Sorry it's been almost 10 days in between updates. I wanted to sit and watch 2 or 3 movies yesterday, and review them....but sadly, I was stuck in bed with a 24hr virus. It really sucked. However, I'm better today, and ready to get back to it!
Also, I found out that my Dad (who's Netflix account I use) took a lot of DVDs off the queue, so I have no idea what the next movie I wanted to review will be, I sent some more in, but I don't know if he'll decide to knock those off as well. We shall see, I suppose and all in all, it doesn't truly matter, this is exactly the kind of thing the $5 bin at Walmart is for. :)
So; to get this started...
From 1993 - Mrs. Doubtfire. Starring Robin Williams, Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan.
Okay, so let me start off by saying Robin Williams is one of my favorite actors/comedians (except the movie Old Dogs, that sucked and made me fear for humanity a bit). I love Sally Field, especially in Steel Magnoials, but I'm a sucker for a sappy story, even if I do hate them, which probably doesn't make much sense, and I've accepted that. Pierce Brosnan, I can do without, he doesn't bother me, but he's not my favorite.
So, Chris Columbus is director of this movie. That's prboably a good sign, I enjoyed the first two Harry Potter movies (and the rest as well, but I don't believe Columbus directed them, correct me if I'm wrong). The Goonies is a great movie, along with Gremlins. I also found out, upon a quick IMDB search he directed the 2005 version of RENT, which I never saw, but I have seen a play version, and I loved it. He also directed my favorite Julia Roberts movie, "Stepmom". Home Alone 2. Not bad, but the first one was better.
Moving on...
So, the movie starts with Robin Williams at his best. Doing voice impressions. This time he is a bird, and a cat, the cat wants to eat the bird in a Looney Toons style/banter. Seen it, personally, as cool as the Looney Toons are, that style is long been done.
However, the cat, before he eats the bird tries to give the little bird a cigarette, Robin Williams protests, (as he should) by, in the very squeaky bird voice "I don't want to get beak cancer" - "What a foul way for a bird to die" and so on.
Daniel's (Robin Williams) boss rebuttals by telling him "It's not an Oprah Winfrey special, say the line." But Daniel, realizes, and from the looks of it has pulled a stunt like this before "Millions of kids watch this show, it's like sending them all pack of Camel and saying 'light up'".
Daniel quits his job after the issue with his, who I assume to be, boss. It seems like he just couldn't bring himself to promote smoking. Actually, I am fully aware it is only a movie, but I applaud him.
Daniel goes to pick his three kids up from school (the youngest being Mara Wilson, and Matilda is my guilty pleasure movie.) It also turns out to be the son's 12th birthday. Daniel gets his son a petting zoo for this birthday, in the front yard. Yep, that's what I wanted on my 12th birthday too. Mom (Sally Field) told the son he wasn't allowed to have a birthday party because of his grades, and yet Daniel rebuttles with "Mom isn't going to be home for another four hours, is she?" Yeah, that's great parenting.
However, Daniel's family must have, like every family movie, the annoying neighbor, the lady gets tired of the animals eating her plants, and calls the authorites. AKA Miranda Hillard, AKA Daniel's wife, AKA Sally Field.
We come into Miranda's work, as an interior designer. She is in a meeting, but Martin Mull interups, (ya know, I've really only liked that man in 2 roles, as the principal from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and as Roseanne's boss, from Roseanne, other than that, I don't find him that appealing). Anyway, Martin Mull (who's name has not been mentioned yet) mention to Miranda that Stuart Dunnmeyer has called. She reacts the way every woman does, when they hear the name of the man they adore. That is, when they're in high school. Miranda is a grown woman. It sickness me.
Miranda comes home, after talking to her neighbor, a literal zoo, on her property. It's illegal to hold banyard nature animals in a residental area, WHO KNEW? She also finds Daniel and her son dancing to rap music on a table, that probably doesn't help the cause. Daniel and Miranda begin arguing, and the kids watch/listen from the top of the stairs. That's gotta be a Happy Birthday killer.
and....big shocker, Miranda wants a divorce, yep, didn't see that coming when he brought home the zoo.
Daniel goes over to this friend's house. One who is on the phone with his mother (and has a very annoying voice) and then other, who makes costume masks. That's handy.
The court grants custody of the children to Miranda, considering the fact that Daniel has no job and no place to live, (he's crashing on the friend's couch). I don't blame the court. He's allowed to see them every Saturday.
Enter Stuart Dunnmeyer, and Miranda Hillard who has whipped cream on the top of her lip. Yeah, that's not embarassing.
Miranda is trying to show off her sketches, of a house that Stuart wants to refinish, but all Stuart wants to do is flirt. Miranda agrees to meet with him later in the week, to "talk".
It's Saturday night, Daniel's time with the three children, and Miranda was an hour late dropping them off, and is now an hour early picking them up, Needless to say, Daniel doesn't like that.
Miranda and he begin talking, Miranda is taking out a personal ad, to try and gain a housekeeper.
Daniel borrows the personal to take a look at it, using the "I have a right to know who is going to be with my children". The idea is churning in his mind, he changes one of the digits of the number Miranda wrote down. Daniel begins calling Miranda using his fake voices, and claming to be people looking for the job, he comes up with the craziest people he can. Then, later, he comes up with Mrs. Doubtfire. A very charming English woman, does anyone see the flaw in his plan? Daniel is not English nor a woman.
What's the best thing do it in this circumstance? Get his friends who make masks to turn him into a woman.
Mrs Doubtfire meets the family. Miranda is mezmerized by Mrs. Doubtfire, and I'm not going to lie, it's a little creepy. After Mrs, Doubtfire meets the children, who all, but the oldest, Lydia, seem to like her, Miranda offers Mrs Doubtfire a cup of tea. Yep, that's not cliche offering the English woman a cup of tea.
Miranda: You remind me of someone.
Me: REALLY?! I WONDER WHO?!?!?!
So, Daniel/Mrs Doubtfire got the job. Because noone saw that coming, right?
On the way home, he bumps into his case worker, and pretends to be, since he is still the costume, Daniel's sister, yeah....nothing can go wrong here, right? and two Asian children see him in the middle of changing back into Mrs Doubtfire. Sadly, he drops his mask out the window, and decides he needs to go get it. and cracks a Norman Bates joke. and the mask gets squished by a semitruck driving down the road, that's convienent, isn't it?
What does one decide to do in the circumstance of having company who is expecting a woman, but having no face? Cover your face in meriange. That usually does the trick.
Mrs Doubtfire, with a new mask catches herself on fire while trying to cook dinner, which went about as well as one could expect, in case you wondering, beating yourself with a spaulta is not the way to put out a fire.
Stuart and Miranda are now dating, and least I would assume...from the goodnight kiss he gave her. Daniel decides to retaliate by breaking off the emblem of his car.
As a person who loves cars, I have to say I almost cried.
At some point in every person's life they are going to have to go to the bathroom. However, most women don't get walked in on by their kids, as they pee, standing up. But, it's still a classic scene. One of my favorite, does that make me odd?
So, the two older kids figure it out, they can't tell the youngest one due to the fact she'll spill to Miranda.
Three people can keep a secret if two are dead.
I doubt this movie will kill off the two oldest children, so I have a feeling it's not going to end the way Daniel wanted it. Mrs. Doubtfire and Miranda begin to have a conversation about Daniel, and how the marriage went wrong, it went wrong the way most marriages go wrong, lack of communication. Miranda was always working, Daniel was always between jobs, Miranda never got to spend time with the kids, and when she did, she had to clean the house that Daniel messed up. That kind of thing.
