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The Oakley Seven (2006)
I had no idea where this was going to go because its informal.
Such a basic movie. Kids in a cave trying to survive, but with something like this you never know if they're going to throw a curve ball at you, and just kill all the characters and have a morbid ending. The sets were fine. They didn't show the creature till the end. That poor girl has been through so much in her life. It would've been cool if she climbed out of the cave and got her chance to beat the bat creature over and over with a shovel. please reshoot the ending to have this. The acting worked and made it more interesting. Didn't really have a problem with anything apart from 2006 filming quality. definitely worth a watch. Watch with a friend who also likes slightly bad things.
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
Horrendous Tinder jokes for 1.5 hours
A few years ago late night comedic TV show hosts used to do this thing where they'd just use internet terms outside of the internet as the entire punchline to a joke. They'd say "YOLOOOOO!!!" and "L-O-L" and "Hashtag_____". The joke was that they were old and using young peoples lingo and internet things are funny so you don't even need to write any material just say those words apparently. That was some of the cringiest work going about. The modern version of that is just saying "Tinder" over and over and over again or using shock words like "finger ing" and saying that over and over and over until it looses its comedic shock. Thats what happened in this movie. Seriously there was at least 9 tinder jokes that were awkwardly slapped into scenes. Adam devine was the only saving grace in this flick. And even still it was a weak poor performance from him. You're better off stringing together an entire season of Workaholics and watching that instead of this, because this felt like a workaholics episode but 50% less funny.
It was really cring-y to watch the 2 chic characters try and act drunk for a good portion of the movie. They just slur their words and hicup a lot and mention "fist ing" and "tinder" and "finger ing" over and over, its not funny unless you've never been exposed to dirty humour before. Why didn't they just have a few drinks before filming? do some method acting would've made it more convincing then watching a clearly sober person act drunk. It looks like They were sipping on a fresh wheat grass juice under an umbrella and the director yelled "action" and they just started swaying around and slurring dialogue to appear inebriated. Hollywood seems to be the opposite to where it was years ago. The actors were all completely smashed drunk and on screen trying to act sober like Oliver Reed. The last thing I saw Audrey plaza in was that Father John Misty video and she was ace in those 3 mins. Sucked hard in this film though.
Im not sure if we have reached peak shock humour but i'd say we'd be close. There's only so many times you can just shout shocking words before the audience members become accustomed to those and it no longer has a comedic angle. At least in Workaholics they'd get creative with words, mixing stuff together and generating some new phareses like "Ayoooo-maggots!" The worlds changed and I don't think you can get away with this sort of thing anymore. You have to at some point start writing some proper material instead of relying on the laugh that comes from an audience member hearing a dirty word they've herd a million times in private but never on the big screen.
I think directors are forced to get Effron to take off his top in each movie because it translates to an extra 10 million views world wide $$$$$$$$. Hey the kid looks good. Shocking actor. Yes Audrey plazza even said "Hashtag" out loud as an actual joke in this film. pure toilet movie. Rubbish Trash Garbage