irish have you seen 'children of corn' ?

SUPERBAD
(First Viewing)

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

Jonah Hill continues to find new ways to make me laugh. I've loved seeing this guy's work since I first saw GRANDMA'S BOY. It's great to see him finally star in a film and he didn't disappoint at all. He alone was well worth the price of admission and his two friends, along with Seth Rogen and Bill Hader were just deserts. For whatever reason, I could relate to Jonah's character and have met a couple of friends like him in the past. I haven't laughed this hard since THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN and this was better, even then WEDDING CRASHERS which I absolutely loved.

No I haven't seen it yet

How many movies do you watch a day Irish?

It's gotten up to at least 2 a day but that's because I'm not working anymore (season ended with my other job) and I'm done writing my thesis. I've sent it for corrections to two professors and I'm waiting to hear back from them. Also, I've been looking for a job and it's been harder than I thought (just something until I go back to Texas in November).

DEMON WITCH CHILD
(First Viewing)

An old witch seeks vengence through the daughter of the politician who had her thrown in jail. Soon the little girl's head is spinning around, and an old priest is called in to perform an exorcism.

Just a cheap, foreign rip off of THE EXORCIST, just very poorly executed. One of the worst horror films I've ever seen. Also, here's a question I was wondering, why are so many of the grindhouse horror films satanic in nature?

It is not a typical horror/grindhouse type of movie. Creepy movie with children as devils instead of the usual innocent types.

HIGH SCHOOL HITCH HIKERS
(First Viewing)

Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

Yes, I believe this is the first grindhouse film outside of the Rodriguez & Tarantino masterpiece that I gave a three star rating and it's well worth it. This had the most noticeable and greatest amount of missing frames that sped up the pace of characters onscreen. It also featured one of the most ridiculously ludicrous storylines where almost every character used his/her body to their advantage. Everybody was sleeping with everybody and while their was a lot of nudity in the film, it wasn't overdone to the point where it was redundant and meaningless sex scenes.

CARRY ON EMMANUELLE 1/2
(First Viewing)

The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?

Not really sure why this is in the sexplotation section of the grinhouse set. There were a couple of booty shots and that was about it. Horrible film. English humor (which I'm not a fan of) and this woman was just a complete whore in every sense of the word. She doesn't believe in the confines of a marriage.

YOUNG GUNS
(First Viewing)

1878 in New Mexico: John Tunstall picks up young gun men from the road to have them work on his ranch, but also to teach them reading and to civilize them. However he's a thorn in the side of the rich rancher Murphy, as he's a competitor in selling cattle. One day he's shot by Murphy's men. Judge Wilson can't do anything, since Sheriff Brady is one of Murphy's men. But attorney Alex persuades him to constitute Tunstall's young friends to Deputies and give them warrants of arrest for the murderers. Instead of arresting them, William Bonney just shoots them down. Soon the 5 guys become famous and William gets the name "Billie the Kid" - but they're also chased by dozens of Murphy's men and the army. The people however honor him as fighter for justice.

Surprisingly I found Emilio Estevez to be the most believable from the group. An interesting branch out from the SEVEN SAMURAI storyline who fail in their protection mission, yet seek justice. However, it is relatively uneventful with unexciting shootout scenes with some modern 1980s rock music. General Zod (Terence Stamp) was most enjoyable as the ranchowner and I think this is the first or second film of his I've seen outside SUPERMAN II. Now I know some people out there can suggest a few Jack Palance westerns for me to watch. He was likewise enjoyable however underutilized.

Emilio wants to do a 20 years later sequel in the worst way, but no one will give him the money, and no studio will touch it.

Well at the end of YOUNG GUNS they said what happened to each individual in the group. I'm curious how YOUNG GUNS 2 will pan out (I'm going to watch it later on tonight).

YG2?

Meh, that's all I'm saying.

