TOWN

Normally I don't really mess with movies starring Ben Affleck.  Can't put my finger on it but I don't really feel his work  With that said this is his best work, to me.  Don't ask what about Good Will Hunting. I never seen it and never wanted to to be honest, just never grabbed me as something I wanted to watch.  I kinda stay away from those band wagon feel good everybody loves it inspirational type movies. To me that shit is corny.  But I might check it one day.  But I digress.

This is a good movie.  It carries on in a predictable manner but its far better than your average movie as it progresses.  Ben Affleck and his cohorts are a wild bunch of thieving muthafuckas in a town.  You learn this from tha beginning when they are robbing a bank.  A bank?  Thats right! A bank!




They are in this bank and there is a girl (asst mgr) they ask to assist them in the process and one thing leads to another they end up up kidnapping this broad.  Sucks for her but it was her won damn fault as they kidnapped her because the cops were alerted via silent alarm that this sneaky ass girl set off in the bank whilst the robber were tending to somewhat more important robber shit. HAHA (in a Nelson voice) is what I said when I seen her ass get selected for the hostage.  If she would laid her ass down and let the robbers take the money and go on their way uninterrupted then she woulda been left there.


Oh yeah the robber have a police scanner with them when they are doing there work so they know if the cops are hip whilst (don't ask why) hitting that lick.


They end up taking her ID. She lucky they didn't kill her ass.  So one of the robbers, who I will call the gangsta one, has the ID and sees this broad stays in the same neighborhood as them.  Now he is thinking about stalking her/offing her.  Okay the brain, which is Affleck, takes over tha situation and he will do the stalking as the gangsta one seems to be a hothead.


Fast-forward,  Affleck comes across this broad(the asst mgr) he is stalking and falls for her crying in a laundromat.  Big time simping and some other sucker shit.  He is now kicking it with her and in love.  She is getting questioned by the FBI after the robbery and his dumb ass then falls in love with her.


IDK that was the dumbest shit to me and about this time in the movie I started to write this movie off on some simping shit and was counting down for that one simp ass move to come back and bite him in the ass.  And it did, believe that it did.   But the following events and twists in the story is what made the movie for me.


You get to learn more about Afflecks character which wasn't corny at all. Situations with his dad and mom and local mob/crime boss played by a face I recognized from Usual Suspects (Kobayashi).


Now the FBI get up on Affleck and his crew and find out??? that's right this dude is now fucking with the assistant manager they had open the vault in the opening bank robbery.  So the play on this girl and persuade her and get her to play this dude she recently feel in love with who's been lying to her, Affleck, into coming to her and a shitload of FBI agents waiting to arrest his ass.  And then you wonder... Is this dude finna take his dumb ass over there?  IDK he has been developing a history of simping throughout the movie. And then........


And then you see the movie yourself for the end.  Good Movie not disappointing.  Good acting cast and direction by Ben Affleck who also did some writing as well.  Check it out.

My Rating
4.5/5 

DEVIL

Okay this is a horror flick.  A genre that ain't been scary in I don't know how long.  The idea of how this could be scary is what I judge these movies on.  That thinking might be the sole reason why I don't get scared but hey this aint the 80's.


Okay they start it off with few lines about how the devil would come but there has to be a suicide that will allow him to arrive.  Guess what? He is afforded with that suicide within the first 2 minutes of the movie. This is about 5 people. 2 women. 3 men. These 5 ppl end up getting on an elevator and of course they are all strangers on an elevator. But one of these muthafuckas is..........THE DEVIL!!!!(duhh duhh duhhhhhhhhhhh).

 You can't help but speculate on which one of these folks are the devil.  You get a ideas on who is the devil or at least the weirdo by some actions and reactions and responses. Of course find out all these folks are crooked or have a checkered past so its up in the air.


Well the lights go out and guess what again?  Somebody's ass is dead duhh duhh duhhhhh!!!!  Well now you have 4 people alive in the elevator and a body.  And I'll be damned if the accusations and suspicions don't rise to an unseen level. 


You see the outside world trying to intervene but this is the devil you are dealing with here so any attempts to save the doomed passengers on this ride to hell will be thwarted by magical tragedies.


One by one these passengers die until there are two left and they yeasted up the distaste between these two throughout the wait to the end.  Both suspect the other of being the blackout killer and they will protect themselves to the end.  So after a brief standoff when the 3rd person is killed the cops watching on the camera tell them to chill.  Well they did and the devil arises.  That right one of the people you though was dead was faking it! OOOOOOOHHHHHHH!  Well you can guess what happens next but it probably wont be right and Im not playing spoiler. 


