The Five Alive Netflix Feature 8/14/05
Netflix has been continuing to impress me, getting 4 more movies to me this week, and I watched one from the week before-giving me a grand total of 5 movies this week-add to that my Saturday Quentin Tarantino marathon-and I put in a good amount of movie time this week. So here we go with the movies
Knife in the Water directed by Roman Polanski
I had no idea what to expect going into this movie-and yet it still defied my expectations. I guess I was expecting a suspense thriller-and there were bits of that-but this was mostly a character study about people in the upper class and people in the lower class. After nearly running over a hitchhiker-a wealthy man and his wife invite him along to go on their sailboat. From that point on, the rich man continually tries to prove he is better than the lower class man. The suspense lies in assuming that the lower class guy is going to do something, but that is not what this movie is about. It goes in quite unexpected directions, and it feels plausible. I really enjoyed this movie-the cast was great-just three people on a boat for an hour and a half is pretty much all you get-but they make everything believable. Polanski does a great job at creating a moody atmosphere, but it never feels claustrophic.
I recomend this movie. It is definetely not for everyone's tastes-but it is a great class study with a great cast acting it. Go see it!
Run Ronnie Run directed by some guy.
I love Mr. Show. To me-there is hardly anything better or funnier than that show. So it was with gitty excitement that I finally got around to watching their feature length movie. And shit, was it ever disappointing. It just felt like every other forgetable SNL skit turned movie. I was hoping for more from these guys-they were given the chance to turn those crappy SNL conventions on their head with this movie-and instead they end up tredding the same familiar territory. There are a couple of really funny moments, unfortunately those are few and far betweem. The saving grace to the movie is a weird song interlude by Jack Black, where he sings a song called Kick Her in the Cunt. It's done in a Mary Poppins' chimney sweep style, and it is hilarious. It is worth sitting through the entire movie just to have seen that. But unfortunately this movie just sucks.
I do not recommend this movie as a whole-but there are a few moments that are worthwhile. Watch at your own risk.
Friday the 13th directed by some guy.
Confession time. It is the year 2005, and I have never, ever seen any of the Friday the 13th movies at all. I had been wanting to see them for some time, because I had been wanting to see Freddy vs. Jason, which I felt I could not watch until at least seeing the first entries in both of those series. So I was excited to see this movie, but assumed that the scares wouldn't hold up well 25 years after its release. I was wrong. Dead wrong. This movie scared the hell out of me. I was sitting on the edge of couch freaking out during some of the stalk scenes. My only complaint comes as a result of who the killer is. I have a hard time believing that this person was able to do some of the shit they did. But other than that, this movie kicked my ass-and I loved it.
Highly recommended for fans of slasher flicks. This is one of the best ones out there. Pure, trashy, bloody fun.
Friday the 13th Part 2 directed by some other guy.
This movie was interesting. The opening was very good-very scary. And also the obvious inspiration for the Scream opening. But the rest of the movie followed the same formulas as the previous one and didn't really offer anything new at all. Jason was suitably creepy-but he also looked kind of silly with that bag on his head. I enjoyed this movie and am thinking about picking up the box set of all the movies-because I figure if I enjoyed the first two-the rest would be just as enjoyable-no matter how bad they get.
I recommend this movie as a good installment in a cheesy horror franchise.
A Very Long Engagement directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
I loved this movie. That Jeunet has so much style and bring such interesting things to the plate that it is hard to find faults in his movies. Hell, I even love Alien Resurrection. And Audrey Tautau is just so goddamned loveable, even more so than Salma Hayek, and believe me, that's saying a lot. This movie has everything. It's a good love story, a good mystery and a truly great war movie. The style brought to the battle scenes is amazing-doing stuff that I haven't seen in other war movies out there. I am seriously thinking about adding this to my collection-I liked it that much. There isn't more I can say about it. Just go and see it.
Highly recommended. Go see it now-for the love of God!!!
