Saturday, November 30, 2013

Short Reviews - November 2013

A Month By The Lake - What do you expect from the director of "Next of Kin" and "Raw Deal"?

The Chinese Connection - For those of you expecting The French Connection, but with Bruce Lee, you'll be disappointed.  For those of you wanting to see an Adam Sandler movie, but with Bruce Lee... you'll find many similarities indeed!

Cops and Robbersons - Damn, but Hollywood is cruel.  You're telling me that screenwriter Bernie Somers doesn't get a second chance?  I mean, he worked with Chevy Chase, for God's sake!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - On YouTube?  FOR FREE?!!!!!!!

Groundhog Day - On YouTube?  FOR FREE?!!!!!!!

Bicentennial Man - 460,000 hits?  Wow!  I thought it'd have a lot less.

The Talented Mr. Ripley - Kinduva depressing Italian vacation, but it does feature the following song... Hmm!  That's odd.  How can that have more hits than this?

Action Jackson - Time to see if THAT has made it to YouTube... well!  For this, you gotta PAY for the privilege!  And yet, I can't help but wonder why this was never sequel-ized.  Some might say because there wasn't enough action in Action Jackson... or maybe too much.  The filmmakers were burned out from the first one, and a second would positively kill them.  But it was probably racism.  The Man just couldn't handle a black man in a movie, let alone an action black man.

Lone Wolf McQuade - Close enough.  Woe be to he who buries a man alive in his own truck.

The Hitman - You know, when Chuck Norris watches YouTube, YouTube always flinches just a little bit.

The Evil that Men Do - This should not be on YouTube for anyone to just watch.  I mean, first of all, the Tri-Star logo without the music?  Sacrilege!

Borderline - Feels like I'm going to lose my mind

What Dreams May Come - Oil paintings as a means to communicate with the dead!  Great premise!  Someday a film will come along that does the idea justice...

Nowhere to Run - I laugh at your trivia page.  I want the real dirt here!  How much did Joe Eszterhas get for this?  ...nothing on Wikipedia?

Cabaret - So who do you think will be Sally Bowles in the remake?  Miley Cyrus or Taylor Swift?  I think the smart money's on Miley for the time being.  Fosse's all about the twerk!

Nymphomaniac - Movie SATs: Udo Kier is to Lars von Trier what Dick Miller is to Joe Dante.

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Fight Club - How can a movie have not one single memorable line?  Sheesh!

Flight - Well, Zemeckis sure used that R rating, all right!!  Good Lourdes.

Saving Mr. Banks - I thought I saw that right.  So now it's... Walter Hill - Wild Bill.  Richard Gere - Primal Fear.  And this just in: Tom Hanks - Saving Mr. Banks.

Rick's Canoe - No, it's Ricky's paddle from The Seven Year Itch.  Get it right!!

....oh, this is bad.  IMDb's down?  Time for them to hold a Wikipedia-esque and Firefox-ish fundraiser, I guess!  I in particular, me gots to have my IMDb RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Going Berserk - With Kurtwood Smith as Clarence

RoboCop (1987) - With Kurtwood Smith as Clarence

Philomena - Do doooooo da do do.....

The Lone Ranger (2013) - The spirits don't see a sequel, kemosabe!

Step Up: All In - For those of you out of the loop... like I was two minutes ago... this is the fifth movie in the Step Up series.  Well, they're not as labor intensive or time intensive as, say, the 7 Up series.

Melvin and Howard - Mary Steenburgen naked!!!  Who needs Mr. Skin?

Man on the Moon - It's probably the late hour in my mom's basement talking, but I'm suddenly reminded of David Letterman's reluctance to reprise his part in the story of Andy Kaufman where, after Kaufman swore up a blue streak on late night in the early 80s, Letterman quipped "Well, I guess you can say SOME of those words on the air!  Hee hee hee..."  I then remembered this one time on his CBS show when he took over a Taco Bell for a day.  Dave pissed off a customer so badly that she drove away.  Dave was still talking when the next customer drove up: a "big guy", as Letterman might describe him, who said "She's gone already, Chief!"  Ever the showman, Letterman raised the curtain on the Ed Sullivan stage, and on the stage was the car of the guy who said "She's gone already, Chief!", with the same guy in the car.  He reprised his line on stage for all to enjoy.  Now you know how it feels, Dave!
p.s. Of course, Dave's probably thinking, "Well, I was directed by Milos Forman.  You owe me a damn Oscar and a million damn dollars, Hollywood!"  After all, that is how it works, isn't it?

Send Me No Flowers - GREAT double bill with: what else?  Lover Come Back.

Messenger of Death - With Bert Williams as Old Jon Voight

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