Girls Season 1

M.Danger- this is for you ;)

1) It was pretty solid. All the raunchy humor and random shenanigans they get into are pretty good. All the episodes were mildly entertaining except for that one goofy one in the middle of the season.

2) The thing that scares me about the future of the show is that the writing is too transparent. After Danger pointed out that Hannah dropping her clothes was kind of like her life falling apart I started looking for these metaphors. And the season finale where she just walks around lost obvi signifies how she's lost in life. Even when she yells at those chicks to help her they all laugh. I don't usually notice this kind of thing in movies which makes me worry that it's not too deep lol. (Random aside- I guess falling asleep is pretty easy- Ross does it on Season 4 of Friends and AMac said it always used to happen to him on the metro back in the day.)

3) Part of the other problem I have with the show is that I just don't understand some of the problems they have. I mean, they moved out due to personality differences? Did you just have that epiphany? Or that one girl complaining that the dude she dumped was gii with that other girl? Or that she had to do all the housework? Me and Alan didn't pay rent for 3 months one time and we still have family harmony (4u DB ;).

4) If this show ever goes under they need to give that Adam guy his own show. He's by far the funniest part about it and that would be tight.

B

Eastbound and Down Season 3 - Part 2

Wgtw, I was getting ready to review Girls (that will be for you @danger), but forgot that I never got to EBD. I previously reviewed the first 2 eps but decided to hold final judgment until tha end.

1) It wasn't horrible, but it was just such a let down compared to the First Season. I mean, the Second Season was pretty good, but wasn't anything compared to the First. This one was even worse :(

2) Like where was April the whole season? (I've always had a thing for her so I might be biased). And why did they try to bring back all those jitsu characters from last season? His dad/step brother were just some unnecessary sideshow.

3) And why was there all of that ridiculous stuff going down? The scene at the plantation was pretty stupid, Stevie's meltdown was goofy, and so was him walking away from baseball.

4) That being said the third ep of the season was pretty close to the best ep of the show ever. And there was still it's fair share of raunchy humor/generally tight quotes from Kenny Powers/references to the show Friends that it wasn't a total let down.

I never thought I'd say this,

C+

Nosferatu

1) We watched this because it was on that jitsu 'great movies' list, but I know all the horror fans always say that it's one of the ones that started the horror genre so I guess it was good to watch.

2) Obvi the silent/black and white genre hasn't been great (I'll try to quit sounding like a broken record about this stuff), but this one was a little more jitsu because they had these subtitles on during the whole movie.

But they weren't really subtitles since it was silent, it was just like a commentary about what was going on during the movie. Come to think of it, this movie was just like one giant animated story book.

3) The other problem with the subtitles is that they were in some super old font that was hard to read. They should've put it in Century Gothic (@cormatt). And it was going way too fast to keep up with. I know my reading comprehension skills are below average, but even Alan had trouble keeping up with it.

4) The Nosferatu guy was pretty fucking spooky, especially given how old the movie is. I guess I kind of wonder why those people keep hanging out with the creepy dude who keeps lunging at blood, but to each their own.

Given that they couldn't add sound/color to it, still a solid movie given how old it is.

B-

Casablanca

Smh,

1) Obvi it's in black and white which is a downer. I guess I knew this getting into the movie but it still doesn't help.

2) A lot of things don't make sense about this movie. Now I'm no history major (obvi) but I thought this movie was about all the French people getting away. Why are they speaking English? And why aren't they more scared of the Nazis? There's this one scene where everyone's drinking in the bar and there's a shoot out with a bunch of Nazi's running around. Then everyone just chills a few minutes later. It's like, "hey there were just gun shots and the people taking over Europe are here, why don't we GTF out of here?"

3) I guess the ending was sort of stupid too. I mean, who throws in the towel on their long lost love to let her go run around with some other dude when she's all about you? It really reminded me of Season 3 of Friends when Chandler throws in the towel on Janice. FWIW I guess it was better in the end.

4) Also, why on earth did Alan just have this sitting in his backpack? You know how you always plan in case of a fire? And there's like a list of your prized possessions you'd be sure to grab? Well Alan has Casablanca in his must have list smh.

Off to a poor start,

D-

Upcoming Movie Reviews

Wgbw,

In the midst of studying for tha bar, me and Alan have had a lot of time on our hands. Unfortunately, Alan's taste in movies is subpar and we can never agree on a movie to watch. To break this, we've agreed to review only movies that Roger Ebert deems as Great Movies.

Alan and I are going to trade off picking the movies, and will hopefully not watch too much stupid stuff.

-the admin

American Pie

1) Pretty solid. I remember back in the day (circa 8th grade) when this movie was pretty taboo and nobody's parents wanted them to go see it (and obvi for good reason). Nevertheless it's pretty solid overall.

