Published 5 days, 17 hours ago
in Drama.
Rated: R
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Year: 2008
Nudity: None
One Sentence: Not the light comedy romp the previews made it out to be.
The world around me was all a buzz about In Bruges, the preview was so-so, there was no word on the street proir to opening and I really wasn't that interested. The world around me got louder with In Bruges is great, even more so when it got to DVD and so I put it at the top of the queue. I was going to skip it completly and now after seeing it I would say that you don't have to put it at the top of your queue, but you don't need to rent it either if you dont want to.
The one bit of the preview I do remember is that they made it out to be a very funny, rapid fire joke movie, which it was not. It was a dark, sometimes slow tale about 2 hitmen, played by Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson thier most recent hit, and thier boss, played by Ralph Fiennes (prounced Ray). There were funny parts and I would consider the movie a partial comedy, but it just was not the fun light playful movie I was led to believe I was seeing, which always bothers me a bit. If the movie has to lie about what it is, then it probably isn't great at what it was supposed to be.
In Bruges, however isn't a horrible waste of time or anything like that. There are funny parts that made me laugh out loud, and the acting is quite fine. While others seem to dislike Colin Farrell, I have always liked him and found him to be enjoyable and worth watching here. By the end of the movie I am feeling quite down however, the movie does not leave you like a normal comedy would and if you were going to use the word comedy it would have to have dark in front of it. So if you like dark comedies that end on a down note, then I would go for In Bruges, if you want fun comedy then this movie is not for you.
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3 Stars,
colin farrell,
Drama,
Ralph Fiennes
Published 1 week, 4 days ago
in Movies.
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Published 2 weeks, 2 days ago
in Movies.
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Year: 2008
Nudity: Naked Butt
One Sentence: Cute and fun but not anything super special.
This is like almost my dream come true. Anna Faris as a playboy bunny! I mean how much better can it get. I should be sold on that ideal alone and should give it 5 stars, well if it wasn't for the puffed up lips, which I am not sure if it was for the character or for her personally. Her lips looked really horrible. So anyway, yes I have a thing for Anna Faris and it makes me have blinders on about any movie she is in, so this might be slightly biased but I am trying not to be.
The House Bunny is as you would totally expect a PG-13 movie about a playboy bunny who gets kicked out of the mansion and moves into a sorority as a house mother to be. It has a lot of pink, a lot of ding bat jokes and a lot of skanky skanky outfits. It somehow fits in a love story, which is forced and has a underdog story too. All of it is really simple, and cute and in the end delivers a fun packed little story, that won't kill you to see.
The House Bunny while cute and fun, is confused about what it wants to be. It seems like a rated R movie that they pulled back to be PG-13 and in the middle of cutting left out the funny sometimes. There are parts of this movie that really had me laughing a lot, original jokes and comedy that really worked. However then there were other parts that were dry, boring, and drug on, and it seemed like they needed to fill time from other scenes that were cut. There was some empty spots and I don't know what happened. So The House Bunny, is a 3 star movie for me and is rentable for sure. But I think I would say rent it for sure, it's cute enough to give a watch.
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Movies
Published 2 weeks, 4 days ago
in Action.
Rated: R
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Year: 2008
Nudity: None
One Sentence: It's like the orignal Death Race 2000 except it sucks.
Remakes of iconic 70's sci-fi movies that touch on social commentary are always good, I think back to the excellent Planet Of The Apes, or the perfect Poseidon, and all the others and just hope and hope they keep making these remakes, because they are so good. Death Race is the next in I am sure a long line of destroyed 70's and 80's sci-fi movies. Anyone want to remake Weird Science? Fuck it do Back To The Future while you are at it.
Death Race has almost nothing to do with the original movie, except some of the names are the same. In Death Race 2000, they drove across the country killing civilians and each other, in this one they are on a prison island and drive laps. The movie is a complete waste of time and money, except for the fact it has death, explosions, blood, guns, hot girls and fast cars. I guess this is justification enough for some to go see Death Race.
