I keep a movie log in my paper journal, so I figure why not keep a log online too.
This will not be a review site, sometimes just my own personal reflections that might only make since to me (this is just meant for me BTW, but if someone else follows that is great too)
For the most part I mainly watch Horror and "genre" related movies, but On-Demand services cause me to watch some ridiculous things I might not usually watch (late night...nothing is on...trying to go to sleep, put on brainless movie).
If I happen to watch a mention worthy television show I might mention that here too.
Way back before this movie came out Lionsgate was at a convention passing out free promotional items and posters. Shane and I grabbed a Bug poster as well as most of the other free crap. At some point we ended up puting it on our ceiling as a filler with intent to watch it and take it down if we didn’t like the movie (which reminds me, I need to take down that Infection poster that has been up there 2 years after seeing and hating the movie). So the movie has been out for a while now, we put off watching it due to really bad feedback (not that I normally care). So the other night I saw it was On-Demand and gave it a shot.
Ashley Judd is white trash living in a motel/efficiency apartment. She is lonley and drinks a lot. The phone keeps ringing, nobody is on the other end. She goes out to the bar one night with her friend they end up back at her place with a guy they just picked up at the bar. Her friend leaves in a hurry and left the guy behind. They just met, he is a little odd but she lets him stay the night anyway, sleeping in seperate beds. The next morning the guy is gone and her murdering/abusive ex-husband who was just released from jail was there. He beats her up a little, the odd guy returns with food, the ex leaves. The two have a conversation over breakfast. We learn she had a 6 year old son who she lost(or was kidnapped) from a grocery store 10 years prior. By this point we already know the guy is paranoid and thinks everything is a conspiracy. Over their rather depressing conversation they decide to get it on. They fuck. She tells him she like having a man around and wants him to live with her. They are in bed, he gets bit by a bug. She doesn’t see them. He says they are all over. They have a discussion about him getting bug killer the next day, she says she will call an exterminator. That sets him off, he is worried that someone will come in and see him. She accuses him of not being honest with her and being a con, he won’t tell her why he is so paranoid, they get mad at each other and he leaves, she cries hysterically in the bathroom. He comes back and through the bathroom door explains that he was in the military and the government used experimental drugs on him and there were side effects, that he escaped and went AWOL. The government was looking for him that was why the exterminater could not come. From that point on they lock themselves in this efficiency with the occasional visit from the friend or ex-husband. They have fly paper all over the place they both have rashes and scratches all over their body, scratching themselves like meth adicts. There are no bugs, this guy is crazy and he has brought the crazy out in her too. It becomes evident that she too was crazy from the begining, the phone calls were all in her head, her waiting for the call from her son that never happened. This guy just pushed her over the edge.
I love this movie and I almost want to give it a higher rating but it isn’t quite epic enough. I want to watch it again to see the subtile things that would now be obvious now that I know the outcome.
People become zombies when they die, they live with us, they are not flesh eaters and apparently being a zombie who survies off of eating raw meat gives you horrible headaches. There is a crew of zombie haters who do not want them around and form a zombie killing militia. We watch this chick who is killed by her dumb guido boyfriend (who is in the militia) as she copes with being a zombie. She goes to a support group to help her through it, she also buys make up just for zombies to hide the fact that she is undead. She is trying to live her life as normal. One day after her support group she hooks up with a delinquent group of zombies who have realized eating humans make you feel great and the headaches go away. The militia raids their house and discover what is going on. From this point on it is basically the militia trying to hunt down the girl.
If it weren’t for the digital film quality and the horrible acting from the dumb guido and the gross ginger militia leader girl it is an alright movie. For the most part the story line was decent if you exclude (like I did) the part about this goddess the human eating zombies worship. Conidering how obviously budget this was the gore was great.
Why wasn’t this movie better? With Tina Fey and Amy Poehler together you would think it would be hilarious. Tina Fey was pretty tame and if it wasn’t for Amy Poehler there would have been very few laughs mostly coming from Steve Martin. I guess it is decent if you watch it on a sleepy night or a hungover Sunday morning but other than that not really worth a watch.
