8 Mile Trailer

No real reviews today tweet world, just wanted everyone to experience the trailer for the movie I watch before all my finals. This never gets old.

The Wedding Date

1) This was like a much worse version of Pretty Woman. She hires an escort to go to some wedding with her so she can make her ex-boyfriend jealous. Yadayadayada they end up falling for each other.

2) Do you think the escort would really fall for this girl? I mean, nothing against her or anything, but isn't the whole point of being an escort that you don't fall for your people? Seems like the more realistic thing would be him wanting more money and taking off on her.

3) Why do they have to go on a first date after they decide to be together at the end of the movie? There's some other movie I've seen not too long ago that I can't remember where this happens too and it doesn't make any sense. It's like, it's not that they just had a good weekend or something, but they manage to fall in love, fight, and then promise to be together. Is a first date really necessary at this point? I mean the dude is becoming unemployed for you, give him a break.

4) One of the only good parts was the escort had a role in Season 9 of Friends. He plays Gavin, the guy that temporarily replaces Rachel at work and trys to court her, albeit unsuccessfully.

D+

Friends with Benefits

1) It was really funny at times. Actually I think the whole first like hour of the movie was pretty tight.

2) I don't get why they ever decided to start seeing other people.In Going the Distance they figure this out pretty quickly and seemed to avoid all these problems. I mean, what did they think would happen if they started seeing other people?

3) FWIW it didn't make any sense that she got all mad at him for just wanting to be friends in the middle of the movie. I thought that was the whole point of their pact?

4) Three other pretty random drawbacks.
a) Justin Timberlake- I've never been a big fan and this movie didn't change anything.
b) Flash mobs- are stupid. Him orchestrating one at the end was jitsu.
c) The music- during the whole movie was pretty bad. If they would've actually played Third Eye Blind it would've been tight.

Crazy Stupid Love is just running laps around this,

C+

Top 10 Movie Lines #1 - Nothing to Lose- "You Like Girl Scout Cookies?"

Wgbw, Number 1 is from the hit movie NOTHING TO LOSE. In all reality this isn't the best line in movie history but I'll have to explain why later. Nevertheless, it's still good.

The bad guys tell Tim Robbins that he must've sold more girl scout cookies then any other member of the bunch. Martin Lawrence grabs the gun and has the best line in motion picture history: "You like girl scout cookies? Come here come here, here's a cookie."

You can see it at the 1:15ish mark.

Top 10 Movie Lines #2 - 8 Mile- "I Don't Give a Fuck Who It Is"

Alright bw, time for #2. I know I initially prefaced there not being too many 8 Mile/Bad Boys lines since I've already beat them to death in this blog. However, one that hasn't gotten a lot of attention is right before B Rabbit battles. Cheddar Bob comes to tell him that he drew Lickity Split in the first round, and asks him if he's okay with that. B Rabbit just responds "I don't give a fuck who it is." How tight is that? It's very good way to approach life's challenges lol.

Sorry for the poor quality on the clip, you have to turn it up a bit.

Top 10 Movie Lines #3 - American Wedding- "Fucking Right Doggy"

Number 3 is from American Wedding. It's this tight scene where Stifler's waiting on the dog to #2. "Fucking right doggy" was a mainstream of our vocabulary for like 3 years. FYI on the video, it cuts out the first part where he's waiting on the dog which is real tight. For the most part anything Stifler says during any of the movies is tight.And the trailer for the Fourth Movie also looks sick.

Top 10 Movie Lines #4 - Gladiator- "Maximum Decimus Meridius"

Wgbw, #4 is from THE GLADIATOR. It had a bunch of good lines (what we do echoes in eternity) but this one takes the cake. @buns0n used to wake the neighbors up with this one.

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

Top 10 Movie Lines #5- Saw- "I Want to Play a Game"

Number 5 is from all the Saw movies. It's the tight part where Jigsaw always says "I WANT TO PLAY A GAME". FWIW the "all your life" and "the choice is yours" are also on par with this. It's tight because whenever Ronnie comes over we always talk in the saw voice even when it's not on the tv.