Thanks PB

YOUNG GUNS II 1/2
(First Viewing)

The movie begins with the aging Brushy Bill Roberts narrating his story to a young historian. His claim? He claims that he is the famous outlaw William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, who was supposedly shot and killed by Patrick Floyd Garrett in 1881. The old man gives a very convincing story on how he and Garrett, along with Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh, Chavez y Chavez, Doc Skurlock, and a few others led the outlaw life and avoided the law, as they were wanted men. Garrett, a friend of Billy's, was paid by John Chisum, a cattle king, to eliminate Billy the Kid. So, Garrett and Ashmun Upson set out on a journey to find Billy the Kid.

The sequel made for a better show with a little more excitment and humor from Emilio Estavez and crew. Surprised to see James Coburn in the flick but like Jack Palance in YOUNG GUNS, he was underutilized. Christian Slater really worked well with Emilio and I would have liked to have seen them fight more over who the leader of the gang was, I think that could have been an interesting storyline to expand on.

Place the film in its cultural and historical context. You're hardly going to see nipples - the Carry On films are the embodiment of English bourgeois hypocrisy - that stiff upper lip we're noted for undermined by repressed sexual perversity and general social absurdity, probably remnants from that most tyrannical of dwarfs, Queen Victoria.

Any other of the Carry On films in that set? I don't think I've ever seen one all the way through - their broad, cheap humour isn't my kind of thing at all, however useful windows they are into the British film industry and the public that consumed it at the time.

As a matter of curiosity, check out the Confessions series - more of the same, but somehow more tolerable than the Carry On franchise. My favourite is Confessions of a Window Cleaner.

I didn't realize it was part of 'carry on' series. If you search for emanuelle in imdb, it gives dozens of grindhouse titles

DEATH PROOF
(Third Viewing)

Two separate pairs of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans.

I've been salivating to see this film again. I loved GRINDHOUSE so much I saw it twice in theaters and DEATH PROOF was my favorite. As usual, Quentin can take the "everybody loves Kurt Russell" who we're all familiar with, turn him into a psychopatic manic behind the wheel of the car, turn him into a complete wuss, and still have him loveable as a villain. I loved the opening and closing songs for the film, however this was one of the few were all of the music didn't blow me away. The added footage filled in some of the gaps from the theaterical cut but didn't add anything of major significance. Finally, Quentin Tarantino's back and all's right in the world.

I watched Blades of Glory (2007) the other night, and thought it was pretty funny. I totally didn't recognize Jon Heder from Napolean Dynamite fame (probably because I tried to block his image from my head lol), so decided to re-watch Dynamite, as well as The Benchwarmers (2006)... I still didn't like Napolean Dynamite for some reason (**), perhaps even less so than the first time. But the other two I thought were better... 3-stars each...

I thought Blades was hysterical.


"Drink it in."

No, there's no other CARRY ON films in the set and this film wasn't my thing at all either

I never saw what the big deal was with NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE either. BORAT I did, but not NAPOLEAN. I'd take NACHO LIBRE over NAPOLEAN any day of the week

THE CONDEMNED 1/2
(First Viewing)

"The Condemned" tells the story of Joe Conrad (Stone Cold Steve Austin), who is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.

I understand why this film didn't do so well at the box office. Because the film's main star, Stone Cold Steve Austin, isn't the main star and is underutilized! Rather Robert Mammone, the wealthy TV producer seems to get most of the air time. Furthermore the film seems to follow the internal struggles Mammone has with his staff than on the actual prisoners/fighters/competition. In addition, the fight scenes were sloppy and short, hardly enough to gain the audiences attention let alone excitement. I was excited to see a Stone Cold and Vinnie Jones face off and it's hardly existent. While Vinnie is used almost as much as Stone Cold, it's not the Vinnie Jones I love and remember. I can't put my finger on it but for some reason, something was missing with him.

