When A Stranger Calls (2006)

1) Creepy house. She certainly does do a horrible job of checking on the kids. Or just even locking the door lol.

2) Me and @jkasten saw this in theaters back in the day. I kind of wish all the previews didn't spoil the movie when it first came out. The whole 'the call is coming from inside the house' is a scary punch line and shit (and used before in Black Christmas) but I don't know why they had to let the cat out of the bag so early.

3) Some pretty big Friday the 13thesque stuff when shes hiding under the water walk and hes grabbing her.

4) There's a chick who yells out her door "ANDREW JOSEPH". lol.

5) The movie's only 1:23 #mykindofmovie

B-

Bad Boys

1) It's got the best 3 minutes of any movie ever (you can watch it here). When Martin Lawrence yells "YOU LIKE THAT SHIT? WESLEY SNIPES, PASSENGER 57!", it's got to be one of the greatest moments in motion picture history.

2) It's not near as good as the second one. They do include several of the same references (obvi). The "thats how you drive" and them singing Bad Boys is kinda tight in both.

3) The chick in this ones not near as tight as Gabrielle Union is. But fair enough, she's a hard target to catch.

4) Christopher from the The Sopranos: The Complete Series is in it lol.

You want something bad enough?! COME GET SOME!

A+

Chasing Amy

1) As most of you who follow my blog probably know by now, I don't have great taste in movies. I'm aware that some of my favorite movies aren't well reviewed and that my idiosyncrasies are kinda foreign to a lot of people. With all that said sometimes there are movies that I think are good that I know are actually good movies. And this is definitely one of them.

2) It's raunchy as hell for a lot of the movie but has some really good romancesque parts in it too. The dude preaching about the white devil is too funny and Jason Lee is always on fire (except for that movie Stealing Harvard which, although not his fault, is one of the worst movies I've ever seen).

3) I'm not really sure why his solution at the end was the 3 way ultimatum between them. I don't know why he thought that either one of them would think that that was a good idea.

4) The endings pretty sad. It didn't really make me angry like The Breakup did, but nonetheless was kinda :(. I mean, he loses his best friend and his girlfriend, and then shows up to see whats up with his old girlfriend and they just get real sad saying goodbye to each other again. You have to be in the right mood to finish this one lol.

Just short of the A range,

B+

The Wicker Man (1973)

1) I was thoroughly confused for almost the entire movie. The dude goes to find this lost girl but then gets sucked into some weird creepy culture that loves singing but then gets sacrificed? Weird shit.

2) I'm not wild about musicals (actually I really don't like them at all), and this one was just singing up a storm. What was up with the scene with the dude and chick singing at each other through the walls? I don't know why the kidnap investigator would just sing mid-investigation.

3) It's still kinda creepy. All the dressed up people and the spooky little kids still make this kind of scary.

4) On Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - The Tenth Year Elliot goes to Europe to investigate some sex trafficking but he doesn't run into too much trouble. This dude should've bulked up and had Olivia-like back up so he could've avoided getting schwangled at the end.

5) A very Children of the Cornesqe ending: a big cult trying to sacrifice the foreigner, but obvi just not near as good.

D

KU Oklahoma State Game

WGBW. I usually don't venture into athletics very much but it was a sick game that gave a shout out to the debate team so I thought I'd spread the love,

1) Marcus is a hoss. 27 points is out of control. When him and Kief are on it's gonna be super hard to stop us.

2) I was worried about Tyshawn's absence but EJ was just making it rain from downtown! I'm still not wild about being without Tyshawn but it was good to see we could fill the gap.

3) It's always so tight when Bobby Knight starts talking about sportsmanship. Everytime he says how much he admires it I always picture him chucking those chairs in the middle of the court lol.

4) Last, but certainly not least, big shout out to team Milkbox and Professor Harris for making a strong appearance. Rumor is they'll have a spot on the Bill Self show soon!

A+

Episodes Season 1

Had some requests to review TV shows but was never sure the best way to go about it. The season finale of this just aired and there's only 1 season so it seemed like a go.

1) The first few episodes weren't great but the last few were money. They really picked it up once they started making Matt Leblanc get more air time. The first episode only showed him for 30 seconds, maybe that's why it sucked.