"pass the doritos. pepsi or coke, the choice is yours" LOL

Top 10 Movie Lines #6- Old School- "Maybe Bed Bath & Beyond"

WGBW, #6 is from the tight movie Old School. Frank is getting peer pressured into drinking at the party and explains his busy day with his wife that he's anticipating.

"Actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time."

Top 10 Movie Lines #7- Eastbound and Down- "I'm not an ass man"

Alright blog world, I was on the fence about including TV shows, but the countdown wouldn't be complete without them. #7 is from Season 2 of Eastbound and Down. Kenny is leaving Mexico and has to say goodbye to Vida by finally coming to terms with his true identity. Only one line long but he gets to the point. "not an ass man. I'm a tit man."

Top 10 Movie Lines #8 - Notting Hill- I'm Just a Girl

Whats good blog world. #8 on the countdown is from the hit movie Notting Hill. Now I know it's super girly and all, but it's some good stuff. One of the best RomCom lines of all time. "After all...I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." Top notch

Top 10 Movie Lines: #9 - Supertroopers "Hey Farva, what's that place you like"

This part's pretty much self-explanatory. The cops are all sitting around smoking and get Farva to say shenanigans and it's tight.

"I swear to god I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says shenanigans. Hey Farva, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks? You mean shenanigans?"

Top 10 Movie Lines: #10 - Road Trip "Oh We Got It Kyle"

#10 is from Roadtrip. It's when they're in the process of explaining all the ways you can cheat without actually cheating. Kyle has that sick line where he goes BECAUSE IT'S YOUR DOG. GET IT? OH WE GOT IT KYLE.

Top 10 Movie Lines: Explanations for Rankings

Just a few thoughts and how I'll probably be ranking these:

a) Historical significance- for me more so than anything. A bunch of these lines have made it into my vocabulary over the years and obvi those will be highly ranked.

b) I'll try to limit the Bad Boys/8 Mile lines that I've rehashed on the blog so many times.

c) I don't care about actually famous lines. The 'here's looking at you kid/you can't handle the truth' stuff is fine and all but I'm not going to read up on what Roger Ebert thinks is good.

d) I've realized that there's more than 10 actually good quotes- it'll be lucky if any of your favorites make the list.

e) TV appearances possible but not likely- they might just make another countdown- I'm not quite sure yet.

-buff

Top 10 Movie Lines Countdown

Wgtf, as I'm sitting here watching the KU game we thought of a new countdown. We'll be counting down top 10 movie lines of all time. Hopefully it'll be a good one TW

Horrible Bosses

1) Uhhhhhh. This movie was pretty bad. The plot was pretty unrealistic and even at just over an hour and a half it was too long.

2) I think most of the problem starts with the cast. That Charlie guy from It's Always Sunny always tries to be way over the top and it gets annoying. It's kind of the reason that Stephen Colbert annoys the hell out of me. If you google image search either one of them they always have these goofy looks on their face that they think are funny. If nobody laughed they'd just look stupid lol. Even look at his face in the movie poster, it's like why is he looking at the camera like that? #smh

3) Jennifer Aniston was super tight in this movie. Charlie shoulda made moves with her. For how much she's aged since Friends she's still a looker.

4) Sounds like the better solution is just to get another job lol,

D

Anchorman

1) It was pretty funny but just way over the top most of the time. I think this and Talladega Nights are really when Will Ferrell movies went bad. Like Old School and what not were super tight but this one was pretty ho hum.

2) Maybe it's just the whole story line to begin with. I mean, the movies about a TV station from back in the day. Who managed to come up with such a boring storyline? Even the end drug on and on. What was so important about the pregnant panda? #smh

3) Christina Applegate and Paul Rudd are pretty tight, but I think I'm more influenced by their appearances in Friends than anything else lol.

4) I know I'm in the minority here, but this one was below average,

D+

How Do You Know?

Wgbw, sorry for the delays. School is getting busy again lol.

