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Death to Smoochy (2002)
i loved it!
so i just don't understand the anti-smoochy hype i've been hearing for the last six months! A wonderfully helpful NYU student at the video store told me she thought Smoochy was the best black-comedy she'd seen and i heartily agree. That's what it is too, an amazing black-comedy... a motherly matron of the irish mafia, crazed kiddie-show hosts, a spirulina/almond butter sauce served over soy dogs at Nathans? what else could it have been? I thought it was brilliant, some of the lines (particularly sheldon's (Edward Norton)) were brilliant ("wallets with pigtails" had me laughing for ten minutes) and the acting was generally well above par! Some small detractions: jon stewart, he just wasn't funny, normally i like him - i guess compared with the unparalleled Robin Williams and the inexpressibly talented Ed Norton his made-for-TV humor comes to the surface. Also, having watched it a couple of times now, i think Smoochy should have been set in Boston - the original home of Seseme Street and the Irish Mafia... but that's just my opinion. This is one i'm buying! 9/10
Death to Smoochy (2002)
i loved it!
so i just don't understand the anti-smoochy hype i've been hearing for the last six months! A wonderfully helpful NYU student at the video store told me she thought Smoochy was the best black-comedy she'd seen and i heartily agree. That's what it is too, an amazing black-comedy... a motherly matron of the irish mafia, crazed kiddie-show hosts, a spirulina/almond butter sauce served over soy dogs at Nathans? what else could it have been? I thought it was brilliant, some of the lines (particularly sheldon's (Edward Norton)) were brilliant ("wallets with pigtails" had me laughing for ten minutes) and the acting was generally well above par! Some small detractions: jon stewart, he just wasn't funny, normally i like him - i guess compared with the unparalleled Robin Williams and the inexpressibly talented Ed Norton his made-for-TV humor comes to the surface. Also, having watched it a couple of times now, i think Smoochy should have been set in Boston - the original home of Seseme Street and the Irish Mafia... but that's just my opinion. This is one i'm buying! 9/10
Porn 'n Chicken (2002)
fun for some, not for others
Those of us at the certain Ivy League university at which the story told in PNC (or a similar story with similar characters involved) actually took place see much of the humor in this movie that the rest of the country is sure to miss.
It's crass, badly acted and excessive (much like the porn the PNC club enjoyed/enjoys to this day), but it's fun, and PNC does actually have its funny moments. Dean Dick Widehead (Kurt Fuller) is a perfect bad guy (even if the real man - actually named Dean Dick Brodhead - is everyone's favorite administrator) for a TV movie, and Geoffrey Arend has some wonderfully campy scenes/lines. he's also arguably the best actor in the bunch - finding some depth in an admittedly shallow genre.
I enjoyed PNC, and i laughed often. The jury's still out on whether that was due to the script/acting or the fact that the ex-girlfriend of one of the real people involved in PNC was sitting next to me telling me the real story as the movie progressed... 5/10
Sapph.
(and for the record, the real Polly was gay)
American Psycho (2000)
looked good, BUT...
I wanted to like this movie... i really did! Everyone who i'd talked with loved it. An hour in though, a hour that felt like five, i just turned it off. My curiosity about the ending just couldn't compete with the painfulness of actually watching it through. Christian Bale is a fantastic actor, i think the weakness lay in the blah script. 3/10
North (1994)
big smile
other than Kevin SMith's Jersey movies, not too many movies make me laugh out loud. This one did.
There were some writing flaws, and some casting flaws, and even some story-line flaws, but it's a kids movie - it's supposed to be surreal. My only complaint is the rather trite denoument. 8/10
Toys (1992)
Simply wonderful...
I never understood why people dislike this movie. It has everything - amazing actors doing amazing acting, love, innocence, a social message, the surreality to deliver said message without the smarm so many morality movies use.... Robin Williams is amazing as the innocent and idealistic protagonist. he is a paradox - he has the naitivite of a child, but the adult experience to give him the authority and strength to act on his ideals. The battle of the toys in the factory is by far one of the most amazing and disturbing scenes in almost any movie i have ever watched. Rent it, watch it, love it.
Titus (1999)
Wow!
Beautiful and disturbing, "Titus" is an incredible screen adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most gruesome plays. The acting alone would make this movie stand out (Anthony Hopkins is a god), but the extreme and breathtaking beauty of the film's visuals juxtaposed with the extraordinarily brutal content (rape, murder, cannibalism) make it not only stunning, but difficult to watch. It took me three days and three attempts to get through this film the first time, but it was more than worth it!
Great Performances: The Lost Language of Cranes (1991)
read the book first!
a very good movie (at least if you like gay-sploitation films) but read the book (by David Leavitt) first or it won't totally make sense. Angus MacFadyen gives a beautiful and soulful performance, and the visuals of the child and crane are haunting.