• 22Feb 09

  Well the Oscars lost there last shred of respectability....and some JCVD.

  Unlike in years past I only paid passing attention to this years award show. After making without the worst mistake ever and nominating The Reader over The Dark Knight, the academy essentially turned itself into the Spirit Awards part 2. Hello, academy, there already is an award show for indie films, the oscars are about best films period. Although highly suspect the academy heads felt Slumdog had no chance to win if it had to go against TDK so they made a preemptive strike.

  The cermony itself was lackluster, the ten minutes of it that I bothered watching. And after shafting TDK the academy lubed up for one more deed. They somehow voted Sean Penn over Mickey Rourke in the best actor cateogory. And they were of course rewarded by the douche bag going on another one of his moronic rants of how everybody should fell ashamed of themselves. God if it was up to me id have someone else take that shingy oscar of his and ram it so far up his expletive that it would come out of his mouth. Although apparently from what i've seen he might actually enjoy that.

  What more is there to say. They jobbed the TDK and Rourke. They gave Wall E a token animation award even though it was better than any of the nominees up for best picture. And they showed once again that the oscars are not about best performance or film, its about playing someone gay making some tired cheesy unoriginal crap film about the poor while exploiting them in the process, and if all else fails just make a political movie and you should atleast get a nod.

  On another note finally saw JVCD and must say that I was impressed. I thought the film might be overrated, how else could you explain a 7.6 rank for a jean claude movie, but it wasnt. It had a very nice mixture of drama with a little bit of comedy thrown in to lighten the mood at times. It didnt break down into some stupid although entertaining action flick, and gave jean claude credibility he has not seen since before his Rodman days. I also think this movie got jobbed as well, as it was similar in tone and nature as the Wrestler but was not even considered. All in all I give it a high recommendation, 9/10.

  • Posted Feb 22, 2009 10:11 pm GMT
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• 4Sep 08

  Quick Review on movies of the week.

  Well I finally saw Mummy 3, and overall it was not that bad. Sure its not as good as the other two, but its a nice change of pace to go away from the tired theme of the egyptian mummy and have a newer villian. Jet Li, the Special Effects were probably the highlights, and Michelle Yeoh was not bad; and neither was the babe playing her daughter. And IMO I prefer the chick who replaced Weiss. My only recommendation would be to make it look like there is 20 year age gap between Fraiser and his son and not a 5 year one. 6/10

  Bablyon AD was not bad either, it had great action scenes, but thats it. Apparently Fox for some reason doesnt like to make money on movies and again shafted another possible moneymaker for themselves, xfiles being the other. Apparently the had 10-15 minutes of the plot edited out to keep it just a dumbed down action movie, so your left with many answer at the end of the film. Oh well, Fast and Furious 4 looks good, and hopefully Riddick 3 will come out. 5.7/10

  And to rap it up a few Chuck Norris classics:

  Lone Wolf McQuade - prolly his best movie, and it has a fight with him and david carridine, as close as well come to bruce chuck 2. 8.3/10

  Breaker, Breaker - simple story, a young chuck, a lot of ass whupping. 7/10

  Octagon - the movie i looked forward to the most and the biggest let down. 90 mins of talking and buildup and only 20 mins of fighting, even though the battle with the red hooded ninja was epic. 4/10

  • Posted Sep 4, 2008 5:50 am GMT
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• 19Aug 08

  Halloween 30th Anniversary Set

  Well I for one am kinda excited because this is my favorite horror of all time, but up until a day ago i didnt even have it on dvd. With this set i get the extended version of halloween, the blu ray version of it, and i guess halloween 4 and 5 could have been worse. Plus there is the inclusion of the 25 years later documentary that I kind of wanted to see.

  That being said, its a steep price tag of around 70 bucks if you get from a cheap website, and in the end there is nothing new being added, just a repackaging of stuff that already exists. So i dont blame the fans who already own everything in the set and have no reason to buy this set. From what I hear, the one thing missing that perhaps sounds the most interesting is an extended cut of halloween 2. Just like how Carpenter made and extended tv cut for part one, apparently he did the same for part II, but its not avaliable anywhere. And for that matter, why add 4 and 5 but not 2; 2 is the second best movie behind only one of course.

  And for that matter whats the deal with the blu ray version, its crap. It basically has no features. Hell, i thought the point of blu ray was that they could fit more onto a single disc. Seems like a lot of people are going to get screwed over early on in the blu ray phase, because if you look carefully other movies are doing the same **** Id say the most aggregious offender is Fifth element, they even have teh gaul to use teh ultimate cover from the dvd, but none of the features. No **** thanks i want the features not the **** cover art. Luckily a few movies have stepped up there game, and one in particular that i will mention is Dracula. After screwing us over with no features its entire existence on dvd, that superbit version sucks, the blu ray version finally delievers with new features among other things, and this may be the first blu ray dvd i buy.

  Well thats it for now. Ja nee.

  • Posted Aug 19, 2008 2:06 am GMT
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