The Five Year Engagement (2012)

The Five Year Engagement
This movie was a lot of fun.
Very funny.
I love all the characters in the movie.
It's the small characters that make this movie
funny and smooth.
Same kind of style as Bridesmaids and
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (which is the same director).
It looks like a romantic comedy but it's totally
straight up comedy for me. Yeah, there's some romance.
But still has some laughs.
I like a lot of scenes.
The chicken feather and blood experiment pitch
made me burst out laughing.
I'm a fan of Jason Segel.
He did awesome as usual.
Emily Blunt did alright.
My favorite part with her is her Cookie Monster and Elmo scene.
Love the cameos.

Good Saturday night movie.
A must for the comedy section as well.

Kung Fu Friday: Dirty Ho

KUNG FU FRIDAY

Every fourth Friday of every month this year,
I'll be checking out a kung fu movie of any period.
Gives me an excuse to kick the walls and break
blocks of wood. Also gives me the excuse to
go to I Luv Video or Vulcan Video and catch up on
some great kung fu flicks out there.


Dirty Ho
Awesome kung fu movie.
It was a bad dubbed English version that I saw.
There was lots of jump cuts and shots that repeated.
It was like I was watching a Grindhouse movie.
These things made the movie funny.
The fights were cheesy as hell.
I love the sounds.
Just a little hand slap sounds like
a big move. There wasn't a lot of fights
as I wanted but enough to say this
is pretty damn good.

I'm adding this to the kung fu section if I see it
on sale.

The Divide

The Divide
This movie was at first a little boring but
then things got a little interesting.
Not too exciting but okay for a movie
I didn't expect much from.
This was screened at SXSW this year as part of
the Fantastic Fest midnight specials.
Anything that has to do with Fantastic Fest, I would
pretty much see. 
All these people got on my nerves early on.
I was wishing all them to die in the movie.
Which, most of them did.
I like the idea of the story but
at times it felt a bit lazy (like finding out there's
another way out near the end.)
It's the end of the world, people.

Alright to check out for a late night movie but

must have caffeine or else the music here will put you to sleep.

New Release Tuesday: Cinema Verite

NEW RELEASE TUESDAY

Cinema Verite
This was a good movie.
Never heard of it until last week.
I'm not much into reality tv and nowadays
they seem more fake.
This movie about the first reality tv family
was interesting.
It's not all peaches and cream.
There's lots of family issues including the big one, divorce.
Tough emotional subject.
I like the performances here especially the mother.
I like that every once in a while they
show clips from the actual show.

Good to check out.  Nice little surprise.

Home Invasion Thursday: Extremities

HOME INVASION THURSDAY

Every third Thursday I'll comment on a
home invasion movie I've never seen before.
When I saw Kidnapped from Spain last year,
I decided to start a home invasion section for my collection.
Might as well do a special on this.


Extremities
80's cheesy home invasion but a little different.
It was pretty cool.
The intruder here just walks in to the house
like no ones business and starts crap with the
girl here. It's the same guy who tried to rape her
in the beginning. So he's here to finish the job.
After a while the tables turn and now he's
the one who is trapped and is being tortured.
I liked it.
I like some of the dialogue like:
"I come home and you ain't got no food."
I like how some things get a little
different and interesting once the roommates show up.
There's only two things I didn't like about the movie.
One, the main door was unlocked and the guy
just went in like that.
It was a psycho move but the girl was so paranoid
about everything that she forgot to lock
the main door.
The second thing I didn't like was the ending.
But, I did like that all this takes place during the
day. Most home invasions take place at night.
So kudos for that.

I may add this to the section one day.
We shall see.

New Release Tuesday: Shame

NEW RELEASE TUESDAY


Shame
Blogging this a little late, (it's actually Thursday now).
But, better late than never.
This was a good movie.
Felt very real.
Every shot and every performance was so great.
My favorite shot is that long tracking shot with
our main character jogging in the streets of New York.
There's other memorable shots.
Michael Fassbender nailed his role as a sex addict.
It was good checking it out.

This is rated NC-17 and it shows, but it's a good drama.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
This movie was so annoying to me.
I wanted to kill that damn kid.
Almost every scene he was in,
I wanted to shut him off.
Especially that scene where he's throwing things
and yelling at his mom.
I didn't like the way they told this story.
They go back and forth between the past and the present.
To me, in this case, it takes away the sadness.
I didn't feel anything for this kid.
His father dies at 9/11, but this kid didn't sell it to me.
He was just too smart.
I did like the mute grandfather.

Not worth the 2 hours of your time.