The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

I can't believe I've never reviewed this before. It's such a solid movie.

1) The first time I saw it was way back in the day with that hippy Dave in San Jose. At the time, Dave had a pretty bad taste in movies. For example, the movie we watched prior to this was that stupid documentary about growing corn. But he hit the jackpot with this one.

2) Speaking of Dave (for those of you that know him), it just occurred to me that he looks a lot like Billy Mitchell. Maybe it's just the old guy with the ponytail and all. I'll bet Billy Mitchell is a Kentucky fan too lol.

3) I've never been too into video games (except for Halo and anything on the gamecube obvi), but this is a sick movie. It's like an underdog story of a junior high science teacher who has to beat some bully in Donkey Kong. If that doesn't sell a movie I dunno what will.

4) The other two things that set this movie apart:
a) the dramatic ending where the wife is crying because he didn't win the contest. Some solid drama.
b) The part where the son wants Steve to wipe his butt but he can't do it because he's playing Donkey Kong. I'll bet his wife was mad when she saw that lol.

A+

Friday Night Lights (the movie obvi)

I've been generally ignoring the Awards tonight given that they never hone in on the movies I generally rep lol. That said..

1) I've never been wild about dramas, but sports dramas seem to keep my attention (see Rocky IV and The Fighter).

2) Probably the most appealing part to me about this movie is that it reflects my life long goal to relocate to a rural Texas community that lives for Friday night football games. I'm still on the fence about living in either Midland or Odessa, but I'd bet almost anyone that within the decade I'll have settled down there. \o/

3) Sort of relevant to that, my love of country music had me surprised that Tim McGraw plays such a mean, overbearing father. I mean, it makes sense that he lives in rural Texas, but I just wish he wasn't so riled up all the time.

4) For everyone paying super close attention, the coach's wife was also a doctor in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.

Hard to go wrong with west Texas football,

A-

Argo

1) Eh it was okay. Maybe if I was a history professor or something this would have more of an impact on me, but I bet you could just watch a documentary about this and it would be about the same. There was nothing really wrong with this movie, but you know they manage to get home in the end, so there's not really super drama going on.

2) It's also hard for me to picture Ben Affleck in any other role than the one he had in Chasing Amy (which btw I reviewed that movie exactly 2 years ago today lol). Now that movie was really tight.

3) Had a pretty tight cameo when Joshua from the hit TV show Friends made an appearance. He obvi looks a little older given that it's been 16 years since his appearance as Rachel's boyfriend.
They also said "WHEELS UP" in it. That bumped it up a half grade (obvi).

4) At the end of the day I'm just not sure anything really set this movie apart. I mean, it's a good story, had good acting, but nothing made me think "omg this has to be one of the best movies of the year."

C

Sinister

1) Overall it was pretty spooky. The little kids were spooky, the crazy Diety person was spooky, and so were all the videos. Even the preview for the movie gave me the willies. I'm not wild about snuff films, and he sure loved tunin into those during this movie. DL was that lawnmower film ridiculously gross tho.

2) But why was it so dark the whole movie? It's like he hears a noise and then just runs around investigating it without turning on any lights SMH. Even during the day there's no lights on. And how did the daughter figure out how to drug the dad in the dark? She's like, 'where's that big bag of melatonin lol'?

3) It had a lot of solid foreshadowing. Like when the mom kept telling Ashley how they had to make his coffee. Or Ashley's love 4 tha paintings.

4) Maybe the best part was that FRED THOMPSON played the sheriff in the movie. The politically apathetic side of me never realized he was a big Republican when he was staring on SVU all those years. But really, if Fred Thompson can't bring justice to your town, who really could?

The snuff really got to me smh,

B+

My Best Friend's Girl

1) It was better than I remembered. I'm not wild about Dane Cook, have a hit or miss relationship with Kate Hudson, and think Jason Biggs is pretty tight. But overall it was okay.