Ehh, I cannot even think of how to describe this movie. When it first came in the mail I though it was a slasher movie (title), Shane explained to me what it was about which made me totally uninterested. He mentioned time travel and space, that is a turn off for me, but it is way beyond that.
I will not try to explain because I will not do this amazing film justice. I will just past the synopsis from IMDB:
The story of Slaughterhouse-Five is the story of a man who, emotionally scarred by his experience in WWII, believes that he has come unstuck in time. And perhaps he has, for Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) never knows where or when he will find himself next. Along the way, Billy survives the war (after being held prisoner in an old abandoned slaughterhouse converted to a POW camp by the Germans), finds a wife (Holly Near), and on his daughter’s wedding day, gets kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamador who, though they are shaped like toilet plungers in the book, the film wisely chooses to represent only by their voices. Billy becomes an exhibit in a zoo on the planet Tralfamador, where his captors provide him with a mate, in the person of former adult movie star Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine). All in all, Billy floats acceptingly through his unpredictable existence as Kurt Vonnegut (author) and George Roy Hill (director) point out the absurdities of war and the aftereffects it can have on a human life. So it goes.
Late night On-Demand pick. I figured, okay, its an 80’s movie with Phoebe Cates in it, it can’t be that bad.
Phoebe Cates with the worst haircut ever and her fiance are having an engagement party at her rich parents house. Three burgerlers crash the party and kidnaps her fiance. It turns out they are his doofus friends and they are taking him out for a good time (drink by himself it looks like?). An angel with a broken wing crashes into his pool. He feels the need to rehabilitate her and protect her from his doofus friends who are trying to exploit her. Phoebe Cates thinks he is fucking the angel and goes completley bonkers.
This movie was fucking dumb and hardley even funny. Only rated so high because it was 80’s cheese.
I could not find a trailer but here are some clips somebody put together.
I couldn’t find any screenshots either, but found this collage of Phoebe with that horrid haircut….in desktop wallpaper size…..WHY???
This guy works in a morgue, he has an obession with hair and whenever a girl with pretty hair ends up in the morgue he cuts it off and sells it to beauty salons for hair extensions. This one chick who was found dead inside of cargo crates filled with hair ends up at this morgue. When she arrives she is bald, but eventually her hair starts to grow. The worker takes her home, her hair continues to grow and grow. He cuts and sells her hair, the girls who recieve it as extensions end up dead. The hair is possesed by the woman who it came from. There is a whole back story going on about a girl who is apprenticing at a salon where the guy gave samples of the hair to and they tie in together.
With a lot of Japanese sometimes it is hard to tell their intent, if they are taking themselves seriously or just out to make a wacky film. During one of the final scenes it is obvious that they were just having a good time.
I put it on as a sleep movie and fell alseep half an hour into it. I finished it up the next following night. Two losers wanting the same job of being the manager of a grocery store. Since it stars John C. Reilly and Seann Willaim Scott you can predict how the movies is going to be. It was not as funny as I expected it to be and if John C. Reilly wasn’t in it I probably would not have finished watching it.
I actually though this was really cute and funny. Usually these types of movies are pretty standard with nothing more to offer than any other Rom-Com. Somehow this brought more, I cant’ really figure out what it brought though. This just seems different than the rest. Actually I don’t feel right calling it a Rom-Com. Oh yeah, I never realized how hot Mila Kunis was until I saw her in this.
This movie has been sitting in a “to watch” pile next to the DVD player for almost a year now and I’ve been wanting to watch it for longer than that. Such a good movie! Its sad and depressing but still is able to be slightly humorus without breaking the mood.
Ash really wanted to see it so we surprised him by taking him to see it. It wasnty playing in 3D locally so we had to go to Poughkeepsie. The 3D glasses are not the paper ones with the red and blue channels anymore, they are plastic and makes everyone look like Buddy Holley. The 3D is much more effective than in the bast. The movie itself was cute and good, I think it would stand up without the gimeck.