Miranda, Mrs Doubtfire and the kids meet Stuart at his, I don't know what you would call it, so we'll call it a country club for lack of a better word. The family decides to go to the pool and since it's not easy to swim with a fat suit on, Mrs Doubtfire stays to the bar. Which, for someone reason I find amusing.
Stuart approaches the bar and attains sweet teas for the family, and begins talking to a friend about the 3 kids. He says, even though he didn't want kids in his past, he's pushing 40 and doesn't want to spend the rest of his life alone, and he likes Miranda, and loves the kids. Aw, he's sweet.
So, moving foward, Daniel, this time in his natural setting, as a man, is at his job, in the warehouse section of the production company he worked for at the beginning of the movie, and comes across an empty set, and begins to play with the little dinosaur figurines, except.....the owner of the network walks in on him doing his various voices and skits, but he loves it, and wants to meet with Daniel that Friday to talk business.
Back to life as Mrs. Doubtfire, Miranda announced that Stuart has invited her and the kids to dinner, for Miranda's birthday, 7pm at Bridges, except that's the same time and place that Daniel, has his meeting with the owner of the network. and he promises Natalie, the youngest daughter he'll be at dinner with the rest of the family.
What could go wrong here?
The business deal with the owner seems to be going very well. Especially with downing a gallon of scotch, what else makes a party more fun? Except having to change costume every few minutes is probably going to get him caught. Except, Miranda isn't the one to catch on at first, other than the kids of course, It's the owner of the network, who notices he has on women's purfume and forgot to wipe of hte lipstick. But covers it by telling him he had a quicky - with an ex-girlfriend in the bathroom. Not a bad ruse.
So, what does Daniel do this time? Stuart ordered jumbalya, but with no cayan pepper, because he's allergic, Daniel dresses up again as Mrs Doubtfire, sneaks into the closet, gets a chef robe, or whatever you call them, finds the food for table 39, where the family is sitting, and finds the cayan pepper, and well, you can probably figure the rest out for yourself.
We all knew at some point that this whole changing outfits every few minutes was going to get in the way. Daniel approaches the owner of the network again, still dressed as Mrs Doubtfire, which I again, find very amusing. Of course, he tries to cover it by telling him that Mrs. Doubtfire would be a great host for an educational show.
Back to the family, Stuart is now chokeing on the shrimp that was covered in the cayan pepper. By the way, did you ever see his version of Mama Mia that came out a few years ago? It was really good, but everytime he sang, for some reason I pictured this scene, him chokeing on shrimp.
Who should come to his rescue? Why, Mrs Doubtfire of course, she goes to admisinter CPR on Stuart, but in the process the mask begins to peel off. and of course, Miranda is horrified. The older kids, aren't totally susprised, and the youngest daughter is shocked.
It's been three months since the first hearing, and the judge told Daniel at the first hearing that if he got himself together he might consider a joint custody arrangement, I'm guessing the whole dressing up like a woman to spend time with the children isn't going to go over so well.
Miranda gets full custody, the judge didn't understand all he wanted to do was see his children. But, it seems Miranda has a turning point here, she understands what Daniel was trying to do.
In the meantime, Miranda tries to find a new housekeeper, none of which even begin to add up to Mrs Doubtfire. But she do see Mrs Doubtfire got her part on the children's television show. Miranda understands, while laughing with her children how funny Daniel really is. She meets him on the set of his television show to "talk". Miranda annoucnes she doesn't want to hurt the children, they decide through some very sappy dialouge that they're going to work it out. They won't be married, but they'll work it out.
No more supervised visits, no more case workers, just a family, Daniel will take the kids a few hours each day after school until Miranda gets off work.
So, there we go. Mrs. Doubtfire from 1993. Decent little flick, not a masterpiece, but it's decent. Before I give it a rating, I have to say, if my husband dressed up like a woman to spend time with our children, I'd be a little weirded out. Like, to the point I'd never let him see the children again. That's how creeped out I'd be.
But, moving on...a 6/10
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Mallrats(1995)
So, I chose this movie for no other reason than it was the first movie on my list of movies I want to review that I did not have to wait on the disk for (I've got like 20 waiting...yep, I'm that cool).
Now, I'm going to start off by saying, I have never seen this movie, and until a few days ago, did not even know it existed.
Without further ado...
So, first off....this movie starts off with a voice that says "So, my cousin Walt once got a cat stuck up his ass." Okay, I'm a little weirded out, and we're only 1 minute 17 seconds into the movie.
Okay, Stan Lee is in the movie. It can't be that bad. Oh, how I love Stan Lee. Sidenote: if I ever get to meet Stan Lee, I'm going to take Doctor Sheldon Cooper's advice and get him to sign a Batman comic. Just to be ironic.
So, now we're 5 minutes 34 minutes into the movie and find out a girl has died because she did 700 laps in the pool at the local YMCA and had an anurism(sp?) because a guy called her fat. Julie (the girl that died) was supposed to go on Brandy's father's gameshow, but obviously...a corpse on a gameshow might kill the mood, so Brandy offers to go on the show to offer solace to her father, except Brandy was supposed to go to Flordia with her boyfriend, T.S
Drama, drama, drama.
and seven minutes and fourteen seconds into the movie T.S and Brandy break up. Yep, didn't see that coming.
After the break up scene between T.S and Brandy we meet Rene and her boyfriend Brodie, Rene is unfulfilled in life, and what's something more, to make a difference, like the doctors curing illness, and so forth, while sneaking out of Brodie's house, (because Brodie still lives with his mother; and his mother doesn't like Rene very much) she throws a letter at him, it's a breakup letter.
Yeah, breaking up with someone via letter is okay in the 2nd grade. Not in your 20s.
The two boys get together and discuss their problems in their love lives, or now..lack there of.
So where do the boys decide the best place to go is? The mall. Yeah, the mall is totally where I go when I'm depressed *rolls eyes* I hate the mall, with a passion. Brodie, runs into a (very young and attractive) Ben Affleck, that doesn't really matter towards the movie, I just think it's funny. Ben Affleck runs a clothing store, that Brodie says is pretentious.
While at the mall, TS and Brodie find another friend, Dylan who is trying to find the hidden picture within a picture, but Dylan tells them that the stage TS and Dylan are curious about stage in the middle of the mall, which turns out; is a game called "Truth or Date" a game show Brandy's Dad runs.
TS and Brodie go looking for Jay and Silent Bob for help of destroying the game show.
Brodie runs into Rene at the mall, tries to win her back, and yet gets the response "Piss off".
Back to Jay and Silent Bob, they're genious idea to take out the mall security is Silent Bob running at the guard with a sock full of quarters. Only; a child understands what is going on, and shoves a toy truck in his way. Yep, way to go Jay and Silent Bob.
Stan Lee is signing comics, in the comic book store. TS and Brodie's dream.
Silent Bob takes to the stage to remove the pin, only misses. Of course, ya know, if I used a rope and a makeshift Batman costume, I totally think I'd make it.
Back to Brodie and Rene, Rene is now with Ben Affleck's character (who's name has not came up yet). TS goes for answers, because Brodie and Ben Affleck hate each other, more than toothpaste and orange juice. Ben Affleck admits that he's dating Rene. While TS distracts Ben Affleck, Brodie pulls Rene into the the elevator. Rene and Brodie start discussing, more like yelling about their relationship, and end up having sex, in the elevator.
"That was romantic, right?" Brodie asks. Yeah, he's a keeper.
