One movie a day until the reel change happens.
January 25, 2013 11 Comments
America, fuck yeah! Comin’ again to save the motherfucking day, yeah! / America, fuck yeah! Freedom is the only way, yeah! / Terrorists, your game is through, ’cause now you have to answer to / America, fuck yeah! So lick my butt and suck on my balls! / America, fuck yeah! What you gonna do when we come for you now!
December 7, 2012 4 Comments
Whether it is the music, the puppetry, a young Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie rocking that cod-piece, or, you know what, everything about this movie is amazing. A perfect movie to lift my spirits cause I am still sucking back some codeine laced medicine, Labyrinth has it all from a Lucas produced, Henson directed fantasy escapism that pulls us in with some dazzlings puppet works and an overall fun movie to watch.
I wish I could type more but I am groggy as hell so this will have to do.
Peace!
November 10, 2012 2 Comments
Ugh. Just ugh. First, I am not a big fan of musicals. Sorry, but they aren’t my bag and the ones I do like are few and far between. Second, this is about the single most boooooooring and uninspiring musical I have ever seen. You know what I would rather watch 4 seasons of American Idol than watch this mall food court musical. I was just more annoyed than enraged when watching From Justin To Kelly.
November 9, 2012 6 Comments
God I wished that some sort of current would come and sweep me away from this movie. It isn’t so much that the movie is good, it’s just that the potential of this movie is squandered in the most obtuse way possible that you just seethe and your disdain for the movie grows in every scene. You have Guy Ritchie, who is a fantastic director, basically trying to get Madonna to not be Madonna and act as someone other than herself. It’s a monumental task that just fucks up every aspect of this movie and its clear that Swept Away is just some big charade and excuse to send Madonna off to a mini-vacation on some gorgeous island.
Also she can’t act…at all! How she got away with Evita is beyond me, but since it was more musical and she is a musician, I guess that helped. Here, not so much.
November 6, 2012 9 Comments
I would have rather watched a group of bad karaoke singers do renditions of Mariah Carey songs for 8 hours instead of watching this movie. Wow, bad acting, bad, story, bad everything. I took a shit on The Hottie and The Nottie for being nothing more than a reason to remind everyone that Hilton is a “hottie” and this is a movie to remind everyone that Mariah Carey is a singer and had to struggle or something.
October 27, 2012 7 Comments
I never knew cannibalism could so fun, lively and musical! Leave it to Matt Stone and Trey Parker to weave their creative abilities into a musical, comedy horror movie. Now I personally don’t have much to say about the movie overall. It is a Troma production, thus the low visual quality and the acting is sporadic and a bit, well, childish I guess. But what truly sets this movie apart, is the fantastic commentary from the young, soon to be famous creators of South Park. If you have never seen the movie, well it is pretty fun and a decent musical. There are moments of horror, but more so for the comedic effect, which is effective. If you can get a hold of the dvd, the commentary alone is worth watching this movie. The creators and actors just get utterly shit faced and its a blast.
Set in 1873, the film deals with Alfred Packer (Juan Schwartz, aka Trey Parker), who is accused of cannibalizing members of his six-man party on a trip West. There are comic songs, Japanese people pretending to be Indians, and a cyclops whose eye spurts pus. The film’s highlight may be Alfred’s saloon kung fu fight with a cocky fur trapper named Frenchy over his beloved horse Liane. Cannibal! is surprisingly light on gore for a Troma Team release (save for the prologue and finale), concentrating instead on goofy sight gags, sex jokes, and silly songs like “Shpadoinkle” and “Hang the Bastard.” ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
That’s about it for a post today. I am getting dressed for a Halloween party as Breaking Bad’s Heisenberg.
Peace!
October 17, 2012 8 Comments
No you are not having a case of deja vu. There happens to be two movies with the same premise. This murder musical from 2008 and then the 2010 Repo Men movie which is exactly the same fucking premise only without the catchy musical tunes and comical murder scenes. So with that cleared up, time for a little musical accompaniment to go along with my 17th horror movie post.
June 29, 2012 1 Comment
I am not a big fan of musicals. I don’t have anything clever really to say in terms of explaining why I am not a fan of them other than it is not my favorite genre of film. Hell I even had critic passes to see Rock of Ages and I bailed on that cause of the use of “We Built This City” and using the worst rock song of all time doesn’t really get me excited to see people lip sing to a grown up version of Glee. It’s not that I am adverse to seeing people spontaneously break out into song and dance, I just don’t get excited for catchy tunes and dance theatrics. What I will see though is a rock opera from the greatest band in the world…Tenacious D.
August 1, 2011 Leave a comment
This is a bit of an odd choice for today’s selection. The movie today is a weird, but strangely beautiful and moving film that incorporates drama and music. Dancer In The Dark is not only a catchy musical, but incredibly crushing drama from Lars von Trier. If you aren’t familiar with Trier and his works, suffice to say that there are very few happy endings in his movies. His work brings about such vitriol and praise from all critics, that you aren’t certain whether you should side one way or the other. Von Trier practically pushes his actors to the limit, wanting pure raw emotion from them and demands nothing less. Dancer in the Dark is this balance between melodrama and musical, as Icelandic singer Björk is the composer of the soundtrack and also giving her first real shot at being a lead actress. For me this is one of Von Trier’s best films in terms of the emotional upheaval that you go through when watching this movie. At times it is beautiful, other times it is utterly tragic and depressing.
June 5, 2011 3 Comments
I am not a big fan of musicals. Shocking I know, but honestly they just aren’t my thing. I get the pageantry and spectacle of musicals but I am not much of a fan. Perhaps I need nerdier musicals or plays to get me involved. I fucking loved The Evil Dead musical which I saw several months back, but that has more to do with my love of The Evil Dead than anything else, also the blood splatter aspect. So while I was a bit timid about Joss Whedon’s latest venture, I perked up after learning he creating a web series with Neil Patrick Harris, Felecia Day, and Nathan Fillion. That is like a perfect storm of geekdom all rolled into one and I wasn’t even finished reading the release notes. The fact that movie is going to center around the exploits of a wannabe supervillain, I am hooked. Now given the fact that this is a music, considering Joss and the other Whedon brothers were all collaborating on this project meant that I was gonna a pop culture, smartly written, geeky musical. All those things combined mean I am going to love the hell out this.
