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Jan 4, 2024: after being burned for about 2 decades of hit or miss movies. I have decreed the following grading scale and rules .
1 free star if there is an actor, director, that has respected reknown. However if said famed actor starred in a stink bomb of a movie (and many are, especially "comedians". the movie will lose that free point.
10 is an A+ movie it's perfect. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me laugh-cry (painful tearing up laughter. I've pretty much seen all the gags). If mentioned movie has moved me to social action (ie pissed me off, or inspired me to do something), If the movie is geniunely FRESH (nonsensical movies, baffling but intelligent movies are welcome to try).
On the subject of Reviews:
(you also get a babbling movie review from me too). HOWEVER.. if the movie insults me, with cheap unfunny toliet humor (and toliet humor is funny actually, but I've since grown up from the 90's cheap laughs). The movie gets a 1 vote (or fail), and a babbling review (ranting).
On the subject of new fresh experimental ideas: Woke themes, foreign themes, themes that get me to think and get me in the feels, new comedy... I could care less. Just make the characcter 4 dimentional. (a movie exists to move us out here in 4th wall dimension INTO your world director, into your head. If you want to experiment feel free to do so, but make your characters alive. Could care less that so and so is a black, Transperson hero, with Neural divergencies, just make the character alive.... make the story alive. Example,
Cher stars as a mother of an American teenager in the 80's, who has facial deformities and a shortened life span. He struggles through the stigma, and has plans to motorcycle around the world. Does he make it to graduation?
On the subject of eye candy: Great visuals are great. Loved Speed Racer, loved Matrix, loved jon woo movies, loved Micheal bay movies. But don't make that the ONLY trait of the movie. Loved Gone in 60 seconds.... Get a point if I'm immersed in the film.
Writers: as if 2024 you guys got a new raise, and a bunch of other perks.... EARN IT. Write better stories. Don't make cheesy scenes, bland dialog... you don't get a star, or you lose one if you do.
Note my grades are not finite... they can go up and down, especially after rewatches... earn the rewatch and pray that it doesn't go down.
5 stars= movie is trite, but still watchable it's a C (c is a passing grade), This is the mid point. Think of it as the 50 year line of football.
4 stars is a C-, or D+ still passing but I wanted more, or too many mistakes have been made
3 stars very rare. Either I hate the movie completly and it's a 1, or I like it a 10, (nearly binary). or the movie was passable so a 5, or good passable 6.
2 Star the actor was great, or notable and the writeing and directing stinks. Their acting skills saved this still born dead fish of a film.
1 star (self explainatory)..... remember I give a star if there is someone notable in the movie. So this means that the movie was a total dud, and squanders the notable actor's talents. This movie wastes film, wastes the studio's money, the actors, time, waste of film (remember it pollutes to make a movie, construction movie sets, food-catering, vehicle transport, especially of the crew staffers, massive electricity, transport of the film (film is digital these days now), film backer's bling squandered... All for a cynical cash grab, or inserting some flavor of the week demograph, in a token role, and not really applying this opportunity for diversity to it's maximum potential. I could care less that the ghostbusters were women... just don't be lame. Could careless that Aprile Oniel is black just make her not so 1 dimentional.
Take a remdial course in film school to sharpen your writing and filming skills then come back to us. Oh and if you're going to be a cheap ass 90's comedian who still thinks poopy and pee pee jokes are funny : Myers, Knoxville, Sandler.. GROW UP. You lose that freebe point. So do you Jack "Skadoosh" Black.
6 stars: Good, enjoy able but not movie magic... Average but at least it's on a positive side right? Plus if the actor managed to score well, transition between genres, such as comedians experimenting with seroius films... You get a free point from a 5 (note I usually enjoyed the movie and threw in lots of cool points there, that could average to a 10). That's why I score yes 10, or no 1. C+ (65-70% this is a good mark).