Sidenote to this movie: Gwen, TS and Brodie's friend has an annoying voice, but that doesn't really
matter.
If this movie were to have a villan, it would be Brandy's father. He admits he is responsbile for Brandy's and TS's breakup.
and now Ben Affleck is kicking Brodie's butt. It comes out that Ben Affleck is only dating Rene, because she's on the rebound, because the sex is better, but he tells Jay and Silent Bob that it was the man in the easter bunny suit sitting at the station in the mall. What do Jay and Silent Bob do? They go beat up the Easter Bunny.
Another sidenote: So far, this movie sucks.
Brandy's dad has TS and Brodie forcibly removed by mall security, for good.
Rene hears screams of her name and runs away from Ben Affleck, to find Jay and Silent Bob (and Dylan still trying to figure out the picture within the picture), Jay and Silent Bob find the boys and after bashing a mall cop's head with a bat, make a run for it.
Don't worry, he's still alive just knocked out. Okay, not even knocked out, he gets right back up.
That's one problem with the movie, no one would have gotten right back up after being hit in the head with a metal baseball bat. Jay and Silent Bob make it out by using a grappling hook that Silent Bob has, why he has a grappling hook? BECAUSE HE'S SILENT BOB!
The boys go to a psychic, to find out what to do. A topless psychic. Go figure. A topless psychic with 3 nipples. WTF.
Okay, that was pretty ingenius, it was peperroni made to look like a 3rd nipple. Seriously, that's pretty smart.
Stan Lee meets Brodie outside a lingere store. Why does that not susprise me? As cool as Stan Lee is. They begin talking about love. Yeah, that's totally when I'd discuss with Stan Lee if I could ever meet him.
Jay and Silent Bob meet the two male contestents and try and freak them out, so that TS and Brodie can get on the game show hosted by Brandy's dad; so that TS can get back with Brandy. Jay also gives the two men some weed. If nothing else, they'll get arrested. TS, it turned out paid Stan Lee to talk to Brodie, he's a good friend, :)
Brandy's dead finally gets sick due to some rotten good given to him by Brodie. He refuses to stop working, what could possibly go wrong here? Jay bets up more cops, Silent Bob however is wiring something to the top of the rafters for TS, which another friend goes to get a tap of some sort from Brodie's house.
We're now to the game show. Brandy is asking each of them questions, like on every game show. Brodie is giving the third guy a hard time, the other friend finally delivers the tape; now, onto the tape. Jay throws it to Silent Bob, who misses the catch and it falls between the rafters.
Brandy figures out it's TS and Brodie pretty easily.
But Brodie gets annoyed and Brandy and tells TS to propse to Brandy like was intended, at the beginning of the movie, before she broke up with him. He does, and the answer is, of course, like every other cheesy 90s movie, a yes.
and even with only 11 minutes in the film, Dylan still can't see the sailboat.
Brodie gets up on the stage and tries to win Rene back, telling him "You have my heart." Ah, yay for cheesy lines. Silent Bob finally gets the tape. On the tape is Ben Affleck having sex with the friend, who went to get the tape.
and...Brodie ends back up with Rene.
All's well that ends well.
I give the movie a 3/10.
Now, I'm going to start off by saying, I have never seen this movie, and until a few days ago, did not even know it existed.
Without further ado...
So, first off....this movie starts off with a voice that says "So, my cousin Walt once got a cat stuck up his ass." Okay, I'm a little weirded out, and we're only 1 minute 17 seconds into the movie.
Okay, Stan Lee is in the movie. It can't be that bad. Oh, how I love Stan Lee. Sidenote: if I ever get to meet Stan Lee, I'm going to take Doctor Sheldon Cooper's advice and get him to sign a Batman comic. Just to be ironic.
So, now we're 5 minutes 34 minutes into the movie and find out a girl has died because she did 700 laps in the pool at the local YMCA and had an anurism(sp?) because a guy called her fat. Julie (the girl that died) was supposed to go on Brandy's father's gameshow, but obviously...a corpse on a gameshow might kill the mood, so Brandy offers to go on the show to offer solace to her father, except Brandy was supposed to go to Flordia with her boyfriend, T.S
Drama, drama, drama.
and seven minutes and fourteen seconds into the movie T.S and Brandy break up. Yep, didn't see that coming.
After the break up scene between T.S and Brandy we meet Rene and her boyfriend Brodie, Rene is unfulfilled in life, and what's something more, to make a difference, like the doctors curing illness, and so forth, while sneaking out of Brodie's house, (because Brodie still lives with his mother; and his mother doesn't like Rene very much) she throws a letter at him, it's a breakup letter.
Yeah, breaking up with someone via letter is okay in the 2nd grade. Not in your 20s.
The two boys get together and discuss their problems in their love lives, or now..lack there of.
So where do the boys decide the best place to go is? The mall. Yeah, the mall is totally where I go when I'm depressed *rolls eyes* I hate the mall, with a passion. Brodie, runs into a (very young and attractive) Ben Affleck, that doesn't really matter towards the movie, I just think it's funny. Ben Affleck runs a clothing store, that Brodie says is pretentious.
While at the mall, TS and Brodie find another friend, Dylan who is trying to find the hidden picture within a picture, but Dylan tells them that the stage TS and Dylan are curious about stage in the middle of the mall, which turns out; is a game called "Truth or Date" a game show Brandy's Dad runs.
TS and Brodie go looking for Jay and Silent Bob for help of destroying the game show.
Brodie runs into Rene at the mall, tries to win her back, and yet gets the response "Piss off".
Back to Jay and Silent Bob, they're genious idea to take out the mall security is Silent Bob running at the guard with a sock full of quarters. Only; a child understands what is going on, and shoves a toy truck in his way. Yep, way to go Jay and Silent Bob.
Stan Lee is signing comics, in the comic book store. TS and Brodie's dream.
Silent Bob takes to the stage to remove the pin, only misses. Of course, ya know, if I used a rope and a makeshift Batman costume, I totally think I'd make it.
Back to Brodie and Rene, Rene is now with Ben Affleck's character (who's name has not came up yet). TS goes for answers, because Brodie and Ben Affleck hate each other, more than toothpaste and orange juice. Ben Affleck admits that he's dating Rene. While TS distracts Ben Affleck, Brodie pulls Rene into the the elevator. Rene and Brodie start discussing, more like yelling about their relationship, and end up having sex, in the elevator.
"That was romantic, right?" Brodie asks. Yeah, he's a keeper.
Sidenote to this movie: Gwen, TS and Brodie's friend has an annoying voice, but that doesn't really
matter.
If this movie were to have a villan, it would be Brandy's father. He admits he is responsbile for Brandy's and TS's breakup.
and now Ben Affleck is kicking Brodie's butt. It comes out that Ben Affleck is only dating Rene, because she's on the rebound, because the sex is better, but he tells Jay and Silent Bob that it was the man in the easter bunny suit sitting at the station in the mall. What do Jay and Silent Bob do? They go beat up the Easter Bunny.
Another sidenote: So far, this movie sucks.
Brandy's dad has TS and Brodie forcibly removed by mall security, for good.
Rene hears screams of her name and runs away from Ben Affleck, to find Jay and Silent Bob (and Dylan still trying to figure out the picture within the picture), Jay and Silent Bob find the boys and after bashing a mall cop's head with a bat, make a run for it.
Don't worry, he's still alive just knocked out. Okay, not even knocked out, he gets right back up.
That's one problem with the movie, no one would have gotten right back up after being hit in the head with a metal baseball bat. Jay and Silent Bob make it out by using a grappling hook that Silent Bob has, why he has a grappling hook? BECAUSE HE'S SILENT BOB!