Watch it! Its a good horror flick.


P.S. The devil isn't who you may think it is.  Its who you least expect it to be  Hint:  remember the people from the beginning of the movie when they begin to get on the elevator and then remember when I told you Im not playing spoiler and watch it.

Predators

I liked this movie.  This sci-fi action shit was cool.  The movie starts off with Adrien Brody falling through the sky and his timed parachute goes off before he hits the ground.  BOOM.  He busts his ass on the ground and gets up and begins observing this strange land and then BOOM the dude who plays Machete' busts his ass and gets up and blame Brody.  They get to arguing and then someone starts blasting on there asses and its on.


Not quite but I begin to understand whats going on. Its a group of about 8 that get dropped on this planet.  These dudes aren't just your average joes they are big shit among their group.  Top military, gangsta ass yakusa, crazy ass dudes etc.  Well apparently these people have been selected to be hunted like game on a reserve.


Yadadadayaa You know where this goes its gonna end with one of two muthafuckas surviving but its still a cool movie.  I wouldn't say its better than when Arnold was in the first,  I grew up watching that shit on USA back in the day so it holds a special place in my heart lol.  This new version holds it own amongst todays action movies so its cool in my book(not better than The Expendables though).


Oh yeah Morpheus (Larry-my-daughters-a-fucking-idiot-Fishburne) pops his crazy his up this flick too

The Experiment

Interesting.

This is based on a true story.  Back in the 71 Stanford ran a psychological "study" on how humans conform to roles.  Okay so you have a study being conducted that people are going to pay you to participate in if you are selected.  26 men.  About 8 will given the roll of prison guards in a mock prison set up by the researchers.  The rest of the men are given the title prisoner.  You have 5(five) rules to follow if you are are prisoner and 5 to enforce if you are a guard.  2 weeks and you are $14,000 richer.  The stage is set.


Oh, don't let me forget if one of the rules are broken the guard MUST inflict a punishment within 30 minutes of the incident or the experiment is over.


Now with $14,000 at the end of 2 weeks you would think that this shit would involve some hustlers in it who would do what the fuck they gotta do to get that 14 grand with with ease and as smooth as possible.  Well that had to be fucked up (of course, there wouldn't be a reason to make this movie without conflict).


Adrien Brody is given the title of prisoner and Forest Whitaker is given the title of guard. Now I won't say who's fault it was but these 2 guys really blossomed into 2 assholes in this experiment.  Brody was the initial asshole and him being a prisoner on top of being an asshole was too much for Whitaker.  Whitaker quickly pegged Brody as the ringleader after Whitaker rose to the Alpha Male among the guards and it was downhill for Brody.


I wont say all the blowed shit that occurred in this movie but I will say these muthafuckas forgot they were regular people in this "experiment".  2 days into this shit it became evident to me that this experiment wouldn't last the whole 14 days because of certain personalities/egos were in conflict.


Good movie check it out.

My critique:
4/5

Splice

STAY AWAY FROM THIS BULLSHIT!!!

RocknRolla

Rocknfuckinrolla!

Its gangsta shit with that England accent.  Another piece of work for the man who brought you Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.  And in the same fashion as his past work he brings his complex movie making/story telling to you in this piece.

I fucks with Guy Ritchie's work. This is/was suppose to be the first installment of a trilogy.  It is cool enough to stand alone on its own island but I want to see where he takes the rest of the series if he decides to do so.

I can't remember everything in this movie to even tell you the plot like that because as in all his movies its a lot of shit going on in this movie with a lot of characters interlinked.  This dude is punking these dudes, the bitch one of the dudes getting punked is fucking with a dude who is handling the money of a dude who is suppose to be doing business with the dude who was doing the punking at the beginning of this long ass sentence.  Its crazy but its a good flick.

Better than Revolver in my book.  Along the line of Lock Stock, but not quite fucking with Snatch.  Snatch was his Pulp Fiction to me.  He has the luxury of being a foreigner so its some new shit to your everyday American movie goer.  Might be some everyday regular shit to the Englishmen but its entertaining nonetheless.

Good cast, good script, good plot, good acting, I fucks with this movie.  Rock N Fucking Rolla!

Something Like A Business

Something about straight to video low budget movies that just makes a nigga want to run.  And if you seen a straight to video low budget ass movie with a familar face or 2 on the cover this preset conviction on the genre would serve you right. With that said this movie is funny.

