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The Invention of Lying -- 6.5/10
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Wolf Creek (2005) -- 6/10 Oh man this movie could've been great. It was pretty good, and full of dread, and tense as hell...but...one of the women in the movie was one of the absolute stupidest characters ever in a horror movie, in a genre known for stupid characters, and I'm extraordinarily lenient in how stupid victims in a horror movie are allowed to be. The eventual victim continued to dig her own grave and it was maddening to watch. First, she commandeers a vehicle which could be used for escape. She is far away from the killer, with another victim in her car, and the two women reach a cliff. Instead of backing up and racing along the cliff, or trying to outwit the killer by driving, she opts to get out of the car, push it off the cliff, and then hide on a ledge on the cliff. What the hell? Then, this same victim makes it back to the killer's lair where she's trying to acquire another vehicle to make another getaway. She has the keys and begins looking for another car at the compound -- all she has to do is find the car, make sure the keys match, and drive away. She also finds a gun -- all she has to do is wait for the killer and pick him off. What does she do? She spies a dark shed and even though exploring this shed will not help her escape or live, she decides to check it out and falls in a hole, discovers bodies, etc. Meantime, I'm like, "Get the fuck out of there!" So she gets out of the shed and makes her way to another room. Again, instead of trying to find a car or preparing to ambush the killer with the gun she found, she starts reading articles the killer collected about his victims and she finds a series of previous victims' video cameras. Instead of finding the car and escaping, she takes time out to watch the footage on each video camera. She had plenty of time to get away!!! Again, I'm very willing to suspend disbelief and play along with the delirious victim's temporary craze and insanity and understand that they would do things that don't make a lot of sense, no one really knows how they would act when in such a nightmarish scenario, but she really could've lived if she had just gotten the fuck out of there. I know, I'm a fool for trying to make sense out of a horror movie, and occasionally I take horror movies too seriously, but this particular horror movie was based on actual events (supposedly), so it needed to be as realistic as possible, and the only reason for the idiot victim getting sidetracked was so the director could reveal a cave of dead bodies, show haunting footage of victims' video, illustrate scary newspaper clippings...but seriously. I think anyone can imagine that if they were at the mercy of a madman, they would focus as much as possible on escaping and surviving, not exploring the killer's headquarters and stopping to watch video footage and read newspaper clippings when clearly time is of the essence (nothing new from a horror movie really -- but the better a horror movie is to me the more I expect from it). A movie like this needs to be tight, a well-oiled machine, and when one of the victims continues to do traditional dumbass horror movie things, you stop caring about her survival and start focusing on how idiotic she's behaving. It's probably all those mammoth joints she smoked in the first 45 minutes of the film... Great, great villain tho.
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Pineapple Express -- 8/10 '> I was surprised at how much I loved this movie. Utterly shocked. Hilarious, violent, crazy, loaded with brilliant dialogue and perfect timing, and it even looks good! Beautifully shot HUGE widescreen movie with big explosions and lots of cool lighting. James Franco portrayed perhaps the most convincing comedy stoner I've ever seen. It gets 9.9 outta me (and for the record, I hate most Apatow/Rogen movies; this is that rare exception)
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Pineapple Express -- 8/10 '> I was surprised at how much I loved this movie. Utterly shocked. Hilarious, violent, crazy, loaded with brilliant dialogue and perfect timing, and it even looks good! Beautifully shot HUGE widescreen movie with big explosions and lots of cool lighting. James Franco portrayed perhaps the most convincing comedy stoner I've ever seen. It gets 9.9 outta me (and for the record, I hate most Apatow/Rogen movies; this is that rare exception) "If you do good stuff, you can come back as an eagle. You can come back as a dragon. You can come back as Jude Law.
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Wolf Creek (2005) -- 6/10 Oh man this movie could've been great. We own the score, but I haven't viewed the film yet. Will need to rent from the Library... When you watch it, let me know what you think re: my massive blacked-out spoilerfest. I'd highly recommend you check out Rogue instead, from the same director (Greg McLean). I saw Rogue before Wolf Creek and it was light years better.
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Wolf Creek (2005) -- 6/10 Oh man this movie could've been great. We own the score, but I haven't viewed the film yet. Will need to rent from the Library... When you watch it, let me know what you think re: my massive blacked-out spoilerfest. I'd highly recommend you check out Rogue instead, from the same director (Greg McLean). I saw Rogue before Wolf Creek and it was light years better. Mahalo! I've never heard of Rogue, but then again, I'm always the last to know about films (don't watch much TV or read blogs and/or articles centered around films). Well, this is too funny...Joshua said he acquired the score a few days ago...and it is awesome. He hasn't seen the film, though. Thanks for the suggestion, DR! And now I have a new score to listen to, too! Ha!! Oops...did a double tripple. Was responding to an earlier post...and forgot I had posted before. Old age...
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"If you do good stuff, you can come back as an eagle. You can come back as a dragon. You can come back as Jude Law. I'll see that quote and raise ya: (text hidden for profanity) "This is like if that Blue Oyster shit met that Afghan Kush I had - and they had a baby. And then, meanwhile, that crazy Northern Light stuff I had and the Super Red Espresso Snowflake met and had a baby. And by some miracle, those two babies met and fucked - this would be the shit that they birthed."
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