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Bullock and McCarthy make for a pretty great odd-couple/buddy cops. The whole movie is pretty funny. Plus it has an albino. I mean, I'm pretty sure I recognized the actor so it wasn't a REAL albino. But still. Albino!
World War Z
Jun. 26th, 2013 10:21 pmWhelp, that was a passable Brad Pitt vs. monsters action movie. What it isn't in any but the most superficial way is an adaptation of the book. They've still got a brief bit about Israel's 10th Man. And people living on boats. And while there is a Nova Scotian refugee camp there is no mention of people have to resort to cannibalism. I wouldn't go so far as to actually recommend spending money on it, but its an ok way to pass just under two hours...
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol: I don't remember what the hell the master plan of the bad guy in this was (world chaos maybe?) but I do recall I enjoyed watching Cruise, Renner, Patton and Pegg running around the world trying to foil it...
The Cabin in the Woods: Very funny in a dark and gruesome manner but also sad. Partly because of the whole world loses if individuals win. But also just how normalized mass murder becomes to the People Behind it All...
Porco Rosso: Cute and funny. Michael Keaton as the lead voice is more than a little spot-on perfect...
The Cabin in the Woods: Very funny in a dark and gruesome manner but also sad. Partly because of the whole world loses if individuals win. But also just how normalized mass murder becomes to the People Behind it All...
Porco Rosso: Cute and funny. Michael Keaton as the lead voice is more than a little spot-on perfect...
Iron Man 3
May. 9th, 2013 04:59 pmWhere my beekeepers at Mr. Black? You be giving me some A.I.M. bad guys I be wanting to see some beekeepers!
Anyway, fun movie. The fake-out with the Mandarin is pretty clever. The kid in the middle act isn't too annoying. And RDJ is, as always, pretty damn amazing. Oh and the post-credits bit is cute and explains why the voice-over for parts of the movie...
Anyway, fun movie. The fake-out with the Mandarin is pretty clever. The kid in the middle act isn't too annoying. And RDJ is, as always, pretty damn amazing. Oh and the post-credits bit is cute and explains why the voice-over for parts of the movie...
Iron Sky: Well the people behind this had an interesting high concept. Secret Nazi Colony on the Moon. And they built some excellent looking sets and models and Space Nazi costumes. Pity they didn't spend anything on competent script writing or actors with even a glimmer of talent. Ok, they had Udo Kier. But fucking hell was this a steaming turd of a movie. I had to tap out less than half way in. Such a painful and wretched waste of film...
Premium Rush: I skipped this one in the theater 'casue c'mon. Bike messengers? And the actual plot stringing the various characters together isn't much. But the action sequences are pretty sweet looking, fully invoking the needed speed and movement. And I'm nearly always a sucker for Joseph Gordon-Levitt...
The Horseman on the Roof: You've got Italian rebels being hunted thru southern France in 1832 by Austrian secret police. During a cholera outbreak. With a platonic romance between Italian rebel Angelo and French noblewoman Pauline. I wish I could remember where I stumbled across a review of this because I should thank them for putting me onto a pretty damn good movie...
Premium Rush: I skipped this one in the theater 'casue c'mon. Bike messengers? And the actual plot stringing the various characters together isn't much. But the action sequences are pretty sweet looking, fully invoking the needed speed and movement. And I'm nearly always a sucker for Joseph Gordon-Levitt...
The Horseman on the Roof: You've got Italian rebels being hunted thru southern France in 1832 by Austrian secret police. During a cholera outbreak. With a platonic romance between Italian rebel Angelo and French noblewoman Pauline. I wish I could remember where I stumbled across a review of this because I should thank them for putting me onto a pretty damn good movie...
The Last Stand
Jan. 23rd, 2013 11:25 pmThe stepfather wanted to see the Guvernator new action movie this time around. Which mostly wasn't terrible in a Just a Dumb Action Movie kind of way. Luis Guzman and Johnny Knoxville were both well above par in it. And the climatic cops vs. mercenaries gun fight is actually pretty good. Sadly though Arnie seems to have forgotten the basics of the trade he once knew. But what moves the movie from OK to Oh Fucking Cmon is the car. The fucking car...
Part of the set-up for the film is a "special" and unique Corvette. One thats like extra super fast. And every scene involving it left me just shaking my head and muttering. And I know almost fuck all about cars. But the Super 'Vette is supposedly stolen from touring car shows or something to be used as a getaway vehicle for federal fugitive. Who proceeds to drive it non-stop at around 200mph from Vegas to the Arizona/Mexico border. And rams a pair of SWAT team Hummers, making them crash. And otherwise seems more like the car from Knight Rider without the A.I. than anything else. And thats all leaving aside my pet peeve where people steal vastly expensive cars and race them around all without the owners just turning the engine off remotely...