7. Very rare, as stated this movie has pleased me, it is worth my money, it has tickled me so I laugh (but not cry that's a perfect 10... I'm basically needing to get defibed). But usually if a movie has made me happy enough, the experiment went well (ie Fight Club), or did what it was supposed to do, and staring some well know actor (free point), The score is usually 9, or 10. B- to A- (so high 80's to 90's).
8 the movie is ALMOST there. I'm laughing up mucus (from tears), I'm coughing ( I have asthma, I cough alot when I laugh alot). It's quite a frightful sight actually, but if I'm some old dude and I die laughing... Thank you.. if I cried because the movie is sad. That's ok. It's what it's supposed to do. If the movie has pissed me off about life and want to combat such an evil with volunteerism... If the movie is an epic and epically moved me (2 hours is ok too, just JUSTIFY those two hours, and not just eye candy)... This is an A (or 90-95 %).
9 (very rare.. the movie does so well +the bonus actor star-director point again this uqually makes a perfect 10. Something is just a little bit off. but we can't figure it out... was the movie too formulaic? Did it not transport me off planet earth and into planet hollywood? Was it WAY to complex. Remember ambitious movies are ok, experimental are ok.. I welcome the weird films, scary movies are ok.... but for movies it has to break past the the 4th dimention wall. Ok think of it this way. We the audience are the background characters sitting off in the distance runing our own lives, but still observing the story. Think of it as the guys who are in the side tables or back ground tables, we have fuzzy faces, while the camera focuses on some dialog between two mobsters or something.
Or we're just the random dude walking across the street while Quick silver or Flash just wizzed past us and we dont' notice. Or we're just fellow drivers on the street that are behind the other cars of some car chase. We still drive on lalalala nothing happened. turn the corner... That's us.
Make US come to YOU guys behind that screen. Just don't blow us up of course... That's why we park our asses down in dirty sticky seats, line up for the confectionaries, and tickets, and actually risk life and limb driving to the cinema... (busy freeway, attentive driving, nutty road raging drivers trying to cut us, off, dummies that try to jump infront of our cars for insurance money, breathing in toxic fumes. that neurlogically poison us. Why the hell should we come to YOU?
Hell we're the REAL movie stars of hollywood, just driving to the place... Why don't we just stay at home netflix and chill, with our pets, our blankets, or own house that smells like us and our pets and kids? That our own couch, or bed is where we put our own asses, instead of some rando's ass? right? no long line ups for the bathroom. Go the seve for some Orville popcorn, and a 2 leiter bottle, or order a pizza in, and spend time with the kids and pets? Why should we come to you guys for you to keep on abusing us with mornic films?
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IF (2024)
Finallly some orginality in children film
You know how we all lament that movies for the past 20 or so years is either a remake, a bland sequel of an inventive novel francise, or a formulaic mindless drivel. Monotnic robotic emots, or some last minute cash grab in the face of the pandemic and writer's strike.
IF isn't that. IF is geuninely acted, uncampy-cheesy family friendly film. Well written script flows well, naturale. Opposite of cynical cash grab films. Obviously untampered with by zombified out of touch executives, and true to the director's intent (John Kazanski, ie Jim from the Office)
An imagintive girl rediscovers her ability to view the world innocently and precieve IF's (Imaginary Friends) who are living in her grandmother's apartment, she is staying at to be close to her ailing father under surgery.
She helps them in their plight of being redundant.
Madame Web (2024)
This movie is sheety pants pants pant
Sheety pants pant pants pants sheeeety pants pants panta pants. And WHY? Lame writing, lame acting, lame delivery. A cheap soulless cash grab typical of the Sony dimension of the Marvelverse. Not to say the Disney Dimension of the Marvelverse, or the Marvel Dimension of the Marveverse, are any better.
It' just seems like writers after a century of writing quality scripts just plain ran out of ideas.
