What was once cool ain't cool no mo.
Okay so I got around to watching this. Im not big on romance movies because alot of it is just corny to me. With that said this is what I would call a raw "romance" movie. Really this is just an movie on life and relationships.
I was a bit confused about half an hour through the movie because I thought that the movie was trying to introduce new characters way too late into the movie. That wasn't the case the movie was just jumping back in time in somewhat of a flashback to the beginning of the couples relationship.
The couple in this one is Dean and Cindy. Dean is a good father, a cool guy with a job, not a dope one but he has one, and he love his family life. Cindy is a nurse with a dissatisfaction about how her life has turned out or her man choice or her interpretation of his lack of ambition or whatever the fuck women turn sour over years into the relationship when its too late. You probably can tell as I see it all the problems are Cindy's fault. The problems are her fault.
They do alot of flashbacks in this movie to how the couple met and the evolution of the relationship. Adopting a mild version of Quentin Tarantinoesque filming they jump back and forth in time so you gotta pay attention to this closely. Its not the most exciting movie in the world but I wouldn't say it's boring either. Mellow would fit the mood description of this movie in my opinion.
Jumping back for second, it can be seen as Dean's fault for falling into a comfort zone with Cindy. He felt he was happy and he got stagnant.
I started writing out the story of the movie but stopped because it was gonna be too long and woulda spolied the movie. Yeah! Thats right! I was going to spoil this movie for anyone reading this. But I didn't. In essence the movie follows the relationship of Cindy and Dean from beginning to present time/end in this movie.
Not the manliest movie I can see chicks crying at the unraveling of this one.
The overall execution on this movie was above average.
3.5/4 stars outta 5 stars
Pretty decent horror movie.
Being the lightweight conspiracy theorist I am, I liked the idea of this movie. The story had the basis for a dope movie, but with the budget this movie had it ended up being just good enough, for me.
I heard about it through reading a story on the director, Deon Taylor, in some magazine. Deon didn't look Jewish and I don't think he is with that name. He was of the darker skin complexion and I said I wanted to see what they did behind the camera. I wasn't disappointed.
It is a horror movie so of course there is some killing and crazy weirdo doing the killing. There are some pretty decent looking white girls in this movie doing some fairly stupid shit. You see a pair of breasts. That wasn't the basis of what I judged this on though.
Its underlying focus is on the dangers of technology. One kid receives a chain letter via email. He opens it and if he doesn't send the chain letter to some other HE WILL DIE. Scary, huh? Not really. Okay, this letter is tracked by a psycho hacker weirdo. How? Because its a virus. He knows who has this letter. He knows if they send it. He knows if they send it to a phone via text. He knows if they delete it. He knows if you laughed at the letter and called it stupid depending on what type of technology you have (e.g., computer with a camera). Oh yeah, and he can track your ass because of the GPS in most cell phones these days. So in case you were wondering how the fuck the killer conveniently knows when to show up and start slicing asses up, that is how.
Can this happen? Yes. Am I scared? No.
The killing isn't the dopest and bloodiest, i ain't really into that shit no way. It's not dealing with the supernatural. Just one psycho hacker who doesn't get out much. He seems to work for an alliance of anti-technology assholes.
I liked it because it made sense to me. I know a few hackers and for the most part this isn't too far fetched. I don't think they kill, but the dick headedness is there with what they chose to do with there knowledge. This movie still has some stupid shit here and there but hey what would a horror movie be without a view dumbasses? A movie with less killing.
I don't think its better than the Saw series. But I don't think those are scary. Just a bunch of fucked situations a fucking weirdo puts people in and gets amused seeing if they can get out. If they get out the person is mangled up. If they don't get out then they die. That shit is stupid to me but I couldn't turn away like an accident.
3/5 for me.
Its funny. Wasn't too sure about the combination of Downey Jr. and dude from The Hangover together but it worked.
Downey Jr. is the serious one. Dude from The Hangover is a weed head weirdo. Zach is like the hot new typecast comic relief in Hollywood and he delivers his style of comedic acting.
I got enough laughs outta this comedy. Not a bunch of bust-a-gut laughs but some decent ones. Its an above average comedy and gets my go thumbs up to check it out.
As a boxing fan I was satisfied with this movie.
Its a piece with a careful set of selected events in the fighter career of Micky Ward for cinematic purposes. shot to the body. He has the perfect left hook to the body and that is has been his bread and butter throughout his career. I actually remember the fight where he was getting his ass whooped for 6 rounds and then made do cry with a hook to the body. Micky Ward had a phenomenal boxing series with the now deceased Arturo Gatti. The first fight being regarded by many as the fight of the 20th century. Real life Rocky shit.