1) Man was this boring. She gets fired from the softball team (who gets fired from a softball team??) and has to go hang out with her chick loving boyfriend Owen Wilson. Then Paul Rudd, whos facing some white collar crime charges, calls her to not take her out on a date.

2) The whole movie just repeats the above paragraph like 1400 times with no real progress. She comes home to Owen Wilson, who's still seeing other chicks, and then calls Paul Rudd and they don't make love. Rinse and repeat again.

3) Then there's the chick from A Lot Like Love and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days who's randomly pregnant and intertwined with the story somehow.

4) I wonder if during their downtime on the set Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd just talked about how tight it was to be on the best show of all time Friends.

Despite the promising cast, this one was a sinker,

D

Bridesmaids

1) Wgbw, sorry for the delays, last week has been busy as nuts. Don't worry though, you didn't miss much in the interim period (this movie lol).

2) I'll preface the review by saying I'm not really wild about weddings generally so that will obviously influence where this is going. It's good to see your friends get married and I like RomComs and all, but I never understood all the months of planning over a one night party, and why they make you take so many pictures.

3) That said, this one was a stinker. The whole plot of the movie is some girl is mad that another girl gets to plan her friend's wedding. It's like, who cares who plans the wedding? Why would you care if the wedding was French themed or not? And why would you get mad that it ended up being French themed but you just didn't get credit for it? It's not like she invented the lightbulb, she just came up with the theme of a party for christs sakes.

4) And it just keeps going and going. When I looked at how long this movie was it befuddled me that it could be longer than 2 hours. And now I'm still befuddled how they could drag this mundane plot line out so long. IT'S ABOUT TWO PEOPLE FIGHTING OVER WHO'S PLANNING A WEDDING. It's like if they made a movie called "the passenger seat" and the whole movie was about who could sit up front. It's like who cares, just let somebody sit there, and let's get the hell on the road.

5) It had it's funny parts, but the last hour just TKO's this,

D+

Crazy, Stupid, Love

1) It was really tight. Top notch stuff all the way around. It had the pretty usual RomCom framework but had that sick ending where you didn't realize everyone had all those connections to everyone. Good stuff.

2) There was just a bunch of small stuff that was tight about it. I'm not a big fan of really anyone that was in the movie but they all made it rain together. Those references to the Karate Kid were super tight.

3) Besides the whole 'put everything back together thing' I don't think it would've been the end of the world if Steve Carrell just took off with the good looking school teacher. I mean,

a) Julianne Moore just does cheat on him and divorces him out of nowhere.
b) She gets mad after he makes it rain after she dumped him- why should she care?
c) The other girl was tight
d) I can't stop thinking about Julianne Moore being from the tight movie HANNIBAL. I'm not sure she's real suited for RomComs.

4) It gets kind of drawn out in the middle when Ryan Gosling starts courting that girl but whatever.

No wonder Alan saw this in theaters (lol),

A-

Bad Teacher

1) It was super raunchy which I'm always a big fan of. All the general immature humor is generally top notch too.

2) Justin Timberlake was kind of a n00b the whole movie. I get that he was supposed to play a n00b but I thought he was still pretty mediocre. Jkasten42 kept saying that movie Friends With Benefits is top notch, but I think the jury's already reached a conclusion about this one.

3) They really shoulda let Jason Segal make it rain more. He was real good in Knocked Up and I Love You Man (which I'm unsure why I haven't reviewed) but for some reason he didn't really have a huge role in this one.

4) Me and Roger Ebert are generally on the same page ranking movies, but I'm afraid he was out to lunch here.

A-

Toy Story 3

Wgbw, coming at you on one of the worst days of the year :(, but it was a hell of an october. Hopefully it's even better next year!

1) I'm not terribly wild about any of these animated movies but this one was better then its counterparts.

2) It's been like 15 years since I watched the last toy story movies, and I used to dig them back in the day. Obvi I'm not wild about them now, but this was pretty much on par with all the old ones.

3) It seemed like it was a little over the top at the end where all the unbelievable stuff almost killed them all like 400 different times. I get that it's an animated kids movie and all but give me a break.