Plot... if that's what the writers call it: a clairevoyant woman's latent precognitive abiliites manifest on a stressful day as an EMS. She witnesses 3 random teens demise at the hands of a villian and vows to protect them with her precognitive knowledge.
She developed her skills by being born from her mother who was bitten by a Amazonian spider who's venom evolves her.
Bob Marley: One Love (2024)
Bob Marley bio pic more liike BOOB Marley version. Rember kids Marijuanan affects the memory
It's well documented that prolonged habitual use of Cannabis (Marijuna) affects memory.. Just like forgetting an important event in Marley's life... such as Marley's concert in Zimbabwe to celebrate independence.
As well as well known African freedom songs. Let me guess the writers kept on hitting the ol bong when writing the movie.... and blacked out when they reached the era of the Zimbabwe concert. Or they ordered the obligatory Chinese delivery that accompnies using reefer and in their feast bliss forgot that Important champter in Bob's life.
Because "Everyman Got a right to deside his own destiny".
Regardless of Mugabe being a tyrant, who invited Bob.
Anyways just another souless cash grab. Like bio pics about stars rarely delves into their inner being. This is a movie about them, their lives, their humanity. Not some narration recital of their deeds.
Acting was mediocre...
Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka (2023)
All good things must come to an end.
There is no doubt that Miyazaki still has more films left untold. And like certain aging musicians who promises us last farewell tours, but resurfaces occasionally.
Miayzaki will return in the future but as what? We have all see the decline of mighty acting dynasties and musical acts while their later works still delightful, somehow lacks the glory and quality when the act was new. A shell of itself., but still a formitable shell, but as time goes on, aging and decay takes it's toll.
This is the theme of Boy and the heron. Still a good view, but don't expect the whimsical fantasy worlds of younger Miyakazi.
Spoiler.. Invited by the titular heron, on a quest to resecue his mother's spirit from the underworld, a young boy finds a magical realm in the back yard of his family estate, and the true nature of his heriditary birthright, while exploring a esoteric tower an arcane relative founded. He encounters a decaying ecosystem of a neitherworld, where a old wizard who has kept the existance of a aging world in existance, but is losing control as his skills deminish. The world's eco system is collapsing with ecological decay, not unlike a city aging....
while the visuals are classic ghibil, as is the premise. Something is lacking in this film, it's soul and energy and story telling seems to be decaying. As does the magical realm. Perhaps a subtle message from Myazaki?
OR PERHAPS that's the genius of the film after all.
The worlds presented, are two dying world. Imperial WWII Japan, set towards the loss of key battles that eventually would end the war months later, and fading away of an Empire,
And the magical realm also decaying with econological collapse as the patriarch wizard's abiliites deminish.
And the end of the Ghibli era of films, as filma might continue to jump the shark in quaity. This shouldn't be a reflection of Miayazki's story telling skills, but everything ends, everything fades away sadly.
There will be more Ghibli movies in the future, perhaps some with higher quality than Boy in the heron, but everything comes to an end, with declining trend. We hope that future hits will extend the life of this franchise. That Miyazaki still has some grand project up his sleeve still that can delay the inevitable. But when that day comes, we have to realize and accept that the end is a natural conclusion.
All movies are declining not just Myazaki's, birth rate declining, old game franchises are declining, simpsons is declining, Marvel-DC movies declining. Cineplex shares declining... we must accept this cinema is dying. It's time for a new media.
This is the starting point perhaps of the decline of the Ghibli verse. None the less, movie audience stil get sucked in, believing that a decade of development would present the swan song, and base their decision on his prevoius works... Sadly Boy and the heron is not it... It's a mediocre dud. It's watchable at best.... Perhaps Myazaki's next film would reverse the collapse? Or perhaps this was intentional as a powerful slap to the face to return to reality. Either way, the movie was profitable to warrant another film.
Ted 2 (2015)
Turd 2.....