Argh. Stupid fucking car...
Part of the set-up for the film is a "special" and unique Corvette. One thats like extra super fast. And every scene involving it left me just shaking my head and muttering. And I know almost fuck all about cars. But the Super 'Vette is supposedly stolen from touring car shows or something to be used as a getaway vehicle for federal fugitive. Who proceeds to drive it non-stop at around 200mph from Vegas to the Arizona/Mexico border. And rams a pair of SWAT team Hummers, making them crash. And otherwise seems more like the car from Knight Rider without the A.I. than anything else. And thats all leaving aside my pet peeve where people steal vastly expensive cars and race them around all without the owners just turning the engine off remotely...
Argh. Stupid fucking car...
Chico & Rita: Animated movie about a pair of pre-Castro Cuban jazz musicians who fall in love and screw it up because of stupid and the fickleness of fame. Lots of great music of course...
The Raid: Redemption: Malaysian action movie where a SWAT team goes after a drug dealer in his fortified apartment building. And then things get all FUBAR. And then ass kickings and shootings and lots of violence happens...
A Cat in Paris: Animated movie about a cat who lives with a police detective's daughter during the day and goes out at night with a burglar. And then some gangsters get involved and so the little girl has to be saved by the burglar. And lots of running around the roofs of Paris...
The Raid: Redemption: Malaysian action movie where a SWAT team goes after a drug dealer in his fortified apartment building. And then things get all FUBAR. And then ass kickings and shootings and lots of violence happens...
A Cat in Paris: Animated movie about a cat who lives with a police detective's daughter during the day and goes out at night with a burglar. And then some gangsters get involved and so the little girl has to be saved by the burglar. And lots of running around the roofs of Paris...
3 Quick Movies
Sep. 19th, 2012 09:16 pmBlitz: Jason Statham is South London's maverickest of maverick cops. The opening scene where he beats the hell out of three would be car thieves with a hurley stick is pretty cool. Sadly the rest of the movie doesn't really rise above the average. Though it does have Mayor Carcetti/Littlefinger as a serial cop killer...
Safe: Jason Statham is agovernment special forces assassin anti-organized crime cop garbage man cage fighter bum total bad-ass who must protect an 11-year old math genius from a Tong, a Russian mob family and a crew of corrupt cops...
the Pirates: Band of Misfits: Jason Statham is the dodo..nah just kidding. Still, almost had a theme thing going there. Anyway, the latest feature from Aardman Animation Studios has lots of amusing scenes and a clever concept in a competition to determine Pirate of the Year. But the whole thing just never seems to come together and really work...
Safe: Jason Statham is a
the Pirates: Band of Misfits: Jason Statham is the dodo..nah just kidding. Still, almost had a theme thing going there. Anyway, the latest feature from Aardman Animation Studios has lots of amusing scenes and a clever concept in a competition to determine Pirate of the Year. But the whole thing just never seems to come together and really work...
One for the Money
Jun. 5th, 2012 07:00 pm*sigh*
Well that was a big disappointment. It should be obvious to anyone who reads my end-of-month book lists for any length of time that I'm a big fan of Evanovich's "Stephanie Plum" series. And this movie version somehow failed to capture any of what makes it one of my favorite junk food reads. Heigl, as Stephanie, has like zero chemistry with either Jason O'Mara as fugitive cop Joe Morelli or Daniel Sunjata as bounty hunter mentor Ranger. And neither O'Mara or Sunjata pulls off the raw sexuality that is supposed to be oozing out of the pores of their characters. And the various supporting characters from the bad guys to Stephanie's family or friends or co-workers all feel muted. Honestly it lacks all the over-the-topness of the book characters and the sense of fun...
Really the only positive thing I can think of is that of changing crazy boxer Benito Ramirez into crazy MMA fighter Benito Ramirez...
Well that was a big disappointment. It should be obvious to anyone who reads my end-of-month book lists for any length of time that I'm a big fan of Evanovich's "Stephanie Plum" series. And this movie version somehow failed to capture any of what makes it one of my favorite junk food reads. Heigl, as Stephanie, has like zero chemistry with either Jason O'Mara as fugitive cop Joe Morelli or Daniel Sunjata as bounty hunter mentor Ranger. And neither O'Mara or Sunjata pulls off the raw sexuality that is supposed to be oozing out of the pores of their characters. And the various supporting characters from the bad guys to Stephanie's family or friends or co-workers all feel muted. Honestly it lacks all the over-the-topness of the book characters and the sense of fun...
