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Even More Movie Reviews Part 1

RENT
Good Songs, Good Music, Dumb Movie. 525,600 Minutes is the first line in the opening song, that's how long the movie felt. I guess I was underestimating the movie. I thought it would end at the 105 minute mark but nope it kept going and going. It was just an uninteresting story with too much focus on each character. I liked the cast alright including Rosario Dawson and Taye Diggs. When it was trying to be sad, I didn't feel anything so I had no connections with it at all. Not even one of the top five musicals I've seen, that is if I have seen that many.

BROKEN FLOWERS

Very quiet, seriously you could fall asleep watching this movie. Bill Murray does alright but he plays such a boring person that it's hard to pay attention. The story is simple enough to understand but there's no clear answers in the movie. So I guess you have to make your own conclusions. I like his next door neighbor in the film played by Jeffrey Wright. I don't know what the movie was trying to be instead of just an artsy fartsy film. Every character has these weird facial expressions that were confusing. It had a few good laughs and a brief scene of nudity but besides that, it is a forgettable film.

NEW YORK DOLL

On the other hand, an excellent documentary- probably one of the five best Docs I've seen. If you like Docs and rock music, then this an awesome movie for you to see. It kind of plows through all the details of Arthur "Killer" Kane's life pretty quickly. But I understand that because it was getting to the point which was he was reuniting with his fellow surviving members of the legendary band The New York Dolls to play a show in London. The LDS angle (he converted to the church over 15 years ago) was OK, not too preachy. Shoot, I would like to have a famous musician in my ward so he or she can tell me about the rise and fall of fame. Very well organized and interesting film.

Even More Movie Reviews Part 2

The Matador
A very good dark comedy. But to be honest, it was just average until the last 10 minutes when a couple plot twists makes the movie rewarding if you paid attention. The sexual content sort of ruins the movie because there's like 1,000 innuendos and a few "sex" scenes don't help the movie at all. It was kind of like, "Okay I get it, Pierce Brosnan's character's a sex addict." But the acting is good and the chemistry is pretty good. Beautiful locations and some really good comedic moments.





Brokeback Mountain
A very excellent film. The nature scenery is amazing even though those scenes were shot in Canada. All the performances are awesome. But the reason why Jake Gyllenhall's performance is good because, like most of the other movies he's in, it's really over the top. Over the top to the point of laughter with such lines as "I wish I knew how to quit you." The story is very good, especially at getting you to think about certain choices you have made in your life or will make. The only thing the movie scuked at was making the young actors look older since the movie spans 20 years. All they did were put wigs on the eand mustaches on the men, not really convincing. I read the Rolling Stone review afterwards and they pointed out what is so good about it and I agreed, I can't remember what it said though. It's nominated for Best Picture, which it does deserve. But I'm rooting for the movie Crash myself. If it makes you feel better, there's more gratuitous heterosexual sex than homosexual. Overall, I wasn't disappointed cause I knew it would be good.




Waiting
This movie, I don't know where to begin. I describe it as a movie you watch with your friends just to waste time. I don't care for the cast except for Ryan Reynolds cause he's good in every movie he's in even though he plays the same character in every one. The rest of the cast sucks. The story is stupid. The gross out humor lost me on this one. It's like a really bad independent movie that has nothing memorable about it cause like I said , it's a time waster. This goes in the book of crappy comedies next to The New Guy and Scary Movie. So I only recommend it for perverted retards who laugh at every thing. The only thing that could of saved it is frontal female nudity, not lower. I rented it for free and I'm still pissed.

Quick Movie Reviews

Aeon Flux (Eee On Flux, that's how I say it)- It is not as bad as people might tell you it is or how it looks. I rarely watched the MTV cartoon a decade ago so I went into very interested in the whole story. I like Charlize Theron and especially her costumes (you get to see some side-tit, sort of) It took a while to catch what's going on and I almost totally feel asleep at a boring point of the movie. The last 20 minutes was pretty cool because it was action packed.
Zathura- "Jumanji In Space" which is annoying but that was the point of the whole movie. That and the whole brother theme in that they can work together but want to tear each other apart at the same time (only relatable if you have one and you're a boy) It had a really dumb twist near the end of it which was so dumb that I don't want to spoil it. It was semi-interesting in the whole cliffhanger feeling of wanting to know what happens next. But it just seems so un-original because of Jumanji.

Just Friends- It was pretty good. Ryan Reynolds never disappoints me and the violent/dark nature of the movie made it worth seeing. I couldn't stand Ana Faris's (who by the way tries to be too funny and it doesn't work) character which was the point because she played a bitch. I can't really relate to anything in it (yet) but the romantic theme in the movie is relatable to anyone who's been in love.

I enjoyed The Legend of Zorro. It's PG, so it doesn't go too far with anything which sucks. It had to earn my attention cause I went into it not really interested.

2 Weeks since a post, I gotta talk about something

I haven't been posting because I'm too damn lazy, so what, want to fight about it.

Let's see what to talk about?......

LARRY H. MILLER- I DON'T THINK I WANT TO KNOW THIS GUY

Since he's such a homo-phobe maybe he should ban himself from the public, look how fuckin gay he looks in that retro Jazz uniform.