Unfunny film, well as others have stated here, the movie is more targeted for a juviniel audience with it's cheap scaterlogical potty humor. The cliche pot jokes that are relevant to a a late 30's target demographic..
Anyhow, Ted finally gets married, but finds out that he's not a person afforded with the democratic rights of American citizenship and the modern institutions of society. Ie banks, fast food royalty, and even his marriage licence has been revoked he with John fight for his rights in court
Once again a lifeless cash grab that epitomized the typical state of the industry. There is no freshness in films anymore.
No Hard Feelings (2023)
Lawrence's inner Gail surly shines in this cheap "Failure to Launch" reboot.
"Gail" is Jennifer Lawrence's INSANE uninhibited drunkard alterego emerges in particular binge drinking Vodka and Rum. Gail is a dangerous childish woman who is a danger to Lawrence. Such as swimming in shark infested waters.
This movie was definitely filmed by Gale and not Lawrence. How else, explains this absolute gong show of a movie... Gail plays older
Maddie. Similar to the film Failure to Launched is hired to lay with a rich couple's college aged son to help him socially mature for the upcoming school year away form home.
Gale like insanity? Lawrence naked on beach punched in her Vag..
K-PAX (2001)
user hoytyhoyty posted this is plagerism of Argentian film Man facing South East
Actually Kpax is based on a book written by Gene Brewer in the 90's, but Man facing South East was filmed in the 80's. So it seems the film predated the book. Same premise. A homeless man is brough in for mental care and claims to have been an explorer from the planet Kpax. They have the ability to travel on light particles and are premitted to travel every 5 years per their light controller tower like regulations.
They inhabit the bodies of humans on Earth. (new agey walk ins). Prot (Spacey), has inhabited the body of a homeless man and is taken in for treatment. Time is running out to go home.
Jet Li Is 'The One' (2002)
There can be only ONE!
A renegade Multiverse law enforcer called Yulaw (Li) is nearing the completion of his quest to murder all his doplegangers. He has ambitions to devour his doplegangers and absorb their essence to become the "One". Each kill makes him stronger however strengthens surviving selfs. Such as LAPD officer Gabe Law (LI) who comfronts Yulaw.
Excellent examples of the new generation of digital ex, ie Matrix, Fast and Furious, and other forms of visual effects, but "the One", also delivers with well written story than traditional action one liner cheese fest films, and the Martial artistry of Jet Li. .
Psycho Beach Party (2000)
Gidget goes psycho
The orginal title Gidget Goes Psycho intended as a parody of the puritanical innocent 'Gidget' Sufer' girl movies from the 50's.
Delightful movie, parodying Cali 50's surf girl Gidget movies.. Dark comedy. A young 16 year old's named "Chicklet" promotory summer of romance and socializing with older peers and surfers is upended by a serial killer stalking Malibu.
"Chicklet", suffers from multiple personalities and doesn't remember between black outs. Could she be the killer? The leader of the surf gang Kanaka is attracted to one of her personalities and tries to invoke her at the risk........
Beef (2023)
Where's the Beef Lol
Way to go Netflix, squander yet another well known actor. Yuen from Walking Dead (Glen), or "Asian Jim" from Community... (staring in that Blockbusters movie).. or Ali Wong. A perfectly good chance to use their fandom. But squandered on typical Netflix lunacy.
Said lunacy of this show invokes: some incoherent scenario of a pair of two opposites (rich Vs poor)- Female Vs Male, combatting each other in a campaign of escalating retaliatory malfience. Zerzetsung petty pranks on each other (gang stalking-gas lighting).
The couple's grip on sanity erodes as they become insanely unhinged in their one up pranks stemming from a road rage incident.
This show was meant to be a dark comedy, but it turned into an insane nightmare fuel S-show reminiscent of Robin William's "stimulated" manic proformances that were not endearing or cute, but a thrill ride of confused insane mania..
This show could have toned down the insane outlandish mania, and gone for a more subtle toned down and intelligent approach to combat, instead we get two screaming lunatics screaming at each other in rage.