Jason Statham and Joan Allen deliver completly blank boring characters who act "hard" to each other and the fellow prisoners on Terminal Island, the place where the Death Race occurs. In there amonst the hardness is a plot I think that doesn't really make sense, and is completly boring anyway. If you are thinking about seeing this movie you are hopefully not going for the plot. The movie is all right from an action point of view and if you are hurting to go see a movie this weekend I guess this one would be fine to see. It just does not provide much else besides the normal action flare and does not go above and beyond anything I have seen before. My call is to rent it maybe if you like all those action elements.
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Action
Published 3 weeks, 4 days ago
in Sci-Fi.
Rated: PG
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Year: 2008
Nudity: None
One Sentence: There is no General Grievous in this movie.
Sigh, it is hard for fanboys like me. As I sit here writing this looking at my Rancor, and my new General Grievious "The Clone Wars" figure that I just bought about a week ago I think to myself, sometimes it's hard out there for a fanboy. The reason it is hard, because of crap like this. The Clone Wars animation started with 2 amazing Cartoon Network volumes that were headed by the art team who did Samurai Jack. The volumes were smart, good, amazingly well animated, and were the type of movies Star Wars fans could get behind and be proud of liking. So it was with some delight that I heard about The Clone Wars, computer animated movie coming to theaters…I should have known better.
Let's start with the good, which will be short. Some battle sequences, were pretty awesome, with the CG holding tight and keeping with the amazing Star Wars feel. Good lightsaber work, good space battles, and land battles, and good overall visual representation of characters in the CG format. This along with Samuel L. Jackson, and Christopher Lee doing their vocal parts were just about the only things worth anything in this movie.
The movie falls apart with the opening score, when the words Star Wars appear on screen, it's the theme to Star Wars done by some low rent computer orchestra, or something. It is apparent in that very first second of the movie that we are in for something less than would be expected from a film release of a Star Wars product. From there on out it goes from bad to worse. The movie is a battle sequence story, that has no baring or effect on the large Star Wars plot. It doesn't have General Grievous the best character from The Clone Wars saga, which leaves me wonder why the fuck I have a Clone Wars Grievous figure that came out for the movie, if he isn't in the fucking movie. Then they introduce this annoying padawan female that sticks with Anakin the whole movie. This is the plot of this movie. And she is just as annoying and whiny as Anakin is in Episodes I-III. Maybe even more so because her voice is grating on my last nerve.
I can not say this enough that if you are an adult male without children who is a Star Wars fan, you can actually do completly without this movie. You actually might be better off not seeing it, to save that last shred of dignity you might have claiming you are a Star Wars fan. If you have some tween's or less in your family, then I would say this is a great movie to take the little ones too especially if they are fans, but you are going to have a hard time getting though it.
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Sci Fi
Published 3 weeks, 5 days ago
in Comedy.
Rated: R
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Year: 2008
Nudity: None
One Sentence: The opening previews are worth the price of your ticket.
Tropic Thunder is not your normal stupid Ben Stiller movie, like Zoolander, or Dodgeball. So get the idea that you hate Ben Stiller movies out of your head. I know there are some out there that have that hate toward certain people and he is one of them. Tropic Thunder is so much better than any preconceived notions you have about Ben Stiller. The "previews" that are part of the movie at the very beginning by themselves are better than most comedies that have come out this year.
This movie is hilarious. It is solidly funny throughout and you can practically be laughing from start till the end. On top of that you have what seems like a huge truckload of money that was spent on the movie, to make it filled with action, amazing sets, some awesome gore, and shots that are rare in comedies. They spared no expense when it came to Tropic Thunder and it shows.
Everyone is great in this movie, the three actors you see in the poster up there all did a great job. Jack Black was strong and funny without going over the top, Ben was very good and I think did awesome, and then Downey just killed his part, it was amazing. On top of them, everybody that you know or do not know is in this film makes it great. There are a ton of camoes that all deliver and just add so much more to the movie. Ben Stiller deliever one of the best comedies of the year, and I think you all should go out and see it this weekend.
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Comedy
Published 3 weeks, 6 days ago
in Movies.
Empire has set up a new quiz that lets you guess the movie from 1 letter from the poster. It was a fun quiz and has lots of good posters, I thought I didn't do too bad but did not get 100%. I got 28 out of 46. Tell me what you got. Don't post any answers however, so everyone can have thier own chance. No Cheaters!!!
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