Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Netflix Reviews Continued.

No flashy intro needed.

11. Dead Alive
I'm dumb and didn't watch this when we had it and was too impatient for the next few things in the queue so it got sent back w/o being watched. Such is life with Netflix ADD.

12. The King Of Comedy
Awesome, De Niro at his quietly yet increasinly unsettling best. If I'm never a decent stand up comic, I'll be a great Rupert Pupkin.

13. Home Movie
Made by the same guys who did American Movie (the filmmakers, not Mark Borchardt and Mike Schenk), this follows a handful of different crazy people with fucking bizarre houses. Well actually the guy who lives in the bayou isn't really crazy, just Greg Strait circa 2025. The looniest loony award is a tie between the guy with the Robot House and the Cat People. Highlight for me is when the Robot guy alludes to the fact that his wife is a hooker while she gets in a truck with some guy and goes away for awhile. He then proceeds to show off his futuristic robot who "talks" but is basically a giant RC car with a speaker and a picture of some guys face taped on. His entire "house of the future" is basically shit that the Jetsons would have poo-poohed 30 years ago. Great fucking movie.

14. Murder City Devils- The End
Their last show (pre-reunion) in it's entirety. Sound and video quality is awesome, a few surprise songs, whole set is great. Obviously if you didn't like this band you won't like this DVD, but if you liked them even a little, well worth watching.

15. Final Destination 3
Thanks to Nick I've always been fond of these movies, and this one doesn't dissapoint. The predictable "ALTERNATIVE" characters are pretty funny, and the new ways people die is creative I guess. Only complaint is poor casting for the girl with the premonitions, should have been more of a babe.

16. The Best of John Belushi
This is pretty self explanatory. Falls into the aforementioned "if you don't like this you're an asshole"/David Zucker category. "I em afred...we are out...of badjurs. Would you accept...a wolver-eene...een es place.

17. Jim Jones- A Day in the Fastlife
Pretty much the same idea as The Game DVD, "hey, let's give some guys who have no concept of editing, but will most likely do some really outlandish shit a bunch of cameras and see what happens." Highlights being when he shoplifts some crap and lots of yelling at the camera. I love this sort of crap.

18. The Game
So 50 is fed up with all of this G-U NOT talk, and he enlists Jayceon Taylors younger brother Sean Penn to set him up to take part in an elaborate life and death game that blurs the lines of reality. David Fincher directs an excellent cast with notable cameos by Da Brat as Nicholas Van Orton's love interest from the other side of the tracks, and Crunchy Black as the dastardly mind behind the whole thing. Two thumbs up.

19. Pauly Shore Is Dead
So fucking unfunny it hurts. And honestly, it pains me to say that as I'm a big Pauly Shore supporter. If he ran for any kind of office, espescially one where he had press conference privileges, I'd vote for him at least once. But this is so bad that I didn't even finish watching it. I've probably done that three times in my entire life, and that's pure speculation because I honestly can't remember another time it's happened.

20. The Office- Season 1
Count Choculitis. Possibly the best show not on HBO.