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also, "bronyologist" is not a word. hahahah
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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.
5/5 stars, 8/10 from Clint.
3/5 stars, 7/10 from Carolyn.
Major disparity here.
Native rating: 4.7/10 (vs 5.8,5.4 for first 2 movies), 3.1/5 stars (vs 3.2,3.2).
Netflix guessed 3.9/5 for us. Considering I rated the first 2 Hostel movies 5/5 stars, Netflix really should know better.
I thought this was one of the more sinister Hostel movies. The major spoiler of the movie is WAY more evil than anything that was done in the first two Hostel movies.
I actually think the franchise has been improving with each release, which is contrary to most popular opinion and common sense.
Hostel 2 > Hostel 1, because after seeing the 1, watching 2 is an exercise in extreme paranoia. But after going that route, Hostel 3 is more of an experience in "living large" and making the franchise more grandiouse, with the hell on earth no longer in a 3rd world eastern European country, but in Las Fucking Vegas.
This is also the most unique of the 3 films (due to large similarities between Hostel 1 and Hostel 2).
I am glad that in the IMDB comments I found other people who liked this better than Hostel 1 & 2. It is probably the opinion of a 10% minority, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks 3 > 2 > 1.
FREAK ALERT! John Hensley, the fucking idiot son from Nip/Tuck, plays a handicapped person here. Interesting to see him again, if only to be reminded of how much I hated his character on Nip/Tuck. He also has a kind of weird look to him, which lends itself well to playing someone with a physical malady.
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.
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.
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!
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]
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.
Native ratings: Netflix:2.4/5 stars (guess for us=3.3), IMDB:3.4/10.
That's pretty fucking low. So we knew this was going to be kind of retarded.
The "Stoned Age" title implies there's going to be some kind of drug humor, but this is basically just a caveman comedy (think "Year One", but worse, but with better cameos).
There are also a lot of notable people in the cast to help off-set the badness. It was weird seeing Ali Larter (the blonde schizo from Heroes, also in Final Destination 1) in a comedic role...
Or seeing Adrianne from Rocky, Carol Alt as an amazon queen, Gary Busey as a wizard, David Carradine in TWO roles, Ron Jeremy, and Tom Arnold (fortunately only a few seconds).
In the end, it was a mix of like and don't like.
Carolyn: 2.6/5 stars, 5.0/10.
Clint:::::: 2.9/5 stars, 5.9/10.
Surprised! I was expecting a mindless action flick, and then this turned out to be way better than we expected. In the same league as Training Day or L.A. Confidential. Lots of angry tension in this movie, and fortunately not too many laughably unrealistic scenes.
Carolyn: 4.7/5 stars, 8.7/10.
Clint: 4.6/5 stars, 8.6/10.
Native: 3.8/5 stars, 7.2/10. Netflix incorrectly thought we'd like this less than average (3.2). BUT SO DID I, so I can't blame Netflix's system here.
I was glad that I had forgotten the plot points from the trailer to this movie (which I probably only saw in the late 1990s), for that made it more fun to watch. Had no clue Kevin Spacey was going to be in this. Or Paul Giamatti. Bonus.
7/10 from both of us (IMDB rating is only 3.2/10!). 3/5 stars from Carolyn, 4/5 from Clint (Netflix rating is 2.7/5, with a prediction of 3.0 for us.)
OMFG this was a TOTALLY RIDICULOUS cheesy screwball unrealistic 1980s comedy about a video arcade. Think FOOTLOOSE, but with video games instead of dancing.
Get a chance to see Larry's always-silent, other-brother-Darryl from the 80's Newhart sitcom -- not just in a speaking role, but also sometimes in drag!
This also stars Uncle Rico from Napoloeon Dynamite, as a video-junkie punk - "KING VIDIOT" - who just wants to hang out at the video arcade with the snobby cool kids. Yes, you heard me right: The snobby cool kids (and topless chicks) all want to hang out at the video game arcade.
NOT UNREALISTIC ENOUGH? Ante up! Dude takes 2 girls back to his private office where he has a strip video game, and they have a threesome while playing the videogame.
Carolyn liked it better than she thought it would. She was resistant to this movie, yet I had to tell her that I observed her laughing and laughing and laughing out loud over and over many many times through the movie -- as did I.
This exceeded my low expectations and is actually funnier than a lot of A-movie comedies out there.
Yet another unexpected "collaboration" - MC Chris has released a song all about My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic. Fear the Brony movement!
Reviews of the shows John The Canadien watched with Carolyn & I during Cartoon Night: Final Edition. As a bonus, 12 out of 13 of these shows were also good!
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