Yup Netflix keep on squandering stars.
License to Wed (2007)
That's funny the Pre Cana (Marriage Prep) class I took didn't involve
If there is candidate for the patron Saint of Un-matrimony and Un-romance would be Father Frank. (Williams) Fr. Frank, alarmed by the increase prevalence of mismatches leading to divorces or toxic undivorceable Catholic marriages. He instituted a unique marriage prep boot camp where be subjects engaged couples to a guantlet of trials designed to inspire fustration and aggrivation between pre-marital couples and drive them apart.
William's twisted escalating manic coked up stand up performance style becomes frighteningly unhinged trial after trial as Frank ups the ante designed to collapse an unsuitable marriage. Such trials to simulate such domestic crisis as:
Creepy deformed robotic babies, that simulate infant behavioral such as urinating, vomiting, and defecating on a care givers face, Unsafe blindfolded driving as a communication exercise, and emotional manipulation.
Movie has such features as:
-A demented "Damien" chubby cherubic (those fat Catholic baby angels) creepy "tattoo' (Fantasy Island) or mimi-Gomez Adams-looking creepy kid deacon in training who aids Pastor in setting up an array of spy gadgets on the couple (john Kransnisky and Mandy Moore).
- A creepy priest who intrudes in their lives with outrageous skits designed to test the limits of their patience. And uses the above-mentioned surveillance system to spy on premarital sex.
The course we took was online, but traditionally the pre-cana courses are done in workshop style.
This was Robin's first movie after coming out or rehab as such desperate to reclaim his decades-fading stardom he took whatever mediocre roles and performed whatever mediocre performances through his terminal ... As faded into obscurity. Had he lived longer he would have probably ended his career in the Netflex graveyard of fading Hollywood stars. Where stars went to die.
But perhaps if you're a fan of William's coked up manic deliverance.. this movie is for you.
Joe's Apartment (1996)
A crack headed former aquaintance of mine loved this film
This said individual also sired multiple children with multiple spouses and abandoned them to be raised by the Canadian tax player's expense. He survived heroin rehabilitation and is currenty on leave pending "PTSD" from a trucker accident. Aka faking it, sponging off yet another estranged wife, while raising his only daughter and behavioral challenged-attention challenged deliquent of a son....
This is the typical audience following of this movie and their intellect. He giggled like a gleeful man baby child in a candy store during the Cockroach singing around a toliet scene...
As for myself.. I gave up cannabis and went back to school after watching this with him...
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Well done political thriller
Agent Frank Horrigan (Eastwood) is haunted by his failure to protect President Kennedy during his ill-fated campaign tour in Dallas. Horrigan now in ill health, alcoholic and aged near retirement prosecutes minor felons.
Until he drawn into an investigation when a provocative creepy phone caller addresses him specifically and threatens the life of the President and provoking Horrigan to a battle of wits.
Horrigan has another chance to do what he failed to do. Protect the POTUS. However ridicule from his colleagues, as well as sickness, and diminished abilities hinders his progress. His opponent is a highly intellectual and younger assassin who remains a step ahead of him taunting him with disturbing phone calls.
Clint Eastwood is an avid pianist and provides a sample of his Lounge Jazz piano skills in this film.
Dom durakov (2002)
The Russian and Chechen forces converge on psychiatric hospital
The Russian forces and Chechen rebels unknowgly converge on a psychiatric hospital where the head Psychiatrist and staff has gone to seek humanitarian aid when communications has been cut off from the fighting. The patients are left to fend for themselves.
Delusional patient, Zhanna tries to care for her fellow patients in crisis as the soldiers are unsure how to proceed upon making the discovery of the facility and it's emergency surpasses.
Interesting black comedy, Canadian rocker Bryan Adams makes cameo as Zhanna's delusional fantasy of being her fianance who will take her away from the madness once his concert tour is over.