The boys go to a psychic, to find out what to do. A topless psychic. Go figure. A topless psychic with 3 nipples. WTF.
Okay, that was pretty ingenius, it was peperroni made to look like a 3rd nipple. Seriously, that's pretty smart.
Stan Lee meets Brodie outside a lingere store. Why does that not susprise me? As cool as Stan Lee is. They begin talking about love. Yeah, that's totally when I'd discuss with Stan Lee if I could ever meet him.
Jay and Silent Bob meet the two male contestents and try and freak them out, so that TS and Brodie can get on the game show hosted by Brandy's dad; so that TS can get back with Brandy. Jay also gives the two men some weed. If nothing else, they'll get arrested. TS, it turned out paid Stan Lee to talk to Brodie, he's a good friend, :)
Brandy's dead finally gets sick due to some rotten good given to him by Brodie. He refuses to stop working, what could possibly go wrong here? Jay bets up more cops, Silent Bob however is wiring something to the top of the rafters for TS, which another friend goes to get a tap of some sort from Brodie's house.
We're now to the game show. Brandy is asking each of them questions, like on every game show. Brodie is giving the third guy a hard time, the other friend finally delivers the tape; now, onto the tape. Jay throws it to Silent Bob, who misses the catch and it falls between the rafters.
Brandy figures out it's TS and Brodie pretty easily.
But Brodie gets annoyed and Brandy and tells TS to propse to Brandy like was intended, at the beginning of the movie, before she broke up with him. He does, and the answer is, of course, like every other cheesy 90s movie, a yes.
and even with only 11 minutes in the film, Dylan still can't see the sailboat.
Brodie gets up on the stage and tries to win Rene back, telling him "You have my heart." Ah, yay for cheesy lines. Silent Bob finally gets the tape. On the tape is Ben Affleck having sex with the friend, who went to get the tape.
and...Brodie ends back up with Rene.
All's well that ends well.
I give the movie a 3/10.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
The Net (1995)
Okay, so first off...before I get on with the review, I love Sandra Bullock, (in everything in Speed 2, because come on, that movie sucked haha) and Hope Floats. (terrible movie, but I watch it everytime it's on television, because there's not really anything hotter than Harry Connick Jr as a cowboy, okay....Harry Connick Jr as my husband would be nice).
and...my review will actually be pretty good tonight because noone was on the television when I decided to watch/review a movie, so I can write WHILE I watch, instead of watching, then reviewing and trying to rembmer everything. :).
So, here we go.
A review of 1995's "The Net".
Start off...creepy music. Always a good sign, considering it's a thriller.
We start with, what I seem to remember...the secretary of defense (don't quote me on that, and I'll correct myself later if it comes out later). Having a very ambigious phone call with an unknown caller.
"So this is reality" is his last words to that ambigious caller.
He then bribes his son to do his homework by granting him extra time on the Nintendo/Sega, (aw, remember those days?) tells his wife he loves her, and shoots himself in the mouth.
Good start to a thriller.
Enter Sandra Bullock, a computer security person, who starts by de-bugging a friend's videogame. (and saves it to a floppy disk. Bwhaha, I think I've used one my entire life).
Angela, (Sandra Bullock) later starts chatting online with CyberBob, who asks her out on a date, which she declines (smart woman).
Angela visits her mother in a nursing home; who seems to have demetia of some sort, they begin to play Shopan on the piano, even though her mother has no idea who she is (sad, really.)
A few moments later another virus comes via fedex from Angela's friend Dale; called "Mozart's Ghost". (Dale is played by Ray McKinnon, great actor, really).
Inside Mozart's Ghost is a horrible virus. Dale has come across something he shouldn't have. Dale knows it probably involves the government; and doesn't want to discuss the virus with Angela over the phone, (for obvious reasons). If Angela clicks "concert details" on the Mozart's Ghost page, it directs her to a "not so safe website" that Dale intended to be ticketmaster, or something of the sort, but instead take him to the homepage to (insert city that Angela lives in___electric), there is a small pi symbol at the bottom; click it; press ctrl+shift, and all hell breaks loose on her computer. She thinks its a small virus, Dale knows different. On the way to see her via his own personal plane; his instruments screw up. Only, here's the kicker; they look normal to him; so he thinks he's taking the correct path. Central control knows different and tells him to turn around. But not before he takes a head on crash with several buildings.
Angela, ready to admit Dale found something he shouldn't have?
Dale's boss (i'm assuming...it never says). Asks Angela if she would like Dale's old position. Not knowing she is unaware that he passed away (what a way to hear a friend died).
Flights are now going haywire...just when Angela is going on vacation for the first time in 6 years.
There is a very creepy looking guy (btw; the man who shot himself in the beginning, is(was) the secretary of defense). looking out among the people. My thought is; this is probably the computer hacker, maybe? and yet....I don't know. It could be but then again, we are reviewing a thriller.
Angela meets a cute guy at the beach in Mexico, come to find out; he also does work with computers. His name is Devlin, Jack Devlin. (sorry; couldn't resist. he is played by Jeremy Northam).
At the bar, thre is another ambigious man; different from the one at the airport. Hmmmmm.
Jack and Angela go for a ride on Jack's company speed boat (I REALLY want his job) and go get a bite to eat at an unnamed sandbar. (Pretty place, I would love to see Mexico's beaches, but sadly...I am a broke college kid).
Angela's purse is stolen by the ambigous man at the bar; Jack quickly runs off while Angela protests "It's not that important". Jack and man from the bar have a quick coversation about it "not being here." My guess, they were looking for Mozart's Ghost disc, which is not with her (she's not that stupid). Jack shoots the man from the bar with a silenced pistol, instead of paying him the money he was going to.... and stages a few wounds on himself to make it look as if he were in a fight. (for a criminal; he's a smart guy).
New clip in the silenced pistol; miles from shore. This probably isn't a good thing for Angela. Yet; she is the main character...chances of her dying (and I'm not just saying this because I've seen this movie more than a few times) are slim to none. Our director, Irwin Winkler would be stupid to kill her off. (He's also directed: Home of the Brave, De-Lonely, Life as a House, At First Sight, Night and the City, Guilty by Suspicion and produced many more, I'm not going to name them all).
It shows nothing (if you're worried about showing this film to kids) but Jack and Angela have intercourse, and it comes out that Angela had an affair with her former shrink, but it didn't last long, but it was her last relationship, in many years; since 1936 as she puts it.
Jack turns out to be CyberBob.....a twist I always forget happens. Angela finds the the silenced pistol he accidently left on the couch of the speedboat, and is smart enough to quietly take out the clip, Jack/CyberBob goes to shoot her "to make the world safe for democracy". and obviously, you can't shoot a gun without bullets, so it fails. They wrestle for a moment, Angela burns his face with a cigerate he had a moment ago and escapes while Jack is writhing in pain.
That being said; what criminal forgets his gun? Wow, that lost major points in the final review of the movie.
Wine bottle to face as a tatic to escape, always a classic. Angela decides to try and use the radio to get some help from the man trying to killer her...but Jack disabled it. You're on a boat. SWIM! But if she did that, we wouldn't have a movie. She does however, go snooping around for something to defend herself and finds a floppy disc with a label that cant be read to the audiance, pockets it and escapes on a smaller motorized boat used as a lifeboat, Jack jumps in to try and kill her, but is thrown off the boat when the motor starts. The boat Angela is on hits rocks, pops, and she wakes up in a hospital 3 days later.
Computer errors are now effecting Wall Street.
