Published by The Reviewer 1 week, 5 days ago
in Movies.
Well Fantastic Fest starts tonight for me at 7:30PM. With Kevin Smith presenting Zach and Miri Make A Prono. Then after that the long awaited Fanboys is at midnight. It is a good nerd night for sure. Fantastic Fest, if you do not know is the biggest Genre Film Festival in the country. What that means is for the next week, blood, gore, crazy japense people, fantasy, fighting, monsters, aliens, torture, nudity, and whatever else that is crazy, wild and new in the world of film I will be seeing in Austin.
Most of the movies I will be seeing are new and either are coming out to everyone to a theater new you, or are trying to find distribution, so keep the names of the movies you think sound good to you written down and keep an eye out in the future, because hopefully they will get to you!
It is a very hard task, too many movies too little time, so I have brought back some help. Monkeyjenn will be writing reviews as well, as there are too many movies to see and watch and write about all by myself. So keep an eye out starting tomorrow for a ton of great crazy movies that you might want to check out yourself.
Oh an I missed Ghost Town, I was supposed to see it last night but the sneak was actually Tuesday, being in the Hospital I didn't have my calender and missed out, so no Ghost Town review. Sorry about that.
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Movies
Published by The Reviewer 2 weeks ago
in The Reviewer.
Hello everyone I have been in the hospital, with some amazing viral thing. Pretty much the worse pain I have ever experienced. I am still pretty laid up, so I am not sure when I am getting back into the saddle. I am supposed to go see Nights in Rodanthe tonight, but I am not sure if I am going to make it. Then tomorrow is Ghost Town which I want to get to, and then the day after that Fantastic Fest starts. Which is tons of movies, too many to list. Hopefully I will be full strength for Fantastic Fest. So stay tuned and we will get The Reviewer running again in a couple of days.
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Published by The Reviewer 2 weeks, 5 days ago
in Comedy.
Rated: R
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Year: 2008
Nudity: None
One Sentence: Not the best ever, but still pretty great.
Such expectation for this one. People are glowing after No Country For Old Men and everyone is hopeing and wondering if the Coen Brothers can pull off two amazing movies in a row. With the cast that is lined up for this one, I think everyone is really thinking it might happen. I was hopeful of anything close to Fargo and thought the trailer really made it look great. The movie came out as quite funny, and dark, but not the level of Fargo in my opinon.
The first thing that I have to say about this movie is that if you are a Coen Brothers fan, then I think you will enjoy this movie quite a bit. It has all the elements that I think most of thier fans are looking for and it is a quality movie worth checking out. The movie is funny, smart, and has a large cast of characters that are creative and fun, however I do have to say not to the level of Fargo or The Big Lebowski. Which is what I was expecting from the trailer.
The movie has scenes that are bloody, dark and sad. There are others where it is funny, silly or unbelievable. So be careful with what you are looking for, there are some very dark scenes. I thought John Malkovich was the best in the movie, but the cast all did well, delivering on their strengths as actors. I think the casting was perfect and everyone did their best to deliver a solidly funny movie. The Coen Brothers I think did a great job with Burn After Reading and everyone would have a great time checking this out this weekend.
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Comedy
Published by The Reviewer 2 weeks, 6 days ago
in Horror.
Rated: R
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Year: 2008
Nudity: 3 topless girls.
One Sentence: They left poor Corey Haim in the background.
The world was a buzz with the news of a new Lost Boys movie, starring both Corey's. Internet blogs showed pics, found the scripts and found out all there was to know. The new movie would be coming, and it was going to be a crap fest! Oh yes, everyone was excited. The movie got knocked to direct to DVD status and the rumor of Corey Haim being pulled from the movie spread. I wasn't going to let that keep me from seeing this must see movie.
The Lost Boys: The Tribe is a sequel that occurs 20 years later in a different town with mostly different people. Except for Corey Feldman who reprises his role as Edgar Frog, now much older, but with the same outfit. It is still on a beach, but now there is no boardwalk, and a new head vampire. The whole story is pretty much the same as the first Lost Boys, except they have lesser known actors, and it is in a different town.
There is no reason for anyone to see this movie, unless you have a fetish for topless girl vampires. The movie is a completly redone version of the original. It brings nothing new to the table, it does not push any boundries, and is not even scary or a good vampire story. They put Corey Haim back in it for one minute in the credits, but it too is not worth the time. The lure that was once there with the Corey's being together again in a movie is now gone, and there is no other reason I would recomend to you to check it out.
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2 stars,
Horror,
Movies
Published by The Reviewer 3 weeks, 1 day ago
in Drama.
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Year: 2008
Nudity: None
One Sentence: No one stepped up in this movie.
In my life as a movie watcher and reviewer, there has really only been one goal. To find and enjoy the passing of the torch from the best dance movie ever made to the new best dance movie ever made. Of course the current best is Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. I was actaully hopeful that Step Up 2, might have been the movie. Sadly I was way wrong it wasn't even close.
Step Up 2, which has almost completly nothing to do with Step Up 1, follows a street dancer and her tough life in Baltimore, and becuase she gets in so much trouble dancing in subways, might get sent to Texas. I am not shitting you this is how it starts. From there she gets admitted into a private dance school, which she doesn't seem to have to pay and it goes on. It doesn't matter we are not watching this movie for the plot anyway, we are watching it for the dancing, which should be off the fucking chain. There is no reason to have any expectation of plot in this type of movie which I did not. I wanted good tracks and good daning, that was shot well and was seamless and impressive.
This movie failed completly. They first put the good dancers in one crew who didn't really dance until the last scene. We are mostly shown dancing from other crews who have dancers while ok, are not of the caliber we should have in a movie like this. So there were tons of sequences that were just ok, and made the lack of plot even more painful. The final dance scene in the rain, that the poster up there is portraying was very cool, but it is so not worth the other hour and 20 minutes. Sadly this is not the new best dance movie ever made, and is not even close. I would not waste your time with this one at all.
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Drama
Published by The Reviewer 4 weeks 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 by The Reviewer 1 month ago
in Movies.
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