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Runtime: 132 Minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes
Plot: Three cops with different career paths and goals collide at the end...who will survive?
Review: Overall a pretty good movie. It held my interest throughout. Ethan Hawke plays a desperate dad who needs money to move his family, including his wife who is pregnant with twins, out of the mold infested house they live in. Richard Gere plays a cop who is retiring, and has nothing in his life to keep him going. Don Cheadle is an undercover cop who is torn between his job and loyalty to a drug kingpin (Snipes) who once saved his life.
This movie had great drama and a lot of killing. There is one kill in particular that just kind of freaked me out, and that is when Gere's character puts a zip tie over a man's throat and pulls it tight...just kind of sick.
Rating: 7/10
Official Site: http://www.brooklynsfinest-movie.co.uk/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210042/
Runtime: 105 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Stars: Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris, Sheri Moon Zombie
Plot: Michael Myers has come back again for his sister.
Review: This movie could have been really good. Unfortunately, it wasn't. There were some things that I really liked about this movie. Michael Myers unrelenting brutality was just what it should have been. The death scenes were shot very well. The dream sequence at the beginning was great.
What I did not like was Michael Myers mom popping up all the time in this movie, kind of guiding Michael to do things. It was just such a waste of time to have her there all the time with her white freakin horse. To me, it just seemed like this angle was just a way for Rob Zombie to get his wife into the movie. Another thing I didn't like is that Dr. Loomis was turned into this guy who just became a total prick out to make money off of his former patient. At least by the end of the movie, he redeems himself.
I think that Scout Taylor-Compton did a great job again as Laurie Strode. I think her reaction to finding out who she really is was done brilliantly. I think anyone who would find themselves in that situation would react similarly. Not that anyone would ever find themselves in that situation.
I really defended Zombie when people trashed the first Halloween remake. I thought the first one was exceptional. I think I may have had some unrealistic expectations for this one, though. And this movie just didn't deliver on it. The bad parts of the movie far outweighed the good parts and that is just a shame.
Rating: 3/10 Definitely not recommended.
Official Site: http://www.halloween2-movie.com/
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1311067/
Scott has never seen this movie, but one day I shall make him watch it :)
Drop Dead Fred
CAST:
Phoebe Gates as Elizabeth “Lizzie” Cronin
Rik Mayall as Drop Dead Fred
Marsha Mason as Polly Cronin
Tim Matheson as Charles (Lizzie’s husband)
YEAR RELEASED:
1991
RUN TIME:
103 minutes
IMDB SUMMARY:
A young woman who's attempting to find her place in the world battles with her controlling mother and a womanizing husband finds comfort and confusion with the appearance of her childhood friend. It is a zappy movie that emphasizes self-actualization.
MY REVIEW:
Lizzie goes back to her mom’s after she found out that her husband is cheating on her. She is going through the things in her old room from when she was a child and stumbles upon the jack in box that has been heavily duct taped closed! She thinks about it for awhile and when the wind up thing starts turning she tares through the tape and out flies….DROP DEAD FRED…He is discussed that she is a grown up when she was younger they promised to never grow up and get married, which Lizzie has done. He finds that downstairs Lizzies moms house she has had the carpet cleaned. Fred heads outside and gets dog poo on his shoes and with his little song “dog poo here, dog poo there, all along the sides, all up there’ he destroys he newly cleaned floor. Her mom freaks out in the morning. He sees the mom and calls her mega beast! What he had called her for years when they were younger. Drop Dead Fred is back to his ways. Lizzie’s mom is trying her hardest to get Lizzie and Charles back together but Lizzie’s friend Janie doesn’t think she should. But even with her friend Janie’s support, Lizzie can’t stop loving her husband and can’t stand not being with him. Lizzie finally gets back with her husband and Drop Dead Fred of course follows along. Lizzie is trying to get rid of Drop Dead Fred but he is following her everywhere. She goes to her friend’s yacht and wakes up in the morning to see that her hair is chopped off on one side and finds out the Fred is on the boat. Fred is messing with the gauges and ends up sinking the boat. We will skip ahead…. Lizzies husband wants her to take these pills that get rid of imaginary friend, Drop Dead Fred. She is about to take the last pill but she stops and thinks for a little bit….She ends of taking the last one and getting rid of her husband. She later sees her friends child doing the same things her and Fred did when they were younger, and instantly knows that Fred is with her now…
I LOVE IT!!! It sounds pretty dumb, and is kind of dumb but it’s still a good movie and I recommend it to anyone!
(Sorry about the bad spelling and puncuation...)
Wife :)
Runtime: 96 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Stars: Duane Martin, Leon, Tupac Shakur, Marlon Wayans
Plot: High School basketball star Kyle Watson is looking to get into Georgetown, but lots of things stand in his way, like his ghetto upbringing and a drug dealer.
Review: I have always liked this movie, and recently got the chance to view it again. I think this movie is very raw and very well made at the same time. I have not really been much of a fan of basketball movies, but this is one that grips me. It has a very well told story. You really get a sense of what Kyle (Martin) goes through on his journey to get to college. His life is a struggle, living with his mom in the hood. His best friend, Bugaloo (Wayans) just got out of jail and wants Kyle to run with a prominent drug dealer, Birdie (Tupac).
The final scene of the movie, at the basketball tournament shootout is a well done scene. Kyle finds out that he did get into Georgetown, and has decided to quit Birdie's team and rejoin his coach's team. But Birdie tells him to throw the game or he will tell Georgetown about the gifts that he gave Kyle. In the end, Kyle doesn't throw the game and his team wins.
I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes a nice story. Not the best movie in the world, but a very good one.
Rating: 8/10
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0109035/
With the news today that Avatar has passed The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King to become the second highest grossing movie of all time with $1.1 billion, the question remains: Can it surpass Titanic and become the highest grossing film worldwide of all time?
Well, if it keeps it current pace, it will definitely do that. Just think that in only 21 days, 3 measly weeks, Avatar has made $1.1 billion dollars. That is just an incredible pace. So far, it seems that my wife and I are the only people not to have seen this movie. And we won't be seeing it either.
No way can this movie keep its current pace, because eventually sales will die off. I am not sure if Avatar will have the legs of Titanic which was in theaters for over 6 months. Titanic benefited from a ton of repeat business, and I am sure Avatar is doing the same. I have heard that the visual effects of the movie are amazing, and I would at least like to see that part. I am just not one of those people that likes to sit for 3 hours and watch a movie.
I will give James Cameron his due though. He possibly is the greatest director of all time... He now owns the two highest grossing movies of all time...and I have not seen either one of them. I do, however, love some of his other movies, like The Terminator, Terminator 2, True Lies. He doesn't make many movies, but when he does make one, it doesn't seem to miss.
I guess a sequel is already in the works for Avatar...I guess I won't see that one either.
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