Angela goes to check out of the hotel after being discharged from the hospital. Come to find out; Angela Bennent checked out of the hotel a week ago. Maybe she doesn't remember, maybe it's computer error.
She then goes to a payphone to check her bank account. Her mastercard no longer works, a woman approaches her about the temporary Visa she applied for in order to get back into the states, but she is no logner Angela Bennent, she is now Ruth Marx, according to California's department of motor vechicles.
Stolen identies are always fun, aren't they?
Angela Bennet also sold her house; from LA, while "Ruth Marx" is in Mexico, pretty smart criminals.
The police come to the scene and run the name Ruth Marx, only to find that Jack forged fake crimes to her record. Angels runs, like anyone would. Jack, who is obviouly back in the States as well; goes after her himself telling the police he hasn't seen anyone.
The fact she's smart makes up for the fact he's was an idiot on the boat. Points won back.
Angela calls, what I assume to the police, she is transferred to a woman named Angela Bennent; and the fake Angela tells the real Angela to "give us the disk and we'll give you your life back", except the real Angela doesn't know that what they want is the Mozart's Ghost disc, at least not yet.
Angela finds console in her friend Allan (played by Dennis Miller). who gets her a laptop from his house and then takes her to a motel in order to figure things out. Allan has always been my favorite character in this movie. Come to find out, Allan is her former shrink, ya know? The dude she had the affair with? Least it was someone she could trust, his paitent records are confidential, and since this is 90s, chances are not many of the files are online yet. Angela asks Allan to take her mother to a sanitarium under a different name under the ruse that she needs observation, Angela isn't sure what Jack and the few other people trying to kill will do in order to get to her.
When Angela was in the hosptial she found on her person a small business card with numnbers written on the back, it is a passowrd to a hosptial website revealing that the secretary of defense, did not in fact have AIDS, but the password only works after Angela does the familiar crtl+shift thing after clicking the small pi symbol at the bottom of the page. The news realeased earlier in the movie that the secretarty of defense killed himself because he had AIDS and could no longer deal with it.
Angela goes back to CyberBob, only this time CyberBob is not Jack, chances are it never was, Jack was only watching....smart man. The pi symbol is the symbol of a very dangerous cberterriorist group. "They want to take the big house down" says CyberBob, they agree to meet at a public place.
Allan's friend Ben wants to meet Angela and discuss her idenitiy situation, but Angela chooses to meet CyberBob instead. Jack finds CyberBob instead.
Jack is a smart criminal, but of course, you have to be smart to be a cyber-terriorist.
Allan is poisoned by pills he took a moment ago, he's allergic to penillcin, and yet, somehow got prescribed it. But he does live. Good, I like Allan. Angela leaves the hospital to meet CyberBob, they decide to meet a fair, there's for sure enough people, but I don't know if they ever thought fairs like this usually don't have much security. Loosin points for pickin this place.
Switcing back to Allan, who is currently sleeping in the hospital. The nurse switches out his IV's like a routine, but they don't show the nurse's face, making it seem to me like something is up.
Jack finds Angela at the fair and tries to take her hostage. Only to be thwarted by a man in a bunny suit who wants a hug from him. Angela is able to escape. The bunny was a little cheesy, but cool. Points won back.
Angela goes back to the hospital, not knowing where else to go other than to Allan, come to find out, there was something up. Allan was poisioned, this time he doesn't survive.
Points lost for killing my favorite character. Okay, not really; but it still sucks.
Angela is now right where the cyberterriorts want her. Alone. Scared. Hopeless. Lost.
Angela is phoned by Jack on the car phone (is it weird I've always wanted one?). Jack tells Angela that they're a lot alike. Except ya know, the part about Angela not being a criminal?
Jack goes to where Angela's mother is, only to find out that she was moved by Allan. Jack, our of spite does some more hacking and reports Angela's car as stolen, police pick up on it, Angela does what anybody would do in that situation. Runs. Points for being realistic. Only to drive off into a field, car wrecked, but Angela is unharmed and decides to run. Well, unharmed except for a gash to the head, but that seems to be the last thing on her mind. The police finally catch her, arrest her, all that jazz and the name Ruth Marx still pops up.
Angela explains to a public defender her story, which is not believed. (played by L. Scott Caldwell). But the PD tells her the computers have been protected by a program called "Gate Keeper", Angela now realizes it's the program that has the fault. Fixing faults in programs in her speciality. If only she can get someone to believe her.
So what's her next move? Calling her mother from a jail phone. I suppose, even if she has dementia, sometimes a mother's arms are the best place to be. Angela asks her mother to tell the PD that she is who she claims to be. Only, her mother is unable to do that because of the dementia.
Ben (Allan's friend, played by Robert Gosset) comes in and does believe the story. Sidenote: if anyone reading this watches the TNT show The Closer, Robert Gosset is amazing in the role of Captain Taylor. :)
Except, Robert Gosset isn't Ben. He works with Jack. Trying to get the disc, Angela knows because "Ben" mentions how it was ruined in Mexico, which is true, but the only person she told was Allan, who literally "took the secret to the grave". Angela drives "Ben's" car off the road, killing him.
Jack chases down Angela in his car, but Angela comes to a folding bridge, (the ones that allow boats to go under, ya know?) while it is in the process of folding up, Angela jumps down onto the lower platform, but Jack knows if he tries to do that in his car, he's as good as dead, and that's no good. Angela escapes again.
Once Angela sees her name on the televison (well, "Ruth Marx"), she runs again. Being as carful as she can not to stay in one place for a prolonged period of time.
Angela sneaks into a computer software company, where she used to work and finds the woman posing as her. Sets off the fire alarm from a computer to evacuate the building so she can do what needs to do.
Points for creativity.
She gets access to the program, but in order to delete the "Ruth Marx" file, she needs mainframe access. The fire department is on the way, she has a matter of minutes, I take that back, a matter of seconds.
However, Angela is quick, she gets what she needs.
Points for quickness.
Jeff Gregg came up with the program, Jeff was going against the title of secretary of defense, what better way to win than to take out the target, by a fake positive-AIDS test, to a homophobe? Dale gave him the virus that Angela sent to Dale. Angela attaches it to "Angela's" computer and makes a break for it. Except she forgot to exit out of what she was looking at.
Points lost for being careless.
Jack spots Angela outside of the computer software company and begins to hurt her down. With thirteen minutes left in the movie, he needs to step it up.
Angela hides out in the one place she feels comfortable. A computer convention. Angela uses a computer at the convention to send files of evidence that Jeff Gregg was behind everything to the authorites. Proof that Dale and the security of defense's murders were orcatrated by Jeff Gregg, Angela plants a virus into the computer before Jack finds her, and once Jack hits the escape key in order to wipe out, what he thinks his her files, the virus eats through Jeff's program faster than a speeding bullet. Jeff shoots Angela, only to shoot the woman pretending to be her, not the real Angela.
The files were still sent to the FBI and Angela still has the disk that they're on.
Points for creativity, quick thinking, and just being all around smart.
However, now it is just Jack and the real Angela, alone on what looks like a Catwalk. With seven minutes left in the film, one of them need to step their game up.
Jack still has pistol, Angela has nothing. Should be intresting. Except a fire extingusher to Jack's head, knocking him off the catwalk and dead on a platform on contact.
Angela has her life back. and with five minutes to spare.
At the end she meets with her mother (who I forgot to mention is played by Diane Baker).
Nice ending.
So, in a nutshell that's our movie. I personally love it, it's probably one of my favorite thrillers from the 90s.
