Watching the Detectives

Hamlet 2 (2008)

The Rocker (2008)

Hannibal Rising (Unrated)

The Wackness

Diary of the Dead

Emplyee of the Month

Johnny Guitar (1954) - Under Construktion

Well, its 2movies2day thanks to TCM

"a phony Western" –said by François Truffaut

Sterling Hayden
Who I will never be able to forget as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb


Is Johnny Guitar


Or Johnny Carson


***Extra Note: Sterling Hayden, According to his IMDB biography, “cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, confessing his brief Communist ties” and 'naming names'
In the movie, the character Turkey is made to do something very similar (this movie is said to be a commentary on McCarthyism)



Mercedes McCambridge
I don’t think I have ever wanted to see someone get their comeuppance more than Ema

A Brush With Death (2007)

"Some weird dude's sick dream, shot thru a crappy camera"


HERE IT IS
If you are like me, and can enjoy a good crappy movie, this is it!


First, the script is horrible, the actors are terrible (one exception), the lighting is horrible.

and right from the beginning, you know these kids had no money to shoot this thing....the crappy digital camera they used, caused this horrible fuzz effect.


So with all of those bad things, you think that would be enough, oh but it isn't! There's more


Quote-ah-Bill-ah-Tee
This movie is packed with gems, most of them dubbed in post-production.

here is one, that really stuck out, "....and that's why you don't buy tampoons at 7-11"

Not only do you get lines that are fun to repeat, the terrible delivery of the actors is something to be imitated and mocked as well. What more could you ask for?

How about someone portraying someone with a speech impediment, but doing it very poorly

not enough for you, how about a dirty old man, throwing out double entendres

and if that isn't enough, we'll try to find something else for you

F'D Up-Ness
omg, the story itself is all over the place, but on a scene by scene basis, some of the stuff going on is just messed up

Shooting Hickhikers, Feeling up/making out/photographing passed out girl (who got pistol whipped) Painting pictures in Blood, forcing disabled people to do terrible things, throwing people in freezer while still alive(and locking it), and lets not forget the acting.

During a series of flashbacks, one brother convinces the other to smash a cat with a hammer, because he wants his brother to show him, that he loves him more. Wow, once you get over how messed up that is...the kid playing the older brother, I can't find his name, but in his first scene, the intensity he showed was amazing, he honestlyy looked like one of the most evil kids i've ever seen, and definitely had the best performance out of anyone in this movie, not that, that was hard, considering this was first/only movie for most.

Re-Watch-ah-Bill-ah-Tee
I love this type of crap, ever seen Cabin Fever? its another crappy movie, which looks like a masterpiece in comparison to this, but its still crap, but I guess that movie had people you could at least recognize(i.e. Sweet Lou, the kid from Boy Meets World)

Regardless, I will be giving this movie, a few watches, mostly when I need a laugh.

THE Back Cover
well, here is what gets most people angry with the movie, the back cover plot synopsis gives quite a different impression of what the moive is going to be. It mentions something about a ghost, and the girls spending a night in a haunted house.......blah blah blah.....forget all that, this is a completly different movie, and is nothing like what is written on the back of the dvd, which this movie went straight to.

No Country For Old Men (2007)

"The Coen Brothers, doing what they do"

I'm a big Fan of the Coen Brothers, The Big Lebowski is in the upper echelon of my favorite movies, and one thing I have learned about the Coen's.....the more you watch their movies, the more you like them. (I've seen Big Lebowski something like 73 times, if not more)

And I am going to need to watch this one a few more times.

THE PLOT

A drug deal goes bad. Man stumbles apon aftermath. Finds Money. Takes Money. Runs. Is Chased by Hitmen............

Re-Watch-ah-Bill-ah-Tee

Yup! This thing grabbed hold of me, and I want to know if it will do the same thing the second time I watch it. Plus, you've got great casting, great story, realistic emotions, and its the Coen Brothers.

Also, after you watch this movie, it leaves you with this odd, unsettling feeling.....kind of like the feeling you get after you watch Night of the Living Dead, which I love

The Cast
Javier Bardem
Is creep-ah-lee amazing in this movie, and his haircut is just creepy all together. For his haunting portrayl of Anton Chigurh, he won a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
*this made him the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar [1]

His acting was so good in his first scene, that i feared he forgot he was acting and thought he might really choke the other actor to death.

Josh Brolin
who I can barely recognize from his Goonies days, and had a hard time believing he was the same person portraying George W. Bush in W, got his role by shooting an audition tape while filming Planet Terror, which he’s awesome in.

*also this film has a similar missing reel feel at one point

Tommy Lee Jones
Who in real life is suing for $10,000,000 in unpaid wages from the film.

Woody Harrelson
who is also great in Semi-Pro


Kelly Macdonald who is also in Trainspotting, which I have sadly, not seen yet

At this point, I must make a note of how great the Coen Brothers are with choosing actors for minor roles. I love their choices in The Big Lebowski. (i.e. Jack Kehler)
Barry Corbin
is in one scene, and I loved him in Held Up

Beth Grant
is hill-air-e-us in her short on screen appearance, and she is also in Little Miss Sunshine as one of the pageant officials

Stephen Root
back again, two days in a row

Gene Jones
who I want to see do more, portrayed a gas station attendant who’s life rested on his calling a coin flip

Kathy Lamkin

who was amazing, was also in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and had a small role in The Heartbreak Kid

Thomas Kopache

who has about 12 secs of screentime, made an impression on me

Brandon Smith

who is in Jeepers Creepers He’s also in a terrible TV movie, that is sooooo slow, License to Kill, but it has Denzel Washington in it, so yeah.

