I didn't see the second installment of this series, but honestly, you don't need to - if you've seen the 1st you know the basic premise.
The Umbrella Corporation created the T-Virus, creating undead zombies, which they thought had been contained in Raccoon City, however it wasn't and eventually spread throughout the US and eventually the world.
Years have passed and Alice (Milla Jovoich) is still on the move after escaping from the Umbrella Corp. (they were using her), helping the survivors she comes across in the process. The Umbrella Corp is trying to locate her once again though since they believe the key for the antidote to the virus is in her blood and the genetic clones they've made just aren't cutting it for their research.
If you like action movies that include zombies and loud driven music you'll like this one. Milla Jovoich proves once again that girls can too kick some major ass!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Good Luck Chuck
After going to one of his ex's wedding, where she deems him to be her 'lucky charm', Charlie (Dane Cook) is finding women strangely coming onto him. Rumor is, once a girl has 'been with' Chuck, she then finds her soulmate and is soon married. His friend conviences him that it's an awesome deal - sex with tons of beautiful women with no strings attached, however once he meets the girl of HIS dreams (Jessica Alba), he's scared to death his 'curse' is going to make him lose her to the next guy if he sleeps with her.Can he find a way to break the curse and keep the only girl he's ever really loved?
It was a cute movie. It reminded me a lot of 2005's Wedding Crashers, where it starts out as an over-the-top sex comedy for the first half and then turns into a romantic comedy for the last half. Although it's not as funny as the trailers make it out to be, it's still pretty entertaining.
It was a cute movie. It reminded me a lot of 2005's Wedding Crashers, where it starts out as an over-the-top sex comedy for the first half and then turns into a romantic comedy for the last half. Although it's not as funny as the trailers make it out to be, it's still pretty entertaining.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Mr. Woodcock
John Foley (Sean William Scott, American Pie) is a writer of the newest best-selling self-help book about putting your past behind you. When it's announced that his hometown is having a celebration in his honor, he goes home to visit his mother (Susan Sarandon), only to meet her boyfriend of the past 5 months - his hated jr high gym teacher Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thorton). Being a fat kid in jr high, he often felt like he was picked on by the gym teacher. Putting aside everything his book talks about, he strives to show his mom the man Mr. Woodcock really is, only to end up hurting her in the end. Everything does get resolved, revelations are made, etc.
If you like slapstick comedies, you'll like this one, otherwise you're not missing much. Ethan Suplee (Mallrats, My Name is Earl) co-stars.
If you like slapstick comedies, you'll like this one, otherwise you're not missing much. Ethan Suplee (Mallrats, My Name is Earl) co-stars.
3:10 to Yuma
Christian Bale (Batman Begins) is a poor rancher, who used the money to pay his land tax to feed his family instead. Because of that decision, the town authorities are giving him 1 week to come up with the money he owes, otherwise they're burning down his property so a railroad can be built through it. Russell Crowe is well known outlaw that gets captured after his crew robs a nearby pony express type wagon. The town officials plan on putting him on the 3:10 to Yuma prison train, however they need brave men to escort him to the station, 90 miles away and throw his following gang of men off track. Needing the money and wanting to earn his eldest son's pride, Bale volunteers for $200, and our journey across the west begins.
I'm not really big into westerns, but I'll admit, this one was pretty good. It was entertaining and suspenseful. The characters were very 3-dimensional, having a great amount of depth to them. Bale, Crowe and Ben Foster all do an amazing job.
This is most likely one you'll see again, come Oscar-time.
I'm not really big into westerns, but I'll admit, this one was pretty good. It was entertaining and suspenseful. The characters were very 3-dimensional, having a great amount of depth to them. Bale, Crowe and Ben Foster all do an amazing job.
This is most likely one you'll see again, come Oscar-time.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Rob Zombie’s Halloween
*note* I never saw the original John Carpenter's Halloween, however, like most, I'm aware of the basic story and have seen parts of the sequels.
This version of Halloween is Rob Zombie's interrpretation of the original. It is not another sequel. Zombie worked with Carpenter to capture the essence of the original.
The result is a classic 70s horror movie, stylized very much like how we saw in the most recent omage to 70s film, Grindhouse. The supsenseful jump-your-seat moments were timed perfectly, it has a bit of the grindhouse type subtle wit/humor you would expect from a 70s B movie (think the Evil Dead series).
