Movie : My Bloody Valentine

Just got back from watching My Bloody Valentine.  In 3D!!!

Wow, let me just say that film censors are relaxing quite a bit!  This movie was a terrific B slasher flick.  But instead of slashing, the weapon of choice is a miner's pick axe.

There is a paper-thin plot.  There is a fifteen-minute full body nude scene that isn't sexy in the slightest.  Lots of corny 3D shots where the pick axe comes right out of the screen.

Recommend?  Oh gosh, this was a horrible, horrible movie.  Go for it!

Book : Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

This is the first Vonnegut novel I have read.   I enjoyed it very much.  It is also my first e-book, read on an Amazon Kindle.  It was a very nice experience.

It's a story about World War Two, and time travel, and aliens, and death.  So it goes.

Recommend: I do.

Movie : The Notebook

I thought this was supposed to be this great Award-Winning romance movie.  Little did I know the majority of its awards were TEEN CHOICE AWARDS!!!

This movie is painfully obvious in everything it does.  Like, it's a romance story because that's what it reads on the back of the box.   I like Noah's beard, but that's about it.

Recommend?  Only if you are 13 to 19, apparently. 

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.

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.