1) My ADD often times gets the best of me. Back in the day I reviewed Piranha 3D and immediately regretted making myself sit through it. I don't know why I decided to give this one a go but dear lord was it bad.
2) The whole movie is just so ridiculous. The piranhas get lodged up inside of people, inside animals, and even can navigate these complex sewer systems. (Random FYI it took me a minute to figure out how to spell sewer lol). I understand that they intended to make it more ridiculous than the first one, which I should've realized and avoided this altogether.
3) I'm all about the short movies. I think this one was an hour and 21 minutes. But no joke there's like 15 minutes of credits at the end where they just keep showing David Hasselhoff. If you skipped through the intro and ending credits you could probably have just have called this a short film.
4) It's hard to reiterate how bonkers this was. At the end of the movie the prianhas have learned how to run around on land. Just think about that for a minute. These piranhas have been sitting in this shut down touristy site for like a year and have suddenly learned to evolve to become killer land creatures. SMH.
Not even the R rating can make up for this,
F
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The Apparition
1) Talk about a letdown. I was pumped for this movie after the sick trailer for it and all the hype on all the horror movie blogs I read. It turned out to being almost as bad as One Missed Call (which I accidentally got on blu-ray lol).
2) It seemed like it tried to latch on to all the Paranormal Activity movies too much. There's like all this creepy shit that keeps happening but none of it is actually scary. Like the soap in the shower turns black and there's a bunch of mold underneath the floor and stuff. Yawn.
3) And how about that dude not telling his new lady friend that his old lady friend was TKO'd by whatever that spirit thing was? How mad would you be if you found out about that skeleton in the closet lol?
4) Maybe the worst part (besides sitting through this) is that it's really turned me off from wanting to see any of the new horror movies that are due out in the fall. This had so much promise but was just too disappointing :(
D
2) It seemed like it tried to latch on to all the Paranormal Activity movies too much. There's like all this creepy shit that keeps happening but none of it is actually scary. Like the soap in the shower turns black and there's a bunch of mold underneath the floor and stuff. Yawn.
3) And how about that dude not telling his new lady friend that his old lady friend was TKO'd by whatever that spirit thing was? How mad would you be if you found out about that skeleton in the closet lol?
4) Maybe the worst part (besides sitting through this) is that it's really turned me off from wanting to see any of the new horror movies that are due out in the fall. This had so much promise but was just too disappointing :(
D
Monday, August 27, 2012
See No Evil
1) This is a really solid movie. I never usually make it to the movie theater unless it's with a lady friend or Louisiana Judz (except for that time I got DB to go to Prom Night with me lol). But this movie was special enough to go see live.
2) It has several tight connections to tha Friday the 13th movies.The chick at the beginning doesn't have any eyes like that little girl in Freddy v. Jason. Also the whole theme where the mother summons her son to commit all those murders is pretty similar.
3) The theme music kind of drags on. I get that his mom made him listen to it nonstop during his childhood but you figure at some point he would call shenanigans and decide to turn on some different music at some point. Just imagine if he was tunin' into some TSwift at some point \o/
4) Despite it being a pretty solid horror movie it was also kind of funny. During the part at the end of the movie, the big guy falls down with this bar jammed into his head and keeps hitting it on the building. The entire theater was cracking up about how goofy it was lol.
A-
2) It has several tight connections to tha Friday the 13th movies.The chick at the beginning doesn't have any eyes like that little girl in Freddy v. Jason. Also the whole theme where the mother summons her son to commit all those murders is pretty similar.
3) The theme music kind of drags on. I get that his mom made him listen to it nonstop during his childhood but you figure at some point he would call shenanigans and decide to turn on some different music at some point. Just imagine if he was tunin' into some TSwift at some point \o/
4) Despite it being a pretty solid horror movie it was also kind of funny. During the part at the end of the movie, the big guy falls down with this bar jammed into his head and keeps hitting it on the building. The entire theater was cracking up about how goofy it was lol.