2) Part of my beef is I don't think Dane Cook is as good as other actors who try to pull off a bunch of raunchy one liners. My idol Joe Rogan has accused DC of stealing lines from other comedians so I think I generally am skeptical of him.

3) Also, the story is kinda unbelievable because Kate Hudson is light years outta Jason Biggs's league in this movie. Don't get me wrong, she's generally out of everyone's league, but here I don't think anyone was ever under the impression that the two of them were gonna work out.

4) The ending was kinda goofy too. I wasn't watching the movie under a microscope or anything, but did he really just run 26 miles with her to show her how much he loved her? If he was that winded so early into the run, I'm actually kinda surprised he didn't go into cardiac arrest or something.

C

Flight

1) It was pretty good. I'm not wild about flying, but the drinking/legal/chick thing appealed to me lol. Speaking of which, I'm on day 9 of sobriety and feeling pretty good. I get why Denzel is so content at the end of the movie lol.

2) Why is it that so many Denzel movies have these really long pauses in the middle of them with nothing going on? John Q, Man on Fire, and the hit movie HE GOT GAME were like this. I wonder if he specifically requests these long winded scenes where he just walks around to music lol.

3) I coulda gone without all those heroin injection scenes. The underside of my arms gives me the willies generally, but those scenes were intense.

4) I thought about writing a bunch of shenanigans about how the defense attorney was out to lunch but I get that those posts don't really appeal to the demographic audience of the blog lol.

5) I had some love for the movie too because it took me back to the greatest 2 weeks of my life- the ADI 2K6. There were always a bunch of airline crews that stayed at our hotel who loved to party. Hopefully nothing like this actually happened on tha airline smh.

Denzel Washington rules,

A-

Here Comes the Boom

1) I'm attempting to make some fighting debut in 2013, so this movie was kind of up my alley. I like to think that I'm not as overweight as Kevin James lol but who knows.

2) The movie was actually pretty bad. I didn't realize the whole story was just about him trying to save the music program at the school. Remember all those old "Save the Music" ads by VH1? Those were kinda goofy lol.

3) I didn't really understand why they had to change Kryzsztof Soszynski's name to that Ken guy when every other MMA person kept the same name. Well I guess they changed Bas Rutten's name too but whatev.

4) Anyone else catch the sick movie Bad Boys 2 playing in the background at that house? #yeahbuddy

Eh,

C+

Valentine's Day

1) I've referenced this movie a time or two on the blog but never gotten around to reviewing it. Actually I've tried to watch this movie several times but can just never make it all the way through it. It's that boring.

2) Obvi my A.D.D. is a pretty big impediment to me following complex movie story lines, but this one just had too many interlinks. Given that this movie doesn't take place in Salina, Kansas, I'm confused how everyone actually knows everyone in Los Angeles. It's like how Lawrence isn't that big and we still have no idea who are neighbors are. How on earth are all of these people buddy-buddy in one of the US's largest cities?

3) New Year's Eve is running ahead of this while Love Actually is lapping the ish out of it.

4) FWIW TSwift is in it which is super tight but I'd much rather see her sing.

I see why Maker treats this day like every other day lol,

D

Super Troopers

1) This movie has been solid for well over a decade. It's one of those movies that never has to grow on you and is just solid from the get-go. There's really not a bad scene in the movie. Well, actually, that syrup chugging scene wasn't that wild, but it reminded me of how @milhouse used to chug whole bottles of syrup so it was okay lol.

2) Likewise, there's like 23423 good quotes out of this movie. I've previously mentioned one, but there's a dozen more. "I don't want a large Farva." "I'll believe that when my shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert." "WOULD YOU MOVE THAT GIGANTIC COTTON CANDY?!"

3) It even references Friday the 13th Part 3 when they get pulled over and eat the drugs at the beginning only to have the cops (at least initially) drive by. I'm sure this wasn't a coincidental reference lol.

4) These dudes should really gii on some more movies. That movie BEER FEST was also really tight. I dunno what happened to them.

A+