Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Leprechaun 2
1) Generally I enjoy watching horrible sequels to horror movies but this might just be the exception to the rule. Instead of building off of the horrible plot of the first movie, they just decided it would be best to make the plot about the Leprechaun trying to find a bride.
2) The kicker is that he can only find a bride every 1000 years or something. I guess that means, contrary to the first movie, that he leaves his gold unoccupied when seeking out a mate. And if he was seeking out a mate shouldn't he at least have tried to get Jennifer Aniston to stick around from the first movie?
3) And how can he make all this magical stuff appear? He makes all these mirages pop out that somehow TKO everyone. That one guy thought he was making moves on that girl but he was actually sticking his head in between some lawnmower blades? SMH.
4) I get all the rules about what TKO's vampires, witches, and most ghosts. But I had no idea that iron was what killed leprechauns. In the first movie it was a four leaf clover. I guess I should figure this out to be a true horror buff lol.
D-
Mighty Ducks
1) I'm not much for Disney movies (obvi) but this has got to be one of the 10 best movies of all time. It's got a little law stuff, some motivational sports revenge, and a little romcom on the side. Just solid all around material.
2) I always have this debate with myself about whether this or the Karate Kid is a better movie. I still haven't made a final decision but it is tight that they reference the Karate Kid in this movie.
3) It also has one of the most motivational scenes (outside of 8 Mile obvi) when Bombay says YOU'RE GOING DOWN RILEY.
4) The worst part about this movie is it's no longer in my possession. @Joel conveniently "borrowed" it before taking off to Louisiana smh.
A+
Monday, July 30, 2012
The Changeling
1) Reminds me of a mix between Poltergeist and Paranormal Activity. Unfortunately the movie just seemed to move to slowly. In the Poltergeist or PNA at least there was some development. Here, the guy just kind of goofs around while barely anything creepy happens.
2) The guy should've probly done some prior inspections of the house. If I was gonna move across the country (not ever happening) I'd at least look around at the neighborhood or see if anyone had ever died in the house. After he moves in that one group even tells him he shouldn't live there!
3) That being said the guy never even seems really creeped out. You never see him scream or run out of the house too terrified to come back. I guess I always wonder in the Paranormal movies like this why the people don't just jump ship. If the Cone became haunted I'd be out of here in a heartbeat lol.
4) At the end of the day it's hard for me to get on board for the ghost stories where the ghost isn't actually evil. I mean, that poor kid obvi needed some redemption, but I don't know if a horror movie is the way to go. Instead of doing all that spooky stuff, why doesn't the kid just make a bunch of evidence of his death available to the guy to take to the police? Would solve his dilemma while avoid scaring the guy.
C-
Sunday, July 29, 2012
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
1) It was really original in that it kind of set the foundation for movies where people try to stay in a haunted house for some purpose. Halloween Resurrection is a pretty recent copy (plus the whole Michael Myers thing).
2) Also original was the whole theme that if the house ended up engulfing you, you got to stick around and haunt everybody else that came in.
3) I did get confused because I thought the deal was once the door was closed to the place nobody could get out. But then that Annabelle chick is just hanging outside the window spooking people out?
4) One of my problems with these older movies is the kind of stuff that spooks people. Don't get me wrong, I get scared about super dumb stuff all the time. But the scene where that 1 pound door hanging skeleton pushes that girl into the pit of doom is kind of goofy. It's like, just push the skeleton out of the way or cut off the puppet hangers on the top of it lol.
At only an hour and 11 minutes, I'mma be tuning in,
B
21 Jump Street
1) I never watched the 80s version so maybe I'm out to lunch, but I didn't think it was that great. I mean, it was pretty funny and had it's moments and stuff, but didn't really live up to all the hoopla it was getting.
2) It's hard for me to understand that one of the main plot lines was just Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum fighting about how much attention they are getting in the fake high school. It's probably not worth getting that riled up about lol. The other problem was how long the end dragged on for. That whole last preparation for the showdown scene just kept going and going.