A-
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Save the Last Dance
1) I realized I never reviewed this movie before and that is a fucking shame. This movie rules.
2) Part of the reason I have such a thing for it is obvi Julia Stiles. I'd put a link up to all of my reviews on here where I rep her but there's already been too many. Just do a search on the side bar and you'll see <3. Sean Patrick Thomas is also super tight too. He's obvi blowing it up in this movie but also in Halloween Resurrection.
3) The weird part is that I generally have zero interest in artsy kind of movies (see The Artist) or (if I ever had the desire to review them) Adaptation or Midnight in Paris.This one isn't so much artsy but it does involve ballet lol.
4) It's also weird how old all the "high schoolers" are in it. I know a lot of movies revolving around high schools have students that are actually way too old to actually be in high school, but I'm pretty sure Sean Patrick Thomas was like 30 in this.
4) The best scene is where they first dance to that tight song in the club in the beginning. If only I could make moves like that lol.
Good stuff,
A
2) Part of the reason I have such a thing for it is obvi Julia Stiles. I'd put a link up to all of my reviews on here where I rep her but there's already been too many. Just do a search on the side bar and you'll see <3. Sean Patrick Thomas is also super tight too. He's obvi blowing it up in this movie but also in Halloween Resurrection.
3) The weird part is that I generally have zero interest in artsy kind of movies (see The Artist) or (if I ever had the desire to review them) Adaptation or Midnight in Paris.This one isn't so much artsy but it does involve ballet lol.
4) It's also weird how old all the "high schoolers" are in it. I know a lot of movies revolving around high schools have students that are actually way too old to actually be in high school, but I'm pretty sure Sean Patrick Thomas was like 30 in this.
4) The best scene is where they first dance to that tight song in the club in the beginning. If only I could make moves like that lol.
Good stuff,
A
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Taylor Swift: We are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Wgbw, some of my most popular posts have revolved around my celebrity crush Taylor Swift. In the spirit of that, I thought I'd review her new song.
1) I think it's clear that she's probably abandoned her country music background. I know this had been writing on the wall for awhile, but it's still kind of a bummer. Love story still had a country background, and even Mine (sort of) did. This is a total pop song.
2) Don't get me wrong, I'm still tuning in. Obvi my love for her music developed when she was a country singer and I still have a huge thing for country music. I just hope that maybe part of her new album will still pay heed to her roots.
3) I know the lyrics to this song aren't super nuanced either and they are obviously targeted at a younger audience (who will like the shit out of them). But I haven't ran into too many people who have heard the song 4-5 times who don't get hooked by the catchy beat of it.
Not what I was hoping for out of her first song off the new album, but still super solid,
A
1) I think it's clear that she's probably abandoned her country music background. I know this had been writing on the wall for awhile, but it's still kind of a bummer. Love story still had a country background, and even Mine (sort of) did. This is a total pop song.
2) Don't get me wrong, I'm still tuning in. Obvi my love for her music developed when she was a country singer and I still have a huge thing for country music. I just hope that maybe part of her new album will still pay heed to her roots.
3) I know the lyrics to this song aren't super nuanced either and they are obviously targeted at a younger audience (who will like the shit out of them). But I haven't ran into too many people who have heard the song 4-5 times who don't get hooked by the catchy beat of it.
Not what I was hoping for out of her first song off the new album, but still super solid,
A
Monday, August 20, 2012
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1) This is a pretty solid movie. I used to watch it on the reg until that time that the Shock brought all those crazy people to the cone and it got stolen :(
2) A lot of the movie obvi doesn't make any sense. If the babysitter died they should've just called the police. And why on earth didn't the clothing place do a background check on her? Fake resumes usually don't work for a reason.
3) That Bryan guy kind of reminded me of Daniel in The Karate Kid. He gets all riled up towards his lady friend for no reason and then ends up doing something embarrassing right at the wrong moment.