Now this is some real white nigga shit okay. There aren't any blacks in this movie, except the occasional small extra type parts. I say nigga shit because the people exude a raw rough ghetto ass up north white attitude that would be labeled by some as white trash.
Micky Ward is a boxer. Micky's older brother, Dicky, was a boxer and he fought Sugar Ray Leonard in the 80's. A fight where Leonard won, of course, but he slipped in the fight and that Dicky's ride to fame in his town. He got on this "I put Suga Ray on his ass" kick and never left it. Even while he was on crack. Not only was this nigga on crack but he let HBO do a crack smoking special on him. First time I ever seen someone smoking crack was on that HBO special and Dicky was rocker. Dicky is a real loser in the movie. But you cant tell this to his momma because "her baby ain't no crackhead".
Dicky trains Micky when he's not on crack binges with his crack smoking friends and the HBO crew. Now if you check his record Micky Ward got his ass whooped more than a little bit but that's where the carefully selected events come into play. This movie goes through the ups and downs of his career in a selected fashion and it works.
A boxing movie can be excellent (see Rocky series) if done correctly. This movie was done correctly. With all the Great White Hope factor in here for you to get behind this mediocre boxer. Is it better than Rocky? I wouldn't say that. But my biased nostalgic ways might be not allow me to say that. But it is a good movie.
You get to see a lot of wild white ghetto family action in this one. The mother and sisters of Micky fighting with the new girlfriend. Crack smoking. And just a bunch of other funny, sad, and ultimately entertaining action.
HANDLE YO BIDNESS, MAYNE!!!
Action films just suit the ex-WWE star like loud colors on pimp. The Rock (now going by Dwayne Johnson) is on a mission to kill. Cliche'? Yes. Does that make this film weak, not at all.
The story goes as this, The Rock(Driver) was a getaway driver in a bank job where he and his brother were double crossed. His brother gets murked in front of him and Driver goes to jail for dime. He gets outta jail with (where the story begins) with an one track mind KILL. Out for revenge which usually translates into blood in movies and this movie has enough to satisfy your blood thirsty American eyes. Oh yeah, Driver got shot in the back of his head and the bullet ricocheted off his skull and came out his cheek so he was supposed to die in that sequence as well they didn't just leave him to come back and get him. In fact, he was DOA at the hospital and then he "magically" came back to life.
Revenge movies done well are always a good treat.
The cast in this one is decent enough to get the job done, Billy Bob Thorton, Mike Epps, and Oliver Jackson Cohen(Killer). The last dude, Oliver(Killer), kinda throws the movie off a bit for me. Just seems outta place in this movie. Killer is suppose to be a specialist in aquarium upkeep. Someone hires him to clean up a fish tank the Rock took a shit in and killed a rare tropical fish. Angry that the Rock had such disdain for the beauty and rarity of those tropical fish he just went mad and wanted to hunt him down. Nah I'm bullshitting he is a specialist in killing, of course. But he might as well have been an aquarium cleaner because he didn't seem to fit in that role to me.
So this big ass dude, Driver, with his big ass chunky fucking Ruger Super Redhawk Revolver(see poster above, yes I googled that shit), and a very distinguishable 1971 Chevelle SS, is going around town hunting down all involved in his brother's death and killing them. Im talking about busting in on niggas at the job- BANG-bullet through your head in front of everybody and they momma and 3 cameras. So he just got out of jail and, clearly, he doesn't plan on staying alive or out for long. Some of the dudes he goes after are real creeps some have completely changed there life around and are sorry for the fucked up way they did Driver and his brother. Does he give a damn? Not gonna spoil it for you. But he does get some sort of closure throughout the ordeal.
Billy Bob does a good job as a junkie cop. That white dude Oliver Jackson-Cohen is an adrenaline junkie assassin who takes appreciation in ones skills in killing, its stupider than it sounds. Oliver's role could've went right or left and he busted a hard left in this one, better luck next time. The Rock does a good job in his portrayal of a brother out for revenge. On a side note The Rock is supposed to have been a getaway driver and on the robbery they showed it was some extra bullshit to me. He did alot of shit to get noticed in a situation I seen as easy as riding past the cops at a normal speed and not getting noticed. This nigga is doing all the dramatic movie driving letting it be known it was his car with the 4 robber in it that did the job on a busy ass street. Im talking driving backwards, fishtails, and if the nigga coulda done a wheely in the getaway car he woulda done that too.
I digress.
