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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Low speed fender bender in a parking lot...
Well I just watched this with three friends and the feeling is wow! What a complete waste of time! Not one person liked it and this 2 hour snore fest produces only a couple laughs at best! Seriously, this movie is a bunch a Saturday Night Live skits that all run to long way past the point of when it could of been funny ( but most of them weren't) to the point where you are almost tempted to shut the movie off if the scene went on any longer. At points it tries so hard to come up with something funny that you actually feel sorry for the actors reading the dialog because it is just pathetic. I have seen a lot of Will Ferrels movies and I have liked most of them, not so in this case! Not good... Not funny... Not worth renting.... No spoilers here..nothing to spoil!
The Princess Bride (1987)
It brought a smile to my face....WHEN THE CREDITS BEGAN TO ROLL!!!
I had never seen this movie and a co-worker brought it over to watch one night and said " I think you will like this, it's very funny!" Honestly, I never came close to smiling watching this pungent pile of bile let alone laugh at it. My god people how does this rank in the IMDb Top 250 of all time? Can anyone explain to me anything about this movie that is mildly amusing, Wallace Shawn is so annoying, the dialog is replete with stinkyocity and the story is so simplistic a baby would be bored! Now there is nothing offensive about the movie but I will bet you my kids would hate this but I may never know because I can't bare sitting through it again. As I read through some other user comments I felt compelled to write this because it is a minority opinion but dang! PLEASE SOMEONE EXPLAIN YOUR LOVE OF THIS PIECE OF ROB REINER GARBAGE! By the way I love most all of Mr. Reiners other movies!
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Hills Remake......Not as visceral as everyone is saying!!!
First of all lets start out with all these people who are writing comments and people writing reviews about how GORY and Visceral this movie is! Well it's not that gory, so apparently these people did not see Hostel which I thought was a far more gut wrenching and visually scary film. This film had it's moments but if you have seen the original it kind of takes away from this movie. I left the theater feeling a little uninspired. I know I know it's a remake but the plot followed so closely that it seemed to take away the shock value of the special gore effects. The gore was good when it was there but still was not what I was expecting. Out of the 3 recent horror movies that I have seen at the theater I would have to rank them: 1. Hostel 2. Final destination 3 3. Hills have eyes as far as the gore factor, don't get me wrong the acting and story line in this movie is far superior to FD3 but FD3 had more astounding kill scenes! Overall you won't be disappointed with Aja's effort here but it is lacking something.
Lost Junction (2003)
LOST JUNCTION......I wish the DVD was lost so I would have never saw it!!
This is bad,bad,bad! I would write more spoilers but there isn't anything in this stinker to give away! Except for the director's surprise twist in the end of who the killer is, yep it is easy to have a twist when the killer is barely in the movie, I love Neve Cambell but the phony southern accent was bad. Jake Busey was horrible and Billy Burke was a complete dork in this nowhere southern tale of nothing! The back of the DVD box say's Neve has a "killer past" now that is misleading as heck! I watched the whole movie only to be completely disgusted in the ending and wondering how I could recover 90 minutes of my life! Don't rent it, don't buy it, don't ever talk about it!!
Hostel (2005)
HOSTEL .... A brilliant movie and very well done and creepy!
Boy I liked this movie a bunch!!!!!!!! This is an excellent visual experience very well acted and as shocking as you could want from a movie!! This movie will make you think twice about backpacking abroad! With the set design and filming locations you really got the feel of being there, and let me tell you it's not a place you would want to be! I can't think of one thing that I did not like about this movie and i throughly enjoyed my movie going experience! I am not getting into any detail of the movie because I think the less you know going in the more moved by this film you will be! If you are a fan of this genre than this is the movie for you...don't miss it at the theater...buy it when it comes out on DVD and share it with everyone old enough to see it!! You all will love it!!
Final Destination 3 (2006)
FD 3 not bad for 3rd in the series!
I was pleasantly surprised by the 3rd installment of the FINAL DESTINATION series! The worst part of the movie is the beginning and the whole roller-coaster accident, the CGI was so obvious and not real good. The first death scene was lacking any imagination and not particularly gory so it was a let down, but after that it took it up a couple notches and really won me over!! Let's face the facts we go see these types of movies for the gore factor! These types of movies aren't scary so the gore better be good and this one was! If you go in expecting great gore below average acting and a so-so story line then you won't be disappointed! I loved it for what it is supposed to be! I would recommend seeing it, buying it and showing it to your friends if you are all fans of this genre!!!
The Pink Panther (2006)
The Stink Panther!!!
P-U this movie is one big stinker!!! How could anyone like this piece of garbage! Steve Martin is horrible as Inspector Jacques Clouseau, and could quite possibly take away the title for worst accents from Kevin Costner! I mean really Peter Sellers was a genius and that part was made for him but if Steve Martin can't do a French accent then get someone else! He tried to cover his lack of ability by pronouncing his "r's" as "w's" and it came out sounding like baby talk! Moderized gags and crappy jokes lead this stink bomb straight to the sewer. I took my kids to see this and they were not even impressed in the least and they are 15 and 10 years old! Don't waste your money seeing this in the theater, don't buy the DVD until it hits the $5.00 bin that way it won't cost much more than renting it and you can burn your copy after watching it that way you will get some satisfaction!
Walk the Line (2005)
Not great acting but great impersonations!
I liked the movie but like so many it is more impersonating than acting. I thought the same thing of "Ray" last year, except walk the line does a better job than "Ray". The story line is good and gives you enough background in the life of Johnny Cash and the type of person he was. I was pleased to see that it didn't glorify him and showed the faults in his personality and moral character. It did not give a whole lot of info of the life of June Carter. The story doesn't really tell you anything that you didn't already know about Johnny Cash unless maybe you just weren't ever interested in his life before hand. Big Johnny Cash fans might not find it all that compelling but probably will see it, people who don't like Johnny Cash have no reason to see it. Overall I liked the movie and would recommend renting it but I wouldn't buy the DVD until it goes in the $5.00 bin!