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I just watched God Bless America and I was surprised by how much I liked it. Hilarious, but it also got its point across really well.

Watched Avengers today. Excellent cheesy popcorn superhero film. No more boring introductory segments explaining how the hero gets his new powers and adjusts, over and over again (F U, Spiderman remake, F U). This movie gives you 2.5 hours of the meaty stuff. You already know all the characters, now you just get to see them bounce off of each other and blow stuff up.

The plot is really simple. The characters are who you already know. So what's the 2.5 hours consist of? Gorgeous sets, incredible visuals, great action, and lots of banter. Pure comic book movie, right here.

I don't think average ppl hate superhero movies. IIRC, Superman 2 was popularly considered the best Superman movie of all time (so far), and it's the most pure comic book movie of the Superman franchise. It would have been perfection if not for some of the st000000000pid comedy scenes that the director insisted on inserting into the script (Michael Bay syndrome, basically). The Avengers... does not have Michael Bay syndrome. There are no stupid teenagers in sight, no "we need this stupid everyman character acting stupid and screaming a lot, to connect to the audience" BS. There is hope for the ensemble genre (Transformers is admittedly the ensemble genre, if you think about it) after all.

We'll see if Avengers survives the trilogy intact. Christopher Reeves Superman couldn't. Matrix couldn't. X-men couldn't. Tim Burton Batman couldn't. Spiderman couldn't... Y'know, so far not one single superhero-genre franchise has survived the trilogy!

I think that says something about the superhero-genre in reference to trying to top the last movie over three movies. Or any genre for that matter.

How many films of any genre have gone the distance with a trilogy? James Bond? Most of Bond's imitators didn't last three movies (Matt Helm, Derek Flint, Austin Powers) And was every Bond movie so phenomenal that it demanded another installment without Broccoli's commitment to the franchise?

Meanwhile I've been awash in a sea of estrogen. I saw Beaches with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey and First Wives Club My mom is moving so I got all her video tapes.

Oh lord, how can you stand it?
In this day and age, one is too inundated with choice in viewing media to have to resort to "my mom's old video tapes." I mean c'mon tank-man, I don't care how bored you were. Watch some Youtube or something.

What movies have survived the trilogy.... I'm not going to count LOTR, that shouldn't count.

1. I suppose Star Wars original.
2. Indiana Jones, IMO.
3. Harry Potter shouldn't count either, for same reason as LOTR.
4. Wait! The Bourne series! I liked all of it.
5. Mission Impossible series is strange in that... it's pretty good, but at the same time, crap.
6. Uhhhh.... Help me out here guys.

Evil Dead is the only other thing I can think where all three movies have been as liked as each other.

The current Batman franchise should hopefully soon be added to the list.

I am absolutely furious that America has to wait so long to see a movie featuring Captain America. Everyone else in the world has gotten to see it and I'm flopping around trying not to read spoilers (and failing). I've been waiting my entire life for this movie and it seems like Friday will never come. I've been tempted to seek out "alternative" means of seeing this movie. I've got my tickets to the midnight showing and am counting the hours (38.5) until I can finally see this damn movie.

Yes, it certainly is.

I feel much the same about Eraserhead. Everyone tells me it's such a surreal classic, but I just found it a bit gross and unpleasant. Not my cuppa tea. Blue Velvet, however, took place not far from me right here in NC, and is a perfect representation of the state and culture. :D


My own "recent movies" were Chawz, Obselidia, and now The Way.

Chawz is a South Korean monster movie about a giant killer pig that eats farmers. It's Jaws with a hog. It's also a hoot and a half, if you're into black comedy/horror/killerpig movies, though it doesn't quite topple Razorback from the crown of the giant maneating pig genre. For the curious, I posted my full review of this thing on my movie review blog, complete with cartoon riffing - KFP - Chawz

Obselidia was also cool, in a completely different way. It's a semi-drama about a fellow who's writing a complete compendium of obsolete technology. He types on a manual typewriter, uses Polaroids, has a rotary dial phone, etc. It's a very thoughtful look at the disposability of "hot" technology, and how fast our version of the world is now being outdated. Most of the film revolves around his clumsy attempts to forge some relationship with a lady who works in a silent film theater, as the two of them drive into Death Valley to meet a climate change scientist. Definitely worth seeing.

'The Way' is fantastic but I haven't finished watching it yet. Martin Sheen stars as a father who decides to make a pilgrimage trek from France to Spain after his son is killed on the same journey. Thoughtful, with lots of depth and humor. Looking forward to seeing how it comes out.

No. ROTJ was a thinly-disguised muppet movie that gets worse every time I watch it. The directorial refusal to allow any sort o consistent mood or tone to develop really rankles, and it's like Superman 2 - Every time anything remotely serious happens, some sort of "comedy" punchline has to be inserted to break up the emotion. Gah. 'Empire' was the last really good Star Wars movie. In my opinion, anyway. :D

I can't see how it can, but of they can get Joss whedon to write and direct three avengers films then maybe, just maybe there's a chance. Luckily it was great even without a strong plot so hopefully there will be more of a story to support the next one.

THIS really needed to be repeated: FUCK YOU Spiderman reboot, FUCK YOU!!! They should've kept going with either the same cast or just "James Bond" it entirely!



They will have every other single hero movie between them so maybe that'll help. But you forgot(or maybe didn't want) to mention the worst of them all; Blade. I mean, how the fuck do you get from Norrington's gritty masterpiece (which was a perfect comic book movie blueprint that also didn't have much of an origin story) to Del Toro's astounding sequel to then tie it all up with... that flaming shitbag called trinity. How can any studio, being a private business, deliberately commit professional suicide like that? I mean... next to that massacre, every other film you mentionned has redeeming aspects. Even Superman 3 for fuck's sake!


Well... last night i watched an ensemble genre movie that (contrary to what nostalgia would probably/maybe have you believe) did NOT succeed at even being remotely decent and quite frankly, watching it in our day and age only made it that much worse.

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: THE MOVIE

Go find something to bite on and strap your wrists and ankles to your chairs because i'm about to "human centipede" this film a new asshole with a direct path to it's throat! I'll first flesh out a bit of my backstory to maybe help you better understand my perspective of this film. Click the spoiler tab to view it.



When your film starts with a music video that includes your entire cast of protagonists, sky diving and having little to no lines of dialog except for bad one liners (and i'm talking "Arnold as Mr. Freeze" level of bad), no matter how cool it actually looks, that's bad. M'kay? You're really starting on the wrong foot because that sets the wrong vibe for the rest of your film. This isn't a music video or a sky diving documentory, it's a movie. Maybe if they had fleshed out the fact that it was a competition from the start it wouldn't have been a mere spectacle. And what made it worse is that you didn't see any of their competition. All you saw were the good guys showboating and that just piles on the shit. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, they force feed us this random kid and his dad, having no relation to the protagonists except for the brief allusion that the kid's father WAS their competition. Oh and he's a fireman, which is another very brief allusion that you don't fully grasp until the end, which i'll dive into when i get to it. And then, that's when they just... leave. Like it's completely natural to unhook your parachute, talk to this fireman and his kid, and then just strap on some rollerblades and... go on your merry way.

