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Get Out (2017)
I like it better when it was called "The Stepford Wives."
Weak plot, no character development, no plot twist, not scary, not dramatic ... Just ridiculous. I cannot understand why people say they like this one dimensional movie. There were skits on Key and Peele that were much more entertaining and original.
The Accountant (2016)
Bad sound design
I tuned out after a while when I couldn't hear the dialog but the sound effects were blowing out my speakers. Who does this? I know what a gun shot sounds like, I don't need it to break my windows. Oh, and that's not what a gunshot sounds like. It sounded to me like they used the sound of slapping two bricks together. It was definitely more of a clap than a gunshot ... over and over and over ... and that sensory overload sequence ... I get it, I don't need it waking the neighbors.
Doubtful Ben will win an award for this. Sure he played a person with a disability and that's usually a shoe-in for awards, but he needed to be more "special," lets say. Lack of expression is not good acting. This reminded me more of Kurt Russell in Soldier, one of the funniest films I've ever seen. I couldn't help imagining the pitch meeting.
Agent: "No acting at all, no dialog either. All you have to do is walk around completely expressionless and shoot people."
Kurt, "I'm in."
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser (2015)
What's wrong with some of these reviewers?
It's Joe Dirt 2! Whatever you're thinking it should be, you're wrong. Did you see Joe Dirt? Both are HILARIOUSLY FUNNY! I woke my wife up several times howling laughing. It's witty and funny in a intellectual way, if that makes sense. If you're not paying attention to the dialog you won't get it. You have to actually pay attention and watch and listen.
Joe Dirt and Joe Dirt 2 are comedy classics like Airplane and Naked Gun. I was 13 when I went to see Airplane at the theater. I asked for one ticket for the "Mat Daily story." They had no idea what I was talking about but my friends mother was cracking up. She was the only one that got it.
I just don't understand what's wrong with most people. When Austin Powers opened in the theater I was the only one cracking up. No one else thought it was funny. Now, it's a classic. It seems a lot of people just don't know what funny is until someone tells them.
I love this mindless comedy. Maybe people think it's easy to write this, but no. It's very difficult to truly make the ultra-stupid actually funny.
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
Someone owes me 103 minutes of my life back!
How can this movie have a 6.5 star rating? It's bloody awful! If it weren't for the talent of the cast it'd be completely unwatchable. I'm dumber for having watched it. Here it is in short: People acting as if they're stoned, dialog, dialog, dialog, something dumb happens, dialog, dialog, dialog, someone gets shot, movie over. I don't think it's the director's fault. I don't think anyone could have made this disaster screen worthy. The only reason I watched it in the first place was for research of Atlantic City's boardwalk. I can't write enough about this movie to make the review stick. Who decides a review has to be at least ten lines of text anyway? This is almost as dumb as this movie.
Torque (2004)
So horrible it's actually hilarious!
Seriously, this movie is so incredibly bad it's hilarious. When a guy without a helmet crashes a motorcycle at 80 to 100 mph hits the ground, rolls a few times and jumps up and starts fighting someone ... that's friggin' funny! It seems any time anyone crashes a motorcycle there is always someone to fight the minute you stop rolling.
The biggest laughs are when they're riding super-bikes 100+ mph zig-zagging through traffic as if that weren't enough they're also having a gunfight and the guy in front is looking backward most of the time! Why not an meteorite fight?
As far as I can tell this is supposed to be The Matrix meets On Any Sunday meets any gangster movie meets any teen romance movie but misses the mark by so far you can't begin to believe it. BTW what the hell were the dancing horses/motorcycles all about?! I'm giving it 2 stars because I don't know when I've ever laughed that hard ...
Sucker Punch (2011)
The greatest film ever!
The imagery on screen in this film is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. There is some dialog and filler between the incredible awesomeness that we could really do without, but other than that, it's unbelievable. I'm not kidding. This movie was truly awesome in the true sense of the word. I've never read a comic book in my life but if this is what comics are like - I love comics! Movies just don't get any cooler than this. I couldn't care less about the storyline. I don't even know if they were speaking English. This movie has style right from frame one. Aaron Simms shows his brilliance. Aaron is amazing. I have never been as slack-jaw awe stuck watching as film as I was with Sucker Punch. I'm going to edit my copy down to the hour or so that it should be and watch it every night. I imagine that not only is it fun to watch but it must have been fun to make. It has all the shots and camera moves that we've all wanted to see and do - but no one was ever been brave enough to do.