Pi (1998)
intriguing concept the maddening mystery that is pi
Nonsensical film that had potential but was squandered by the over ambitions of a underskilled film maker.
A reclusive mad mathematician descends into pill popping madness as his obsession creates a home made super computer named "Euclid". Euclid randomly regurgitates a set of numbers that piques the attention of: his estranged Mathmatics mentor Salo (MarK Magolis), a sinister corporation, and a mysterious Rabbnic Cabal, as he delves closer to solving the enigma that is pi, a task that eludes the the most numerically gifted minds of yore to present
Stylish with the neo-noir black and white cinematography. I gave a star there. The premise had promise as did the portrayal of descent into madness. Defiantly elite film school honors quality, but not cinema quality yet...
Stars Mark Magolis of "Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. Another point there.
But the consensus that this is a self gratifying indulgent film of a film maker who thinks to unwarrantedly high of himself and tried to hard to master cinematographic skills far beyond his abilities. We just get a random mess of nonsensical images typical of a film student's thesis or a Sundance entry.
Seinfeld (1989)
A Meta bio pic about the young life of Jerry Seinfield preformed by Jerry Seinfield
Spoiler, you'll never guess how this show ened... Yup that's right Seinfield pitches the show Seinfield.... to executives..... this show....
A comedian named 'Jerry", struggles and fails through New York urban life life and relationships as he navigates life in expensive New York. All characters are references to experiences he had and people he knew. To think that there's actually an idiot like Kramer out there in the world.
So this is the show that defined the 90's? And everyone hyped as if it were the second coming of the Savior. An actual life store of a pathetic unfunny comedian bumbling through life....
Only for us to end up at the point where we started! Episode 1 (at the end of the series). It's like we're stuck in some pugatorian time loop hell hole of no escape....
And yes there REALLY is a Soup Nazi, called the "Soup guy" in real life,
Jeeze talk about self important ego.
Man I should make a sitcom about my goofy life, and call it Mr Bumps adventures bumping into walls, falling down stairs, being tripped by my pets, . And it's just a collection of clips of me and my spatially challenged accidents like those "spill" infomertials of klutzes dumping spagetti sauce on their foreheads if they don't have some special container that sells for 4 easy payments of 99.99!
But anyways this just begs the meta existential question..... are our lives just a series of sitcoms in a tragi comedy and we're being watched by voyeristic aliens, just as we spent this decade watching Jerry's unfunny life, career, and now show?
F Is for Family (2015)
Wow a ranting father, horse, duck (duckman) how orginal
Yes yes we get it life sucks. It's a "kick to the crotch", according to BoJack Horseman. We get it angry middle age disillusioned caucasian dad unsure of his place in a diversified world: Bundy, Bunker, Frank, Duckman, the old man on "Gran Turino", Red Forman.....balding way past their prime discovered that the super rich build their fortunes on their American Dream. We get it. High taxes, high mortgage, economic meltdowns, decolonized nations rising and demanding their seat at the world table and going their own way and not Kowtowing to the States and worshiping his big white penis.
Hyper aggressive ungreatful son who counters his angry teenage hormones with sex, drugs, and rock n roll, who likes to say "daddy water. Daddy water.... daddy water....... daddy water". Who thinks he's a tortured rock artist instead he sucks dildos (his favorite insult), and smokes reefer all day.
Yes Frank we get it...... you're just mad that you didn't get your chance to achieve the American dream... That you never worked for and you think you're owed by virture of you being a White male.
Just like the other 299 Million Americans who are being shafted, (regardless of their demograph), and you're scared when the harsh realities of economic collapse brought on by multiple wars, civil poverty, economic mismanagment, and corrupt leadership are coming home to roost..
Now you can join the rest of us 99% ADULT Americans who actually DO something about, ie, upgrade your skills, work two jobs, or a dual income home, or volunteer to protect your neighborhood from these forces of darkness.
