Kaos' way behind movie reviews

[GH2001]

Y'all are fucking up K's thread.

Good. Maybe he'll get pissy. He's been soft lately.

[Jumbo]

Good. Maybe he'll get pissy. He's been soft lately.

[GH2001]

Hes not as interesting when he's not pissy. It's a compliment actually.

[AU_Tiger_2000]

Y'all are fudgeing up K's thread.

That's right!  He doesn't need any help screwing up his own threads!!!  Ya'll get off the lawn!!!

[Godfather]

Funny to me that you watched 4 more minutes of All about Steve then you did Resident Evil: Afterlife.

All about Steve might almost be as bad as What's Eating Gilbert Grape, how the fuck did they get actors to make that movie. Fuck me.

[Jumbo]

Funny to me that you watched 4 more minutes of All about Steve then you did Resident Evil: Afterlife.

All about Steve might almost be as bad as What's Eating Gilbert Grape, how the fuck did they get actors to make that movie. Fuck me.

Steve and Grape or HORRRIBLEEEEE oh and a big fuck you to P.S. I Love You.

[GH2001]

Funny to me that you watched 4 more minutes of All about Steve then you did Resident Evil: Afterlife.

All about Steve might almost be as bad as What's Eating Gilbert Grape, how the fuck did they get actors to make that movie. Fuck me.

DiCaprio was a slow starter.

[Kaos]

Back to the purpose of the thread.

Puss In Boots

So many try.  So many fail. 

Despicable Me, a little flat.
Hop. Just not good.
Rango. Good movie, but still missing one string on the guitar. 
Rio, Cloudy with Meatballs, Megamind, Gnomeo, Mars Needs Moms, Tangled, How to Train Your Dragon, Planet 51, Monsters vs. Aliens, Happily Never After, Coraline, Ice Age... the list goes on forever.  Each of them had their own charms, but all were somewhat incomplete.  Rango, for instance, was more enjoyable to me than it was to my kids because I understood all the iconic spaghetti western imagery. 

And then there's Puss.

Great movie.  Very well done. 

Hit just the right balance between subtle adult humor and kid- friendly charm.  On occasions I found myself laughing at something in the film at the same time as my kids and her friends but we were laughing for two entirely different reasons.

The film, a spinoff of the Shrek franchise, could have taken the easy route and pulled in cameos from the green ogre or the gingerbread man or any of the other assorted characters who populated Shrek's swamp.  But the didn't.  Instead they crafted an entirely new story, bastardized a few fairy tale legends along the way and delivered a solid home run. 

Well animated, well told, well paced.  And Antonio Banderas owns the role he was meant to play.

Could have done without Zac Guffingkafackas as Humpty Dumpty but there are those who appreciate his work (God knows why) and he wasn't utterly awful.  His whining delivery was the only sour note in the entire film. 

If you're a parent and been forced to sit through some drizzly shit like Happy Feet, Rio or Cars 2 in order to pacify the kids, pretend you're making a sacrifice, take the kids and earn brownie points at a showing of Puss.  Well worth it.  If you don't have kids, borrow some and go. 

[Vandy Vol]

If you don't have kids, borrow some and go.

If by "borrow some and go," you mean kidnap some kids from the local elementary school, take them to a movie, and then keep them in your basement forever, then I'm all in.

[Jumbo]

Back to the purpose of the thread.

Puss In Boots

So many try.  So many fail. 

Despicable Me, a little flat.
Hop. Just not good.
Rango. Good movie, but still missing one string on the guitar. 
Rio, Cloudy with Meatballs, Megamind, Gnomeo, Mars Needs Moms, Tangled, How to Train Your Dragon, Planet 51, Monsters vs. Aliens, Happily Never After, Coraline, Ice Age... the list goes on forever.  Each of them had their own charms, but all were somewhat incomplete.  Rango, for instance, was more enjoyable to me than it was to my kids because I understood all the iconic spaghetti western imagery. 

And then there's Puss.

Great movie.  Very well done. 

Hit just the right balance between subtle adult humor and kid- friendly charm.  On occasions I found myself laughing at something in the film at the same time as my kids and her friends but we were laughing for two entirely different reasons.

The film, a spinoff of the Shrek franchise, could have taken the easy route and pulled in cameos from the green ogre or the gingerbread man or any of the other assorted characters who populated Shrek's swamp.  But the didn't.  Instead they crafted an entirely new story, bastardized a few fairy tale legends along the way and delivered a solid home run. 

Well animated, well told, well paced.  And Antonio Banderas owns the role he was meant to play.

Could have done without Zac Guffingkafackas as Humpty Dumpty but there are those who appreciate his work (God knows why) and he wasn't utterly awful.  His whining delivery was the only sour note in the entire film. 

If you're a parent and been forced to sit through some drizzly shit like Happy Feet, Rio or Cars 2 in order to pacify the kids, pretend you're making a sacrifice, take the kids and earn brownie points at a showing of Puss.  Well worth it.  If you don't have kids, borrow some and go.

