In Theatres?

So I realized the other day when I was doing this up-coming Sunday's post, (Don't say overachiever because I'm not) I have been doing movies that have been on DVD for at least a year or two. Last night I had the opportunity to go and see Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian with some passes. For those who don't know this is a sequel. Surprise. The original starred Ben Stiller and Robin Williams. Stiller plays a night watchman at The Natural History Museum in NYC who really wants to be an inventor. Williams was a wax model of Teddy Roosevelt in the museum. The whole movie revolves around this tablet that allows the exhibits to come to life. To make a long story short for the sake of catching people up, the old night watchmen try and steal the tablet and Stiller along with the help of the museum's exhibits stop them.

Flash forward two years when the sequel takes place. Stiller is a successful inventor with his own company. He still routinely visits the museum to visit at night, one night he goes and finds out the exhibits are being shipped off to the federal archives at the Smithsonian Institute. Stiller tries everything to keep them from being put into storage without the tablet but he fails. After they have left one of the exhibits calls him saying they are being attacked. Stiller rushes off to try and help. He runs into another security guard played by Jonah Hill (surprise he is in everything). The battle ensues between Stiller and bad guys throughout time. Al Capone, Ivan the Terrible, or awesome (played by Christopher Guest) and the leader of the bad guys Kahmunrah (played by Hank Azaria who has two other roles in the movie).

Overall the movie was pretty amusing. I laughed out loud throughout most of the movie. If you liked the first one then you will like this one even more because it is better than the first. Go check this movie out and tell me what you think.

-Bob

This Week's Movie

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

A ridiculous comedy directed by Guy Ritchie. LSTB stars Jason Statham, before he broke out in The Transporter. The movie has a large cast that I do not feel like listing out here, but if you have scene Layer Cake you will notice that the gentleman that played Cody also stars in here as Soap. Another man from Layer Cake, Crazy Larry, also plays in this movie (anyone notice a pattern?). This movie sounds like an action movie and I actually looked for it in the action section of Blockbuster, but it is on the verge of slapstick. Some of the scenes run like something that would appear on the worlds dumbest criminals. Statham and his three friends decide it is there time to make it rich. They put their faith and a hundred grand in the hands of their friend, Eddie. Eddie is a great card player since birth, he would have won it all if not for foul play. He and his friends end up four hundred thousand in debt to Harry, the man who arranged the game. If they do not come up with the money in a week they lose their fingers and Eddie's dad loses his bar. The odds are stacked against them and you will have to watch and see if they make it out with all their digits and a pint in front of them.

Reasons to watch:

1. Gritty: The movie is shot almost without white balancing giving a hard look to it that almost makes you not want to watch it yet at the same time you can't look away because it is something that is not seen very often.

2. Hard Hitting: The camera angles used in the movie are very disorientating and almost give you a headache at times. Yet, at the same time pulls you in deeper into their world.

3. Soundtrack: Throughout the movie there is a constant bass line, almost jazz like. Every time 

this is heard something is about to happen, whether your about to be introduced to another story line or Eddie just lost all their money.

4. Award Winning: Guy Ritchie won "Best New Filmmaker" from the MTV Movie Awards back in '99. Since then Ritchie has gone on to direct six movies. He just wrapped up production on his version of Sherlock Holmes (Check out Pete's preview below).

5. Multiple Story Lines: The movie has at least two stories that occur simultaneously. They all come together and not as confusing at Tarantino movies do either.

6. Re-watch: I watched this movie twice before writing here. The first time was to get a handle on the movie, the second was enjoyment and to figure out what exactly happened. So before you judge this movie watch it again to make sure you are fully grasping what is going on.

This is a wrap. Tell me what you think and feel free to recommend a movie for me. Include your name and who knows you might be famous.

-Bob

Taken

With it's DVD release today i have just seen the movie Taken for the first time. Almost every review I've seen has said that it has horrible plot lines and is hard to follow because of this. For those people I will just say one thing, "fucking morons". This movie is fantastic. It shows Liam Neeson basically being the best father in the world. He goes across the ocean to save his daughter from being kidnapped. Without giving anything away, I will just say that the movie has tremendous acting from both Liam and the people he beats the shit out of. He is a man on a mission. His mission is to basically beat the hell out of everyone in Europe until he finds his daughter. And within this movie he basically does beat the hell out of everyone in Europe. I recommend this movie to anyone that likes action, or Liam Neeson, or just anyone wanting to see someone get the shit kicked out of them in creative ways.

Hi guys. This is my first post on here and certainly not the last. I am going to write a review for a movie that everyone should see here each week starting today with one of my all time favorites.

Shaun of the Dead

This movie is awesome. There are a lot of reasons to see this movie here are a few:

1. Tagline:The tagline for this movie is "A romantic comedy. With zombies". This alone is reason to see the movie

2. Zombies: And I am not talking about cheesy zombie stuff either here. This is legit and looks good, not something done with some ketchup and your mother's makeup kit.

3. British Slang: Words that are only funny once you know the meaning. Words like ballocks and wanker. Bollocks means bullshit and wanker is an insult amongst friends, and actually mean jerkoff.

4. Rewatch: Even if you have already seen this movie, watch it again. Look and listen closely to everything lots a little things that you might not have caught the first time through. Like that Shaun and Liz met at a rave. Check it out. Also if you have seen this I recommend Simon Pegg's show on BBC that he did before this "Spaced". It features his pal Nick Frost and Jessica Hynes (Yvonne in Shaun of the Dead) as his new flat mate. Check it out and look for other cast from Shaun of the Dead.

-Bob

Nike Naked Running Camp

This is one of the funniest videos that I have ever seen on YouTube. The best part of the entire thing is that a good majority of the people running in this commercial are world class and Olympic runners.

Plus Kara Goucher is smokin hot.

Observe and Report...

Recently I saw Seth Rogen's new movie Observe and Report. I thought it was pretty damn funny. This mall cop movie was different from others in the genre (Paul Blart: Mall Cop) with its crazy dialogue, over the top violence and full frontal male nudity! The movie itself was very funny, but you have to get used to Seth Rogen playing a new type of character. In this movie, he isn't the dumb stoner. He is a lonely guy that seems to take his job too seriously! I would reccommend this film to anyone that enjoys Seth Rogen's movie, but just have an open mind about him in a different type of role.