Things Worth Noting
In the novel (but not in the movie), Sheriff Bell says of the dope-dealers, "Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge." Cormac McCarthy set the story in 1980. In 1979, in San Antonio, Federal Judge John Howland Wood was shot and killed by rifle fire by a Texas free-lance contract killer named Charles Harrelson. Actor Woody Harrelson (Carson Wells in the movie) is his son. [1]

The Coen Brothers used a photo of a brothel patron taken in 1879 as a model for Anton Chigurh's hair style. Looking at its weirdness after getting the hair cut, Javier Bardem said "Oh no, now I won't get laid for the next two months".[1]

Javier Bardem’s character uses a coin at times to decide peoples' fate, like Tommy Lee Jones Two-Face in Batman Forever

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)

Courtesy of Netflicks, this gem arrived in the mail today

"the movie with the guy that has a chainsaw for an arm"

This sequel/pseudo-remake of Evil Dead, re-imagines and expands on the story told in the 1981 Cult Classic Evil Dead.

Staying at a remote cabin in the woods, an evil force is unleashed into the world, when a tape is played, that reads from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, or Book of the Dead.

Now, for those that loved the first movie, this movie re-tells an abridged version of that story, in about 7 mins. However, it does not capture some of the beauty in the original. (i.e. the burying of his girlfriend, is not as cinematically pleasing. Some of the force shots, are not as impressive)

Also I loved Evil Dead for some of the cheese-E effects and other little things, such as the moons you can see blatantly cut in, or the make-up that changes from second to second.

Well, have no fear, this movie has plenty of its own cheese-E-ness. The make-up did get a lot better, so if you were hoping for bad make-up again, you will be disappointed. However, cheese-E cartoon effects are all over the place, plus you get cheese-E miniature model sets, which are very easy to recognize for what they are.

One Big Difference From Original

Sadly, there is no rape by the woods/branches/twigs/vines scene, but instead we get a headless naked corpse dance.

Re-Watch-ah-Bill-ah-tee

Hell Yeah!!! As soon as the credits stopped rolling, I was at the scene selection screen, skipping right to Ash beating the crap out of himself, then to the scene where he attaches the chainsaw to his arm. OMG! That is probably one of the greatest things i've ever seen.

but you want more reasons? here you go short and sweet:

-Claymation

-Time Travel

-Talking Deer

-Laughing Lamps

-Bruce Campbell

The Cast

Bruce Campbell

No longer being trapped under bookshelves, Bruce Campbell is now the epitomy of Badass.


If you have yet to witness the amazing-ness-a-nin-tiss-a-tee that is Bruce Campbell, you need to watch this movie, but first watch Evil Dead,

so that you can see how cheese-E he can be, and see how many bookshelves he can manage to get trapped under.

But, honestly, he is amazing in this.....now, you do get some cheese, like his delivery when talking to his girlfriend, but that is exactly what I wanted. Now, with having noted his cheese-E-ness, I must say how amazing he was phyiscally in this. When his hand was trying to grab the butcher knife, OMG I fell in love with him. How anyone could not respect this man, is beyond me.

I wonder if Jim Carrey used this scene for inspiration in Liar, Liar

Natural Born Killers (1994)

"A killer social commentary"

A humourous look at the sad realities of our television/media culture. Poking fun at America's Bonnie and Clyde, this movie places a similar couple, Mickey & Mallory, in the middle of a murder spree, set in the 1990's.

Rewatch-ah-bill-ah-tee

I immediately wanted to re-watch this when I was finished.....am i sadistic? maybe......but the way in which it was shot, and the numerous pop culture references strewn throughout, had me wanting to watch it again and again, just to catch what i might have missed.

The Cast

Huge.

Of course you get Woody Harrelson, who i love in White Men Can't Jump, along with numerous other great movies

Juliette Lewis, who i usually find annoying, but did enjoy in this, as well as in Old School

Robert Downey Jr., who has what sounds like an Austrailian accent, he was also Austrailian in Tropic Thunder, and is murderous in his portrayal of his Geraldo Rivera like character

Tom Sizemore, a celebrated Temple University Graduate, my alma mater

Tommy Lee Jones, whose delivery in this reminds me of his performance as Two-Face in Batman Forever

Coach Lou Brown from Major Leaugue, also known as James Gammon

the guy on the couch in Half Baked, also known as Steven Wright

Edie mcClurg, who I'll always remember as the secretary in Ferris Bueller's Day Off pulling unlimited pencils from her hair

Rodney Dangerfield, who I love in CaddyShack, is great in his portrayl of Mallory's perverted father in the fake sitcom, 'I Love Mallory'

Things worth noting
The original Screenplay was written by Quentin Tarantino
The Copycat Crimes - documented at Wikipedia
The Trial