February 2009
1 post
It was a good run....
But I’m out of here.
Well, Kinda.
I’m going to do the same thing but in collaboration with some buddies over at http://www.halfbrokehotel.com/
they are good at making things look pretty. and they will alert me when i haven’t written in a while, bc clearly i am terrible at that….or good at it?
take her easy.
January 2009
7 posts
Gran Turino
What do you get when you put a grizzled hardass on the screen with the worst collection of actors ever assembled? You get an unintentional comedy for the ages.
Two sentences to sum up this movie:
1. Clint Eastwood makes tough facial expressions and says more racial slurs than I knew existed.
2. Asians crawl the streets behaving (and acting) poorly.
Slurs uttered:
Fish heads
Zipper Head...
The Wrestler
I never watched wrestling growing up. I hated it. I didn’t understand my friends who liked it. I was always uncertain on whether or not they knew it was fake.
That being said, i think some of the interest of this movie is momentarily dulled if you aren’t/weren’t a wrestling fan. Only for an instant though, because in the end, this movie could’ve been about any number of...
Coke Commercial Preview
This might be against the rules I previously established for myself regarding this space, but I saw the following in a movie theater, so I think I’m going to let it slide.
Before “Body of Lies” there was a coke commercial in which some dude from the 1600s ends up in modern times via a time machine. The one thing he decides to take back to his friends struggling to make their...
Body of Lies
I saw a movie yesterday. It was called Body of Lies.
There’s dicaprio, a rugged up and comer in the terrorist fighten’ biz, who kicks a lot of asses and finds out about some more asses that need kicking. russell crowe is around, kinda. he watches dicaprio on tv via airboat-camera pretty much all hours of the day except when is sleeping, when he talks to leo on his phone (no...
December 2008
12 posts
Let the right one in
It has come to my attention that my initial affection toward’s the movie was due to my boiling hatred of all things T******t.
Aside: I don’t even go outside at that time of day anymore for fear that frumpy mccatlady (seen here being offered a magic toad to stop living) will somehow be making money off of my enjoyment of lingering sunshine. Avoiding ______ has become exceedingly...
Slumdog Millionaire
or, if you’re the host of a game show: Slumdog Millnyairrgh.
I’m not going to say a whole lot about this movie because I really want you to see it.
One of the best “life story” movies I have ever seen. Imagine a cross between “the princess bride” - the clever framework, enduring love that drives a boy to the end of the earth, and hilarious characters along...
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Breakups are so hard!
First I don’t even know I have a significant other, then he shows up one day, rantin’ and ravin’ about how terrible I’ve been to him and that he’s gonna leave me.
As blind sided as I was, I promised to change, and that I’ll be a better universe-mate.
Of course, the jerk is skeptical and insists on taking me out into the woods for a...
RocknRolla
I wrote this review a couple days ago but the gd browser crashed and took my thoughts with it! I’ve only recently discovered them again in between some empty cans of diet mountain dew in my back seat.
Guy Ritchie, the master of the british-gangster-small-time-thieves-turned-turned-hustler-way-too-many-characters-crime-caper-comedy genre is back again from his hiatus with the sissy...
Synecdoche, New York
The new movie from Charlie Kaufman, the brilliant mind behind Being John Malcovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (lesser known, on par with the others), and Adaptation.
Each of these screenplays was shaped by 3 stud directors in Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and George Clooney (yet one more thing that makes him cooler than me) and aided by knockout...
Wrap up the last 2 Weeks
In order to clean my slate and be slightly relevant, I figured I’d give half-ass recaps of the movies I’ve seen recently. From here on out, I’ll only review movies as I see them so that I don’t leave any of my brilliant musings out.
Pride and Glory.
You prob don’t remember this movie being out. I saw it and I barely remember it existing. Some good performances by...
Twilight
My reviews may not always be in order, but I saw this yesterday, so gotta get it off my chest.
This was a very pretty movie. Pretty people, pretty setting, pretty music, pretty shots, etc. I’m sure the movie made an excellent illustration for devoted fans of the book. But that’s all it was, and I will contend to my death that a movie must be more than that. It needs to stand on...
What are you, a f*ing park ranger now?
I have recently gone through some changes in my life that have left a void. Most of this void was made up of personal reltionships, but because I am pretty much a bastard, this void was very small.
Therefore, it has been very easy to fill this void with two hour videos that attempt to tell a story in an entertaining manor, otherwise known as the american cinema.
I am going to attempt to see...