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Movie 43 with Kate Winslet, Dennis Quaid, Hugh Jackman, Elizabeth Banks, Josh Duhamel, Liev Schreiber, Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Kate Bosworth, Kieran Culkin, Justin Long, Uma Thurman, Anna Faris, Naomi Watts, Seth MacFarlane, Common, and several others.
Here's my Netflix review:
Funny? Ya gottta be kidding! I thought this was one of the most Unfunny movies I have ever seen. And yet some reviewers claim they thought it was funny. It made my skin crawl and I found myself astonished that it would even be green-lighted. Honestly, it it seemed like the drivel now being passed off as comedy on "Saturday Night Live" taken to the Nth degree. And I find it chilling to think that this is what some people think of as funny. Back in the 1970s, when they marketed "The Loved One" (which truly WAS funny!), the ads read "It Has Something To Offend EVERYONE," and while it may have offended some, it was still quite entertaining. But not this one. Identified as "Raunchy," I think it would be more apt to call it vomit-inducing. Or maybe diarrhea-inducing. See this at your own peril!
Just one example. In the beginning vignette, Dennis Quaid is down on his luck and pitching an idea for a film to Greg Kinnear. His idea: Kate Winslett goes on a blind date with a man who turns out to be played by Hugh Jackman, and she's surprised at how good looking he is ... until he takes off his scarf to reveal, hanging from the middle of his neck, the most realistic depiction of a scrotum and 2 testicles, the left hanging a tad lower than the right. She's startled by what she sees and is dismayed that nobody in the busy restaurant seems to notice the scrotum hanging from Jackman's neck. This segment goes on far too long, at one point Jackman standing behind Winslett while their picture is being taken, and he's asked to crouch down and the scrotum rests on Winslett's head, which horrifies her. I shouldn't get into the one in which the woman asks her boyfriend to "poo" on her and when he discusses the concept of it with his buddies, they caution him to refer to it as poo because "You only call it 'shit' when you do it on a whore," and give him suggestions on what to eat beforehand to affect its color and texture -- THAT segment ends with an explosion of diarrhea covering the windshield of a car! Just hated this movie.
Here's how it is described at IMDb:
Ineffectual, 'has-been' film-maker (Dennis Quaid) swindles his way into an interview with a film executive (Greg Kinnear) in order to pitch an outrageous and controversial comedy manuscript. After pitching the first of his thirteen offbeat fables, the dejected artist forces the rest of his disjointed allegory on the executive at gunpoint. He tells stories of a woman on a blind date with a man who has testicles growing from his neck, in another a smitten woman offers her neck to her boyfriend to 'poop' on - as a sign of commitment and love. In yet another two parents take home-schooling to a whole new level of indecency, striving to give their isolated teenage son all the 'regular' torment and humiliation of puberty by bullying, peer-pressuring and even seducing him themselves. An off-beat, elephant-in-the-room type film. Written by kwedgwood@hotmail.com
But that has some inaccuracies. For example, in the first line we are told that Quaid "swindles his way into an interview with a film executive," when in fact, as he unhesitatingly admits, he sucked off the guard at the gate to gain entry, which becomes a running gag in the movie. Enough already!!!
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CindyLover:
See the paragraphs I added just as you were replying!!!
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Pacific Rim (2013) -- 4/10
Ouch, more specifics on why you didn't like Pacific Rim?
Can't speak for Deputy, but I found this to be one poorly written script. No common sense at all. Just because it has giant robots fighting monsters doesn't mean it can't put in the minimum effort of intelligence found in most other b-films of it's type.
Actually, in this case you can speak for the Deputy! Well put. And horrible acting. Like you said, no minimum effort on anything except I think for special effects, which is what got my rating 4 points out of 10. Probably Charlie Day's character brought my rating down at least 3 points; one of the most annoying characters (and actors) I've ever seen. Guillermo del Toro has fallen a long way from Blade II, Hellboy, and Pan's Labyrinth. Hell, even Mimic was leaps and bounds better than Pacific Rim.
I am, however, looking forward to GdT's next project, Crimson Peak.
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Dep, have you seen the show Harper's Island? It was recommended to me and it looks like a 13-hour slasher movie so I though it might be in your wheelhouse. . . If you've seen it, any thoughts?
I haven't seen it, but I have wanted to for awhile, it's been towards the top of my Amazon shopping cart for several months. It does look really cool and unusual, a slasher story told in television format, and it has Jim Beaver and Katie Cassidy in it, two actors I really like. I'm sure I'll get to it soon. If you watch it first, let me know what you think!
Anyone else seen it or heard anything about it?
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I'm watching it now, watched the first episode last night. Will get back to you when I've finished the series!
Cool. Please do!
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Gangster Squad (2013) -- 8/10
Great movie! Very entertaining, stylish, well-made. Tremendously exciting action sequences and a killer cast. Pretty ferocious and violent, too. Sean Penn's performance was a bit too caricature and a lot of scenes felt like they had been trimmed down to 10% of what they once were, resulting in brief blips of moments that should have meant more, but otherwise I really enjoyed Gangster Squad.
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so we tried out this independent horror tale last night. It has a fantastically creepy trailer and the movie itself has a good opening 40-45 minutes before it just falls apart. 
