Friday, September 25, 2009

Observe And Report (2009)


This is a really dark film about a bi-polar mall cop that is very delusional when it comes to reality. Set Rogen (Pineapple Express) plays Ronnie, a mall cop that really can't tell that he's seriously messed up in the cranium. He takes his job way too seriously and is obsessed with a make up girl who obviously thinks Ronnie is a tool and a creep. Anna Faris (Scary Movie) plays the said girl and Ronnie gets the opportunity he thinks he gets when Anna gets flashed by a pervert that Ronnie can't catch. This movie can be funny at times but like I stated before it get's real creepy and dark as well. The movie also stars Michael Pena (Gone In 60 Seconds), Aziz Ansari (I Love You, Man), and Ray Liotta (Goodfellas) as Detective Harrison. The real shinning star in this movie is Celia Weston (Dead Man Walking) who plays Ronnie's alcoholic but supportive mom. She was a real highlight to me as well as new comer Lauren Miller who plays a coffee store attendant that befriends Ronnie. I give it Three stars out of Five

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto (2009)


I want to start off by saying that this is one whacked out film. It is definitely not one of the type of animated movies you let your kids watch. They have a song for example that tells you that "it is alright to jerk off to cartoons because the Japanese do it all the time." It is a whacked out, perverted sex, cartoon wild ride with a lot of cartoon action. The movie is about a washed up wrestler turned porn star named El Superbeasto (Voiced by Tom Papa), who falls in love with a foul mouthed stripper named Velvet Von Black (Voiced By Rosario Dawson) who gets kidnapped by Dr. Satan's (Voiced By Paul Giamatti) talking gorilla named Otto (Voiced by Spongebob Squarepants himself Tom Kenny). So, Superbeasto calls on his sister Suzi-X (Voiced By Sherri Moon Zombie) and her horny robot Murray (voiced by Brian Posehn) to help him save the girl before she marries Dr. Satan. Believe me, If I haven't intrigued you by now then I don't know what will. The movie also features voice cameos by Cassandra Peterson (Elvira), Bill Moseley (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), Harland Williams (Half Baked), Daniel Roebuck (Rob Zombies Halloween 2) as his character from The Devil's Rejects Morris Green, and Clint Howard (Rock And Roll High School) to name a few. I enjoyed watching this movie and I still think Rob Zombie (House Of 1000 Corpses) is a genius. I give it Three Stars Out Of Five

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)


At first I was a little confused from the beginning because I don't remember Logan being alive for as long as he has. According to the movie Victor A.K.A Sabertooth and Logan A.K.A. Wolverine are brothers and they fought in every major war since the civil war and on. It's not until Victor starts losing his cool that he and Logan are imprisoned for Victor losing his cool. They are then recruited by a man named Striker to do his dirty deeds. Hugh Jackman (X-Men) and Liev Schreiber (Defiance) join up with another group of mutants Played by Ryan Reynolds (Adventureland) as Dead Pool, Will i Am (Black Eye Peas) as John Wraith, Kevin Durand (Smokin Aces) as Frank Dukes, Daniel Henney (First American Role) as Agent Zero, and Dominic Monaghan (Lord Of The Rings) as Bradley. They go on a mission for striker who is played by Danny Huston (30 Days Of Night) and everything is going fine on a treasure hunt he leads them on until Logan decides enough is enough. Logan leaves and tries to live a normal life until Victor starts killing off mutants and goes after Logan's wife. This sets off Logan and this is where you see how Logan was created with the metal blades instead of the bone like ones he possess in the beginning. We start to find out that there is a deeper, more sinister meaning in what Striker is doing? You'll have to rent it to find out. I was very impressed with Will i Am's performance in this movie as well as Taylor Kitsch (The Covenant) who plays one of my favorite X-Men characters Remy LeBeau A.K.A. Gambit. He was the guy I liked the most in the movie and wished there was more of him in this movie. I have high hopes for the next installment of this movie. The movie also features the young X-Men crew that we all grew to love in the first three installments in this movie like Storm, Cyclops, and Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) himself makes an appearance. This is by far my favorite X-Men movie. Four Stars Out Of Five

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Patrick Swayze R.I.P. (1952-2009)


Hollywood has lost one of it's best talents to come out of the eighties. Patrick Swayze has passed away after his long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was always one of my favorites ever since I saw him in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders as Darrel Curtis. I loved seeing him in the movie Red Dawn, where he plays a young man forced to take care of his brother and many other high school kids after the Russians take over the school. I also loved the Movie Road House where he plays this bad ass bouncer who gets hired to turn around a bar. Obviously, he had other great movies he made like Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Black Dog, and many more. He is a legend and an Icon in his own right. God Bless Patrick Swayze. I also chose this picture cause I want to remember him for his great hair that he possessed.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Friday, September 11, 2009

Fast & Furious (2009)


Contrary to popular belief, this movie actually wasn't half bad. If your a total gear head then you might appreciate or hate this movie. Vin Diesel reprises his role as Dominic as well as Michelle Rodriguez (The Fast And The Furious, S.W.A.T.) as Letty, Jordana Brewster (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) as Mia, and Paul Walker (Varsity Blues, 2 Fast 2 Furious) as Brian O'Connor. This time Brian works for the FBI in LA and he is after a big time drug dealer. Well, Dom's girlfriend Letty gets killed and now Dom is after this guy as well. So, they team up to track down this drug dealer and hopefully Brian can win back Dom and Mia's trust that he lost after the first movie. The scenes with the cars are king in this movie and their is plenty of explosive action as well. It is basically what you'd want from this movie, but I hope the series dies here because Tokyo Drift totally sucked and this one isn't bad. I think Vin Diesel's time may have run out in the spotlight as he is reprising old roles once again for a measly paycheck. I give the movie three stars out of five as I thought the story was pretty good as well as the acting.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The Inglorious Bastards (1978)


Much to my dismay, I didn't know that Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds was a sort of remake of this movie that was released in 1978. I should have figured with his obsession with exploitation films, that he would've done this movie. This one is a lot different than the one in the theatres. The movie stars black exploitation legend Fred Williamson (Hammer, Black Caesar) as a shamed army guy, who with other men heading to be court marshaled, try to escape to Switzerland when the fall into some trouble on the way. Led by Lt. Yeager (Played By an underrated Bo Svenson), Williamson and company are on the fight for their lives when they decide to help the partisans and a an American colonel try to hijack a train that contains an atomic bomb. Can they all succeed at the mission or will they fail? This I thought was a great movie in itself that I enjoyed watching it. I usually hate war movies, but I couldn't stop watching. I love one of the captions on the movie poster where it says, "Whatever the dirty dozen did they do it dirtier." The movie is directed by Italian Enzo G. Castellari and he does an excellent job that it is well worth the money to rent. Oh by the way this movie has it all from explosions, to naked female German soldiers, and tons of fighting. Three and The Half Stars Out Of Five