I am not sure what was expected from this movie or why the people who did not like it did not like it, but it was a nice surprise of a movie for me. Occasionally some people get together and make an unexpectedly good movie and this was one of those time. With a good amount of humor and cuteness about it, and a surprisingly sympathetic performance from the normally acerbic David Spade it was a pretty nice waste of time, like Fifty First Dates was. There was some guttural humor (an atomic *stink*bomb), it was a well layered joke when you think about it, but it was (thankfully) no Farelley brothers piece of... well you know. It does not ask a lot of you and keeps you entertained. Joe Dirt is the lovable loser, on a mission to find out that home is where you make it (or to love homeboys naked).
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The Impostors
(1998)
Late to the party...
20 January 2007
I found this DVD for $4.99 at K-Mart, so I took a chance with it. I began to watch it and lost interest, and so for about four weeks in a row, I would put the movie on and start doing something else and not really watch it. Once time I caught the credits rolling and I new then I had to see how they came to this conclusion. The first time I sat down and actually paid attention to it, it was hard to watch, until they got on the ship, then I was in love with this movie. Since then I have gained a great amount of appreciation for he beginning of the movie as well.
I have always loved the farces of the 30s and early 40s and this movie a big fat wet kiss to those movies and the fun they looked like they had making them (the actors looked like they had a ball making this movie). I love this movie now, I look forward to seeing it and have to deprive myself of it at times. I love this movie because it is a very well crafted tribute to movies I have loved since I was a child. Laurel and Hardy, Astaire and Rogers, and a bunch of artists who love the art. This is a wonderful movie. There are times I wish I could tell Stanley Tucci just how much joy I get from this silly little movie and to thank him for making it.
I have always loved the farces of the 30s and early 40s and this movie a big fat wet kiss to those movies and the fun they looked like they had making them (the actors looked like they had a ball making this movie). I love this movie now, I look forward to seeing it and have to deprive myself of it at times. I love this movie because it is a very well crafted tribute to movies I have loved since I was a child. Laurel and Hardy, Astaire and Rogers, and a bunch of artists who love the art. This is a wonderful movie. There are times I wish I could tell Stanley Tucci just how much joy I get from this silly little movie and to thank him for making it.
Fillmore!
(2002–2004)
I miss this show.
5 March 2006
This show probably would be funny on it's own, but as a kid growing up in the 70s and Quinn Martin Productions, this show is hilarious. From the onslaught of punnery to the running sports team jokes (X middle school never had a basketball or football team, but I do remember them in a Bocci ball field and miniature golf tournament). It was the tongue-in- cheek detail (a papier-mache volcano in the science fair named Mt. Cliché) as well as the mock seriousness of the crime that really made the show so enjoyable. It even had a killer opening montage, closing with unmanned bikes flying over a cliff ala Mannix.
The characters are great, every fundamental of a 70x cop show was met with certain beautiful overkill, Chief (no-first-name) Vallejo, as well as the forensic and investigative members with the comic relief (a cartoon with a comic relief character) of O'Farrell. It even had mayor in the principal of X Middle School voiced by Wendy Malick. I loved her on this show, her biting, witty threats were hilarious.
If anyone ever finds out this show is being released on DVD, iTunes or Google, please let me know. Or if you can find Scott Gimple's email addy. I just want to tell him how much I enjoyed his work and how can I get it.
The characters are great, every fundamental of a 70x cop show was met with certain beautiful overkill, Chief (no-first-name) Vallejo, as well as the forensic and investigative members with the comic relief (a cartoon with a comic relief character) of O'Farrell. It even had mayor in the principal of X Middle School voiced by Wendy Malick. I loved her on this show, her biting, witty threats were hilarious.
If anyone ever finds out this show is being released on DVD, iTunes or Google, please let me know. Or if you can find Scott Gimple's email addy. I just want to tell him how much I enjoyed his work and how can I get it.
The Punisher
(2004)
Surprisingly well done.
27 August 2005
For some reason, I did not have high expectations for this movie, probably because of the Previous Dolph Lundgren version. While I was familiar with the character from Marvel comics. Even in the Marvel Universe, he was not exactly a standout, But he was a decent enough character, with a no-reason-to-live-except-one kind of attitude.
In this movie, we get to understand and fully why he only had one reason to live. Tom Jane did for the Punisher what Hugh Jackman did for Wolverine, he played the living daylights out of this character. The story was well with its Shakesperean-soap opera overtones that give it the right amount off depth (anyone familiar with Marvel Comics will already be aware of the degree of soap opera Marvel goes to).
I was also surprised that the movie was able to pull off a sort off New York darkness (where the comic books took place if I remember correctly) in sunny Miami. It does the whole revenge trip better than Mel Gibson's Payback, with a little less suave, but just as much cool.
In this movie, we get to understand and fully why he only had one reason to live. Tom Jane did for the Punisher what Hugh Jackman did for Wolverine, he played the living daylights out of this character. The story was well with its Shakesperean-soap opera overtones that give it the right amount off depth (anyone familiar with Marvel Comics will already be aware of the degree of soap opera Marvel goes to).
I was also surprised that the movie was able to pull off a sort off New York darkness (where the comic books took place if I remember correctly) in sunny Miami. It does the whole revenge trip better than Mel Gibson's Payback, with a little less suave, but just as much cool.
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