Tag Archives: netflix

Uncategorized

Why the Hell Am I Doing This?

A lot of people have been asking why I decide to do this.  Even more of you think I have way too much time on my hands.  Well, here’s the deal.  I’ve been working for Examiner.com for over a year now as the Kansas City TV writer and the National Lost writer.  When Lost ended in May I was drained and frankly bored with episodic television.  Most of you know me or remember me as being a movie geek.  The truth is I don’t get out to the movies nearly as much as I’d like and I feel like I’ve neglected my love of the movies.

So over Memorial Day weekend I decided I am going to watch 100 movies I’ve never seen before over the summer.  I figured since I work from home and the kids would be here with me for the summer….I’d have plenty of time on my hands.  So the challenge was born.

My rules were simple.  I gave myself from June 1st until August 31st, 2010 to finish, give or take a few days or a weeks or so to account for circumstances that may keep me from daily movie watching….such as having an actual life and a family that might want some of my attention too.  Plus, despite popular opinion, I do have a job, so I’d have to work around that schedule.  Luckily since I work from home, I can usually watch movies while I work.

So, I had 90 days or so to watch these movies.  I didn’t plan any out in advance.  I just figured it would be random.  I thought it would be too hard to plan out 100 different movies.  The movies came from several different sources:

  • Cable: HBO, Starz, Showtime, The Movie Channel
  • Redbox
  • Netflix
  • Theatres
  • Pay Per View flicks
  • and other (borrowed DVDs, etc.)

Some are movies I hadn’t gotten around to seeing yet, others are movies I had never heard of.  Some are kids flicks.  Some are chick flicks.  Some are movies that I knew would suck but dammit if I didn’t watch them anyway.  The challenge wasn’t 100 Movies I WANT to see… It was 100 Movies I HAVEN’T seen.

Any questions?

DISCLAIMER:  If you choose to read my 100 movies blog you are doing so at your own risk.  This blog will not be for the weak of heart as I plan to be very adult (or is it childish?) in how I write it.  Meaning, I intend to use my very rich and extensive vocabulary.  I spend nearly every waking hour with children.  I write for an internet news site in addition to my other writing job.  So dammit, I’m going to use some colorful language from time to time but I’ll try and behave myself….for the most part.

Peace.

2008 Movie Reviews

‘Twilight’ is a mind numbing blunder aimed at naive teens — movie review

2 Comments

Who’s in it?: Kristen Stewart (Into the Wild); Robert Pattinson (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire); Taylor Lautner (The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl)

…and here we GO.

Okay.  I watched it.  Despite knowing better I actually planned to watch this eventually.  Mostly because I  I don’t like to talk trash unless I have plenty of bullets and that means — as a critic — doing my homework.  I did.  I watched “Twilight“ and I watched it with an open mind.  My family couldn’t believe it.  I gave it a shot, like I do every movie.  Now that I’ve seen the first one I have to say-

Wow. Really, ladies?  What do you honestly see in this?  No, I haven’t read the books and I’m not going to read the books.  I’m also aware that I’m not the intended target audience.  In fact I’m pretty far from it.  That being said, this movie was soooo — boring and so poorly written and paced and directed and acted; and the source material could not have been better.  I refuse to believe there was any more depth to the characters or the story in the book, that was not presented on screen. I could go on. But what’s the point. Like I said, this movie wasn’t made for me.

It left me with a lot of questions though, although I’m not sure that’s what it wanted to do. Whatwas with Edward and Bella always staring at each other?  And sparkling vampires?  What the ****?  Tell me, because I don’t know- was this movie written by a fucking 13 year-old girl?  I think I may have known the girl that wrote this in high school. Maybe not the ACTUAL author…but I knew her.

Look, I can appreciate love stories and mopey angsty characters but it saddens me to know that people read a several hundred page books about these characters when there are much better books out there?  And I hate to break the mystique here, but am I the only one that realizes that the vampire wants to EAT Bella???  He wants to EAT her.  Drain her body of life.  I know this can all be turned into some sick twisted joke that- “isn’t that what all women are looking for?”, but let’s not go there-

…And Taylor fucking Lautner.  He is…what’s the word? — awful.  Ladies, come on.  Abs?  Is that all it takes?  This dude is a fucking muppet.  I mean Robert Pattinson was at least in Harry Potter and from what I’ve seen in clips from other movies, he may have some range but Taylor is chode.

Ugh.  I wasn’t expecting action.  I didn’t expect Wesley Snipes to show up and start slicing up vampires; and believe me, I wanted Blade to show up- real bad.  But he didn’t and I’m fine with that.  I knew what I was getting into here, but is this really the kind of slop you want your fucking daughters watching and reading?  THINK about this!!

Anyways, I watched it and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be it still was not any good at all.  It wasn’t.  All of you Twi-Hards someday will watch and think, “What was I thinking?  I LIKED this crap?”.  Sometimes, the first step is admitting you have a problem.

5/10

Would I recommend this?: No- and you have to stop watching this.  Have some respect for yourselves.  You are better than this ladies.  I did see New Moon and that review will come later but for now, God dammit, stop it!!

2009 Movie Review

‘Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day’ (2009) movie review

1 Comment

Who’s in it?: Sean Patrick Flannery (Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Suicide Kings), Norman Reedus (Blade: Trinity, Pandorum), Billy Connolly (The X-Files: I Want to Believe, The Last Samurai)

Directed by: Troy Duffy

Now see, this is just the kind of bullshit that pisses me off about Hollywood.  I saw “The Boondock Saints” ten years ago or so and I loved it.  No, it’s not art; it’s not what you’d call a masterpiece.  But it’s funny as hell and has some great shoot outs and a hilarious performance by Willem Dafoe.  It took FOREVER for director Troy Duffy to make this sequel and dammit if he didn’t nearly ruin the the movie he made ten years ago with this unbelievable waste of time.

Seriously, it’s awful.  No, that doesn’t begin to explain it. The movie tries, and fails to duplicate what worked last time — and let’s face it the last one isn’t a masterpiece. This time it just doesn’t work. The main leads are okay, but seem bored and the supporting cast is just terrible. Julie fucking Benz (TV’s Dexter) is awful in this movie. Sadly, all she does is try and duplicate Willem Dafoe’s tactics from the first one and it just sucks.

Then the cameos start and you just wish the world would come to an end like literally you will welcome the end of humanity if it just meant you didn’t have to finish this movie….but fortunately, the movie ended before the world did.

1/10