Between THE MARINE and THE CONDEMNED, I can't really decide which I liked more. THE MARINE definitely had more explosions and action, however THE CONDEMNED does have Stone Cold, Vinnie Jones, and the whole jungle fighting scene going for it. I hear Stone Cold is signed for a three picture deal and I hope he does finish out the remainder of his contract. If he does, hopefully next time he'll be the main star

WWE Films thus far:
-SEE NO EVIL
-THE MARINE 1/2
-THE CONDEMNED 1/2

Irish, your reviews are like John Cena.

No Sell!

ASSASSINS
(First Viewing)

Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) is a seasoned hitman who just wants out of the business with no back talk. But, as things go, it ain't so easy. A younger, peppier assassin named Bain (Antonio Banderas) is having a field day trying to kill said older assassin. Rath teams up with a computer hacker named Electra (Julianne Moore) to defeat the obsessed Bain.

Wow, remember the days when Sylvester Stallone movies were still pretty decent? DEMOLITION MAN, ASSASSINS, and COPLAND. Then his career nosedived with DRIVEN and GET CARTER. And who better to play the villain than Antonio Banderas? I haven't seen many movies with him as a bad guy so this was definitely a nice treat to see him get down with his bad, latino self. Also, Julianne Moore was using this film and NINE MONTHS to catapult her career to the state is in today. This was the movie I'd have loved to see John Woo direct rather than BROKEN ARROW.

Check out some of Pedro Almodóvar's early nineties films, in which Banderas shines as anti-heroes.

BACKDRAFT
(First Viewing)

As a child Brian McCafferty watched his firefighter father die. Years later he joins his brother, Steven in the force by becoming a rookie firefighter. There is a history of conflict between the two brothers that is heated up by working together. With this background, a series of suspicious fires are set, each made to kill a specific person. After becoming frightened at a fire, Brian pulls strings to get into an investigative office and finds that he is now not putting out the arsonist's fires, but trying to track him down.

I thought this film tried to do too much. First Baldwin is a firefighter, then an investigator and a firefighter again. Stick with one position and go with it! Also, I was intrigued by seeing De Niro's name attached to this film, but unfortunately he's not in it very much. And what's with using William Baldwin as the lead actor? William Baldwin? At least have the decency to use Alec if one's going to use any of the Baldwin brothers. Also, why did Kurt Russell play his father in the opening scene if he would be playing his brother throughout the duration of the film? Ultimately, this filmed didn't have any effect on me. When watching a film, I like to feel something (excitement, humor or otherwise) but I was pretty numb after watching it. I could care less about this film or the characters, so when something does happen to a critical figure, I bat an eye at it.

Just watched The Lost Boys (1987) again, after not seeing if for a while, starring the "Two Coreys" (Feldman, and LLC lol )... good stuff.

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire.

Story of my life. lol

Oh, Irish, what are you thinking?? Backdraft is one of my favorite movies!! The reason that Kurt Russell played their father?? Because A. Sometimes fathers look like their sons, and B. To stress the parental role that Steven had in Brian's life, and how Brian resented him for it.

Um, and why did Baldwin's character keep changing jobs rather than sticking with one? Because that's what the whole movie was about. He was immature. He was never able to stick with anything. That's why his brother sought to protect him, because he was afraid for his brother's life. And that's why the younger brother resented the older one, for always trying to control him.

I thought that the entire cast was very good. I can't believe that you didn't feel a thing throughout the entire movie. Emotionally, the ending absolutely slays me.

I remember seeing Ron Howard on a talk show when this movie first came out. He said that after the premiere, the attendees were sort of milling about outside the theater. A firetruck happened to drive by, sirens blaring. Everyone broke into cheers and applause. Obviously, it appealed to SOME people.

I like Ron Howard but wouldn't consider it his bet stuff. My favorite Howard films are (in order):

-CINDERELLA MAN
-A BEAUTIFUL MIND
-FAR AND AWAY
-THE DA VINCI CODE
-HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS