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The First Wives Club (1996)
Trying to milk comedy out of a concept that sets women's liberation back 30 years.
Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn get divorced by their respective husbands. They team up to see "justice" done to their horrible husbands. What follows is a cavalcade of theft, extortion and blackmail wrapped in the idea that these women are "empowering" themselves. One might imagine it might be more empowering to take their monthly alimony checks and make a new life for themselves. Were one to make a movie about three men who dedicate their time to making the lives of the women who dumped them as miserable as possible but draining away all their wives money and even getting a little violent, such a film would hardly be considered funny. This film is, if anything, a glaring example of the double standard perpetrated by women in society today and I find nothing funny about hypocrisy.
May (2002)
You love her even when you learn to be afraid of her.
Let me just say this movie is a real treat to anybody looking for something a little off beat, OK a lot off beat.
The movie starts off showing us young May learning to deal with being a child with a lazy eye, and before the movie flashes forward to May living alone and working as an adult we also see how easily a lack of good parenting skills can lead to your child growing up to be unable to be a healthy member of society.We see May as a child for the last time at her birthday party attended by only May and her parents where for her birthday she is given a doll in a glass box by her mother and is told she can never play with it or even touch it. When we again see May as an adult is quickly becomes apparent that from that time to this she had never disobeyed her mother.This same doll still lives in her glass box and is now May's best friend, her only friend. May lives alone with her dolls and works as an assistant at an animal hospital. May is getting herself new contact lenses that straighten out her lazy eye and shes ready to go out into the world. Her first target is a tall dark haired man named Adam (Jeremy Sisto) who has beautiful hands. May is not ready for the real world and the real world is not ready for May.
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
Better BEFORE the studio got their fingers into it.
This is the original Prequel to The Exorcist before the movie studio decided that a psychological thriller (like The Exorcist, considered one of the greatest horror movies ever made) was not marketable. Therefore another prequel was subsequently made called Exorcist: The Beginning which still featured about half the same cast and was shot on the same sets. One of the biggest changes in my opinion is the replacement of a dark haired Clara Bellar with the blond bombshell Izabella Scorupco.
This version of the movie has a young Lancaster Merrin fighting the forces of evil in a much more metaphysical and psychological fashion when he is called to investigate the discovery of a completely buried church in north Africa that should not be there. The fun starts from there when little things begin to suggest there are otherworldly forces at work. This movie is by far better than the remake and if your going to watch only one, this is the one to watch.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
El Mariachi is not done killing
Once Upon a Time in Mexico on the surface appears to have a deep and subtle plot but in reality there is just enough to keep the action going and not so much as to completely confuse the watcher. I really like this movie even though it does not have the same feel of Desperado, and the continuity from that film to this one is a bit weak. Robert Rodriguez still weaves a fun little tale of revenge, greed and espionage culminating in a massive final sequence set against the background of a coup. The casting is first rate and the cast does not disappoint, each playing their character to their fullest.Johnny Depp's performance is of particular note.
Undead (2003)
A little bit of everything.
Undead is like one of those appetizer samplers you get at the Chinese food place. The movie combines horror and sci-fi along with a little comedy as well as adding in some Hong Kong style gun play.The biggest problem is that things tend to get a little confusing until you get near then end of the film but it is an overall fun and wild ride. Of particular note are the zombies, in this movie they really don't seem to want to stay down, coming back over and over to try and take down the last survivors of a small Australian town.This movie is overall very fun to watch, especially in a group, the makers even manage to slip in a better than average plot twist.
Day of the Dead (1985)
Even faced with the threat of being torn to shreds by zombies, humans still can't get along.
Imagine your one of the few people who survive the earth getting infested by zombies. Now your stuck in a military bunker with less than a dozen other people and your experimenting on the walking dead.Somehow in the middle of all of this the humans still find a way to end up in two opposing camps. Romero may be trying to capture the human factor of the original Night of the living dead but here it only seems to get in the way of an otherwise great zombie fest.The makeup is first rate and the gore is delectable but in my opinion this may be the weakest of the four Romero zombie movies.None the less this is required viewing for any horror fan.