3) I never realized that the original guy besides Johnny Depp made a guest appearance in the hit TV show Friends as one of the bullies in season 2 named CARL.
4) I guess as a bonus it was one of the only Johnny Depp movies that he didn't personally freak me out in.
It was still pretty funny,
B-
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Wolf Creek
Before I set off camping tonight I might as well review a spooky movie to creep me out lol.
1) I don't really know what all the fanfare was about. Generally I seem to wonder what the big fuss is whenever some independent film gets worshiped but I figured this might be different since it was a horror movie. Guess not lol.
2) I'm still not wild about these torture movies and this is pretty illustrative of this. That part where the girl gets paralyzed makes me naucious (sp?) just thinking about it.
3) On top of that, why does this guy have superhuman recovery powers? The girl shoots him and he gets flipped over in his car but he can still operate a sniper rifle with top level accuracy? Doesn't make much sense.
4) Overdone theme with some goofy killer that was too sadistic.
D
1) I don't really know what all the fanfare was about. Generally I seem to wonder what the big fuss is whenever some independent film gets worshiped but I figured this might be different since it was a horror movie. Guess not lol.
2) I'm still not wild about these torture movies and this is pretty illustrative of this. That part where the girl gets paralyzed makes me naucious (sp?) just thinking about it.
3) On top of that, why does this guy have superhuman recovery powers? The girl shoots him and he gets flipped over in his car but he can still operate a sniper rifle with top level accuracy? Doesn't make much sense.
4) Overdone theme with some goofy killer that was too sadistic.
D
Friday, July 27, 2012
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Watching scary movies everyday is really running laps around reading about torts lol.
1) A pretty solid sequel. A lot of times, the sequel to a horror movie (or subsequent movies after that) can really blow. Fortunately, this one was okay. Actually having looked at my review of the first movie, I'd have to say that I actually probably underestimated it quite a bit.
2) The solid cast made it pretty tight too. The brother from Eastbound & Down is on it, as well as Mekhi Phifer from the critically acclaimed movie 8 Mile.
3) I guess if a killer tried to get me on the Fourth of July each year, I'd be a little more skeptical of taking a free trip some stranger on the radio gave to me. Seems like some poor planning on their part.
4) Actually speaking of which the title is kind of misleading, because it's actually 2 summers after the first movie. I dunno if the fisherman was just busy or something in the interim period but it should be called 'i still know what you did the summer before last' lol.
Nothing too wild,
C
1) A pretty solid sequel. A lot of times, the sequel to a horror movie (or subsequent movies after that) can really blow. Fortunately, this one was okay. Actually having looked at my review of the first movie, I'd have to say that I actually probably underestimated it quite a bit.
2) The solid cast made it pretty tight too. The brother from Eastbound & Down is on it, as well as Mekhi Phifer from the critically acclaimed movie 8 Mile.
3) I guess if a killer tried to get me on the Fourth of July each year, I'd be a little more skeptical of taking a free trip some stranger on the radio gave to me. Seems like some poor planning on their part.
4) Actually speaking of which the title is kind of misleading, because it's actually 2 summers after the first movie. I dunno if the fisherman was just busy or something in the interim period but it should be called 'i still know what you did the summer before last' lol.
Nothing too wild,
C
Thursday, July 26, 2012
The House of the Devil
1) Big shout out to @danger for recommending this one. It was pretty solid all around. Girl needs money so she goes and babysits and all this crazy stuff starts going on with the creepy family.
2) It had one of the scariest jump-out-of-your-seat moments that I've had in forever. There's this part where her friend leaves the house and this creepy guy starts talking to her. Then he just says- 'so your not the babysitter?' and pulls out a gun and just kills her. It was just so crazy unexpected /o\
3) The rest of the movie was pretty unpredictable/original. They did a solid job of making it seem like it was made in the 80s.