2) This movie's historic in that it was the breakout role for Sean William Scott. I don't care if you hate these movies, he's funny enough to make them good all by himself. They should've plugged him into The Artist and just had him scream obscenities the whole time. That would have made that stupid movie tight.

3) Come to think of it, it's running laps around the second one. Actually the second one just sucks. That Kevin guy gets all sad for no reason and the whole time they just reminisce about high school. And then they scrapbook about that stupid party. I guess I'm digressing, really a point for another post.

4) Random FYI, all of the music in all of these movies was on Bricker's ipod for years. He always acts like he doesn't know which band is singing which song but we all know he's lying lol. (All American Rejects, Sum 41 LOL).

Solid,

A

Eurotrip

1) Pretty solid movie all the way around. For those of you who might frequent the blog/my personal space, you probably already know that a trip to Europe sounds pretty stupid and there's no way in hell that I'll ever venture over there. That being said, the movie overcame such a herculean obstacle and was still pretty good.

2) Obvi there were some pretty jitsu parts. The road trip with the soccer (football?) team was stupid, and I could go without the nude beach thing. That really hit or miss Portlandia guy running in the train was also unnecessary.

3) That being said, both the chicks were super babes. The little brother was pretty funny, as well as Cooper making fun of the two siblings for making out lol.

4) Obvi the best part of the movie was the Scotty Doesn't Know song. I'll include it for everyone's viewing pleasure.

A-

Freddy v. Jason Part 2

Wgbw! Interesting post today. This will be the first time that I'm re-reviewing a movie (you can see my original post here). Roger Ebert does it every now and then with movies he thinks that are classics and this movie is definitely a top 3.

Also @enronnie thought it would be a good idea. I know a lot of my followers (and I appreciate all of you) want me to review some movie. But most of the time it's either a) really boring, b) really long, or c) overrated. So get in my good graces and you might be rewarded. Anywho,

1) It still hasn't gone out of style. The plot's still really sick, the first 30 minutes are awesome, and the movie doesn't take some stupid turn for the worse near the end of it.

2) I caught a lot more references this time to previous movies. I will ashamedly (sp?) admit that I missed most of these the first time around because I hadn't seen all the jitsu sequels to the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. The other month I didn't realize that Freddy had a kid smh. Nevertheless I feel like a more thorough horror movie fan at this point in my life lol. The only big one (*big one lol*) that I'll point out for you fans was when Jason was in his nightmare and had that bag over his head; this was an obvious reference to Friday the 13th Part 2 where he reps the bag over his head instead of tha hockey mask.

3) I also never mentioned how much of a babe I thought the title character was. She's kinda goofy during the movie, but whatever.

4) This is a timeless classic that will never go out of style. I could watch this movie on repeat for hours. Evan @markster tuned into the movie and the movie again with director's commentary; that's how good it is.

Top 3

Happy bday buff!

Buff's birthday is today. I'll try to get around to a movie but if I don't, please enjoy one of my favorite clips (outside of the original Bad Boys intro). Here it is BW:

Enjoy BW!

Shark Night 3D

Not quite the criterion collection that I meant to start, but whatever,

1) I've never been wild about 3D movies (see Harold and Kumar or that stupid Piranha movie) and this was no different. I think my biggest problem is that these movies give me the willies that something is jumping out at me.

2) A much larger problem was the PG-13 rating with this movie. Most of these B level movies that the writers know are ridiculous at least put some R rated material in it to make up for it. Not here smh.

3) And what was going on with the 2 guys going apeshit on the rest of the party. My first though watching this movie was why on earth didn't those n00bs just stay out of the water? But then you figure out those 2 guys are crazy. Probably a big reason why you don't make friends with strangers when treading shark-infested water are in the area.

I won't be tuning into this again,

D

Wet Hot American Summer

Wgbw! I wouldn’t normally watch a movie like this, but since I know somebody who actually went to Jewish summer camp, I thought I’d give it a go.

1) This movie is pretty much Airplane 3: Summer Camp. I mean, the jokes are pretty much the same style. They’re all one-liners that involve a pun, a contradiction, or wordplay of the similar sort.

2) The cast was weird, but star-studded. Paul Rudd was a doofus who was supposed to be “hot,” and Bradley Cooper played a gay musical-theater director. (uhh…) It was pretty funny that that one guy who hits Jonah Hill with a car in the hit movie Superbad had a minor role, but the hot girl from Mighty Ducks played a loveless chach.

3) That being said, I’m not sure if I like the whole “sorry I’m not gonna date you, nice guy, because this asshole Paul Rudd guy is hotter and that’s all I care about” sentiment. Awfully forward.

4) The best part of the movie was obvi when the campers are all playing “capture the flag” and a Jamaican-Olympic-runner-look-alike comes out of nowhere at a Jewish camp and wins the game. Funny on the same level as throwing Kareem Abdul Jabbar playing himself as a pilot in Airplane.

5) All in all, hot ladies, pretty funny jokes, but still weird.

B-