2) The 2 British people are real legit too. I'm not wild of the turn the show took in the last episodes though. Having Matt sleep with the chick seemed like it ruined a lot of the shit they could do with it but who knows what season 2 will look like.

3) As much as it pains me to say it, it's quite a bit better than Joey - The Complete First Season. I mean, obvi my favorite Friends character is Joey, but the spinoff wasn't near as good as it could've been. This builds on a bunch of this but gets rid of the NBC editing cuss words.

It's no Eastbound and Down or anything, but still a sick new show,

B+

Cabin Fever

1) Pretty good stuff. Not really too spooky since there was just a virus and no serial killer or anything but still pretty good.

2) Hard to be too spooked out with anything that has the kid from Boy Meets World: The Complete First Season in it. He still played his character well though.

3) Not wild about all the people hurling blood. That was pretty sick.

4) I didn't realize till the credits that Eli Roth was actually in the movie. I didn't know he actually made so many appearances in all of his movies. Wild shit.

Except for the gross factors it was pretty good

B-

Let Me In

WGBW long jitsu sickness this week. Almost back up to full speed.

1) The whole movie was pretty depressing. The kid's moms sad with him, the vampire and dad are always fighting and the kids life at school is super depressing. Paired up with the slow sad music its hard to stay upbeat during this one. The bullying scenes were fucked up too.

2) Creepy shit at the beginning with the Michael Myers mask. I'm gonna have to post about all the movies that rep the mask at some point. It never fucking goes out of style.

3) I'm not wild about vampire movies either but I guess this one was okay. The kids were good actors and shit and all the actual vampire scenes were pretty crazy.

Despite it's depressing shenanigans, light years ahead of the other vampire jitsu I've seen (except for Fright Night obvi).

C+

Hitch

1) Very well rounded stuff. It's a little bit of an unbelievable story line but the movie's still good.

2) Actually the storylines pretty jitsu. How would a date doctor pay taxes? And why would the media even care about him? Besides the occupational jitsu though it's pretty good.

3) The underdog getting the hot girl is always a good storyline.

4) After rewatching this it seems to be a lot more mediocre then I remember. But I can't for the life of me figure out what's bugging me about it. Maybe it's just because there's no Martin Lawrence in it. Who knows.

5) Eva Mendes is a babe. She's also in Children of the Corn 5 - Fields of Terror, an underrated sick movie in and of itself.

B+

Sweet Home Alabama

1) One of my all time favorites. I've got much love for the small town love story and this one's good. Most of it's probably just due to my love for small towns, but this was still legit.

2) I feel bad for the other guy. In some of these movies somebody ends up getting dicked even though he didn't do anything. Even at the end he just ducks out even though he gets clobbered out in booneville alabama.

3) Also kinda crazy because the chick makes moves for the guy at the end of this one. Besides A Lot Like Love, I can't really remember too many films where the chick goes to hunt down the dude at the end. Then again I haven't thought too much about this lol.

4) The guys name is Andrew Hennings. What a weirdo.

A

The Roommate

First a big shout out to several people who made watching the movie in the theater enjoyable:

a) The 3 12 year old girls who kept screaming before anything scary happened and kept predicting the next parts really vocally.

b) The half a dozen people who joined us throughout the last 30 minutes of the movie. We couldn't have done it without you.

c) The attention deficit 8 year old who sat behind me. Thanks for repeatedly kicking the back of my chair, chattering constantly, and saying "Gross!!" when the 2 hot chicks were making out.

d) And last, but not least, the mother of 5 who let her children use me and Joel's personal space as a home away from home.

1) Besides the poor viewing environment, it was pretty tight. As I anticipated it was a lot better version of Single White Female. The scene where she goes to meet up the ex-boyfriend is fucking almost identical to it.

2) The whole movie was pretty predictable, but they did a hell of a job mixing up the ways the roommate would take everyone to town. The cat in the dryer thing was new, as was professor.

3) Objectively the story didn't make that much sense. For some reason or another the roommate hated some other girl she used to stalk and always wanted to whoop on her parents. The only explanation was that she was off her meds. I'm sure mental health professionals raved about the portrayal of mentally ill kids in this lol.

