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Clint/Carolyn: 5/5 stars, 9/10. Clint is considering upgrading to 10/10.
Native ratings: 3.8/5 stars (Netflix's better guess for us=4.3), 6.9/10.
Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs books, this movie entered development in 1931, and was almost the first animated movie in America. But things got held up for (puts pinky to corner of mouth) ***79 YEARS***. It finally left development-hell in 2010, and they're already working on a sequel.
I'm glad once the studios finally move (a literal lifetime later), that they are rushing to do as many of these as possible.
BECAUSE THIS WAS EXCELLENT!!!!!!
Would have been nice to see in 3-D, but completely unnecessary. It is a great story, and a long movie that properly fleshes out characters and plots. I'm not going to go into too much detail, but simply: Science fiction done right, with an epic story and an epic budget. I'm still trying to figure out if I should really be rating this movie 10/10, because there's not really any flaw.
(BTW, You may recognize the main couple in this movie as Gambit and Silverfox from X-Men Origins.)
Clint/Carolyn: 8/10.
Clint: 5/5 stars, Carolyn: 4/5 stars.
Native ratings: 3.5/5 Netflix (guess for us=3.4), 6.2/10 IMDB.
What a delightful sequel to Jumanji! And nobody knows about this, because they didn't call it Jumanji 2! However, it's basically the exact same movie, but with SPACE instead of JUNGLE. It's not as dark as Jumanji; a little more lighthearted. But the EXACT SAME FORMULA. This is truly a sequel.
All the Kristen Stewart haters have really missed out on a gem of exploitable screenshots from this movie: Stewart is LITERALLY frozen during a lot of the movie. These could be memes, if someone would just screenshot and capture them.
Directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Elf).
With Dax Sheppart from Without A Paddle, and Tim Robbins as the dad.
And oh, the younger brother in this movie was the kid in the recent Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) movie, and the older brother was in Journey To The Center Of The Earth (2008) as well as Peeta in The Hunger Games (2012), and Bridge To Terabithia (2007).
The music, especially, makes this video! I can't think of a video that's made me this happy in awhile.
8/10 from both of us. 4/5 stars from Carolyn, 5/5 stars from Clint. Carolyn had seenthis before, but Clint had not. Carolyn enjoyed it as much (if not more) as the first time she saw it.
Native rating: 6.5/10, 3.6/5 (Netflix incorrectly guesse3d 3.1/5 for us, thinking we'd like this worse than average. WRONG!)
We are both very much into board games, fantasy, imagination, and darkness, and this movie had it all, so it spoke to us. I really thought it would be more of a "kiddie" movie, but there were actually a lot of dark, fucked up moments. Homicidal gun maniacs and animals that try to kill children? Nightmare insects? Holy fuck. WAS. NOT. EXPECTING.
I was enthralled. Carolyn adds: "It was more enjoyable watching it with you because you liked it so much. hehehehe"
Another weird thing: Seeing Kirsten Dunst so young. Too bad she was TOO young, if you catch my drift. But that was made up for with Bebe Neuwirth (Lillith from Cheers/Frasier). SHE IS HOT AS SHIT. Plus this was 15 years ago. Too bad this is a movie about her kids and not her, or we could have stared at her longer. But I digress.
This was way better than I expected. I'd been putting off watching this movie for almost a year (17 years, if you want to get pedantic), but apparently I should have watched it much sooner!
MMmmmm, Sherlock Holmes sequel! Yay!
4/5 stars, 8/10 from both of us (whereas the first movie only got 7.6 from Carolyn).
Native rating: 7.5/10, 4.1/5 (guess for us=4.2), so for once we're in line with most people.
NOOMI RAPACE! THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO! She is in this movie, in an English-speaking role!
This was actually better than the first Sherlock Holmes movie, but only slightly. I reread what Carolyn said to me about the last one, and she said her attention had faltered some during the first one, and that didn't happen with the 2nd movie.
And that is why this movie gets a slightly higher rating (8.0 vs 7.6).
New Zealand low-budget time travel movie not available on Netflix.
Got a 3.6/10 on IMDB, but Clint gave it 6/10 and Carolyn gave it 7/10.
We both rated it only 3 stars, but then later Clint changed it to 2.8/3 stars after seeing its rating in comparison to other 3/5 star movies and realizing this is a worse movie.
The effects were super-cheesy -- like someone just did it all on their computer. And the story was confusing. David Lynch-level confusing by the end, with characters actually being other characters. And since it wasn't directed well enough, I didn't even understand which characters were becoming which other characters. It was just hard to follow. And the New Zealand accents sounded really bad.
But the story was still kind of interesting, and we are such huge time travel fans that we sought out and found this movie despite its rarity and low rating.
It was still enjoyable.
Just not really GOOD.
Here's what happens if someone takes the darkest 25% or so of My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic episodes, and makes a serious movie trailer out of them.