It took a while for me to fuck with Kevin Hart's work after Soul Plane and Paper Soldiers but after a few funny stand ups and scenes as the token black guy in a bunch of movies I seen I said to myself he is coming into his own finally.  The cast in this movie has about 5 face anybody black would recognize- Kevin Hart, David Alan Grier, Ashy Larry, Tasha Smith, Keith David, Clifton ,"Pinky Nugga" Powell, and bunch of comedians to perfectly fill in the roles that play their part in this comedy.

This is about a young dude, Kevin Hart, who takes over his uncles pimping business, David Alan Grier after his untimely demise.  Kevin is in competition with another pimp in town, Clifton Powell, who took his bottom bitch after his uncle died.  You will get some laughs outta this movie with it perfect play on racial stereotypes that were done with a humorous execution that wasn't corny.  And it could have easily gone down the corny cheesy ass road that so many poorly directed low budget movies have gone. 

Under the direction of Russ Parr this movie is good comedy you will get some laughs out of.  Check it out

Solitary Man

This is an interesting movie.  The main character Ben (Michael Douglas) is a man trying to get back the glory of his dopeness.  Once upon a time powerful man in the car industry.  Had money, power, clout but some unscrupulous business tactics put an end to all that. He lost his mojo. Looking to get back on top and it looked to be on the menu but the aura of his past wasn't something his would be future business partners were willing to gamble with.

He is a playa though.  At 60+ he was still able to get it in.  The problem is this dude didn't really have any discretion with his selection.  Fucking you 30 something year old girlfriends 18 year old daughter is some foul shit.  And stupid as a muthafucka when you living off that chick.  Dont shit where you sleep.  Lil chick told her mom on some foul shit, but thats what he gets for even taking it there.  Needless to say Ben's girlfriend cut him off.  Shit is all bad for him.  He was forced to find himself and get over a hurdle within himself as a person.  Fucking 18 year olds is some cool shit for a 60 year old to do, if your 60 but to everybody else looking on its gross.   He had to find himself and with the help of an ass kicking he started to get on the right track.

All in all this was a a decent movie.  Micheal Douglas is Micheal Douglas so the acting is on point.  I would say it was worth the watch.

Social Network

This is an okay movie to me. Shit was aiight. Not dope, just aiight. The movie will give you the history of the making facebook.  Mark Zuckerberg is being put on blast in this movie.  The difference between him and any other CEO is________?.  I would say the difference is that those other CEO's don't have a movie about them exposing their fucked up ways.


Dude was/is super smart.  Unfortunately alot of super smart guys generally come off as assholes and the movie casted the right actor for that role. Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland, Zombieland) did a good job being a dick in this movie.  Fast talking, sarcastic, and a dick.


I was really feeling this movie but its seems to give a good idea about how facebook came about and blew up to the multi-billion dollar social powerhouse it is today.  Zuckerberg stole the idea from someone else and made it better.  Its like say if the rapper Camron went to jail back in the day and met a fag who said they were going to influence all the other fags in his city to start wearing pink by wearing pink at a gay club.  Next thing you know Camron is rocking pink all the time, everywhere, an influences fags across the country to rocking pink like its cool. Well the original fag got upset.  In the case of the movie its 2 fags ("fags" used just for your reference), really its 2 twins  who wanted facebook solely on the campus of harvard, an elite club if you will.  They put someone up on what they were doing, Zuckerberg, and he took that bitch worldwide.  See the twins seemed comfortable with her being a 2-3 hundred dollar a night bitch.  Zuckerberg seen facebook as $5000 a date international hoe that was going to be his meal ticket.




He did some real shady dishonorable shit and those done wrong sued him for that.  But facebook kept on pushing, so all is well.


Cool for information. Looking back, I would rather have waited for the dvd release then going to see it in theaters personally but its too late for that now.

SURROGATES

Starring Bruce Willis this movie is something like iRobot but its good enough to stand on its on.  Not a long movie either about 1hr and a half long which is decent.  Does what it came for and boom you can handle some other shit and not feel like you just got got for an hour and half of your time. 

Imagine having a remote/mind controlled robot of you (a la avatar), or what you would like to look like (better looking hair, skin or whatever and no gut), and you could see and hear everything the robot witnessed.  But the robot should be able to die without affecting you at all in your control station. You wouldn't have to worry about getting shot picking up that fine ass chick who stays in the wrong hood because your robot will take that bullet in the ass for you without any pain on your end.  The military would be able to kick ass minus the casualties of war (our team of video gamers will kick anyone's ass with unlimited Surrogates at their disposal).You could do all kinds of shit your lazy ass wanted to but were scared of getting an injury.  

