2014-11-23

rage

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401807

rage is the kind of [NOUN] where the form is already [ADJECTIVE], you just need to plug in a few specific [PL NOUN].  so no surprise that this is a nicholas cage [NOUN].  one thing that i think would have helped a lot is if [POPULAR ACTOR] had played the role of the [NOUN].  it would really have helped make this [NOUN] suck [ADVERB].  unfortunately, it would also have given away the completely [ADJECTIVE] ending by [PRESENT PARTICIPLE] attention to this otherwise unremarkable [NOUN].

rage gets one gerund.

2014-11-06

the kids are all right

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0842926

this is a crying movie.  i think everybody cried, except peeta, who you may recall was genetically engineered to not cry.  (they show that part in the after-credit scenes.)

in addition, i suffered no small amount of confusion about the direction this film took in the last half hour or so.  i got the part where there was reconciliation and crying, but i am unclear on what is going on with mark ruffalo.  did he get his garden?  is he the asshole?  where is his family?  is he still "hitting that?"  what are the origins of the phrase "hitting that?"

oh, hey, no.  i know what you are thinking, but actually, i am making an incredible hulk reference here.  hulk smash.

the kids are all right gets two heirloom tomatoes.

non-stop

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024469

i am up in the air about whether i think this was a horrible movie because it was horrible or it was a great movie because it prominently displays everything that is wrong with typical usian attitudes towards so-called security.  i am going to go with "horrible" because otherwise i assume the tsa is going to feel me up more than usual the next time i have to fly.  no need for any of that, i love america!  pass the pringles and let us go root for our favorite sportsball teams!

ugh.  and let me tell you, all of these chatty terrorists are killing me.  not that i want to give tips to terrorists here, but guys, please.  we have to talk.  actually, you have to not talk.  just whack the protagonist, escape, and blow the plane.  if hollywood ever writes a terrorist who can manage to just operate that way, i will give them a dollar.  the terrorists do not have to succeed, they just have to not blow it with excessive dialoguing.  actually, if they could succeed by not blowing it with excessive dialogue, then i think that would be great because it would establish them as good role models for other hollywood terrorists to look up to.

non-stop gets 150 million dollars in a bank account in my name, or else i will write another horrible review every 20 minutes.

2014-11-05

the dukes of hazzard

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377818

the good part of watching a piece of crap like this is that by the time you get to the end, you are so messed up that the outtakes seem really funny.  however, that is just the endorphins talking.  you know, like when you are exercising, and then you stop?  let me give you an example. say a bear is chasing you.  you climb a tree.  bear does not care, knocks the tree down.  you run some more.  hide in a cave.  bear does not care, it is his cave and he finds you.  so you run some more.  bear still does not care, he catches you and starts mauling you.  but then he gets bored and wanders away.  that feeling you get, right there, where you are no longer being chased or mauled by an angry bear?  endorphins.

the dukes of hazzard gets one flying car.