4) At the end of the day I don't really know why I like this movie. Obvi there's a little RomCom in it, but besides that I don't have a good explanation for it.
4) Although it did have quite a few stars in it. Obvi Christina Applegate was big for being in Friends. Danielle Harris was in a bunch of the Halloween movies too.
B+
2) A lot of the movie obvi doesn't make any sense. If the babysitter died they should've just called the police. And why on earth didn't the clothing place do a background check on her? Fake resumes usually don't work for a reason.
3) That Bryan guy kind of reminded me of Daniel in The Karate Kid. He gets all riled up towards his lady friend for no reason and then ends up doing something embarrassing right at the wrong moment.
4) At the end of the day I don't really know why I like this movie. Obvi there's a little RomCom in it, but besides that I don't have a good explanation for it.
4) Although it did have quite a few stars in it. Obvi Christina Applegate was big for being in Friends. Danielle Harris was in a bunch of the Halloween movies too.
B+
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
1) This is probably the worst Friday the 13th movie because Jason isn't even the killer smh. It's actually kind of unclear that he's even in the movie or if it's just people's imaginations. But how can you make a Friday the 13th movie and not have Jason be the guy making moves? It's like the time the Halloween movies decided that leaving Michael Myers out would be profitable smh.
2) This one was also way too drug out. I didn't really enjoy the setting at the midway house since it wasn't really at some camp/lakeside like the rest of tha movies.
3) That one girl who gets TKO'd in the woods was pretty fly \o/
4) After revisiting some of my reviews of all of the other Friday the 13th movies I don't think the C- ratings were necessarily deserved. I mean, the movies aren't that good, but they are still Friday the 13th movies which makes them at least B level.
No camp Crystal Lake, no Jason, no Bueno.
B-
2) This one was also way too drug out. I didn't really enjoy the setting at the midway house since it wasn't really at some camp/lakeside like the rest of tha movies.
3) That one girl who gets TKO'd in the woods was pretty fly \o/
4) After revisiting some of my reviews of all of the other Friday the 13th movies I don't think the C- ratings were necessarily deserved. I mean, the movies aren't that good, but they are still Friday the 13th movies which makes them at least B level.
No camp Crystal Lake, no Jason, no Bueno.
B-
Monday, August 13, 2012
Re-Animator
1) Pretty solid overall. I was kind of skeptical after Mick recommended that I review it, but it actually turned out pretty good.
2) Not too many movies have embarked upon the reanimation theme and this one was tight. In an odd way it kind of reminded me of Pet Semetary because of that cat that comes back to life all crazy.
3) The original crazy guy does seem to just make poor choices during the movie. Why would you inject someone bigger and stronger than you with some goop that makes them come back to life to wallop on you? And when all these resurrections are going poorly his solution is to just inject faster lol.
4) Speaking of poor choices, why did the original med student let him come live with him? He's creepy, weirds out your lady friend, and only wants to pay in cash. Although I will say I'm not really one to talk. The other day I called direct TV to ask them about the length of their contract and 30 minutes later I had signed up for a 2 year premium package lol.
5) I forgot that that awful movie American Beauty mentions this when the two guys are smoking.
B+
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
1) One of the big problems is there's not really a focus on the 13 ghosts. On the DVD there's this extra feature that explains a background story for all 13 of the ghosts that goes into a way over detailed biographical explanation for all of them. It'd be cooler if they explored that in the movie instead of having to do it after the fact.
2) Some of it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I'm still unsure why those big pieces of glass can deflect all the ghosts away. I mean, that one guy got killed with one of them so why can't the ghosts use them? And why would the ghosts leave these super power glasses around that allow them to be detected?
3) Crazy that Shannon Elizabeth and that Monk guy were in it. Pretty funny that Brock from She's All That is in it too lol. He's always kind of a n00b in horror movies and this one's not too different.