Alright, maybe the opening's slightly cool looking music video should slide as it is only a small portion of the film and we can then move on to the actual movie. But OH WAIT!!! What's this? ANOTHER music video involving our heroes not having any dialog except for even more shitty one liners? Only looking cool by doing awesome stuff, this time around rollerblading through the city? Oh be still my enthusiasm. I felt like i was watching Disney's The Mighty Ducks, only the ducks did it better, in a shopping mall no less. This second music video's purpose, other than make our heroes look "cool", is to lead them on the discovery site of the film's main villain; Ivan Ooze. This stand up comic bad boy's gotta be the film's only highlight (if it could ever be concidered that), only his introduction is kinda... meh. Basically, he's been trapped in a Kinder Surprise Egg filled with ooze, under the earth's crust (right where the rangers rolled by, on a building's construction site), by the Power Rangers of 6000 years back. And the only way he could be released is by the forced inclusion of not only a very cool looking Lord Zed but also an english speaking asian actress that replaced the regular japanese speaking actress that played "Rita Repulsa" in the tv series. And then... Ivan emprisons them in a snowglobe for the rest of the movie, making them a complete and utter waste of budget and screen time, while keeping their lackies to do his dirty work, as if he couldn't sprout up his own henchmen, which he does twice in the movie.

Moving on, Ivan Ooze, being the universe's worst nightmare and most powerful villain ever, strolls into the impenetrable fortress of Zordon which is the being responsible for giving the Rangers their power ever since he came to earth 6000 years back. Naturally, Zordon is defenseless againts Ivan because, who the fuck knows. So Ivan practically kills Zordon but doesn't. He left him alive because, who the fuck knows. And then he leaves Zordon's fortress while Zordon has enough power left over to send his now powerless rangers somewhere where they could get a greater power to then destroy Ivan because, who the fuck knows. Of course that greater power is at the other end of the universe so Zordon sends them there using the last shread of power he had which doesn't kill him because, who the fuck knows. The rangers get there and are instantly attacked by Ivan Ooze's new batch of sprouted henchmen who completely overpower every single one of those martial arts masters.

Now enters Dulcea, the lonely protector of the planet which is a mix of He-man's Sorceress and an amazon warrior, cloth bikini, cut abs and all. She pretty much makes minced meat of the henchmen all by her lonesome in a beautiful display of amateurish martial art skills and has them fleeing back to their master with the aid of her staff that breaks down to two whistling sticks, yes... whistling sticks. She has these sticks you see... that she would twirl... and there would be this WHISTLING sound... that came out of them. And that has the bad guys running home with their tails between their legs. So then she turns to the rangers and tells them to fuck off because they are unworthy to be breathing her air. The fearless martial arts master leader white tiger ranger Tommy says they can't leave and proceeds to throw the lovely butch that saved all their asses a mighty penis attack. She then completely owns him and flips him on his ass in a fraction of a second and pins him down with her whistling staff showing everyone how her vagina is truly mightier than his penis. I guess they needed the change of pace from the pink and yellow rangers, regularly putting themselves in "damsel in distress" situations (despite their mastered martial art skills), needing the help of throbbing cocks on account of them not having any. But whatever...

After they tell her they are their master Zordon's last hope, she surprisingly takes them under her wing because if Zordon's infinite wisdom says they are worthy, then... her vagina is powerless against Zordon's penis is pretty much what it means. So she brings them to an acient temple's ruins where she gives them ninja powers through a shamanic ritual. Basically, they all get cool looking ninja suits and an awesome new totem animal except for the black ranger that gets a frog. She tells everyone what their cool animal attributes are, except for the frog. She just says he's a prince if you kiss him instead of actually TRYING to think up a cool philosophical statement about frogs. Thank god he's actually a better fighter than their leader or else he'd just commit suicide. Then, acknowledging just how mighty her vagina was when they first saw it in action MILES away from the temple, they ask her to join them but she refuses because apparently, if she so much as gets away from the temple grounds, she'd age very very quickly. So she turns into a bird and flies off the temple grounds again, leaving the ninja rangers to wait until sunrise before heading towards the location of the greater power because clearly... ninjas don't work at night and no, the ninja power isn't the GREAT power. Just a power they need to get to the great power which in the end just gives them back their original power ranger powers with brand new idiotic animal robots(zords). Yes, there is a huge frog robot.