So that's it for last week. Please join me next week, where I will be watching A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy vs. Jason, The Fog of War, and Overnight. And possibly Casablanca if it gets to me. But I don't think it will.
Knife in the Water directed by Roman Polanski
I had no idea what to expect going into this movie-and yet it still defied my expectations. I guess I was expecting a suspense thriller-and there were bits of that-but this was mostly a character study about people in the upper class and people in the lower class. After nearly running over a hitchhiker-a wealthy man and his wife invite him along to go on their sailboat. From that point on, the rich man continually tries to prove he is better than the lower class man. The suspense lies in assuming that the lower class guy is going to do something, but that is not what this movie is about. It goes in quite unexpected directions, and it feels plausible. I really enjoyed this movie-the cast was great-just three people on a boat for an hour and a half is pretty much all you get-but they make everything believable. Polanski does a great job at creating a moody atmosphere, but it never feels claustrophic.
I recomend this movie. It is definetely not for everyone's tastes-but it is a great class study with a great cast acting it. Go see it!
Run Ronnie Run directed by some guy.
I love Mr. Show. To me-there is hardly anything better or funnier than that show. So it was with gitty excitement that I finally got around to watching their feature length movie. And shit, was it ever disappointing. It just felt like every other forgetable SNL skit turned movie. I was hoping for more from these guys-they were given the chance to turn those crappy SNL conventions on their head with this movie-and instead they end up tredding the same familiar territory. There are a couple of really funny moments, unfortunately those are few and far betweem. The saving grace to the movie is a weird song interlude by Jack Black, where he sings a song called Kick Her in the Cunt. It's done in a Mary Poppins' chimney sweep style, and it is hilarious. It is worth sitting through the entire movie just to have seen that. But unfortunately this movie just sucks.
I do not recommend this movie as a whole-but there are a few moments that are worthwhile. Watch at your own risk.
Friday the 13th directed by some guy.
Confession time. It is the year 2005, and I have never, ever seen any of the Friday the 13th movies at all. I had been wanting to see them for some time, because I had been wanting to see Freddy vs. Jason, which I felt I could not watch until at least seeing the first entries in both of those series. So I was excited to see this movie, but assumed that the scares wouldn't hold up well 25 years after its release. I was wrong. Dead wrong. This movie scared the hell out of me. I was sitting on the edge of couch freaking out during some of the stalk scenes. My only complaint comes as a result of who the killer is. I have a hard time believing that this person was able to do some of the shit they did. But other than that, this movie kicked my ass-and I loved it.
Highly recommended for fans of slasher flicks. This is one of the best ones out there. Pure, trashy, bloody fun.
Friday the 13th Part 2 directed by some other guy.
This movie was interesting. The opening was very good-very scary. And also the obvious inspiration for the Scream opening. But the rest of the movie followed the same formulas as the previous one and didn't really offer anything new at all. Jason was suitably creepy-but he also looked kind of silly with that bag on his head. I enjoyed this movie and am thinking about picking up the box set of all the movies-because I figure if I enjoyed the first two-the rest would be just as enjoyable-no matter how bad they get.
I recommend this movie as a good installment in a cheesy horror franchise.
A Very Long Engagement directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
I loved this movie. That Jeunet has so much style and bring such interesting things to the plate that it is hard to find faults in his movies. Hell, I even love Alien Resurrection. And Audrey Tautau is just so goddamned loveable, even more so than Salma Hayek, and believe me, that's saying a lot. This movie has everything. It's a good love story, a good mystery and a truly great war movie. The style brought to the battle scenes is amazing-doing stuff that I haven't seen in other war movies out there. I am seriously thinking about adding this to my collection-I liked it that much. There isn't more I can say about it. Just go and see it.
Highly recommended. Go see it now-for the love of God!!!
So that's it for last week. Please join me next week, where I will be watching A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy vs. Jason, The Fog of War, and Overnight. And possibly Casablanca if it gets to me. But I don't think it will.
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