A friend lent me Thir13en Ghosts: obnoxious cast (except Matthew Lillard!) but pretty cool effects and makeup.
We also watched this weird movie called Botched with Stephen Dorff. It has the craziest mid-movie genre-flip since From Dusk TIll Dawn. It starts off as a simple heist flick, with Dorff and a couple of inept henchmen stealing a gold cross from a huge building in Moscow. Things go wrong and they end up taking hostages and getting off the elevator on a deserted floor...
...where it turns out a descendant of Ivan the Terrible is living, and he dresses up like a Viking, and he's decorated the place with human skins and booby-trapped it with giant scissors and spike floors and sudden disco music, and one of the nuns is his sister and she's been helping him murder everyone and hang the bodies in a closet. Surprise!
Further spoiler: Stephen Dorff ultimately defeats Ivan the Terrible by hurling a flaming rat at him.
Lars And The Real Girl.
Usually I don't like 'whimsy' or 'quirkiness' (in movies, that is. I like them in life). Lars And The Real Girl is all whimsy and quirk.
I finally watched the first Crank last weekend. So much dumb fun, I'm glad I didn't do it the disservice of taking it seriously.
Last "in theatres" movie I saw was Funny People. Or as I like to call it, "Dick Joke: the movie". I don't understand how a movie so packed with cameos from actual funny people could have so little variety in humour. It all devolves to jokes about cock.
Whip It for me. Fantastic movie, especially if you're a Roller Derby fan. Even if you're not, you probably will be afterwards. I haven't seen Juno, but I thought Ellen Paige was excellent in it.
Aquarian
Ireland
December 2005
SEP 17, 2009 11:06 AM