One movie a day until the reel change happens.
March 13, 2013 Leave a comment
This is probably why people don’t trust the police. Well maybe not the sole reason, but then again this little kick ass slasher/horror movie certainly made some people paranoid about a renegade maniac cop on the loose, taking the law into his super strong hands. It’s a perfect slasher film that is fun as hell to watch especially when you stars like Bruce Campbell, Tom Atkins and the prolific Robert Z’Dar.
February 4, 2013 2 Comments
Holy Hell! Who would of thought that a movie with Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo was something I never knew that I truly wanted. It’s the ultimate buddy duo horror, action, comedy movie that I never realized existed until Netflix recommend that I check this out cause apparently I was watching a lot of bad movies and this is right up there with it. Don’t get me wrong, this is a bad movie, but shit man I loved watching this terrible movie about a cop named Roger Mortis, basically stopping undead criminals by becoming undead himself. Oh yeah, Roger Mortis, Rigor mortis, fucking awesome.
August 12, 2012 2 Comments
High Five BRO! Tango & Cash, a wonderful little relic from an era when Stallone and Russel were just churning out action movies like there was no tomorrow. Another entry in the buddy cop genre with a fast playing detective paired with a straight laced, by the books cop. It’s the wacky pairing that leads them to antics and trying survive shootouts and gang fighting. It’s campy, it’s ridiculous (mainly cause Stallone is the straight laced cop here) but damn if it isn’t a seriously entertaining action movie from 1989.
June 21, 2012 Leave a comment
Since this is coming out on Blu-Ray on Tuesday, I got to talk about this movie. I mean, I lament the fact that Hollywood continuously scarps the bottom of the barrel and will pretty much remake every fucking television show in existence into a movie, but once in a blue moon, they do yield a nugget of gold amongst all the shit that gets made. 21 Jump Street was by far and away, one of the funnier comedies to come out in 2012. It took the ridiculous premise of the show in which it is based on and made it even more ridiculous by reveling in the absurdity of grown men infiltrating a high school to bust up a sophisticated drug ring. Even typing that sentence was absurd, but damned if this movie isn’t side splitting hilarious and well acted by C-Tates (Channing Tatum) and Jonah Hill.
June 11, 2012 2 Comments
I fucking love this movie. One of Stallone’s finer films from the 80s, Cobra is the encapsulation of what 80s action, no filler, all killer films were all about. Who goes to see Stallone act? I sure as shit don’t as I am more interested in what watching him shoot a lot of people, all bad guys mind you. Cobra is just as cheesy as it can get with the one liners, empty dialogue and a whole metric ton of killing. If you are a red blooded American male, get your cockles ready for Cobra action while you down a King Cobra Malt Liquor bottle and feed your pet Cobra some leftovers. COBRA!
May 31, 2012 Leave a comment
Oh Eddie Murphy…what happened? I mean, honestly, what happened? I realize that the family friendly movie genre is keeping you well off financially, but man, your films used to be amazing. You were the edgy comedian that was charismatic on screen, able to chuckle and kick ass in some dynamite films. I try and remember those halcyon days of the 80s where you were the man and I looked forwarded to your “R” rated films cause my parents didn’t really care what we watched. Thanks mom and dad! Today, I try and remember the good old days, so today is a day for Beverly Hills Cop.
May 6, 2011 Leave a comment
I am really in the mood for a laugh, so this is going to be a softball of a movie choice for today. After writing the article of Moviebarcode and analyzing color palettes in movies, I think I could go some chuckles. So when I want some easy laughs, I go for Will Ferrell movies. Now not all his movies are gold (fuck you Land of the Lost), but I mean come on, Talladega Nights, Anchorman, and Step Brothers, you can’t lose with any of these movies. Great one-liners, an excellent supporting cast of comedians and surprisingly a solid story, The Other Guys is a solid comedy-action choice.
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg both turn in hilarious performances. Both characters play low tier detectives wanting to fill roles of hotshot detectives after the alpha male detectives die in probably the funniest scene in the movie. They take a case that starts out about a guy ducking a scaffolding permit and turns out that they stumble onto a huge and complicated financial heist. The movie follows a lot of the standard police movie tropes, being taken off the case and solving it while not on the force. The movie also revels in absurd action tropes like walking away from an explosion like most heroes do, relatively unscathed. They are aware of the absurdity and mix it into the movie perfectly.
I am keeping this short since I am tapped with the previous article and I really want to watch this movie now and have a beer. Ferrell and Wahlberg are a great comedy duo and they also have a stellar cast of supporting comedians to play off of. Rob Riggle, Steven Coogan, Michael Keaton, and even Eva Mendes all play their parts perfectly and you can tell they had a fun time making this movie.
The Other Guys is available on Netflix Instant Watch, so click around my site to get my page views up and then go watch it.