It starts out in the late 70s/ early 80s with Michael Myers as a 10yr old boy. He comes from a broken home where his mother works as a stripper, his sleazy abusive stepdad is an alcoholic with a broken leg, and his older sister is known for being a whore.Bullies at school constantly pick on him for how his family is. After Mikey's most recent run-in with the bullies, the school counselor finds photos in his bag of smaller animals he's tortured and mutiliated and promptly suggests his mother get him evaluated before Mikey goes off the deep end.
A little too late.
After school we see Mikey beat one of the bullies to a pulp with a tree branch, Later that night, after mom goes to work and his sister refuses to take him trick or treating, Mikey ducts tapes his passed out stepdad to a chair and slits his throat, beats his sister's boyfriend to death with an aluminum baseball bat, and then slice and dices big sis with a knife. When mom gets home, Mikey's sitting on the steps out front, waiting with baby sister Laurie.
He spends the next 15 years in a mental facility, but never getting any better and eventually refuses to talk or take off the odd masks he makes in his alone time. In a late night transfer gone wrong, the behemoth Mikey breaks lose and takes off in search for his baby sister. As his doctor says, whatever his reasons are, they can't be good.
As you can tell, there's lots of gore and violence.
Some familar faces you may recongnize are Sheri Moon Zombie as Mikey's mom, Malcom McDowell as Dr. Loomis, with appearances by Danielle Harris and Danny Trejo.
It's interesting to see how Mikey came about wearing the mask we all know him to wear and the boogyman conversations between the 2 little kids Laurie babysits are completely amusing, especially when he shows up!
I never saw Devil's Rejects and I thought House of 1000 Corpses was one of the stupidest movies ever made (although the art/imagery used was interesting and a bit disturbing, the plot made no sense and overall it was just a giant gorefest), but this one I actually liked. Some people will hate it, others will like it.
Just remember kids, if you listen to Blue Oyster Cult and have sex, you die!
This version of Halloween is Rob Zombie's interrpretation of the original. It is not another sequel. Zombie worked with Carpenter to capture the essence of the original.
The result is a classic 70s horror movie, stylized very much like how we saw in the most recent omage to 70s film, Grindhouse. The supsenseful jump-your-seat moments were timed perfectly, it has a bit of the grindhouse type subtle wit/humor you would expect from a 70s B movie (think the Evil Dead series).
It starts out in the late 70s/ early 80s with Michael Myers as a 10yr old boy. He comes from a broken home where his mother works as a stripper, his sleazy abusive stepdad is an alcoholic with a broken leg, and his older sister is known for being a whore.Bullies at school constantly pick on him for how his family is. After Mikey's most recent run-in with the bullies, the school counselor finds photos in his bag of smaller animals he's tortured and mutiliated and promptly suggests his mother get him evaluated before Mikey goes off the deep end.
A little too late.
After school we see Mikey beat one of the bullies to a pulp with a tree branch, Later that night, after mom goes to work and his sister refuses to take him trick or treating, Mikey ducts tapes his passed out stepdad to a chair and slits his throat, beats his sister's boyfriend to death with an aluminum baseball bat, and then slice and dices big sis with a knife. When mom gets home, Mikey's sitting on the steps out front, waiting with baby sister Laurie.
He spends the next 15 years in a mental facility, but never getting any better and eventually refuses to talk or take off the odd masks he makes in his alone time. In a late night transfer gone wrong, the behemoth Mikey breaks lose and takes off in search for his baby sister. As his doctor says, whatever his reasons are, they can't be good.
As you can tell, there's lots of gore and violence.
Some familar faces you may recongnize are Sheri Moon Zombie as Mikey's mom, Malcom McDowell as Dr. Loomis, with appearances by Danielle Harris and Danny Trejo.
It's interesting to see how Mikey came about wearing the mask we all know him to wear and the boogyman conversations between the 2 little kids Laurie babysits are completely amusing, especially when he shows up!
I never saw Devil's Rejects and I thought House of 1000 Corpses was one of the stupidest movies ever made (although the art/imagery used was interesting and a bit disturbing, the plot made no sense and overall it was just a giant gorefest), but this one I actually liked. Some people will hate it, others will like it.
Just remember kids, if you listen to Blue Oyster Cult and have sex, you die!
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