When they play films like Misery on the Family Channel, it's like why even bother watching it,you know? I just saw Jeepers Creepers on the sci/fi channel. I know they cut a few parts, but lemme tell you, I was still freaked the hell out. Escpecially by the ending, and if anyone knows what I'm talking about you'll agree with me: That ending was like "DAMN!!!!!!" Such a shame.
It stuck with me.

JEEPERS CREEPERS, eh? You know whats scarier?

Director Victor Salva:

"His directing career has been overshadowed by his 1988 conviction for having mutual oral sex with a 12-year-old boy, Nathan Forest Winters, who had acted in his low-budget slasher movie Clownhouse. The sexual acts were videotaped by Salva, forcing a guilty plea.

In April 1988, Salva pleaded guilty to one count of lewd and lascivious conduct, one count of oral copulation with a person under 14 and three counts of procuring a child for pornography. Salva was sentenced to three years in prison. He served 15 months of the sentence before being paroled."

courtesy: Wikipedia

The Road To Guantanamo **
(First Viewing)

Feast ** 1/2
(First Viewing)

V for Vendetta
(2006/McTeigue)
Visually sumptuous, has something fairly relevant to say as well. The performances were nothing special, but a great story.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
(2006/Charles)
For some reason I had trouble giving 3 stars to a film with this mockumentary style, I kind of prefer straight up narrative fiction comedies I guess, but this is the most I've laughed in the theaters in a while.

Ifs funny that Ali G is no longer funny to people anymore,so he brings Borat into the limelight now..

I just got back from seeing it. No doubt in my mind that Eastwood will get another Academy Award.

FANTASTIC MOVIE! In my opinion it may be the best movie of the year.

A must see movie.


Don Cardi

No doubt? He won't.

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS was an early Oscar favorite for the last year, and now that its come out, I can safely predict...FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS...that Eastwood will not win an Oscar for this movie.

Its reviews, as one can find at Rotten Tomatoes, range from disapointment to solid positive reviews, but none of which I would describe as being "enthusiastic". Plus, a $120 million movie, financially it got slaughtered at theaters by the Japanese.

As of my current Oscar analysis(I like to think the Oscars the same as politics, but more interesting since its movies, and its outcome doesn't threaten millions of people), FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS will be lucky to get a nomination for both Best Picture and Director, with the latter being a possible 50/50 chance for Eastwood.

But the Best Director race is shaping up to be a 3-way dance. Scorsese with THE DEPARTED, Condon with DREAMGIRLS, and Steven Soderbergh with THE GOOD GERMAN. My money is on Scorsese at the moment.

Anyway, FLAGS was a pretty good film, but really, Eastwood needs to leave Paul Haggis. That black hole of considerable shit...really DC, Eastwood has to get back to some great writers that served his considerable directorial talent well, like say David Webb Peoples(who scripted UNFORGIVEN).

Now LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA sounds damn interesting, with Iwo Jima being told from the Japanese perspective. Who knows, maybe Eastwood will get his 3rd Best Director Oscar for that.

Motor Home Massacre
(First Viewing)

This is the first movie that I didn't give at least 1 star to. What a COMPLETE piece of sh*t. It looked like a bunch of college kids took a video camera around with them and shot this "script" as part of fulfillment for a class.

Wrong Turn **
(First Viewing)

Not as bad as I had heard it was. Kind of a The Hills Have Eyes: The Wilderness Edition

Deliverance ***
(First Viewing)

Borat **
Politically incorrect and crude humor has been used effectively to make this movie quite hilarious. In fact, most of the crowd in the theater was laughing all of the time. There is a scene that borders on porn, and too long to be funny. Other than that, it is a funny movie, provided one can laugh at one's own cultural quirks.

Larry David said he had to stop watching it because it was actually physically hurting him from laughing so much.

I think it's the second best film of the year.

Accepted **
(First Viewing)

THE PASSION of ronnierocketAGO, 7.5/10

2006, Rette Nick.

This controversial movie with its CAPITAL LETTER titles to the many slang words yet to be defined by Mr. Webster has its fans and foes. Rette Nick, made his debut here after being attacked and banned in other places for his choice of using capital letters in the title of his columns. Shortly after, his persistence in writing long reviews put him on the map and eventually was recognized by some readers, and was offered his first job. In this very strange and hard to read movie Rette paints his hero as a stubborn critic who is being misread and misunderstood by others. Many think that "The Last Temptation of RRA" to be a better movie, mainly because they liked the idea of him retiring from reviewing movies altogether. I can't find a single person, who has been safe from the dark humor of this movie, and all known organizations and groups have taken offense at some point of this movie, yet have not been complaining much only to rejoice in the criticism, which is made at their foes.

Eventually the protagonist is being crucified for what he believes is his extreme passion for the movies, while all are gathered around his crucifix with contentment. The movie has been rated R-200 due to its extreme violence and use of profanity and is only suitable for those over 200 years old, with valid ID.

Short message of the film: There's no winning when you start criticizing your passion... and yes, I sneaked into the theater illegally.

Wow, that movie sounds very inspirational. I'll check it out when I next visit the local DVD bootleggers.

