The Good, The Bad and The Disappointing
Netflix.
I started doing netflix. So far it's great. The delivery at home thing is cool, but the cooler thing is the selection. When I usually go to the store to rent movies, i only look at the new release wall. Netflix has the new release wall, but it has all the old classic and just ones i haven't seen in a while. And they have a cool ratings thing. You rate movies and gives you some suggestions.
THE GOOD:
A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS
A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints is about guy that lived a tough childhood, left his neighborhood only to return 20 years later, to visit his sick father.This movie was really good. It was intense and dramatic. They played around with non-linear edits and placed subtitles in some places even though everything was in English. I'm surprised it didn't get more public attention.
I give this, a 4 star netflix rating.
THE T.V. SET
The T.V. Set is a movie about a T.V. writer who is trying to get his pilot off the ground. Unfortunately, he is fighting the station the whole way. From choosing actors to plot changes. The movie was good. but nothing great. It was good for a few laughs, and kept you interested.
It's a netflix 3 star rating.
GRIND HOUSE
Grind House is an unbelievable movie. A double feature, by 2 great directors. Robert Rodriquez's Planet Terror is a pretty cool zombie flick. Quintin Tarentino's Death Proof was about a guy stalking girls and murder and then girls revenge. Upon first viewing, I felt that Robert Rodriquez's Planet Terror was the better of the 2. But the second time I left the theater I was loving Quintin Tarentino's Death Proof. The music from Planet Terror was great. The title song is awesome, as you can hear on my myspace page, and the score was a great throwback to John Carpenter.
I highly recommend seeing this in the theaters, not just for the big screen but for the theater experience.
I'll give it a 5 star netflix rating.
THE BAD:
RUNNING WITH SICCORS
Running With Siccors is the screen adaptation based on a New York Time best selling memoir. A boy who never really went to school to stay at home with his mother only to be adopted by his mothers unorthodox psychiatrist. From the trailers of this movie I thought it would be a kind of I Heart Huckabee's/ Eternal Sunshine, but it wasn't. It was intense at points, but that's it.
This one gets a netflix 2 star rating.
The Disappointing:
SMOKIN' ACES
The story involved a Vegas magician, the mob and a crazy bunch of hit men. Sound good right. Well it could have been. This movie had so much potential. It was great for the first 20 minutes and then just lost steam. This movie needed to take a much more crazy and chaotic approach.
Another 2 star rating.
-Andy
I started doing netflix. So far it's great. The delivery at home thing is cool, but the cooler thing is the selection. When I usually go to the store to rent movies, i only look at the new release wall. Netflix has the new release wall, but it has all the old classic and just ones i haven't seen in a while. And they have a cool ratings thing. You rate movies and gives you some suggestions.
THE GOOD:
A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS
A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints is about guy that lived a tough childhood, left his neighborhood only to return 20 years later, to visit his sick father.This movie was really good. It was intense and dramatic. They played around with non-linear edits and placed subtitles in some places even though everything was in English. I'm surprised it didn't get more public attention.
I give this, a 4 star netflix rating.
THE T.V. SET
The T.V. Set is a movie about a T.V. writer who is trying to get his pilot off the ground. Unfortunately, he is fighting the station the whole way. From choosing actors to plot changes. The movie was good. but nothing great. It was good for a few laughs, and kept you interested.
It's a netflix 3 star rating.
GRIND HOUSE
Grind House is an unbelievable movie. A double feature, by 2 great directors. Robert Rodriquez's Planet Terror is a pretty cool zombie flick. Quintin Tarentino's Death Proof was about a guy stalking girls and murder and then girls revenge. Upon first viewing, I felt that Robert Rodriquez's Planet Terror was the better of the 2. But the second time I left the theater I was loving Quintin Tarentino's Death Proof. The music from Planet Terror was great. The title song is awesome, as you can hear on my myspace page, and the score was a great throwback to John Carpenter.
I highly recommend seeing this in the theaters, not just for the big screen but for the theater experience.
I'll give it a 5 star netflix rating.
THE BAD:
RUNNING WITH SICCORS
Running With Siccors is the screen adaptation based on a New York Time best selling memoir. A boy who never really went to school to stay at home with his mother only to be adopted by his mothers unorthodox psychiatrist. From the trailers of this movie I thought it would be a kind of I Heart Huckabee's/ Eternal Sunshine, but it wasn't. It was intense at points, but that's it.
This one gets a netflix 2 star rating.
The Disappointing:
SMOKIN' ACES
The story involved a Vegas magician, the mob and a crazy bunch of hit men. Sound good right. Well it could have been. This movie had so much potential. It was great for the first 20 minutes and then just lost steam. This movie needed to take a much more crazy and chaotic approach.
Another 2 star rating.
-Andy
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