I gotta say... this is fucking awesome. Deal with it.
7.6/10 from both of us (imdb avg is 6.5/10).
4/5 stars from Carolyn, 3.6/5 stars from me
(avg Netflix is 3.9/5 stars, with a guess of 4.1 for us)
I call this Underworld 3 because it's the 3rd non-prequel movie in the 4-movie franchise. We now have 0 through 3.
Anyway, this was an improvement over the 3rd movie, Underworld 0:Rise Of The Lycans. Kate Beckinsale is back, since she was barely in the prequel movie (though it's easy enough to mistake Rhona Mitra for Kate, if you forget the eye color difference).
It's been too long since the first two Underworld movies for me to really say whether this was any better or worse than 1-2.
The main twist here is that vampires and werewolves are now known to exist by the general public.
For the most part, this just feels like a Resident Evil movie. Moreso than any of the previous Underworld movies. Whether that is good or bad is your choice.
This had some good action, as expected -- but the story could use a bit of work. The movie was kind of short. Not too much happened. There needs to be more movies in the franchise, because this one created more new issues than it resolved.
But it was still good. High-budget, polished action.
Both of us: 7/10 (IMDB average:4.1/10).
Clint: 4/5 stars, Carolyn: 3/5 stars, Netflix: 2.7/5 stars, with a 3.1/5 guess for us.
So yea, we liked this better than the general public, which is true for most movies.
I'm still trying to figure out why the general public -- who spends more money on porn than all non-porn movies combined -- tends to rate sex comedies so low. Are they upset they aren't actual pornos?
This is a movie about cougars, and stars such older women as Fayne Dunaway, Carrie Fisher, Loretta Devine, and other 40-55 year old cougars. But it's not a porno. There's barely even nudity in it. The marketeers marketed toward the sex angle to capture peoples' money, and I think that is what they are angry about. If you watch it not expecting much sex, the sex is simply a pleasant surprise instead of a disappointment.
We found it to be a fun movie. Nothing great, but a good testament about scenesters and creating scenes, and with some fun eroticism to boot. The Cougar Club in this movie could just as easily be ANY self-aggrandizing, private sex-themed party-throwing organization. The parallels were obvious. And the two bros that were main characters had a good comedic chemistry with each other, even if there was nothing uniuque about it.
But Amanda? God...The Amanda character was SOOOOOOO annoying. The filmmarkers did this on purpose, I think, to highlight the maturity of older women by showing how annoying a younger woman can be.
I did not realize one of the main characters had been in 8 episodes of 24! Weird.
Anyway... I'm glad we finally got around to watching this.
4/5 stars, 8/10 from both of us, though the general public only rated it 2.7/5 stars (Netflix guessed 2.6 for us!) and 5.5/10.
This is the closest film I've ever seen to the movie Hardware (1990).
There are a few scenes that seem to be in DIRECT homage to Hardware. It lacks some of the comedy and psychedelia in Hardware, as well as the amazing cameos...
But in terms of cinematography, subject matter, style, and even character appearance (including the "villain"), this is simply a Poor Man's Hardware. It even has William Hootkins ("we all sing, the wibbery-wobberly..walk!"), though he's playing a suit instead of a perf.
Despite this being a poor man's Hardware, it's still better than 95% of scifi horror movies from the 1990s. So it gets 4/5 stars and 8/10, instead of the 5/5 stars and 9/10 rating that Hardware received.
Brad Dourif is pretty fricking crazy in this, and a lot of people are saying Heath Ledger must have watched this film at some point as inspiration for his insane portrayal of The Joker in The Dark Knight.
We watched the 111-minute (PAL/Europe) cut, though I would have preferred to get the 128 or 120-minute cut. Stay away from the 99-minute Netflix cut. You'll be sorry. Get the PAL (europe) DVD if at all possible.
This movie also gets a very special LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for having THE STRANGEST MARIJUANA JOINTS TO BE FEATURED IN ALL OF FILMDOM.
Clint & Carolyn: 3/5 stars (Netflix avg=3.6, guess for us=3.3).
Clint: 6.4/10 (high 6)
Carolyn: 6.6/10 (low 7)
IMDB: 5.3/10.
There is so much wrong with this, but could I really refuse to watch a Smurfs movie because I think it MIGHT be lame? No, I could not. Especially with Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays (Hiro's perfect match from Heroes), and Sofia Vergara.
And was it lame? Yes, in some ways.
Of course, the original 80's cartoon is pretty goddamn lame if you sit down and watch an episode of it in 2012, so one could argue that this movie was actually an improvement. The problem is peoples' rose-tinted nostalgia that causes them to reject everything made on an old idea. But The Smurfs WERE ALREADY AN OLD IDEA when they came to American television. The Smurfs as a franchise are 50 years old; the cartoon is only 30 years old. It was already an adaptation before it was adapted for this movie. So get over it. The movie was fun.