4) I don't really know how it was rated PG-13. There was phone sex and a bunch of other inappropriate shenanigans.

Better than I thought it'd be,

A

K-State lol

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Pretty Woman

1) Really solid overall. Good unique plot and I always get a thing for movies that build off the prince/damsel in distress story.

2) Richard Geres a good actor and all but he kinda brings this movie down a little bit. I mean, I get that he's supposed to be this depressed business guy who Julia Roberts brings out of a funk, but even at the end he's still pretty Debbie Downer.

3) The scene with the horses at the end always reminds me of the end of Notting Hill (Collector's Edition) because Julia ROBERTS (edit lol) is making moves by the horses lol.

4) It didn't make much sense that she was gonna move 5 hours in order to get her GED at the end. She coulda just gotten it in L.A.

5) She says she used to screw the debate team in high school lol.

Good Stuff

B+

V-Day

I'm not really wild about Valentine's Day, but in the spirit of @Pourem's favorite holiday and RomComs generally I think I'm gonna make it rain this weekend.

Up soon: Pretty Woman, Hitch [Blu-ray], Valentine's Day, and Sweet Home Alabama.

Get ready for a jam packed weekend blog world!

-themanagement

Bad Boys 2

There's not much to say except this one of the top 2 movies of all time.

1) I don't even know where to start. Martin Lawrence quotes have probably defined much of my vocabulary for the last few years of my life. A lot of them are from Nothing to Lose but this one has enough tight ones. Them talking about Jacques Cousteau or the gun fight with the Haitians is tight.

2) I'm really not that wild about action movies but goddamn this is good. I wish Martin Lawrence would get out of the family movies and back to his unscripted self. The first 2 Bad Boys movies are just so good.

3) The scene where Reggie shows up to take Martin Lawrence's daughter out is too funny.

4) Rumor is the sequel is still on the way. Pray to all that is holy that it materializes.

5) Me and @DB used to make it rain on this movie every XMas. We need to start bringing it back on the reg.

BAD BOYS FOR LIFE

A++

I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

1) It wasn't near like the first one. It's been awhile since I've seen the other one but this one was eh.

2) I gotta say I think I might jump off the torture horror movies for awhile. This movie had some pretty screwed up stuff going on. Obvi the girl got the revenge but dear god. Sticking to sick teen slashers from now on.

3) Speaking of- this movie almost seemed like it was more like Saw or Hostel (Director's Cut) than the original. All of her revenge scenes are just like the shit that would go down in those movies. I've seen all 124 Saws, the 2 hostels, and both these, but I'll bet if you wrote down some random killing scene that was in one of them I couldn't tell you which movie they were from just because of all of the jitsu similarities.

4) It was okay in that it took awhile before anything crazy happened. Movies always lose me when the end is drawn out but this one was good.

5) They had a sick line about business getting better and better.

Too bad this movie just got worse and worse,

D+

The Boy She Met Online

1) Usually not wild about the dramas but this popped up on tv and I do have a thing for lifetime movies. Me and @doggles watched it and its pretty legit.

2) It was kind of stupid how they played the suspenseful music the whole time. Kinda ruined the few moments in the movie where something crazy actually went down.

3) And I've never been to prison but how did the dude get onto an internet chatroom to meet some chick? Seems like the prison would generally frown on that. Who knows though - they are letting MMA fighter 'War Machine' blog from jail.

4) Good stuff for the most part. The storylines/drama in Lifetime movies always appeals to me but some jitsu stuff always happens at the end. What was up with the chick going up to the cabin? Who knows.

C

The Good Son

1) Had some creepy parts. The part with the 2 kids wearing the Michael Myers masks staring at each other was freaky. Inadvertently freaky was that Elijah Wood's dad is the killer from Disturbia. #creepy

2) I get that parents don't have total control of their kids, but this was ridiculous. How on Earth did he manage to construct that high powered cross bow that had a scope on it? The thing shot silver bullets fcs. I get that kids find dead birds or something but jesus this was crazy. And that treehouse? It was like 50 feet in the air. How did someone nail those boards into that tree so high up?