I give it a 8.7/10
and...my review will actually be pretty good tonight because noone was on the television when I decided to watch/review a movie, so I can write WHILE I watch, instead of watching, then reviewing and trying to rembmer everything. :).
So, here we go.
A review of 1995's "The Net".
Start off...creepy music. Always a good sign, considering it's a thriller.
We start with, what I seem to remember...the secretary of defense (don't quote me on that, and I'll correct myself later if it comes out later). Having a very ambigious phone call with an unknown caller.
"So this is reality" is his last words to that ambigious caller.
He then bribes his son to do his homework by granting him extra time on the Nintendo/Sega, (aw, remember those days?) tells his wife he loves her, and shoots himself in the mouth.
Good start to a thriller.
Enter Sandra Bullock, a computer security person, who starts by de-bugging a friend's videogame. (and saves it to a floppy disk. Bwhaha, I think I've used one my entire life).
Angela, (Sandra Bullock) later starts chatting online with CyberBob, who asks her out on a date, which she declines (smart woman).
Angela visits her mother in a nursing home; who seems to have demetia of some sort, they begin to play Shopan on the piano, even though her mother has no idea who she is (sad, really.)
A few moments later another virus comes via fedex from Angela's friend Dale; called "Mozart's Ghost". (Dale is played by Ray McKinnon, great actor, really).
Inside Mozart's Ghost is a horrible virus. Dale has come across something he shouldn't have. Dale knows it probably involves the government; and doesn't want to discuss the virus with Angela over the phone, (for obvious reasons). If Angela clicks "concert details" on the Mozart's Ghost page, it directs her to a "not so safe website" that Dale intended to be ticketmaster, or something of the sort, but instead take him to the homepage to (insert city that Angela lives in___electric), there is a small pi symbol at the bottom; click it; press ctrl+shift, and all hell breaks loose on her computer. She thinks its a small virus, Dale knows different. On the way to see her via his own personal plane; his instruments screw up. Only, here's the kicker; they look normal to him; so he thinks he's taking the correct path. Central control knows different and tells him to turn around. But not before he takes a head on crash with several buildings.
Angela, ready to admit Dale found something he shouldn't have?
Dale's boss (i'm assuming...it never says). Asks Angela if she would like Dale's old position. Not knowing she is unaware that he passed away (what a way to hear a friend died).
Flights are now going haywire...just when Angela is going on vacation for the first time in 6 years.
There is a very creepy looking guy (btw; the man who shot himself in the beginning, is(was) the secretary of defense). looking out among the people. My thought is; this is probably the computer hacker, maybe? and yet....I don't know. It could be but then again, we are reviewing a thriller.
Angela meets a cute guy at the beach in Mexico, come to find out; he also does work with computers. His name is Devlin, Jack Devlin. (sorry; couldn't resist. he is played by Jeremy Northam).
At the bar, thre is another ambigious man; different from the one at the airport. Hmmmmm.
Jack and Angela go for a ride on Jack's company speed boat (I REALLY want his job) and go get a bite to eat at an unnamed sandbar. (Pretty place, I would love to see Mexico's beaches, but sadly...I am a broke college kid).
Angela's purse is stolen by the ambigous man at the bar; Jack quickly runs off while Angela protests "It's not that important". Jack and man from the bar have a quick coversation about it "not being here." My guess, they were looking for Mozart's Ghost disc, which is not with her (she's not that stupid). Jack shoots the man from the bar with a silenced pistol, instead of paying him the money he was going to.... and stages a few wounds on himself to make it look as if he were in a fight. (for a criminal; he's a smart guy).
New clip in the silenced pistol; miles from shore. This probably isn't a good thing for Angela. Yet; she is the main character...chances of her dying (and I'm not just saying this because I've seen this movie more than a few times) are slim to none. Our director, Irwin Winkler would be stupid to kill her off. (He's also directed: Home of the Brave, De-Lonely, Life as a House, At First Sight, Night and the City, Guilty by Suspicion and produced many more, I'm not going to name them all).
It shows nothing (if you're worried about showing this film to kids) but Jack and Angela have intercourse, and it comes out that Angela had an affair with her former shrink, but it didn't last long, but it was her last relationship, in many years; since 1936 as she puts it.
Jack turns out to be CyberBob.....a twist I always forget happens. Angela finds the the silenced pistol he accidently left on the couch of the speedboat, and is smart enough to quietly take out the clip, Jack/CyberBob goes to shoot her "to make the world safe for democracy". and obviously, you can't shoot a gun without bullets, so it fails. They wrestle for a moment, Angela burns his face with a cigerate he had a moment ago and escapes while Jack is writhing in pain.
That being said; what criminal forgets his gun? Wow, that lost major points in the final review of the movie.
Wine bottle to face as a tatic to escape, always a classic. Angela decides to try and use the radio to get some help from the man trying to killer her...but Jack disabled it. You're on a boat. SWIM! But if she did that, we wouldn't have a movie. She does however, go snooping around for something to defend herself and finds a floppy disc with a label that cant be read to the audiance, pockets it and escapes on a smaller motorized boat used as a lifeboat, Jack jumps in to try and kill her, but is thrown off the boat when the motor starts. The boat Angela is on hits rocks, pops, and she wakes up in a hospital 3 days later.
Computer errors are now effecting Wall Street.
Angela goes to check out of the hotel after being discharged from the hospital. Come to find out; Angela Bennent checked out of the hotel a week ago. Maybe she doesn't remember, maybe it's computer error.
She then goes to a payphone to check her bank account. Her mastercard no longer works, a woman approaches her about the temporary Visa she applied for in order to get back into the states, but she is no logner Angela Bennent, she is now Ruth Marx, according to California's department of motor vechicles.
Stolen identies are always fun, aren't they?
Angela Bennet also sold her house; from LA, while "Ruth Marx" is in Mexico, pretty smart criminals.
The police come to the scene and run the name Ruth Marx, only to find that Jack forged fake crimes to her record. Angels runs, like anyone would. Jack, who is obviouly back in the States as well; goes after her himself telling the police he hasn't seen anyone.
The fact she's smart makes up for the fact he's was an idiot on the boat. Points won back.
Angela calls, what I assume to the police, she is transferred to a woman named Angela Bennent; and the fake Angela tells the real Angela to "give us the disk and we'll give you your life back", except the real Angela doesn't know that what they want is the Mozart's Ghost disc, at least not yet.
Angela finds console in her friend Allan (played by Dennis Miller). who gets her a laptop from his house and then takes her to a motel in order to figure things out. Allan has always been my favorite character in this movie. Come to find out, Allan is her former shrink, ya know? The dude she had the affair with? Least it was someone she could trust, his paitent records are confidential, and since this is 90s, chances are not many of the files are online yet. Angela asks Allan to take her mother to a sanitarium under a different name under the ruse that she needs observation, Angela isn't sure what Jack and the few other people trying to kill will do in order to get to her.
When Angela was in the hosptial she found on her person a small business card with numnbers written on the back, it is a passowrd to a hosptial website revealing that the secretary of defense, did not in fact have AIDS, but the password only works after Angela does the familiar crtl+shift thing after clicking the small pi symbol at the bottom of the page. The news realeased earlier in the movie that the secretarty of defense killed himself because he had AIDS and could no longer deal with it.
Angela goes back to CyberBob, only this time CyberBob is not Jack, chances are it never was, Jack was only watching....smart man. The pi symbol is the symbol of a very dangerous cberterriorist group. "They want to take the big house down" says CyberBob, they agree to meet at a public place.