4) My only real beef with it was just how malicious/unforgiving/disturbing the whole movie was. Back on one halloween, me, the colonel, milhouse, and the old lady friend watched every halloween movie. At the end of all of them we all just had this feeling that was like, man the ending to that was messed up. I got that feeling again but it only took 1 movie.
5) Tight how Dee Wallace was in the first part of the movie. She's in a wreck of horror movies and is a KU grad!
B
2) It had one of the scariest jump-out-of-your-seat moments that I've had in forever. There's this part where her friend leaves the house and this creepy guy starts talking to her. Then he just says- 'so your not the babysitter?' and pulls out a gun and just kills her. It was just so crazy unexpected /o\
3) The rest of the movie was pretty unpredictable/original. They did a solid job of making it seem like it was made in the 80s.
4) My only real beef with it was just how malicious/unforgiving/disturbing the whole movie was. Back on one halloween, me, the colonel, milhouse, and the old lady friend watched every halloween movie. At the end of all of them we all just had this feeling that was like, man the ending to that was messed up. I got that feeling again but it only took 1 movie.
5) Tight how Dee Wallace was in the first part of the movie. She's in a wreck of horror movies and is a KU grad!
B
American Reunion
What's good blog world. Back from tha long hiatus and gonna gii before July gets over \o/
1) It was pretty solid. Stifler always makes it rain and this movie wasn't any different. My only beef with these American Pie movies is that they always have these cheesy problems to deal with that don't really make sense. Like why do they have to have that Kevin/Vickie story drag on for 4 movies? SMH.
2) It does make me wonder why they always hate Stifler. I mean, after the second movie they were all good with him and then hate him for some reason before the 3rd movie. Then they ended that movie being good but hating him here again. Doesn't make that much sense.
3) I felt bad for that poor doctor guy who flew out to his girlfriend's high school reunion only to get dumped and then had to watch her make out with some other dude lol. Bet that flight home wasn't much fun lol.
4) Quality move at the end having Stifler gii with Finch's mom. Didn't really see that coming.
Solid stuff,
A-
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Update July 2012
Wgbw, sorry for the delays lol. Have to take the most important test of my life so I've been busy lol.
Anywho, to entertain you till I can post next week, here our my top two songs of the year. Think of them as last year's IT GIRL.
First off, what I thought was the lead song for song of the year: POST CARD FROM PARIS
And the one that I think might end up ousting it for song of the year (obvi not taking into account TSwift's new album): THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY (no not by Katy Perry lol)
Not sure either of these are better than IT GIRL, but leading the pack in 2012 so far.
FOE,
-buff
First off, what I thought was the lead song for song of the year: POST CARD FROM PARIS
And the one that I think might end up ousting it for song of the year (obvi not taking into account TSwift's new album): THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY (no not by Katy Perry lol)
Not sure either of these are better than IT GIRL, but leading the pack in 2012 so far.
FOE,
-buff
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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+
Sunday, June 17, 2012
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-
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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
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
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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
Sunday, June 10, 2012
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-
Friday, June 8, 2012
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
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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!
Monday, June 4, 2012
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
Saturday, June 2, 2012
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-
Monday, May 21, 2012
Mother's Day (2010)
1) I meant to review this on the actual Mother's Day but I was being too good of a son to remember lol.
2) Eh. I'm not sure this was as sick as of a torture porn movie as the original Last House on the Left but still seemed to have the same kind of M.O. Only here it's just some yahoos that go back to their moms house after a failed bank robbery and realize that other people have taken over the house after its been foreclosed.
3) I don't understand why the bad guys have to up the ante so much after they get back to the house. I mean, I know these people might have stolen your mom's money/house and know that you robbed someone, but why play all the Sawesque tricks on everyone?
4) The other problem with this movie's generic plot is that it adds way too many story lines to keep track of. There's like 14 people in the basement, more victims outside the house, the mom, and all those misfit sons. My ADD makes it hard enough to keep up with all these other movies- this one was (almost) too much.