4) I guess the ending was kind of sad when he ends up moving off to college.

It was good, but I'm not sure I could sit through it very many more times,

C

Happy Halloween

Wgbw, it's the best day of the year. Me, Natalee, Billy, Cynthia, Eric, and Charles wish you all a happy halloween. I guess Buffalo has some paper to finish by 5 but stay tuned for some top notch blogging today :)

BTWF #1: Paul Rudd: Halloween 6

Wgbw, the long anticipated wait is over. #1 on the top 10 countdown of famous people who got their starts in horror movies is Paul Rudd in Halloween: the Curse of Michael Myers. Just slightly edging out Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudds always been one of my favorite actors, and let's face it: the Halloween series runs laps around its Leprechaun counterpart. And he's a former Jayhawk!

Jeepers Creepers

1) The first 30 minutes of this was scary as nuts. Really freaky when they see the crazy guy throwing bodies into that well and then having him go run them off the road. Really like a top 10 scary scene. Even that stupid Jeepers Creepers song is pretty scary.

2) I've never liked Justin Long in horror movies (see also Drag Me to Hell) and he was pretty n00bish in this one.

3) This movie had such good things going for it until the scene where the monster just opens up his wings on the ground. You're sitting there, watching this tight movie, then all of a sudden the bad guy flops out just a fucking huge pair of wings. And then you're like, what the hell is going on? How can you be scared of some big giant flying bat? smh

4) That being said it was still an okay movie. Just don't ever watch any of the sequels lol

B-

BWTF: #2: Jennifer Aniston: The Leprechaun

Wgbw, #2 is Jennifer Aniston in her first big picture The Leprechaun. Obvi Jennifer Aniston is best known for her role on the best TV show of all time Friends, but it's good to see she got her start in some mediocre horror movie. Tune in tomorrow for number 1!

Beavis and Butthead Season Opener

Fuck the world series did anyone see beavis and butthead on thursday? That was where it was at. The first episode was super tight, but it also featured a wreck of halloween shit too.

Speaking of which has anyone ever noticed how in Halloween 6 they mention beavis and butthead and some dude even tries to do his laugh. As I'm writing this the lady who does the voice for the old woman in Beavis and Butthead Do America is on tv on a swiffer commercial lol.

Top notch stuff,

A+

BTWF #3: Johnny Depp: Nightmare on Elm Street

WGBW, number 3 is the always scary Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street. He makes his motion picture debut dying by getting pulled into the bed lol (you can see this famous scene here). For all the bad movies he's tight in this one.

BTWF #4: Dana Carvey: Halloween 2

Number 4 coming a little early tonight b/c I'll be busy tomorrow LOL. Number 4 is Dana Carvey from the sick movie Halloween 2. Now I know what you're thinking, how did we miss Garth Algar in this movie?! The answer is a) he doesn't really look like Garth in it lol, and b) he's just the guy carrying the stereo around who runs into Michael Myers. He actually has very little face time lol.

Dracula

1) Turn your speakers up lol. I don't know if it's our TV, or netflix, or what, but I couldn't understand like half the shit they were saying the whole movie.

2) Good to see that the crazy guy who always warns of bad stuff thats about to go down originated here. That guy was getting annoying but then I realized that back in the 1930s that probably wasn't in every horror movie like it is today lol.

3) These black and white movies are almost always mediocre. Maybe it's just that my ADD needs shiny things and music but I get so bored during these movies. There's hardly any external noise, colors, or generally tightthings going down.

4) That being said it was still pretty good. I mean, it spawned a whole generation of tight movies/general halloween shenanigans.

Oh, and good stuff for being so short lol

B

BTWF #5: Mariska Hargitay: The Ghoulies

Wgbw, getting to the top half of the countdown. Number 5 is Mariska Hargitay in the piss poor movie The Ghoulies. For those of you that haven't seen it, its worth checking out lol. Anywho, she's the top notch detective Olivia Benson on Law and Order SVU. It's really one of the best TV shows of all time and she's super tight in it (obvi).