Really the only positive thing I can think of is that of changing crazy boxer Benito Ramirez into crazy MMA fighter Benito Ramirez...
Are you a bad enough dude to save the President's daughter from a super-max prison that was Los Angeles in space? Well rogue ex-CIA dude Snow seems to be. Comparisons to John Carpenter movies aside, this ended up being a fairly fun movie. Dumb, without being stupid. Also Guy Pearce's Snow is much quippier and friendly than Snake Plisken...
John Carter (of Mars)
Mar. 20th, 2012 10:25 pmA fun movie. Lots of action and humor. Plus Julius Caesar as the Good King and Marc Anthony as his Loyal Soldier. And Dominic West as the Bad Warlord and Mark Strong as the Evil Puppetmaster. Plus Willem Defoe as the Noble Thark and Thomas Hayden Church as Jerk-Ass Thark. And the Princess and the Thark Girl actresses were pretty nice as weel even if I had to go look up what things I vaguely recognized them from. Plus its got a funny and brave and loyal alien dog monster. Yay for ugly-cute Dog Monsters!
:30 or less
Aug. 25th, 2011 10:49 amI'm not sure whether my disdain for Danny McBride as a giant, stupid a-hole is a flaw or a feature for this. Sure the character is supposed to be a spoiled, lazy, stupid douchebag but am I supposed to really dislike him as much as I do?
But aside from that a reasonably funny action/comedy hybrid. Eisenberg and Ansari make for a great pair and I do enjoy Aziz Ansari's extended logic comic style. And Michael Pena as the hired killer is pretty good as well...
But aside from that a reasonably funny action/comedy hybrid. Eisenberg and Ansari make for a great pair and I do enjoy Aziz Ansari's extended logic comic style. And Michael Pena as the hired killer is pretty good as well...
Jean Reno reteamed with one of Luc Besson's scripts as Hubert a French cop who plays by his own set of rules. Which get him suspended for two months after mostly accidently injuring the Chief of Police's son. Though the timing works out since he soon after is contacted about the will of a former lover from when he worked Intelligence in Japan. Hubert's love had vanished from his life with no word almost twenty years earlier and has haunted him ever since. And when he arrives in Japan he finds that he has a nineteen year old daughter he never knew about...
A very over-the-top action movie, where every punch and gunshot sends people flying thru the air. With Jean Reno as the nigh invulnerable action hero dealing with transgender bank robber gangs in France and mirrorshaded Yakuza thugs in Japan. Fun in a old-school action kind of way...
A very over-the-top action movie, where every punch and gunshot sends people flying thru the air. With Jean Reno as the nigh invulnerable action hero dealing with transgender bank robber gangs in France and mirrorshaded Yakuza thugs in Japan. Fun in a old-school action kind of way...
Red or Retired: Extremely Dangerous. Referring in this case to former CIA operative Frank Moses (Bruce Willis). The high point of Frank's retirement is when he gets his pension check. Because then he can rip it up and claim it never arrived so that he has another opportunity to talk on the phone with his case worker, Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker). Of course when a wetwork team arrives at his house in the middle of the night that all ends. Now he's on the run with Sarah, marked for death and hunted by the CIA's new best agent William Cooper (Karl Urban). Luckily Frank still has a few friends from back in the day who are also "retired"...
A very fun action/dark comedy. Helen Mirren as an elite former MI-6 sniper, John Malkovitch's super-paranoid Marvin and Brian Cox's agent turned diplomat Ivan are especially high points. Plus there is just a great fight between Willis and Urban, a high point in a movie full of excellent action scenes...
A very fun action/dark comedy. Helen Mirren as an elite former MI-6 sniper, John Malkovitch's super-paranoid Marvin and Brian Cox's agent turned diplomat Ivan are especially high points. Plus there is just a great fight between Willis and Urban, a high point in a movie full of excellent action scenes...
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
Jul. 9th, 2010 07:16 pmSean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus return to mumble their deadly benedictions as the Saints in this long-awaited sequel. The original is among my favorite b-action films and this one..doesn't measure up. Its ok. But new Julie Benz as the FBI Special Agent is no William Dafoe. And if there is one thing Steel should have taught everyone, its that Judd Nelson does not make for anything but a laughable threat...
