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Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security (2002)
Constipated Moron
I must be a constipated moron according to a previous poster. I didn't find this very funny. I am no stranger to this type of humor and I am a HUGE fan of Jamie Foxx when he was on In Living Color. My rules of humor are this. No Rules! I was not offended by anything he said, I just think it wasn't all that funny. I watched this long before Whitney Houston's death and I really don't give a crap about her and didn't like her music, so what I am about to say has nothing to do with being offended for Whitney. That "crackish" thing was lame the first time he said it and then when he got the audience to start repeating it, I cringed. I give it 3 stars.
The Hurt Locker (2008)
What?
This is a good movie. GOOD. Not GREAT. Not FABULOUS, and not worthy of an Oscar for best picture. I went to the goofs part to see if something I noticed was there. It wasn't, so I added it, but I was amazed by all the other things listed.
I haven't seen all of the nominated films yet, but I would put every one I did see above this movie. Avatar, A Serious Man, Up in the Air, Up, Inglorius Basterds, and District 9.
It seems that everything that happens these days has to be some kind of fairy tale or underdog story. OH BOY, James Cameron's ex-wife beat him for best picture Oscar. WOW what a GREAT story! Unfortunately, the wrong movie won the award just so we could have this super cool twist at the Oscars. SAD.
For Keeps? (1988)
Underrated 80's Movies?????
I thought this movie was OK, but if you read a previous user review about underrated 80s movies, you may be thinking the same thing I am. Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles???? Underrated???? Did this person live under a rock? These movies were HUGE!!!! Who underrated them? I just watched the Oscars(2010) and they did a tribute to John Hughes (the director of those four movies)and all of those movies were highlighted with many clips. Those movies defined a generation. The only other movie mentioned that was not a Hughes movie was Better Off Dead, which was also great, but the thing that the previous reviewer seemed to miss out on was that Hughes was a Genius and "For Keeps" was NOT a Hughes movie and has no place being mentioned with them.
One, Two, Many (2008)
What is this?
After watching this movie (I made the mistake of falling for the National Lampoon branding), I rushed to this site to warn people. I started reading the reviews and it seems like the "lead" of this movie apparently is "somebody???" One of the reasons I came to this site was to try and figure out how this movie was even made and why they had some no-name "actor" in the starring role. From what I am reading here, it seems like this guy has some sort of recognition for something. AND he wrote the movie too???!!?!!?! Who the hell is this guy? Is he somebody's son or from some rich family? He must have money to waste because I can't imagine that National Lampoon let him do this movie without him paying them to use the name. Run, don't walk, away from the movie.......
The Descent (2005)
Could be the dumbest thing I ever saw anyone do in a movie......
Maybe there is a new genre of film out there that has escaped me so far. "Chick HORROR Flick" Not because it is all women. That has nothing to do with my point. It is because of what could be the stupidest thing I ever saw someone of any gender, age, or level of intelligence do.
OK, so we are down in the depths of an uncharted cave that may not even have a way out, and we find a race of mutated creatures that will kill us and eat us in a heartbeat, and now it is just the two of us left BUT I just found out that you were HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH MY HUSBAND!!!!!!! Well, all bets are off now. I will put a pick in your leg and leave you for dead, instead of working together to get out and worrying about the soap opera crap later. Women should really be insulted by this movie.
Oh yeah, before you respond by saying, HEY, she left the other girl that she ACCIDENTALLY FATALLY wounded behind. The people who wrote this couldn't even come up with an even slightly believable way to get the wife (sorry, can't bother to remember or look up the character names) to find out that her husband was cheating on her. A woman who is dying from a pick thru her throat bothers to tell the wife that the cheater woman left her for dead and that she was seeing her husband. It would have been nice if they had shown her calling out to cheater woman, the way she was somehow able to call out to the wife. AND....Oh Yeah, the wife had to crush the dying tattletale's skull anyway. So what was the cheater woman's crime (aside from that most HEINIOUS and UNFORGIVABLE crime of cheating)? Was cheater woman guilty of NOT bashing the dying woman's skull in before she left her?
Out of Omaha (2007)
Movie Making 101
No one associated with this film knows the basic rule of movie making. There has to be someone in the film that the audience is routing for. This movie should have been called A**holes on Parade.
Everyone is twisted, but not even in a funny way.
The daughter is so stupid that she thinks her boyfriend can hide in the bathroom of the RV all the way to California. The boyfriend runs into the corn and gets lost in 10 secs. That might have been funny if the boyfriend character was dumb enough to be funny, but he wasn't. While he was in the corn, he used the word "infinate". (WHO wrote this script?) The daughter doesn't mind the fact that her "boyfriend" never told his parents about her and that the mother is a criminal and the parents (who by all standards are white trash) do not allow him to have a girlfriend. When does that happen? The father is so lame, I don't even have a comment about him. (and I really like Dave Foley). The mother is the one person I was trying to relate to, but then she turned into a psycho. The sister and the grandmother are twisted individuals.
The lovey dovey resolution at the end doesn't make up for the mess that this movie is.
The Wicker Man (2006)
Not THAT bad.
Actually, I did not like this movie too much, but I am reading the reviews and they make me want to like the movie just so that I do not have to associate with the people who trashed it. First of all, I never saw the original. OHHH I know. That is apparently blasphemy! Too Bad! I didn't see it and I may if it ends up on my TiVo, but I don't know why 80% of the criticism of this movie is about not living up to the original. It just seems pompous to me as if the critics are making sure the world knows "I saw the original and it was much better". Then I saw some people who obviously are Bee experts because they somehow knew what was going to happen when Nick Cage killed the bee at the bar. SORRY, but what little I learned about bee colonies I FORGOT 20 years ago. And while I did guess what was going to happen at some point, it WASN'T because of any bee references. Sorry. I didn't know you needed a degree in science to watch a horror movie. And I hope I am wrong about this, but it seems like everyone hated the end because the hero didn't win???? REALLY????? REALLY????? It is a horror movie after all.
Now on to my criticisms. I hated how carefully they explained the plot at the end when they trapped Cage. I just hate movies that are written for people who can't understand stuff on their own. All that was needed was the little girl to say to her mom "Mommy, did I do it right" and the whole plot should unfold for anyone of average intelligence. Then, the final slap in the face was the end sequence. As soon as I saw "6 months later", I knew exactly what was going to happen. I would have actually been OK with that scene being left in, IF they didn't do that play by play explanation earlier. That would have been a good way to let the people who didn't quite understand what happened catch up.
I thought is was OK and the story was sufficiently interesting. I will watch the original to see how I feel then.
In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000)
15 year old English Genius
I thought this movie was very well done. I am not a Lennon historian so I can not comment on the accuracy, but based on other comments it was pretty good. Speaking of other comments, I realize that there is no way to verify what users post here, and maybe I am REALLY out of touch, but did anyone else think the person who billed themselves as a "15 year old Beatle fan" was WAY too articulate. I am not sure why someone would pose as a 15 year old, or maybe they had someone else write the review for them, but I can not picture someone that old expressing themselves so well.
Being a huge Beatle fan rapidly approaching 50 years old, I am not questioning the fact that someone 15 can be a fan of the Beatles. Their music is timeless and I expect there will be Beatles fans for decades to come. Hopefully this person is that intelligent and can express themselves that well! I would be very happy to see that. I don't think any harm was done if there is something fishy here, but I just felt it was worth pointing out.