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Drive (2011)
i saw this movie last night. you should check it out, i guess. its kinda empty. and there isnt much driving in it. but it has a real “cool” factor going on. it’s the hipster’s car chase movie.
no nudity whatsoever though, so i hesitate to call it real CINEMA. brian cranston is in it. i sitll dont get how malcolm’s dad is constantly this designer drug/suburban gangster type. so odd. he looks mild mannered.
but then again baby bird-faced gosling is kind of a weird pick too.
ever notice how the white dude is always saving the day? the damsel in distress is this pretty white girl who’s “ethnic” looking ex-con baby daddy intimidates and recounts tales of banging the underage mother pre-run upstate while “the Driver” sits there mute. odd.
highlights include: his satin, embroidered jacket and his driving gloves. which were custom made by some italian (of course)
however when i take my Le Baron on the autobahnen i keep it real too:
| me: | "On your souls! Do not shed blood...in the house of God!" |
| him: | What? |
| me: | It's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves |
| him: | Get out of my face. You can quote Robin Hood. |
Almost Famous (2000)
I remember liking this movie when it came out. But I was a twat then. I know this because I’m a twat now. Just watched it again, and frankly I’m a little surprised at the publicity it got. I don’t get it.
That being said, if you look at all the movies about music that were coming out around the turn of the century, they were all pretty warped. Seriously. Everyone in SLC Punk looked like a Hot Topic employee’s living dissertation of what a punk looked like in real life. For that matter Adrien Brody only sorta comes off as anything like a punk in Summer of Sam (arguably not a music movie, I know). The only one that came kinda close was Rock Star and I think I might be wrong there. The whole thing looks too clean.
The same thing strikes me about Almost Famous. Too warm. Too hippie. Too even-keeled. I mean if you wanna walk away from rock and roll with a “feel good message” I suggest you do a remake of Forrest Gump where he travels the world with Hunter S Thompson.
Where to begin…..
I don’t know. Kate Hudson looks like Robert Plant with cute mini-boobs. As if that wasn’t distracting enough, her weird fairy-casting-casual-sex magic routine and actiing like rock will save everything is about as pretentious as it was to make this movie.
Of course somewhere near the end of the second third the movie seems to right itself and something about the spirit of rock comes through. It’s pretty diluted but if you listen to Phillip Seymour Hoffman you can catch a couple glimpses.
A movie about Lester Bangs probably would’ve been cooler. But then again, writers don’t have groupies….
Tempted (2001)
This is one of those sexual erotic thriller type films. Unfortunately it goes places we’ve all been a million times without the courtesy of a leg-crossing scene. Or perhaps Mickey Rourke telling us how to bone. Remember that shit? It was like Cinemax finished where Sex Ed left off.
It’s basically Wild Things in the bayous of Louisiana instead of the ‘glades of Florida. But with less nudity. And Burt Reynolds. And some other guy. Think about that.
I can’t say much for this movie. It’s like the brownest thing I’ve ever seen. Maybe they did it on purpose. Make it more southern fried New Orleans or whatever. So here’s the plot run down: Burt needs to know if his wife is cheating so he pays a dude to bone her. The stupid kid thinks he is in love with the wife and then Burt wants to kick some ass. I can’t tell you any more or I might “ruin it for you”.
Angelina Jolie + Elizabeth Hurley - boobs = Saffron Burrows
All in all it’s a feel good kinda film though… because in the back of your head you know that one day Katrina will hit and we won’t have to worry about this place anymore.
Here’s the best 22 seconds of the film:
I apologize for writing this. If you want more Burt Reynolds I suggest Deliverance. If you want more Saffron Burrows you can see her get hacked up in Loss of Sexual Innocence but I promise you it’s not worth it. If you want some more of the main character, idk, check the job placement program nearest you.
The Wave (Die Welle) 2008
The movie starts out with a punk rock cool-guy teacher type who is tasked with teaching his students about autocracy. In Germany.
Yeah. Germany.
I think they know how it works.
The premise is that our man the teacher here has to explain autocracy and devises a social experiment to get his message across. The whole project lasts a week and we see a bunch of disparate characters embracing this movement, called “The Wave”, for no apparent reason whatsoever. They invent a stupid “salute” that looks like it was invented by Zack Morris. Pointless.
I was about to put on Hackers when the payoff finally arrived.
Teacher calls an assembly and manipulates the students using his status as “the leader” into forcing a summary justice moment kinda thing on an individual student named Marco. At this point Teach calls off the experiment and tells the kids to think about what they have experienced and all.
All in all worth a watch but the first half really drags. If you thought there’d be any David Hasselhoff and North Sea surf scenes I’m afraid you’re in for a disappointment.
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This is the only attractive beast in the entire thing. And she’s not even all that. Otherwise no one in this movie will be on postcards from the “German Riviera”…..which may or may not be Poland. Checking on that.
the world according to Hackers
1. Hackers are attractive and screens will destroy your retinas.
2. The IT department looks like the Matrix (actually I can’t disconfirm this one. never been to IT)
3. Hacking requires goggles.