So now, instead of "warping" back to Zordon's death bed, they leave him to die so that they can give us a more dramatic scene at the end of the film where they not only save Zordon but actually resurrect him. Obviously, that scene wouldn't have made the entire movie work if it didn't happen at the very end. So they warp right back into action against Ivan and his newly found old tech robots that he had the entire city's PARENTS retreive for him from the crust of the earth, or else that random kid at the beginning of the movie wouldn't have had a purpose at all throughout the film. So that kid is of course the only living soul that notices every damn parent in the city being brainwashed in doing Ivan's bidding so he rounds up all the other brainless rampaging teens to go save their parents from their impending doom, which consists of Ivan telling all the parents to go jump off a cliff like lemmings once he's done with them. Him being the kid of a fireman... TADAAAAAA, is the ideal person to save the parents from falling off that cliff because with the aid of Bulk and Skull, he uses his daddy's firehose to push the parents away from the cliff. And theeeeeeeen the rangers defeat Ivan (and his newly joined megabot that he delved into) with their new megafusedanimalbot that literally looks like worse CGI than what i grew up watching on "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future", which needs to be said was a TELEVISION series in the fucking 80ies. When the CGI in your box office movie looks worse than the regular tv show the movie was based on, which used cardboard cities and grown men in cardboard suits posing as megazords fighting in/and destroying the city for special effects... that's very bad. M'kay?

There, that's the movie. Interested? I can't blame you. It might not be a worse film than Bitch Slap was, but it surely is in the same pile IMHO. The show, even with the lower budget and cheap effects, had better plot, acting and fighting sequences. So my recommendation is to skip the film and just wait til December for the box sets. You're welcome.

After watching Phelous's review of it, I decided to watch Killdozer.
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What did I just watch? That was seriously painful.
No further comments, 2/10. Watch it yourself. Or, you know, just read the name. It says it all.

It's a 1970's TV movie! What did you expect? I saw it on TV when it first came out and an eleven year old I thought it was fantastic. Then I read the story it was based on and seeing it fifty plus times on the 4:30 movie has not improved it. Put it in a double bill with the one about the construction crew on the island that finds the frozen caveman and dinosaur with another winning one word name: Dinosaurus


Endless "disease of the week" estrogen filled weepers can prove more watchable than that. The main reason I watch them is because I actually like them more than most Youtube crap (unless it's the live action Space Cruiser Yamato or that cool Russian war movie about the tankers) And I want to write one.

Had to watch Brick Lane for Media. Horribly, horribly dull.

Got to see The Avengers today, and I was not disappointed at all. I think this was the only time I haven't left the theater for anything; not to get food or take a break, nothing. Instead, I just sat in my seat by the wall and watched the movie unfold. Sure, the plot is simple, but everything else makes up for it. The action, the character development, the witty development and certain scenes (seriously, there were two instances where everyone broke out in laughter, and the theater was packed), it was just great. If I can, I'll go see it again for my birthday next week, provided I survive finals first.

Watched The BIg Lebowski yesterday for the first time. Holy shit I'm gushing. I caught myself talking like The Dude pretty much all day. It's funnier because my character in Cans of Beans is named Dude too, and they act similarly in a lot of ways.

All The Dude wants is his rug, man.

One of my all-time favorite movies. It's one of those that also gets better and funnier with repeat viewings - I enjoyed it a lot more the second, third, and fourth time I saw it than the first. And yeah, it will leave you adding 'man' to everything you say, man.

Going to see Avengers next week for a matinee show, at our local theater than absolutely bans all cell phone/texting/game use during movies. I love them for it.

AVATAR- Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, CCH Pounder.
Extremely long and expensive Saturday Afternoon Matinee. Not a doubt about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, (Lang and that Parker guy). Had to fight off falling asleep about half way thru. Very predictable, dog-earred plot line, even this old girl knew Weaver would die before end. But everyone lived happily ever after, gave it a generous 2 on the Moizmeter.

Watched the Avengers yesterday night, going to see it again tonight. I think that speaks for itself.