Well of course the perfect conflict would be somebody threatening the luxury of not dieing when your Surrogate dies.  And somebody just so happens to have a device that pushes the checkers off the board when things don't go there way.  Its like a video game cheat that kills off the bad guys when you press the X button. A human amongst robots who should be able to do what the hell they want because they have the magic code(device in this case).  

Well what would a movie with a guy who does what he wants without a hater or haters be.  Boring!  Well you have Bruce Willis filling in the hater seat here.  He dislikes how artificial the world has become with all the Surrogates.  It makes sense to a degree as his wife wouldn't let him see her physically, let alone get anymore c**chie.  The world is like a planet filled with fat outta shape, ugly stinky muthafuckas who bought an avatar or 2 to go around and conduct their business while they are lazy as shit laying around the house just funking eating chips occasionally playing the new most popular video game called Life.


All in all it was a decent movie I enjoyed.

REPO MEN

  
This is a movie I took a liking to.  A shock because it has 2 actors I generally am not rushing to go see in the theaters. Forest Whitaker and Judd Law.  Weird combination but don't let that deter you this is a decent movie.  This movie is like a prediction on what repo men will be repossessing in the future, your liver.  Did you fall behind on your payments?  Oh thats too bad.  Kick in the door, taze ya and ya fall to the floor.  "I got your money. I got your money. Matter of fact I just sent my payment in".  

This movie is gangsta without trying to be.  These 2 dudes work for a company that sell artificial body parts to ppl who don't take care of theirs.  Too much drinking the can sell you a kidney, aint eating right they can hook you up with a liver, heart whatever you need.  Dont worry about it...unless you fall behind on your payments.  Which is inevitable for some of course. They sell the organs at high ass prices and of course some folks can't pay.  Well you shouldnt have signed the contract because now they sending they boys to come get they shit back.  

Your basically left ass'd out wherever they find you because they aint taking you to a hospital.  Nah nah f*ck that, they want their shit on the spot and will cut it outta your ass to get it back (scalpel's in the briefcase homie). 


I could go on about it but I aint gonna spoil it. 

Decent movie I enjoyed, check it

BLACK DYNAMITE

I gotta give credit where credit is due

BLACK DYNAMITE!

This is a throwback movie that is hilarious.  Low budget done well is so satisfying to me.  I love to see a movie done on the low low have to rely on its script and not focus on an unnecessary explosions, weak ass manufactured action n shit.  One good ass comedy you will laugh at and if you cant find it funny something is wrong with you.  I seen a video on youtube with a white girl eating chili and donuts behind this flick.  This is done as a "Blaxploitation" flick from the 70's with at least 5 n*ggas in it you know from somewhere.  The cast is filled with familiar faces of actors and actresses and comedians etc..  The acting isn't corny unless its on purpose and has its place.  Michael Jai White did a good job portraying every cool leading black male from black independent 70's films. Great spoof comedy and my favorite movie of the year so.  Bottom line check this one out.  Its fucking HILARIOUS.

Beginnings

I started this blog as the grounds to my critique on movies because I recently came to the revelation that I watch a lot of movies.  A LOT OF MOVIES. Some shitty, some aiight, some respectable movies that run the gamut from comedy to quirky shit I wish I hadn't watched.  Due to my sense of humor I can watch a shitty movie that is highly disappointing and laugh at its wackness. Somewhat of a defense mechanism to salvage time that had the potential of being wasted.  But do not think I do that with all movies I find wack.  I will hit that eject button on some bullshit before the plot even finishes developing if the movie is going to that brown brick road to Shitville.  To help you from avoiding some movies I find shitty, typical, predictable, non-genuine, too gay, just gay period, and any other attributes that are counterproductive to movie enjoyment I am starting my critique blog.  

I don't give to much a damn about the time frame these movies came out in if its good it will get credit and I will write on it.  I been f*cking with Netflix for years now and I get suggestions for random shit and I flood my queue with stuff I wouldn't mind watching so I feel like I'm pretty diverse eclectic in my favorite movies.  

I came to the conclusion as a youth watching movies that EVERY FILM has one memorable scene or line in it. Even the weakest films. You will remember one line or scene in it.  And if you can't get a laugh, chuckle, cringe, DAMN!, OOH SHIT, or just plain enjoyment out of one scene in a movie then you should have HIT THE EJECT BUTTON on your dvd player, or close button on your web browser like you some pop up window.  And if you got an old movie that hasn't made it to dvd break your VCR and then slap yourself for not stepping up technology (joking! I got some old ass karate movies that are the shit and hard to find.  Just hit the eject button and keep it pushing).