be a thriller and a dark comedy as well. Some of the scenes that are meant to be funny truly hit the mark. From some of the things I have read on the internet I think that some of that humor was lost on some viewers who couldn’t get around being “squeamish”. Personally, I didn’t see anything the be that squeamish about, though Brett himself tells you in his commentary that he hopes that you are “disturbed”. He laughs as he says that.
I enjoyed the soundtrack so much I got a copy of the CD. Seeing Michael do his little dance to “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” is worth the cost of the DVD all alone, as are his rants about women and body image, etc. Again, Alex is brilliant as Michael, and as his popularity rises as it has over the past few years, FEED is destined to be a cult classic, as I have already seen it referred to many times.
Get the US DVD to get all of the extras, and then the UK version to get that commentary by Brett.

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