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The Hangover

August 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Hangover is what raunchy comedies should be.   And that is quite simply over the top funny.   Make no apologies, there is nothing that goes too far.   These guys succeeded, we laughed from start to finish.

The Hangover

The premise is classic.  Doug, played by Justin Bartha, is getting married.  So, three of his friends are taking him to Vegas for the classic bachelors last stand a couple of days before the wedding.   These guys have a night in Vegas that is for the record books.

But the story is told in a very unique manner.  We do not see the night, we see the aftermath.  The boys wake up in a trashed hotel suite.  The groom is missing, so is one of the guys’ pants and underwear.   But they do have a few additions including a live tiger in the toilet, a chicken and a baby in the bar.   What follows is one absurb hysterical situation after another as they try to unravel what happened and find the missing groom in time to get him home for his wedding the next day.

This is not a huge name cast, nor a big well known director.   And I’ve seen some of the stuffy critics reviews.   Don’t believe any of them, this movie is flat out funny and looks to be one of the largest comedies of all time.   Unfortunately it probably means we’re going to get a run of progressively worse and worse sequels, but hey, enjoy this first one it rocks!

Go see it, grab it on DVD for your collection.  I’m sure we have a uncut unrated version to look forward to.    This gets 5 stars, I can’t recommend it highly enough.   And be sure to stick around for the credits.

Popularity: 60% [?]

Inglourious Basterds

August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

Tarantino’s long-awaited World War II epic has finally arrived, the carefully misspelled Inglourious Basterds.

Tarantino loves movies. He loves World War II epics, particularly of the Dirty Dozen variety. He loves espionage films. He loves spaghetti westerns. He loves revenge action movies. He even loves Nazi propaganda films; or maybe more specifically, he admires the skill that produced them.

Inglourious Basterds

It’s also a Jewish revenge movie, for those who’ve wistfully thought, it’s too bad we can’t dig some Nazis up and kill ‘em again.

And it’s also a caper movie. This isn’t a science fiction film, except maybe in regards to an alternate timeline where things play out differently from our World War II. But if you discuss time travel too far into the night with friends, somebody will eventually suggest, what if you could go back in time and change the course of World War II? This movie isn’t overly concerned with the results of that, and more concerned with the bloody logistics.

We follow Brad Pitt’s crew of guerilla fighters, deep inside Nazi-occupied France. Among his crew is a former Nazi soldier whom they liberated because he was in prison for killing his Nazi officers. Also various Jews, including “The Jew Bear” (Hostel director Eli Roth) who has a penchant for killing Nazis with a baseball bat.

Meanwhile, Shosanna (Melanie Laurent) is a young Jewish woman whose whole family has been killed by Nazis. She’s now incognito in Paris, running a movie theater. Nazis decide to hold the premiere of their new propaganda film, and she concocts a revenge plan.

Tarantino has his trademark elements. Very dangerous people having long, interesting conversations in restaurants about trivial but fascinating topics, which any moment may break into ultra-violence.

And he even manages to indulge his foot fetish with the movie’s other femme fatale, a German movie star turned spy for the Allies, played by Diane Kruger (National Treasure).

Christoph Waltz is a Nazi officer who manages to be terrifying the more polite he gets (Who else could intimate by ordering a glass of milk?).

The movie is two hours and 33 minutes. Some might say, a flaw in well-done historically-accurate movies about World War II (Like the recent Tom Cruise movie Valkerie, for example) is that, the viewer pretty much knows how it’s going to turn out. In Tarantino’s movie, there comes a point where what I felt mainly was wonder. Wondering, since I’d seen that it had slipped into an alternate universe that couldn’t again end up in our timeline, how in the hell is this thing going to turn out?

Popularity: 66% [?]

RiffTrax PLAN 9 Live Broadcast Theaters Aug. 20

August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

This Thursday, August 20th, various theaters across the U.S. are having a live broadcast of RiffTrax (The former MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 guys, Mike crew) doing PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. 8 PM ET.

Here’s more info on it with a list of theaters.

Popularity: 49% [?]

Drive Invasion 7/6/2009

August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Every year around Labor Day the Starlight Six Drive-In in Atlanta has their Drive Invasion. Sunday, Sept. 6, this year. Bands start playing at 11 AM, and then after sunset the movies start. This year’s movie lineup:

AMERICAN GRAFFITI (Trailer on YouTube).
A SPECIAL SURPRISE PSYCHEDELIC WESTERN (I have strong suspicions what this is, but since they seem to want it to be a surprise I won’t say. But they do mention it has Chilean connections).
ZARDOZ (Trailer on YouTube).
FROGS (Trailer on YouTube).
SHANTY TRAMP (Poster on IMDB).

More info at their FaceBook page.

Popularity: 50% [?]

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