They went into the real world, which is a cheesy plot device used in so many cartoon movies, as well as an excuse to cheap out on the animation budget by using live-action people.
But there was also a real charm in seeing Gargamel as a ridiculous live-action person caught in a world he doesn't belong to. He assumes homeless people are other wizards. It's funny, in a 3rd Rock From the Sun Season 1 kind of way, to see someone try to figure out a world they don't belong in.
And the CGI on Azrael was really cute.
When all is said and done, we have to admit to liking this movie, even if it wasn't great.
4/5 stars, 7/10.
Native ratings: 3.4/5 stars (Netflix's guess for us=3.9), 6.3/10 IMDB.
We definitely had to read the wikipedia summaries of the last 3 movies, because it has been soooo long since the first 3 Scream movies came out. Plus, the 2nd and 3rd ones weren't as good.
Fortunately, Scream 4 seems to be continuing the trend of resurrecting old horror franchises with a sequel better than the last few sequels.
Final Destination 5 was better than FD3, 4, and maybe 2. And Scream 4 is better than S3 & S2.
Horray for fixing broken franchises!
Clint: 4/5 stars, 7.4/10.
Carolyn: 3.6/5 stars, 7/10.
Native ratings: 3.8/5 stars (Netflix guessed 4.1 for us), 6.7/10.
An exception to our usual focus on modern offerings.
This movie had funny moments, and the Ramones were fun. It was very much what people would think of as a stereotypical 1980's highschool/teen-comedy movie. Except it had The Ramones in it, which is something few other movies can boast.
Most of the main characters in this movie still have acting careers today, which is a change compared to most b-movies. As for the "Riff Vs. Kate" debate, It's almost a tie. Riff's clavicle is the tiebreaker. I want to see cleavage, not Skeletor. Kate wins.
Interesting that CBS censors mentions of DDT in Teenage Lobotomy when this movie airs on TV, but cocaine and swastikas are just fine. Can't mess with Monansanto!
And how the fuck are they remaking this? I guess this movie could be remade for every band out there that has a fandom, but it's never going to be something as seminal as the fucking RAMONES!
It will probably still be better than the sequel I just found out about - Rock 'N' Roll High School Forever (1992) - staring Corey Feldman (feat Mojo Nixon). Or the 2nd sequel, Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1994), starring Renee Zellweger and Howie Mandel (feat Paul Anka). God help us all.
At least the 3rd one has some of the original characters and actors from the first one (including P.J. Soles).
Still though -- good times!
Ha! I read about the Emma Frost / Cyclops / Jean Grey thing in wikipedia recently and was like "jesus fucking christ".. but Batman/Superman crying after watching tentacle sex, Green Lantern sleeping with a 13 year old, Wolverine trying to sleep with a 15 year old Mary Jane, and Nightcrawler knowingly banging his sister despite being Catholic? Wowie...
I remember when this happened.
The guy had meth in his blood, therefore it's okay for a group of taxpayer-funded thugs to murder him in cold blood while he screams for help, right?
The audio was released before. PBS just released the video. Unlike Rodney King, this guy died. Unlike Rodney King, there were twice as many officers surrounding this guy.
And here it is - watch your tax dollars being used to murder a man. Now on video. (Of course they tried to confiscate said video.)
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5/5 stars from both of us. Clint: 9/10, Carolyn: 8/10. [7.7/10 on IMDB]
... The only Douglas Adams book I ever actually read was a Dirk Gently novel I read in 1987ish, not that I remember books I read in the 80s the way I remember movies watched in the 80s.
Anyway, it was nice to be reminded just what the hell that was all about.
I wish the British didn't have such tiny series. Waiting 2 yrs after a series pilot to get just three more episodes is a bum rap. Do 26 of these, please! And that's the problem I have with British TV. You can barely spend as much time on a series you love as a series you hate, because by the time you've watched enough episodes to really know the difference, it's over anyway.
But yeah.... Complaints aside, this was awesome. Dirk Gently is kind of an asshole anti-hero, and the relationship between him and his reluctant partner has a really good on-screen [non-sexual] chemistry.
[Carolyn netflix/imdb ratings for each ep: #1:4.6/8, #2:4/8, #3:4.2/8]
...And apparently a lot of other Rammstein songs too. That little drummer girl looks too young to comprehend rhythm, but then she switches to a harp at the end of Sonne? And the singer-guitarist also plays the violin? This is the best child music performance since that Metallica cover band with the 8 year old lead guitarist girl!
4/5 stars, 7/10 from both of us.
A real D&D movie! That's actually funny, too!
Super low budget though. I wouldn't even call this a b-movie, I'd call it a c-movie. The acting is quite often bad and stilted, but you know what? We still enjoyed it a lot anyway!
Major nerdgasm this movie was.
What if Michael Bey directed a live-action My Little Pony movie? Hat tip to Tauna X.
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