3) Macaulay is pretty smart for being such a little n00b. I don't know many 8 year olds that know how to use a circuit breaker or poison stuff. Scary crazy.

4) Reminded me a lot of the Orphan. Had a better ending though.

I don't know why the critics didn't like this one,

B-

Darkness Falls

1) Never seen a scary movie about the tooth fairy before. Good stuff.

2) The beginning was scary as hell. All the movies where nobody believes the little kid always creep me out (see Child's Play 2). The tooth fairy chick in this movie also looked super scary in that mask.

3) I don't know why the kid hides under the covers when she comes for him. It's always really scary when this happens (check out Poltergeist for more evidence of this), but I'm never sure why they do it. It's not like the blanket will shield you or anything.

4) The part was real gross at the beginning when the kid is pulling his own tooth out and blood is just everywhere. You think his mom shoulda warned him about that.

5) The first 45 minutes was good but got pretty stupid when the tooth fairy just kept chasing them at the end. Is it really that hard to just find some place thats lit up?

It was good but nothing too wild

C

Joy Ride

1) Had a good plot and had some creepy parts. The part where the truck driver comes to make it rain on the stranger next door is pretty creepy. And dear god the part was good when the driver tells him that he's missing a tail light.

2) It took too long to get over with. I think thats my problem with most movies is that my ADD just gets in the way of watching it. I don't know why it took so long for the truck driver to finish making it rain. It was almost like one of the jitsu Saw sequels with him setting up all those traps and stuff.

3) It's hard to picture that lead actor in anything but those other 90s teen movies. I just picture him in She's All That or Varsity Blues. Really hard to picture him doing anything too spooky.

4) I got much love for the horror movies set in the midwest.This is no Children of the Corn, but it was okay.

Pretty original but gets kinda jitsu at the end

C-

Candyman

Trying to get back into some more of the classic/cult horror movies.

1) Really solid overall. I think part of the reason this was so spooky was the Bloody Mary tale used to really scare the hell out of me when I was little.

2) It's not as scary as I imagined it would be because the Candyman is just a normal looking dude. It'd be scarier if he was some creepy looking goblin or something.

3) I got kinda confused by the end. What was the purpose of the sacrifice? I dunno why Candyman needed a sacrifice/was holding the baby hostage. At least her turning into the new Candyman was creative/tight.

4) His hook weapon was a little jitsu. Been awhile since I've seen Hook , but that thing never seemed to scare me too much.

Single White Female

1) In anticipation of The Roommate coming out on Friday I thought I'd watch the early 90s version of it. I'd seen bits and pieces of it when I was a youngster but it's much better than I remembered.

2) I mean dear god, the trailers are almost identical. Here's the one for The Roommate and here's the one for Single White Female. Almost the only thing different is that old announcer. That guy was tight.

3) Shit was tight. The girl keeps acting crazy and the other chick just can't figure out a plan of action. High paced stuff right there.

4) It was pretty predictable. I mean I think everyone figures out that the new girl is gonna try to steal her boyfriend, and then kill everyone off by becoming her. But, whatever, it was still good.

Can't wait to see the roommate,

B+

The Descent

1) Had a good plot. No one has screwed with the claustrophobia plot in a really long time so it's good they went with this angle.

2) That being said, they kinda jitsu'd this up. I get that you can't just make a movie about getting stuck in these small ass caves but what was up with the goofy looking hyena people running around? It's like they took a bunch of the little midgets from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory [Blu-ray] and painted them white and had them go crazy in a cave. Don't get it wrong, I get freaked out by a bunch of jitsu stuff. But this was like having a bunch of blind one-legged cats chasing you.

3) I never really get the killing your friends twist in these movies. There's too many movies where people go on some trip angry at one of their roommates and then decide to off them when times get tough. I mean I get that this one girl sucks, but do you really need to stab her? Was that really necessary?

4) I hate those fake endings. Maybe the jitsu Rob Zombie Halloween movies riled me up too much, but does she really need to pass out and imagine all that dumb stuff?

5) Besides that it was okay. Original plot and minus the little possessed cheetahs it was pretty creepy.

C