OR continue to freak out threatening to put your children through the wall. With your cowardly idle threats that don't intimidate anyone. They insult you back and you freak out about it and waste what little money you don't have on booze.
His rants were over done, intially colourful mildly entertaining... but over done... Yet another Netflix flop. But eventually it grates on you for the duration of this show.
Patch Adams (1998)
This was the first film me and my friends walked out on
We were expecting classic funny slapstick Williams, but we got a incomprehensible mess of nonsensical Williams classical gags that just didn't work. No fault of Williams as this colourful gonzo personae was perfect for him. But the elements weren't there.
This would be the slow and inevitable downfall of his career. Sure he had some hits along they way, but sadly as with all stars oh Hollywood Boulevard. Their sun sets... Thankfully for us he had some really great hits along the way to delay.
Especially some dramatic serious roles, but Chase, Martin, Carrey, Myers, and other comic dynasties must come to an end.
But this was filmed in the late 90's, about the decline of cinema. (rehashed/recycled movies, predictable plots of cliches). What made Robin and other comics unique was fresh material. We can only see Carry's facial expressions so many times, or Robin's funny sounds, etc... what made 80's comedy was they were bombastically weird, experimental, just plain surreal. Williams was king of that. Toys, was extremely weird.
That's the point of comedy is that we are entertained and amused by just plain silly. Williams somehow lost this innocence. Chase did, Short did, Carrey Did, Myers did.
If you're an aspiring comedian out there. BE WEIRD, We're not laughing at you.. we're laughing with you... share your insane absurdism dada, coo coo bananas world view with us.
But not to worry . Williams did manage to capture the cynical wackiness of a dark world multiple times (the election one where he becomes president worked).
Ok rant over. The film is a bio pic about real life doctor Hunter Adams, who suffered much tragedy and was instutionalized after a suicide attempt or something. He discovers his talent for creative problem solving, especially the inspiration of humor and discovers his calling as a healer who uses humor to uplift the spirits of the demoralized sickly. Founding the social justice hospital 'Gesundheit! Institute'....
This would have been a piece of cake for Williams as it was a total "Mork", role... Bleep you Hollywood and your cynical plastic culture give us back our dead or dying heroes. Give them back!!!
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Death of a Salesman meets super hero.
The Hollywood dream of stardom eludes an aged fading type casted actor who's franchise dynasty of a super hero "Birdman" is coming to end. The actor gambles on legitimacy as an actor producing a play much to the ridicule of the NY Broadway audience of the NY-LA rivalry, but faces many setbacks and grows increasingly exhausted as the production dealine looms and he suffers from hallcinations and breakdowns as well as relationship issues with his daughter
Comparable of the "Salesman". Who exhausted his youth and career trying to achieve the American dream of great success.
Well acted and well written, high quality deserving of the oscar.
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
REmember all you need in life is a Big Moustach Moustach Moustach
A farmer wants to court a mysterious woman. But an outlaw suitor with a bigger Moustach, and ability to buy her luxuries like "Candy"... with a single dollar.... The most holiest of all praise worthy documents. Meanwhile, His neighbors keep on dying of extreme violent gory deaths of an accient prone era of early American industrialization and settlement.
But really all he needs is a Moustach, Moustach Moustach Moustach.... you'll need some Laudanum (1800's medication of spiking booze with powerful opiates) to endure the Moustach ear worm.... You'll see. Please don't watch this film and suffer.
Adventureland (2009)
First world problems: Pretentious/overly ambitious movie about a overly ambitious pretentious academic student working a summer job
A unemployable tortured artistic student with "soft" employable skills discovers his downsized parents are unable to afford him tuition at some Ivy league university never minding inability to fund a graduation trip to Europe.
He is unable to gain summer employment as his knowledge about liberal arts is not valued in the world. His only recourse is to work among other social rejects at an amusement park.