Allan's friend Ben wants to meet Angela and discuss her idenitiy situation, but Angela chooses to meet CyberBob instead. Jack finds CyberBob instead.
Jack is a smart criminal, but of course, you have to be smart to be a cyber-terriorist.
Allan is poisoned by pills he took a moment ago, he's allergic to penillcin, and yet, somehow got prescribed it. But he does live. Good, I like Allan. Angela leaves the hospital to meet CyberBob, they decide to meet a fair, there's for sure enough people, but I don't know if they ever thought fairs like this usually don't have much security. Loosin points for pickin this place.
Switcing back to Allan, who is currently sleeping in the hospital. The nurse switches out his IV's like a routine, but they don't show the nurse's face, making it seem to me like something is up.
Jack finds Angela at the fair and tries to take her hostage. Only to be thwarted by a man in a bunny suit who wants a hug from him. Angela is able to escape. The bunny was a little cheesy, but cool. Points won back.
Angela goes back to the hospital, not knowing where else to go other than to Allan, come to find out, there was something up. Allan was poisioned, this time he doesn't survive.
Points lost for killing my favorite character. Okay, not really; but it still sucks.
Angela is now right where the cyberterriorts want her. Alone. Scared. Hopeless. Lost.
Angela is phoned by Jack on the car phone (is it weird I've always wanted one?). Jack tells Angela that they're a lot alike. Except ya know, the part about Angela not being a criminal?
Jack goes to where Angela's mother is, only to find out that she was moved by Allan. Jack, our of spite does some more hacking and reports Angela's car as stolen, police pick up on it, Angela does what anybody would do in that situation. Runs. Points for being realistic. Only to drive off into a field, car wrecked, but Angela is unharmed and decides to run. Well, unharmed except for a gash to the head, but that seems to be the last thing on her mind. The police finally catch her, arrest her, all that jazz and the name Ruth Marx still pops up.
Angela explains to a public defender her story, which is not believed. (played by L. Scott Caldwell). But the PD tells her the computers have been protected by a program called "Gate Keeper", Angela now realizes it's the program that has the fault. Fixing faults in programs in her speciality. If only she can get someone to believe her.
So what's her next move? Calling her mother from a jail phone. I suppose, even if she has dementia, sometimes a mother's arms are the best place to be. Angela asks her mother to tell the PD that she is who she claims to be. Only, her mother is unable to do that because of the dementia.
Ben (Allan's friend, played by Robert Gosset) comes in and does believe the story. Sidenote: if anyone reading this watches the TNT show The Closer, Robert Gosset is amazing in the role of Captain Taylor. :)
Except, Robert Gosset isn't Ben. He works with Jack. Trying to get the disc, Angela knows because "Ben" mentions how it was ruined in Mexico, which is true, but the only person she told was Allan, who literally "took the secret to the grave". Angela drives "Ben's" car off the road, killing him.
Jack chases down Angela in his car, but Angela comes to a folding bridge, (the ones that allow boats to go under, ya know?) while it is in the process of folding up, Angela jumps down onto the lower platform, but Jack knows if he tries to do that in his car, he's as good as dead, and that's no good. Angela escapes again.
Once Angela sees her name on the televison (well, "Ruth Marx"), she runs again. Being as carful as she can not to stay in one place for a prolonged period of time.
Angela sneaks into a computer software company, where she used to work and finds the woman posing as her. Sets off the fire alarm from a computer to evacuate the building so she can do what needs to do.
Points for creativity.
She gets access to the program, but in order to delete the "Ruth Marx" file, she needs mainframe access. The fire department is on the way, she has a matter of minutes, I take that back, a matter of seconds.
However, Angela is quick, she gets what she needs.
Points for quickness.
Jeff Gregg came up with the program, Jeff was going against the title of secretary of defense, what better way to win than to take out the target, by a fake positive-AIDS test, to a homophobe? Dale gave him the virus that Angela sent to Dale. Angela attaches it to "Angela's" computer and makes a break for it. Except she forgot to exit out of what she was looking at.
Points lost for being careless.
Jack spots Angela outside of the computer software company and begins to hurt her down. With thirteen minutes left in the movie, he needs to step it up.
Angela hides out in the one place she feels comfortable. A computer convention. Angela uses a computer at the convention to send files of evidence that Jeff Gregg was behind everything to the authorites. Proof that Dale and the security of defense's murders were orcatrated by Jeff Gregg, Angela plants a virus into the computer before Jack finds her, and once Jack hits the escape key in order to wipe out, what he thinks his her files, the virus eats through Jeff's program faster than a speeding bullet. Jeff shoots Angela, only to shoot the woman pretending to be her, not the real Angela.
The files were still sent to the FBI and Angela still has the disk that they're on.
Points for creativity, quick thinking, and just being all around smart.
However, now it is just Jack and the real Angela, alone on what looks like a Catwalk. With seven minutes left in the film, one of them need to step their game up.
Jack still has pistol, Angela has nothing. Should be intresting. Except a fire extingusher to Jack's head, knocking him off the catwalk and dead on a platform on contact.
Angela has her life back. and with five minutes to spare.
At the end she meets with her mother (who I forgot to mention is played by Diane Baker).
Nice ending.
So, in a nutshell that's our movie. I personally love it, it's probably one of my favorite thrillers from the 90s.
I give it a 8.7/10
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Osmosis Jones (2001)
For tonights movie I was in the mood for something animated and I had seen Osmosis Jones before, but not since I was kid; it seemed like a good choice, something I didn't have to think about to understand the plot.
Wow, all I have to say about this movie...is I forgot how trippy it is. As far as animated movies go, it's not a masterpiece, but it's a decent timekiller flick.
It seems to me like the writers of the movie, did some acid, and then put a pencil to paper, or fingers to keyboard, whatever they did.
I don't really have any major issues with this movie; other than the writers being on acid when they wrote it.
I feel like I could write a better plot; with better oneliners, with less-gross stunts, (really, the zit poping into the teacher's mouth...seriously, it makes me gag everytime.)
So...4/10 for this one.
Wow, all I have to say about this movie...is I forgot how trippy it is. As far as animated movies go, it's not a masterpiece, but it's a decent timekiller flick.
It seems to me like the writers of the movie, did some acid, and then put a pencil to paper, or fingers to keyboard, whatever they did.
I don't really have any major issues with this movie; other than the writers being on acid when they wrote it.
I feel like I could write a better plot; with better oneliners, with less-gross stunts, (really, the zit poping into the teacher's mouth...seriously, it makes me gag everytime.)
So...4/10 for this one.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Unstoppable (2010)
So, first off; I love this movie. It's probably my favorite movie of the year 2010, and I'm not just saying that because Chris Pine is my husband (he just doesn't know it yet HaHa).
My only problem with this movie was one scene. When Frank(Denzel Washington) and Will(Chris Prine) were rolling train 1206 backwords trying to catch up with the runaway 777, they began talking about their marriages. I really don't think that if I was in their situation, movie or not; that I would want to talk about my marriage, maybe coming up with a plan of how to stop the train would be a better topic? I don't know, it's just a thought.
That being said, I also have a problem with the character Dewey...chances are, if he didn't tie the airbrakes this time, resulting in 777 becoming a runaway, who wants to bet he didn't do before, and just wasn't caught? Why even hire the incompetant douche in the first place? he's the kind of guy that's meant to stay his whole life at McDonalds, and I mean that in the nicest possible way, too.