4) At least the movie poster was pretty solid. It spells 13 all goofy, and says Misery loves company. I can't find a link to it, but back in March when Missouri and Duke lost ESPN ran that headline lol.
Meh,
C-
2) Some of it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I'm still unsure why those big pieces of glass can deflect all the ghosts away. I mean, that one guy got killed with one of them so why can't the ghosts use them? And why would the ghosts leave these super power glasses around that allow them to be detected?
3) Crazy that Shannon Elizabeth and that Monk guy were in it. Pretty funny that Brock from She's All That is in it too lol. He's always kind of a n00b in horror movies and this one's not too different.
4) At least the movie poster was pretty solid. It spells 13 all goofy, and says Misery loves company. I can't find a link to it, but back in March when Missouri and Duke lost ESPN ran that headline lol.
Meh,
C-
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Friends with Kids
1) Pretty slow but pretty solid. It weirdly reminds me of When Harry Met Sally. I mean, there's two platonic friends who tiptoe in relationships while nitpicking at their friends that do the same time. She falls for him and he rejects her, the opposite happens, then there's some big speech at the end that reunites them. Pretty good.
2) Obvi I have a thing for the RomComs that end with some line that connects back to some other part of the movie. Like in A Lot Like Love or in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. I totally didn't see him coming back and audibleing his pick to 'dying a slow and painful death so I can still be with you.' I mean, he doesn't say a romantic thing the whole movie and then decides to go to town on that one.
3) I think my only real problem with it is that it's kind of slow/depressing. It's not like the movie is 3 hours long or anything, but most of the movie is just showing everyone else fighting and not enjoying their lives. Not really an LOL RomCom.
4) It's kind of funny that Jon Hamm is so angry the whole time. I wonder if the directors made Missouri jokes and he'd just instantly get riled up.
If you're in the right mood it's pretty good,
B
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Paranormal Activity 2
1) Wgbw, after reviewing the First and Third I finally made it to the second. This is probably somewhere in the middle of the two movies. It's obvi scarier than the first one, but no where near the 3rd one.
2) After watching these out of order, they still kinda confuse me. It's like the second one is a prequel to the first in the sense that it's just a little bit earlier while the 3rd one is the actual prequel. Kind of confusing to go all out of order. I'm really hoping the 4th one just goes down after the events in this one and not in between a bunch of them lol.
3) Anybody catch the Michael Myers look-a-like hanging out in the background of that kitchen scene? He's pretty visible for a lot of the dark camera scenes and goes away sporadically too \o/
4) That reminds me, if I was putting together one of these movies, I'd never waste money to see if there were any IMDB 'goofs'. I mean, pretend a cup was in one scene and not in the next. It's not really a goof, just a weird paranormal activity that the movie doesn't really explain. Seems like it's hard for the production crew to go wrong in these movies LOL.
Eh,
B-
Thursday, August 2, 2012
LOL
1) This movie really appealed to me at first. Some teen drama movie that had an acronym in the title. How can it go wrong? LOL was I wrong.
2) I had to shut this off early it was so bad. The whole movie is just about her drama with her friend, boyfriend, mom, and France.
3) The amateur music by all these people made the movie worse. Every time there's a transition to a new scene some mediocre music by these amateur bands makes you wish it went by faster LOL.
4) The only slightly redeeming part of this was Phoebe's Season 1 boyfriend Roger was in it and so was Rachel's mom. LOL.
/o\
Alan recommended, and I approve, the first ever grade below an F for halloweenjitsu,
G
2) I had to shut this off early it was so bad. The whole movie is just about her drama with her friend, boyfriend, mom, and France.
3) The amateur music by all these people made the movie worse. Every time there's a transition to a new scene some mediocre music by these amateur bands makes you wish it went by faster LOL.
4) The only slightly redeeming part of this was Phoebe's Season 1 boyfriend Roger was in it and so was Rachel's mom. LOL.
/o\
Alan recommended, and I approve, the first ever grade below an F for halloweenjitsu,
G
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!
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