Nothing wild about this one,
C
Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Devil Inside
1) These exorcist movies are real hit or miss. This one reminded me of a slightly better version of Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes: bad ending and a poor attempt at showing 'actual' footage.
2) And this might have been one of the worst movie endings of all time. I mean, I get having everyone just be possessed and stuff but what was up with the "for more information about this ongoing investigation please visit the following website"? They couldn't just say 'we never knew what happened' but had to try and get viewers to go log on to some website to generate more money for this mediocre movie? SMH.
3) In the interests of full disclosure, I did not go log onto this other website so maybe I didn't see the actual movie ending. I didn't want to endorse this ending anymore lol.
4) I guess for all the possession movies that have been floating around this one was at least kind of original. I didn't get board and they never really explored this plot angle before.
Meh,
C-
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Five-Year Engagement
1) After pondering this over I'm convinced this is probably one of my top 5 romcoms of all time. Obvi it's a little more comedy than romance, but it's still top notch stuff.
2) Despite all the rumors of Buffalo crying, this one actually made me close. The scene at the end where they get back together just makes everything end in such a tight way. I really thought that there was a chance they weren't going to get back together (which would have obvi ruined the movie) so when they got back together I was pretty moved lol.
3) The shit was super funny too. The video clip with Billy Joel had me rolling on the floor and the quasi reference to the Saw movies during the psychology experiment was good shit.
4) Even my complaints about the movie are fairly immaterial. It was pretty goofy that the guy who played the crazy roommate in Notting Hill was the professor who is the main countervailing love interest lol. And the part where Jason Segel goes all caveman is pretty goofy too.
Nonetheless, definitely something to write home about,
A+
Monday, May 14, 2012
The Girl Next Door (2007)
1) Uhhhh, no more of these smh. I'm not wild about all the torturesque horror movies (see Last House on the Left (2009) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978)), and this was more of the same. There's some girl who has to go live with her aunt and messed up cousins who do all of this screwed up stuff to her. Uhhhhhh.
2) Two thumbs down on the ending too. I mean the girl just dies after all of that horrible stuff happens to her? I guess the only positive part is that some guy named Officer Jennings arrests her so hopefully she gets some legal justice.
3) SMH at this movie for ruining the sister from Sixteen Candles. It was hard to take her serious as some psycho at first, but now I think this movie would make it hard for me to sit through Sixteen Candles again.
4) And what on earth is that guy talking about in the end? "Sometimes the past is a blessing or curse?" How would this sad, depressing, evil story be a blessing for anyone? How a torture movie can try to portray itself as a movie with some touching message at the end is beyond me.
This subset of horror movies sucks,
F
Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Vow
Whats good blog world. I'm really sorry for the extended delay. The whole last semester of finals in law school and job thing was really busy smh lol.
1) This was pretty mediocre. I'm all about the romance movies, but they just screw this up. I never understood why they make a movie that they bill as one of the all time great love stories and then dont have them fall back in love at the end of the movie. I mean, I get it- they agree to go on a date or something but besides that it's like why don't we just go the whole 9 yards and have them fall in love again?
2) Some of the movie had some stupid parts too. The girls best friend sleeps with her dad? And the girl's old dick finance is the guy from The Strangers? Come on now.
3) It still had some good cheesy parts that I obvi enjoy. Like the line where he says that she fell in love with him once and he'll get her to do it again. Good stuff.
With Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams it's hard to go too far off course,
C
Sunday, April 22, 2012
The Cabin in the Woods
1) I've started doing this thing where I try to sit around for a day after a movie to collect my thoughts about it so I don't jump to any conclusions lol. After a few days, I've figured out the movie is pretty solid. I actually feel (sort of) qualified to review this since I actually have seen 1400 horror movies and get (most of) the references made in the movie.