COOL WORLD (1992) - * - BOMB

There are two types of bad movies. The usual kind, where you can eventually find ways to mock the shit out of it, and excuse the pain you suffered. The second kind, you can't.

Ralph Bakshi was a naughty talented animator mostly known for his "retroscoping" style(i.e. film people, then draw over their movements and bodies) in such works as the pretty insane WIZARDS, the infamously overrated FRITZ THE CAT, the crappy(-ier) version of LORD OF THE RINGS, and the flawed but interesting AMERICAN POP.

Thing is, I usually found something to appreciate or at least to defend Bakshi with. (I mean, WIZARDS you had mutant magical creatures with thicker than brick Brooklyn accents.)

But with COOL WORLD, he fails. Not just fail, but fail as amazingly as the Hindenburg or Senator John Kerry.

Maybe the core problem is that the film has 3 story-ideas that perhaps could have worked individually in a decent flick. A 1940s' mediocre-cop (Brad Pitt) gets trapped in a f*cked-up alternate reality of cartoons, and becomes its cheif law enforcer. An infamous comic book artist(Bryne) of the present day goes into the world of his creation. A cartoon babe wants to escape into the real world. Together, we get a motion picture that has no clear concept or narrative approach of what it wants to be.

As a result, the audience has the same reaction that a person would if they found that an intruder broke into their home, stole their computer, and then shit on the bed. We're angry, we feel vioalted, and quite revolted that we wasted our time.

Of course, it might very well be that this disaster is aggreviated by Bakshi's notably inept shooting of live-action. Really, why couldn't he hire some hack commercial director to do it? Surely they wouldn't have bombed as well as Bakshi did.

You know, now I'll be nicer to Brad Pitt's movies. Maybe MEET JOE BLACK, LEGEND OF THE FALLS, OCEAN'S 12, MR. & MRS. SMITH, and other of his crap aren't as awful as I figured. Now I've seen Pitt's super turkey.

A GOOD YEAR (2006) - **1/2

Sir Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors. He is the master stylish visualist of his generation. He's behind ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, GLADIATOR, LEGEND, BLACK RAIN, you name it.

He was career was in the toilet before GLADIATOR won Oscars and slayed the box-office. Afterwards, he either delivered critical-liked (MATCHSTICK MEN, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN) or profitable (HANNIBAL), but at least he was a major player again in Hollywood.

Yet, now I fear that he's making the same generic shit that fucked his career in the first place. While KINGDOM OF HEAVEN got re-cut from being a great movie into that of a mediocre GLADIATOR-clone, and lost money in theaters, at least the movie did good enough on DVD in the Director's Cut, with great praise, to at least redeem the effort.

THE GOOD YEAR doesn't. With GLADIATOR lead Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott, I guess, sought to make a pleasing little romantic comedy in the vineyards of France. The problem when talented filmmakers intentionally seek to produce generic efforts, we they deliver. Francis Ford Coppola with ONE FROM THE HEART, and now this.

I do hope that AMERICAN GANGSTER next year, with Crowe(again) and Denzel Washington in a true story-based crime saga of 1970s Harlem, Ridley Scott makes a comeback from this average flick.

Really, from a Ridley Scott fan, A GOOD YEAR is Ridley's worst since G.I. JANE.

Good Lord.
And I was wondering if it was just me who sensed homosexual undertones...now I know there's a reason,cause of that information.Who produced it,Micheal Jackson??!

I like it when homosexuality and paedofilia are assumed to be one and the same.

Well,you know what I mean.I would assume there are homosexual pedophiles,if they are only into boys.

On the contrary. I suppose I did, but I chose to be finicky about your ignorance.

Sorry.

Irishman :

1) Deliverance is a classic and I strongly suggest you get your hands on the soundtrack - its outstanding.

2) About the movie RRA suggested, try to type in the blockbuster search : "The Life and Times of an Irishman" - maybe then it would come up.

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RRA- You mentioned all those Bakshi films, and yet you forgot his masterpiece. FIRE AND ICE (1983) - is what I consider to be the greatest animated movie ever. Not only that, but its one of my all time favorites. I dont care about Bakshi's other films but this one is a gem. Bakshi hooked up with Frank Frazetta (the amazing comic book/fantasy artist) in an "adult" animated movie which holds some of the greatest animation you will EVER witness on screen. And yes, its been more than 20 years.

I didn't comment on FIRE & ICE because I haven't seen it.

But what surprises me Fame is....someone else on BB.Net has actually seen a friggin Bakshi? Awesome!

Nope, still nothing bro

I try to get interested in the Star Wars episodes they're running on Cinemax, but I just can't. I liked the original three episodes, but he later ones seem contrived. Also, I think Darth Vader evolved at entirely too young an age.

Watched Mobsters earlier today. I like it more and more each time I do.

An Inconvenient Truth ***
(First Viewing)

Mobsters is a really good movie. Kind of a guilty pleasure, but it is really well put together.

See No Evil ***
(First Viewing)

Not a bad way for WWE to get their film department off the ground. For me, time will tell if The Marine was able to follow this one up

Mad Max * 1/2
(First Viewing)