It was a decent action film. The Rock should stick to his role as an ass-kicking lead instead of that toothfairy or just plain old fairy roles he's played in the past. Arnold, Sly, Van Damme, and Segal are all old as shit and Dwayne Johnson has the opening to take the #1 action star spot.
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know. That poster ain't something you would rush to see
White folks have been raving about this movie. The quality is all there, directing, acting, character development,script, etc..
It stars Natalie Portman(the chick who pussy whipped Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars and served as the catalyst for one of the bitchiest assed moves in motion picture history). Thieving ass Winona ryder is in it, Mila Kunis (That 70's show, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) along with some new faces to me.
Okay so Natalie plays Nina Sayers, a ballet dancer at a school headed by Thomas Leroy(Vincent Cassel), a frenchman.who plays with Nina's head to pull something out hidden deep inside her psyche. She is selected to the lead role in "Swan Lake"(a ballet play). She has to play the white swan, which she is perfect for with her wholesome white girl self, and the black swan which is what she has to develop. The black swan is everything but wholesome, of course.
So in the midst of her ongoings in this exclusive school, dealing with her peers who went up for the same role(hating ass bitches), this somewhat intriguingly assholish frenchman seemingly making plays for that pussy and telling her she needs to loosen up to fulfill her role as the black swan, and gaining a new "friend" Lily (Mila Kunis) who is her avenue into the hidden "dark" side- this wholesome white girl goes through a psychological transformation and can now fulfill this black swan role.
Uh oh, lesbian scene between Nina and Lily after a extasy laden drink at a club and this cute wholesome little protected white girl is now turned the fuck out. Wait it happened but now it wasn't a lesbian lesbian scene, she was actually getting it on with a dude and replaced him in her fantasizing about the girl on girl action whilst getting a D-down. (In robot/computer voice) Bad bitch developmental process 60% complete.
She is kinda crazy and has psychological trips throughout the movie. Visions of self mutilation, murder/suicide, I think this bitch is bulimic, too. Just all around fucked up in the head as this movie progresses. This bitch Nina is crazy. To the point where you cannot tell where the movie is exaggerating her visions of events or telling the actual story. A revolution must take place and she has to kill her old self to grow. All this and then some in her transformation into "the Black Swan".
Not necessarily a ''chick flick" but I think females will feel this more than guys. But its a good, well written movie.
My Rating:
4.5/5
"Im sorry, Paul. I'm so sorry!"
Okay I originally thought that a dick was being bitten here from the Kill Bill series. The Kill Bill series was the first time I can recall in a movie a character ever being put into a coffin and buried alive. But hey, the "that's fucked up" factor loses none of its effectiveness here, so, I digress.
Paul Convoy is a contracted truck driver working in Iraq and he was ambushed. Paul wakes up in a coffin after being knocked the fuck out. He is gagged, his hand are tied he has a zippo lighter, limited oxygen of course, and a cell phone that has the settings in Arabic or some shit with 3 of 4 battery bars on it.. Initially, he doesn't know whats going on, as most victims of KO don't. He's gathering his wits and slowly recalls what happened before he ended up in a dark buried coffin with his ass in it. How did they get him? Some kids started throwing rocks and that was all the distraction needed for the terrorists/kidnappers to fuck shit up kill his accompanying truck drivers and kidnap his white ass.
So he gets this cell phone and starts calling for help. 911 of course and that call is put through to and Ohio dispatcher for some reason no help there. He then tries his family who he cannot get in touch with and leaves his heart on the answer machine. Panicking he is calling everybody who cant really help him. He gets in touch with a friend of his wife who he gets into a bit of an argument with because she doesn't grasp the seriousness of his situation on the initial contact. She gets him in touch with the higher up states dept. are who ever.
Dude talks to the State Dept., FBI, a few more niggas(not race specific) who can't do shit, his job and somebody in charge of situations like his. None of the people he talks to seem to give a shit about him including the terrorists/kidnappers. He talks to one muthafucka that tells him the US doesn't negotiate with terrorists (LMAO) which makes his situation all the more fucked up.
Paul is a bit of dumbass. He is constantly talking to ppl who can't do shit for him and his situation, making youtube and worldstar hip hop videos -running his battery life down, burning a got damn zippo lighter fucking off the oxygen in his coffin, and a bunch of other stupid shit throughout the movie.
I don't want to ruin the movie its basically a fucked up situation all together that is compounded by other events throughout the life of the movie and dude is assed out. Does he get out? Does he die? I aint snitchin!
Did I like it? Lightweight liked it. Its a good thriller, not the dopest of all, but good nonetheless. You might get upset at this dude in this coffin and the shit he does but that means to me means the movie got some emotion from your ass and it did its job in my book. Check it out.
