13 March 2013

Hard Times

What happens in a small Irish village, stays in the village and then gets exploited for tourism.

or

How many euphemisms for sex and naughty bits can you come up with?

12 March 2013

Half Light

Demi going crazy in Maine.


Or

Be paranoid because they are always after your money.

Jack and Jill

Sandler makes fun of Tyler Perry


or


The self-depricating side of Al Pacino






This movie gets a really bad rap.  As a stand alone, it's bad, Sandler and David Spade cross-dressing, Pacino slumming, tired tropes about twins, etc.  BUT, if you look at it as a parody of all the twin movies and the lead as two characters etc, then it's actually pretty wicked.
He has Al Pacino making fun of himself and doing a singing and dancing Dunkin Donuts commercial!  He has cameos of most of the SNL cast from decades past as well as Drew Carey, Christie Brinkley, Johnny Depp, Bruce Jenner, John McEnroe, and Shaq.
His premise is the relative who visits and never leaves, but it's also about how you have to own your past and acknowledge it and move forward from it, because nothing stays buried alive.  It's also about being honest with yourself and being honest with those around you and allowing them to be honest with you.  Acceptance.  Love.  You don't have to like their behavior, or agree with their choices.
He's also poking fun at the usual crap coming out of Hollywood like 13 going on 30 and Big Momma's House and all the tired cliche ridden crap sequels that get made.
As usual, his humor is harsh at times and has that nasty 5 boroughs sharp hurtful one-liner hatred of all things unpopular, but really, isn't Sandler saying things you thought for a fleeting second and shoved away because it wasn't a "nice" thought?

The Wedding Singer

Gen X ten years later.


or


"Singles" in New Jersey








(One of my favorite Sandler movies)

27 February 2013

John Voight



Last night, Phil and I are under the weather, I make chicken cutlets and penne in vodka sauce and we settle under blankets with dinner and a movie. Dinner is getting cold as he flips through the Comcast on demand list and I say "Pick anything!"
So we end up paying $4.99 to watch Pride and Glory.
When it's over, I look at him and say "That's it. From this moment forward, no more movies that have John Voight with billing higher than cameo."
Phil asks why.
"Because anything with him in it is usually bad or mediocre, and if it's a free movie, mediocre is fine, but I'm not paying for his performances anymore."
"That seems a little extreme."
"Name three good movies he's been in since 1990."

He couldn't.


(this is from 2009)

crocodile dundee

it is a movie made of silences
sounds of the outback instead of dialogue










22 February 2013

Dredd

Un-campified future cop movie.  Kept waiting for Stallone, Bullock, or Snipes to show up.  except that was "Demolition Man" so I was very confused. Then I forgot and enjoyed the movie.

The Last Gladiators

Sad documentary about pro hockey players without translatable job skills.

Goon

Reverse "The Last Gladiators".   Bouncer plays hockey.

04 November 2012

Lifetime movies

Women in peril, saving themselves or their kids and then finding that Hallmark Channel guy to marry.

Hallmark channel movies

Idiots finding other idiots and living sappy, unrealistic lives, raising perfectly behaved unselfish children.

01 August 2012

Bitten

So Jay of "Jay and Silent Bob" gets a job as a paramedic and rescues a junkie who turns into a vampire.  

Feh.