What I'm talking about is the whole Brokeback Mountain controversy in Utah, Larry H Miller stopped the film, about two cowboys fallin in love while herding sheep, from showing at one of the theaters he owns. That's fine because that's his choice. The thing that really pisses me off is that he cancelled the movie minutes before it was supposed to show. It's not like it's a XXX gay porno (I don't really know since I haven't seen it), but it's won the Critic's Choice and Golden Globe awards for Best Picture and it will probably win the Oscar. It was a theater in Salt Lake for crying out loud it's not like it was gonna show in my neck of the woods. A lot of mormons laugh when they say that "ha ha, gay people are boycotting the movie, like that's gonna hurt." All I have to say to that is you never know how many there are in Salt Lake or in my neck of the woods.

Last week was an interesting one for me, I had an infected tooth (or abscess) starting on Wednesday and I just ignored it until the next day it got fuckin worse. I went to the dentist the next day and let's just say he was very happy I called him. The left side of my face was swollen (I didn't take a picture even though I should of. The dentist put the novacaine, which was very fucking painful because of the swollen area. The rest of the "dental surgery" went smoothly. He drilled through one of my teeth and drained out the infection and made an incision (or cut) and drained out some more shit. So I stayed home for the weekend and did nothing, which is what I do anyway. 5 days later and I'm feelin fine.

1st Movie Review of the Year- Fun With Dick & Jane

Well, it was good enough to be taken seriously. It wasn't the most hilarious movie I've ever seen or anything (not even the funniest Jim Carrey movie). But it does have its moments, even good ones that none of the TV spots or trailers show or give any clue of. I liked how that the whole "Crime" element of the story doesn't kick in too quickly. I admire movies that spends some time in one area of the film before moving to the next. Some critics say that the movie is a commentary on the multi-million or billion dollar companies and how there's so much corruption in them. That's pretty much true and I all I want to say without spoiling things is that I like the ending because it will probably divide rich people and poor people whether it is a happy one or a immoral and evil one. The film takes place in the year 2000 and I wondered throughout the whole thing why that is. In the end, it will make sense unless you're an idiot who doesn't pay attention to the news. Not that paying attention is exactly good, cause in some ways it's painful and time wasting. So overall, the movie is a good one, even though it's dark in its subject matter and it may lead to having bad ideas of obtaining money. It does make you think about money and whether you got enough to survive.

Happy Flippin New Year from The Blog of Mr. J-Ray, yeah yeah, I know what you're thinking, 4 Days Late. Well F%^K OFF

What I did over the freakin holidays, doesn't matter. What my new year resolutions are, who cares, I won't follow one. Although I was successful last year when my only resolution was to see a lot of movies. Probably the only resolution I have this year is to buy more games for the video game systems I have. Shit, I bought a mother huggin XBOX last year for a crap load of money I spent a lot of time saving. I had only 2 games before buying it and only bought 1 freakin game. That's got to change especially with that 2 year replacement plan I got with the XBOX. The question is what the hell are some good games that are out there? Oh well I'm sure I can buy more than one lousy game.

Anyway, I have a quick thing to say about today. I had a chance to see the new Queen Latifah movie Last Holiday for FREE. Getting anything free is a very good thing in this time of not having a job. But I decided not to see the movie cause I had a cousin over to visit. Maybe next time and especially if it's a different movie.

Speaking of not working, I'm back in school and the awesome thing is I only go 2 days a week. My mother is pleading since I have this schedule to go get a job. It's just funny to me because I imagine that she is pissed out of her mind while I smile about attending school only 2 days a week.

Before going any further, I'm happy that The University of Texas won the NCAA Football Championship. Not that I'm from Texas or love the state, I'm just glad that USC didn't get there 2nd and a half championship in a row. It was a good freakin game, pretty heart pounding shit all the way to the end.

The last thing I want to post today is a story of my good deed for Wednesday January 4th, 2006 (Wow, this is weird to type 2006). I was holding my pug Clark, (left) keeping him away from a different dog, cause I don't want another dog of mine to die because of a fuckin loose dog (but that's another story). The other dog finally ran off and I put Clark down to finish my walk with him. The next thing I know, I see a little boy I recognize walking across the street with a very sad and worried look on his face. I know right there that the dog I just saw is probably his dog. I take my dog home and drop him off. Then I go back outside immediately and find the runaway dog two houses away sitting on a huge lawn. I cut across the lawn to get to the dog (which I guess hurt its leg while running) and the lady living there started to yell at me for being on her lawn. Then in a very slow and dumb sounding response, I say, "I think I know who this dog belongs to and they are looking for it." Then I apologized for running on her lawn. She said that it was OK, she was just a little pissed because junior high aged kids ran on her lawn all day. I thought to myself later that she sounded ridiculous because her lawn is the fuckin BUS STOP for the junior high students in the morning. But I understand why she was pissed, the people who live on the same street as me cut on my parent's lawn every day and I just want to smack them. Anyway, I carried the heavy ass dog (heavier than my pug let me tell you) all the way to his house where I ran into the little boy and I made sure that it was his dog. Now my left arm is really sore from carrying the dog and I got no reward or anything. But oh well maybe next time.