Thursday, October 30, 2008

Movie : 1408

This movie got some good reviews somewhere, but THIS AINT ONE OF THEM!

I just didn't find the scary in this scary movie.  I DID like the ending, but what can you say about a movie when the only thing you liked is the ending? 

I guess I can try to summarize the movie for everyone.  There was this room that made some cracks in the walls, and then the pictures sometimes were crooked, and sometimes I Love Lucy walked through the room and jumped out a window, and then sometimes the room was Freezy, and sometimes the telephone rang... I mean basically it's like any of our old college apartments.

The best thing about this movie, besides I guess an ending I liked, was that Samual L. Jackson was in the movie for five minutes.  At the beginning of the movie he's all like "I'm telling you don't go in room 1408??  Don't be a bitch!  You gonna get killed!"  and then at the end of the movie he smiles and smokes a cigar and says to the camera "You see, Sammy J always knows what he's muthafuckin' talking about."

Recommend?  Don't watch this unless it's in the background and you are drinking and playing board games with neighbors.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Movie : Halloween (Rob Zombie's remake)

I haven't seen the original Halloween, or Halloween II: Escape from Halloween, or Halloween III: Revenge of the Halloweens, or Halloween IV: It's That Time Again, or Halloween V: Halloween Ressurection, or Halloween VI: Freddy vs. Halloween, or Halloween VII: Halloween's in Queens, or Halloween VIII: The Nightmare of Jason, or Halloween IX: Halloween at 30,000 Ft, or even the highly touted Halloween X: Halloween Galaxy..."in space no one can Trick or Treat"... so I was excited to get to finally learn what all this Halloween business was about.

The movie starts with a young Halloween, and the little Halloween kid is spooky!  Then it moves to what I believe is the modern-day Halloween, and the big Halloween man is not AS spooky as the kid, but spooky enough.  I was very pleased with this film.  It had a good amount of gore, a basic but good story, and was lacking the "cheese" that soooo many horror films load up on.  Throw in many topless girls getting killed, and I have to say this movie makes a perfect Halloween rental.

Recommend?  Yes.  Much more enjoyable than I expected.

Movie : Prom Night

Total snooze fest.  

"Here let me stab you.  You hear that?  That sound like someone is punching a bag of Doritos? That is me stabbing you in the stomach.  That crinkling noise like a chips bag and that crunching like breaking potato chips is the sound of your intestines being stabbed.  Pretty gruesome, huh?"

"Oh, hey, do you like how I'm going to kill every person in this movie by stabbing them repeatedly in the guts?  I am the world's first gut-stab-only killer.  Pretty awesome huh?  By the way, anyone thinking of a big full bag of potato chips right about now?  I am.  I get this way everytime I stab prom kids in the guts."

Recommend?  A solid No on this one folks.  This movie isn't even bad in a GOOD way.  Ugh.