Connie Hopper, the yard master at least has some sense; she knows when to say 'yes' to her boss Galvin, and when to say 'No, you're wrong, I'm doing it my way, you're not out in this field everyday, go suck it.' She doesn't really say that, of course, but it's what I imagine her saying throughout some of the movie when Galvin really wants things done his way, and they fail. Like sending the Marine to stop the train via Helicoptor to jump down and take control, really; that made sense to you?
But; Frank and Will do get the train stopped with some help from Ned, who even though he's only in a few scenes, is probably my favorite character of the whole movie, exactly how Galvin said it wouldn't work. Shows him. Of course, they did have to get the train stopped, we only had an hour and a half for the movie.Unstoppable my butt. HaHa.
Still, even with the character flaws, and random marriage talks, I didn't find any major plot holes, and that made me happy.
I still really like the movie; I give it a 8.2/10
:)
My only problem with this movie was one scene. When Frank(Denzel Washington) and Will(Chris Prine) were rolling train 1206 backwords trying to catch up with the runaway 777, they began talking about their marriages. I really don't think that if I was in their situation, movie or not; that I would want to talk about my marriage, maybe coming up with a plan of how to stop the train would be a better topic? I don't know, it's just a thought.
That being said, I also have a problem with the character Dewey...chances are, if he didn't tie the airbrakes this time, resulting in 777 becoming a runaway, who wants to bet he didn't do before, and just wasn't caught? Why even hire the incompetant douche in the first place? he's the kind of guy that's meant to stay his whole life at McDonalds, and I mean that in the nicest possible way, too.
Connie Hopper, the yard master at least has some sense; she knows when to say 'yes' to her boss Galvin, and when to say 'No, you're wrong, I'm doing it my way, you're not out in this field everyday, go suck it.' She doesn't really say that, of course, but it's what I imagine her saying throughout some of the movie when Galvin really wants things done his way, and they fail. Like sending the Marine to stop the train via Helicoptor to jump down and take control, really; that made sense to you?
But; Frank and Will do get the train stopped with some help from Ned, who even though he's only in a few scenes, is probably my favorite character of the whole movie, exactly how Galvin said it wouldn't work. Shows him. Of course, they did have to get the train stopped, we only had an hour and a half for the movie.
Still, even with the character flaws, and random marriage talks, I didn't find any major plot holes, and that made me happy.
I still really like the movie; I give it a 8.2/10
:)
Monday, November 21, 2011
Carrie ('76) (with spoilers)
Well, before get onto the rant/rave about the first movie I am going to review as part of my new blog, I just wanted to annouce that this will be a primarily movie review blog, with the occasional book, and maybe news story, but don't hold your breath on the last two.
So, for the first movie I decided I would choose my favorite movie from the 70s, "Carrie" based on the Stephen King book, which I do plan to read, but I have to wait until I have a little more money, so I can get it off on Amazon, and then I shall review it, as well.
That being said, I will NEVER review the "Carrie" version from I believe, 2002, because it sucks, watching it once was enough.
*Carrie (1976)*
So, let me start off by saying, I don't think I've seen Sissy Spacek(who plays Carrie) in anything else but this movie, and if I have, I cannot think of it off the top of my head. But I love her in this movie, she plays the role perfectly, the only thing that bothers me about Sissy Spacek being in the movie, is that she looks to old to be a senior in high school, but that's really here nor there.
But Carrie is actually not my favorite character, it's the Margret White(played by Piper Laurie), I don't really know why, because if Margret wasn't so religious and crazy, the ending of the movie, might not have ended so....like it did. But, with that said, if Margret wasn't so religious and crazy, we wouldn't have a movie. I am a Christian, but sometimes, you can take a good thing too far, and that's what Margret White does, and chances are, she is worse in the book.
I wasn't necessairly a misfit in my high school years, but I didn't really "fit in" in the sense that, I hung out with everybody, the Christians, the jocks, the nerds, the drugs users/abusers, and I still do, so I semi-understand what it's like to be in Carrie's shoes (except by the age of 16 I knew what a period was), which may explain my like for this movie.
You can't really discuss the movie Carrie and not talk about Betty Buckley's role as Mrs Collins, she understood Carrie, at least, as much as one could understand someone like Carrie, ya know? I mean, I don't know if I'd understand a misfit with telekentic powers. Mrs Collins is probably my 2nd favorite character is all of the movie, (although I do prefer her death in the 2002 version, to the one in the 1976 version, but the 2002 version still sucks). In 2002 her death is "less scary, but more real." if that makes sense.
Tommy Ross, is probably my favorite male character, because while I don't think when Sue asked him to take Carrie to the prom, that he had any intention of doing so, that by the end of the night, before they gain their title as king and queen, he begins to see Carrie as a real person, and not the misfit she has been her entire life, same with Sue...I think she really did want to help Carrie after the tampon incident in the first scene (or maybe second, I don't know which it would be under). and Chris and Billy used that to their advantage, and thus.....we have the ending of the movie, which is probably #2 in most recongized movie scenes (there's no actual proof, just my opinoin), #1 being the shower scene from "Psycho".
All in all, the 1976 version of 'Carrie' gets a 8.5/10 while the 2002 version get's a -10/10
:)
So, for the first movie I decided I would choose my favorite movie from the 70s, "Carrie" based on the Stephen King book, which I do plan to read, but I have to wait until I have a little more money, so I can get it off on Amazon, and then I shall review it, as well.
That being said, I will NEVER review the "Carrie" version from I believe, 2002, because it sucks, watching it once was enough.
*Carrie (1976)*
So, let me start off by saying, I don't think I've seen Sissy Spacek(who plays Carrie) in anything else but this movie, and if I have, I cannot think of it off the top of my head. But I love her in this movie, she plays the role perfectly, the only thing that bothers me about Sissy Spacek being in the movie, is that she looks to old to be a senior in high school, but that's really here nor there.
But Carrie is actually not my favorite character, it's the Margret White(played by Piper Laurie), I don't really know why, because if Margret wasn't so religious and crazy, the ending of the movie, might not have ended so....like it did. But, with that said, if Margret wasn't so religious and crazy, we wouldn't have a movie. I am a Christian, but sometimes, you can take a good thing too far, and that's what Margret White does, and chances are, she is worse in the book.
I wasn't necessairly a misfit in my high school years, but I didn't really "fit in" in the sense that, I hung out with everybody, the Christians, the jocks, the nerds, the drugs users/abusers, and I still do, so I semi-understand what it's like to be in Carrie's shoes (except by the age of 16 I knew what a period was), which may explain my like for this movie.
You can't really discuss the movie Carrie and not talk about Betty Buckley's role as Mrs Collins, she understood Carrie, at least, as much as one could understand someone like Carrie, ya know? I mean, I don't know if I'd understand a misfit with telekentic powers. Mrs Collins is probably my 2nd favorite character is all of the movie, (although I do prefer her death in the 2002 version, to the one in the 1976 version, but the 2002 version still sucks). In 2002 her death is "less scary, but more real." if that makes sense.
Tommy Ross, is probably my favorite male character, because while I don't think when Sue asked him to take Carrie to the prom, that he had any intention of doing so, that by the end of the night, before they gain their title as king and queen, he begins to see Carrie as a real person, and not the misfit she has been her entire life, same with Sue...I think she really did want to help Carrie after the tampon incident in the first scene (or maybe second, I don't know which it would be under). and Chris and Billy used that to their advantage, and thus.....we have the ending of the movie, which is probably #2 in most recongized movie scenes (there's no actual proof, just my opinoin), #1 being the shower scene from "Psycho".
All in all, the 1976 version of 'Carrie' gets a 8.5/10 while the 2002 version get's a -10/10
:)
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