2) I was really impressed with all the shout-outs to other horror movies. The whole cabin/scary trees had to have been a reference to The Evil Dead, the 3 spooky looking people with masks was The Strangers, the set up with the creepy guy on the side of the road has been in almost every Friday the 13th movie, and finally (and most obviously) that pinhead look alike from Hellraiser. I think if I rewatched it I'd probably see a wreck of more people popping out.
3) I think the part that made me think it was goofy the most was just the whole 'there are evil gods who need a specific sacrifice or we're going to destroy the earth'. It also just seems implausible that these experiments were being deployed all throughout the world and not one of them was successful. You think these dudes would concentrate a lot more at work if the fate of the earth depended on it.
4) That being said it was pretty tight. Super scary creatures in it, mixed in humor really well and generally was a good critical look at horror movies while accentuating what was good in them.
I'll be tuning in,
A
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Funny Games
1) I saw this movie back in tha day with @Angelo when I was in the horrible state of Kentucky. I sort of like revisiting movies several after the fact to see if I've matured at all lol (see Vacancy).
2) It was better than I remembered, but still just sadistic as shit. I mean, they really just shot that little kid, how messed up is that? I'm not too gung ho about all the movies that have these screwed up endings.
3) I didn't really get all the stupid shenanigans in the movie. Like where he keeps talking to the camera, or rewinds the fucking movie after that guy gets TKO'd. I dunno, maybe it's some movie stuff I don't understand lol. Someone should explain what the purpose of them calling each other different names was, that didn't make much sense either.
4) I never put 2 and 2 together to figure out that the smart psycho guy is one of the main character off of Boardwalk Empire. I need to think outside the box more lol.
All that being said it was pretty original (minus the fact that it was an exact remake of the foreign version lol),
C
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Apollo 18
1) I realized I've gotten away from the horror movies lately bw and I apologize. I apologize again if you've seen this movie because it is really awful.
2) I'm a big fan of aliens and shit (well not really Scifi movies but actual Alien stories). But man is this movie bad. The aliens aren't scary looking, they're like these little stupid spider things. It befuddles me why the astronauts don't just crush the little shits. I mean, if you are a big enough hoss to go to space you think you could at least TKO these little creatures.
3) It was like a horrible version of The Blair Witch Project that just takes place in space. I mean, nobody could really think this was "found footage" that somehow got leaked of the astronauts getting TKO'd on the moon.I mean, if they can keep Roswell under wraps they can obvi keep this on lock.
4) I guess it's sort of original- I mean, astronauts get attacked in space. That's one small step for originality, one giant waste of time.
D
Airplane
Wgbw, sorry for tha delays- last week was super busy lol.
1) I still don't think this is a really famous movie. Obvi everyone has a better taste in my movies than me, but I think I'm generally more cognizant of movie stuff than most people. But then again maybe not. I think maybe I'd heard the Shirly line but who knows.
2) It was super tight that the host from Unsolved Mysteries was in the movie. He was also in the hit film Beavis and Butthead Do America as that FBI agent. Unsolved Mysteries was such a tight show- especially when they covered all the old UFO stories.
3) Speaking of B&B- this movie was pretty good just because of all the inappropriate 12 year old jokes. It was like a crappier version of B&.
4) The best part of the movie was obvi the whole Kareem Abdul Jabbar scene. That shit still cracks me up just thinking about it.
B-
Sunday, March 25, 2012
A Few Good Men
1) Top notch stuff. Obvi I have a thing for courtroom dramas and this is one of the best. Really just solid shit all around.
2) I kinda wished they woulda developed the Demi Moore/Tom Cruise love story a little bit more too. Like it's obvi that there's some chemistry with them then they go out on that date but you never really know if it takes off after that.
3) Obvi the whole last scene is really solid. It was so solid that DB said it in a debate round one time. But the often overlooked part of the last scene is that he gets to say COLONEL like 132 times during his direct of COLONEL Jessup. Now that was pretty tight.
4) Oh yeah the line where he asks if she was sick the day they taught law at lawschool was pretty legit too.
A+
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