![]() He was referring to KT-22 - the nearly 2,000 vertical-foot iconic hunk of rock that rises straight from the base area and serves up enough terrain to satisfy the most extreme appetites. If you want to see something truly horrifying, just go to your local Wal-Mart.Whenever Squaw Valley Ski Team’s long-time, beloved program director, the late Mark Sullivan - AKA Sully - was asked what made Squaw Valley skiers so good, he always had the same answer: “That’s the best head coach right there,” he’d say, gesturing out the window behind his office chair. Will it be enough to make you pay to see it in theaters? Probably not. The dichotomy between crazy and sane people will be enough to entice you. Is it worth seeing? That depends on if you have $10 to spare. Olyphant’s acting was spot on for what was expected, but the prize has to go to Anderson: The deputy added a hint of humor in an otherwise dreary reality. For example, the entire town was decimated by the virus within a day of being discovered how’s that for convenient? Too many close saves and perfectly timed miracles bog the plausibility down. The plot, although scary enough, was too sporadic and unbelievable at times to be considered good. The military commits some pretty heinous acts, and no amount of psychosis-inducing virus can justify them. That doesn’t make what happens any less atrocious, though. It’s the classic “big government” scenario. Those deemed infected are taken away, usually screaming the whole way. It even goes so far as cordoning off the town’s population in a make-shift military base. Instead of an evil corporation, the military, doing whatever it is the military does, takes the helm in this rendition. ![]() It’s similar to the “Resident Evil” trilogy plot, where a corrupt corporation goes all “you don’t ask, we infect you all anyway” on the residents of Raccoon City. Judy (Radha Mitchell) his deputy, Russell Clank (Joe Anderson) and Judy’s assistant, Becca Darling (Danielle Panabaker), a ragtag group if there ever was one, embark on a quest to survive. Regardless, Dutton his pregnant wife, Dr. Technically, it’s not a true zombie movie, but the monsters jump from raving, babbling idiots to sadistic, highly intelligent murderers. However, that is one of the movie’s faults: The crazies don’t follow zombie lore. (It’s a nice touch.) Cell phones lose their signals and the Internet ceases to operate, but that’s nothing to the virus-infected lunatics strolling around with bone saws, whistling catchy jingles. (Dutton does not warn anyone not to drink the water, oddly enough.)įrom there, the film shifts to a militaristic, strike-zone scene, initiating the lockdown protocol for Ogden Marsh. However, merely shutting off the water supply does not stem the tide of bicycle-riding psychopathic killers. Sheriff David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant), the protagonist, is the first to discover the link between the disease and the mysterious downed plane in the wetlands. “The Crazies” centers in Ogden March, Iowa, a small Midwestern town, to celebrate the opening of baseball season. “The Crazies,” directed by Breck Eisner, is reminiscent of the olden horror movie mix: Combine one part government “accidently” releasing a mind-altering virus into the water supply, one part people going crazy and killing indiscriminately, one part a few people staying sane and trying to find a safe haven, add a pitchfork and, voila, a recipe for disaster. If there’s ever another movie involving a mysterious virus that somehow drives victims crazy, the federal government embodying the bad guy and a morgue playing host to more than just dead people, it’ll be all too soon. MaJoe Anderson (left), Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell and Danielle Panabaker star in the 2010 remake of “The Crazies.” The group struggles to survive despite a virus that causes insanity being released in their hometown of Ogden Marsh, Iowa.
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