Fantasia Film Festival Day 2: #26 Infestation (2009) and #27 Ip Man (2008)

Today I saw Infestation, an American monster movie with giant bugs and Ip Man a Hong Kong Kung -Fu movie.

Infestation
Infestation is an alien invasion movie about giant bugs attacking an unnamed American city. At the beginning of the movie the bugs use a high pitched sound wave to incapacitate the entire city wrap all the people up into cocoons. A few people manage to escape their cocoons and spend the rest of the movie trying to find out what happened and where they can go to save themselves. The bugs similarly to the aliens in Pitch Black are blind and can only see people when they make sound.
The movie follows all Hollywood movie conventions, it is incredibly predictable and entirely unoriginal. The characters are all stereotypes and a lot of them were incredibly annoying (including the main character who I could not stand.) Even the bugs are uninspired. The only creature that I really enjoyed were the mutated humans, part zombie-part spider, that just looked exceptionally monstrous.
The movie mixes humor into the alien invasion scenario similarly to how the 2006 movie "Hatchet" did with the slasher movie scenario. But were as "Hatchet" played the movie as a tribute to old horror films with cameo from old horror legends, "Infestation" is just another formulaic horror flick shat out by Hollywood. You know there something wrong with your movie when the funniest joke is comprised of a bomb detonator missing its batteries. I really did not like this movie.

Ip Man
Ip Man is the story of legendary Kung-Fu master Ip Man (that's his name, pronounced Eep-Mon.) The movie goes through a few parts of Master Ip's life. Throughout the movie Master Ip defends his town from bandits and teaches the townspeople to defend themselves, later he fights against a Japanese general to defend his town and country's honor. I loved this movie: The fights are incredible, all the actors play their parts perfectly and the movie just overall looks and sounds amazing. I didn't expect the acting to be this good considering most of the actors were martial artists but Donnie Yen as Master Ip really impressed me. He plays an extremely likable character, so calm and subdued yet so threatening and badass. The supporting cast impress as well as they also kick major ass throughout. Theres even a bit of humor as Master Ip tries to balance his duties as Father/Husband and Kung-Fu master.
This is a must-see movie for anyone who enjoys action movies. I don't wanna spoil too much but lets just say that at some point Master Ip defeats 10 Japanese soldiers at the same time.