You'd think this had some promise as a comedy, but no it's some nonsensical experimental film, about his existential intellectual masturbation coming of age awareness. At least most indy experimental films have some sort of point.. This is just some numb homework assignment that some film student filed in at the last minute.
Yesterday (2019)
Yesterday by King Casey III (stage name) the 5th Beetle..
Yesterday..... all my troubles seeem so far away.
I haven't discovered discovered this movie yesterday.
I though it would be a funny rom com.. how could I be so dum.
Oh how I long for yesterday....
A failed musician was thinking of giving up yesterday. He enters a dimension where the Beatles didn't exist the next day...
Now he tries to Plagerize the Beatles thinking it's totally okay..
to steal other's intellctuall pro-per-tay.... oy vay.....
Camp Hollywood (2004)
A documentary about the D-list bohemian retreat that is Highland Gardens Hotel
The Highland Gardens Hotel (Formerly the Landmark Hotel) is a quiet 2 star hotel where artists and D-list celebrities reside as they work on their craft. Famous for Canadians migrants to Hollywood.
A Canadian stand up comedian Steve Markle) resided there in 2004 for half a year and documented the residents of the hotel whom have formed a Bohemian ecosystem community of support. Most of the actors eventually become successful years later. Author Gary Indiana resided there and his work "Do Everything in the Dark" debuted on the documentary.
Dave Stiltanen (Dave the bank robber), became a addictions cousellor life coach.
Mark Magolis (the bomber on Scarface, becomes Hector Salamanca of Breaking Bad-Better Call Saul). Brooke stars on many shows, Call Me Fitz, etc, British dude stars on Game of Thrones his last role, among other....
Janis Joplin infamously had her fatal overdose and her room is a pilgrimage site for thaostourist fans of the Folk hippy musician.
The Pentaverate (2022)
Classic golden age of Mike Myers humor... just like 30 years ago when we were kids
(cont). The sad fact of life however is that we grow up and mature. We develop more advanced tastes in life as our executive functions expand. Translation: We grew up and are parents of teenagers we once were when we appreciated Myers' work. You know that age when we're hyper sucking back 7-11 slurpees spiked with Jolt, Monster-Nox, Red Bull, munching down Charleston Chew, Doritos and parting our hair with the so called "Penis" cut hairdo of the 90's, while spray painting anarchist "A", or ACAB, and rocking out to 90's alternative rock.... we though we were edgy because someone said the G word or the R word. Or the N word. And we though that Adam Sandler's scaterlogical jokes were "Hardcore-edgecore".... if this Paget stage of life still appeals to you in your 40's, or you wish for your late 20's-30's Xoomer years back the Austin Powers years) This movie is for you... Cheap laughs, scat jokes, "edgy" homophobic jokes. Canadian humor, Myer's playing grotesque characters.... Childish over use of the F-bomb so much it lost it's edgecore, homphobic 90's jokes ala Friends,
Anyhow, Myers' again is everyone in this stinker of a film. He plays the entire council of some ancient Freemason like cabal trying to keep the world aloat admis a sea of chaotic threats. Currently global warming.
Just another Netflix comedy.... the graveyard of once brilliant comedic dynasties" Carell died here with (Space force). Sandler died here with that western and a few other films.... John Cho's with Cowboy Bebop (which actually was good, but also deadpanned), Rubens (Pee Wee, was so so), Christina Applegate's black comedy dead to me..... and a bunch of other obscure stillhearted B-D stars either extend their careers, of their careers die here. (usually the later).
Hot Chili (1985)
Your typical 80's teensolpitation comedy "wild hotel" party movie
Definatly one of those hit the bong, shrooms, alcohol and go back in time for 80's cinephiles of teenspolitation. 3 teens work as bellboys in a Mexican Hacienda resort over the summer and get into typical adventures on a quest to serve odd guests and their hedonistic sexual needs while trying to stay out of trouble and keep their jobs.