I watched tonight in 3D, great movie and the 3D was actually worth the extra cash.

[GH2001]

Zac Guffingkafackas there are those who appreciate his work (God knows why)

Thank you.

I thought I was the only one.

[DnATL]

If by "borrow some and go," you mean kidnap some kids from the local elementary school, take them to a movie, and then keep them in your basement forever, then I'm all in.

Don't be ridiculous - you misunderstood - read it again....

take the kids and earn brownie points at a showing of Puss. Well worth it.  If you don't have kids, borrow some and go.

He's saying you should take them to a porno - but one with women in it, so not your normal fare

[Vandy Vol]

He's saying you should take them to a porno - but one with women in it, so not your normal fare

Trannies count as half women...

[DnATL]

Trannies count as half women...

trannie hookers count as zero, because hookers have no soul

[Vandy Vol]

trannie hookers count as zero, because hookers have no soul

They're not hookers if they're paid by a third party to have sex while being recorded.

At any rate, why are we focusing on the trannies here?  I thought we were talking about more important things, like kidnapping children...

[DnATL]

They're not hookers if they're paid by a third party to have sex while being recorded.

At any rate, why are we focusing on the trannies here?  I thought we were talking about more important things, like kidnapping children...

How about tranny kids, with lesbians too!

[Vandy Vol]

How about tranny kids, with lesbians too!

[Kaos]

A Face In The Crowd

1957.  So way, way, way behind on this review. 

I guess I've seen parts of this movie over the years.  Today I ended up watching the whole thing. 

First let me say I love Andy Griffith.  The Andy Griffith Show ranks among the best television of all time. He was the perfect choice to play that role and in an ironic way became almost as famous and important as the Lonesome Rhodes character he plays in A Face In The Crowd. 

But my lord did he overact, over mug, over ham, over goof this role.  I know some of it is the way films were done in that era, overacting was part of the deal but he was so over the top it was hard to take his character seriously. 

When he was supposedly winning people over with his folksy charm he looked more like a drug-addled baboon. How the director ever got away with portraying that braying jackass becoming a national icon is beyond me. 

Then, of course, I wasn't alive in 1957 so maybe that kind of buffoonery would have been a big hit. 

Andy was better when he reined it in a little and showed some of the inner menace behind his bumpkin persona. 

Patricia Neal was pretty bad, too.  I never thought she could act a dadgum lick and she shore proved it here, fellas. 

Walter Matthau was pretty good in the film.  Understated and believable. 

The story itself is timeless.  When Andy and his benefactor are trying to shape a presidential candidate and they're drilling him on soundbytes and personality-driven presentations, when they're explaining that what he really believes is unimportant compared to what people believe about him, when they're explaining that his abilities are less important than the ability to market him to the people... It resonated hard even 54 years later. 

In Senator Curly Worthington, I saw Obama.  Shaped and molded to fit a demographic, his ability to perform the duties of the office completely secondary. 

I've seen this film hailed as a cinematic masterpiece. I disagree. The acting was too broad (and too bad) and the peripheral characters too stereotypical for this film to occupy a spot on the same shelf that holds To Kill A Mockingbird, On The Waterfront, Kane, Cool Hand Luke, Godfather, etc.   But it's worth watching at least once, particularly when you can now view it through the lens of the Reagan, Clinton and Obama presidencies as well as the rise of politically active entertainers like Baldwin, Streisand, Eastwood and their ilk. 

[AU_Tiger_2000]

I've seen the movie before.  I liked it, but it was over the top.  You know most people think that the movie was aimed directly at folksy Will Rogers.  It was just shocking to me to see young Andy Griffith as a philandering, power hungry bad guy.

I think the manic personality thing was big for celebs in the '50's (remember this is the time of Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Wolfman Jack, and other people who would just be looked at as cartoonish today).  I also think drug use was heavily implied though the way he acted to, and the drugs of choice in the '50's after you moved past weed were bennies and other amphetamines (see On the Road).  Actually you can look at On the Road also for the whole manic personality/'50's thing.  Dean Moriarty (the real life Neal Cassady) basically was the major emphasis behind the beat movement and later the hippies based purely on his personality, drug use, and antics.

[Kaos]

I've seen the movie before.  I liked it, but it was over the top.  You know most people think that the movie was aimed directly at folksy Will Rogers.  It was just shocking to me to see young Andy Griffith as a philandering, power hungry bad guy.

I think the manic personality thing was big for celebs in the '50's (remember this is the time of Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Wolfman Jack, and other people who would just be looked at as cartoonish today).  I also think drug use was heavily implied though the way he acted to, and the drugs of choice in the '50's after you moved past weed were bennies and other amphetamines (see On the Road).  Actually you can look at On the Road also for the whole manic personality/'50's thing.  Dean Moriarty (the real life Neal Cassady) basically was the major emphasis behind the beat movement and later the hippies based purely on his personality, drug use, and antics.

I read that the movie was actually a satire directed at Arthur Godfrey.