dvds for tuesday, Sorority Row, The Vampire's Assistand, and the Informant
Sorority Row -
Remake of the early 90's "House on Sorority Row", about a group of sorority girls who accidentally get their sister killed in a prank and choose to hide it. 8 months later they are killed off one by one by a hooded figure who knows what they did.
4 out of 10, with it's charming cast of my favorite young b-movie royalty (Rumer Willis, Briana Evigan and Margo Harshman), it's hard to hate their deserved screen time but the movie itself is nothing impressive, and nothing new. It's not poorly acted, but at the same time it's not all that hard to play a college booze hound. The death scenes were boring and contrived, and the script was exactly as mediocre as you'd expect. An easily predicted killer unmasking, and a sociopathic bitch character who makes most scenes silly. All in all it wasn't horrible but it just really isn't very good, you've pretty much already seen this movie 10 times over since the 80's.
Cirque Du Freak; The Vampire's Assistant -
Based on the popular book series, the story is about two high school guy friends on opposite sides of the tracks. When one day they go to a Freak Show and a series of events leads them to go on opposing sides of a war between two kinds of vampires, one good one bad.
2 out of 10, and I'm being generous sheerly based on it's awesome and WILDLY underused cameos.
About fifteen minutes into this film I found myself turning to Nicholle and saying "This is a horrible movie." Painfully awful script, horrible pace, bad career move for John C. Reily, uninteresting and incredibly boring/stock characters, boring as shit fight scenes, and too many leads to a sequel I hope never happens and couldn't care less about. I find it interesting the fact that in the pre-production of this film, they had originally just titled it "Cirque Du Freak" but the sudden sickening boom in vampire love had to bump it's way into the title like a cheap whore. Willam Defoe, Salma Hayek, Jane Krakowski, Chow Yun Fat, and Patrick Fugit are among the cameos as the circus freaks, and are given complete pig slop for dialogue and screen time and they STILL outshine the main, ever-so-stupid, character. It was an insult for any of them to even be cast in this movie. There's so much wrong with this movie I could write a book, I just hope it's dead in the water as far as a revival or sequel because if this drivel gets continued instead of the vastly better and underapprecated Golden Compass series, I've lost all faith in the film industry.
Just don't see it, please god save yourself.
The Informant! -
Based on a real life story about an average man who blows the whistle on a corn company that fixes prices among other things.
4 out of 10 from what I saw of it, although it's not completely fair seeing as how I didn't finish. From what I saw it was an excellent character piece for Matt Damon, who is a chubby but quirky regular guy, but not the most captivating story line you've ever seen. Prehaps if he was blowing the whistle on something other than corn it might have been more interesting but it was...corn. You need a good attention span for this one, I just got a little too bored.
Remake of the early 90's "House on Sorority Row", about a group of sorority girls who accidentally get their sister killed in a prank and choose to hide it. 8 months later they are killed off one by one by a hooded figure who knows what they did.
4 out of 10, with it's charming cast of my favorite young b-movie royalty (Rumer Willis, Briana Evigan and Margo Harshman), it's hard to hate their deserved screen time but the movie itself is nothing impressive, and nothing new. It's not poorly acted, but at the same time it's not all that hard to play a college booze hound. The death scenes were boring and contrived, and the script was exactly as mediocre as you'd expect. An easily predicted killer unmasking, and a sociopathic bitch character who makes most scenes silly. All in all it wasn't horrible but it just really isn't very good, you've pretty much already seen this movie 10 times over since the 80's.
Cirque Du Freak; The Vampire's Assistant -
Based on the popular book series, the story is about two high school guy friends on opposite sides of the tracks. When one day they go to a Freak Show and a series of events leads them to go on opposing sides of a war between two kinds of vampires, one good one bad.
2 out of 10, and I'm being generous sheerly based on it's awesome and WILDLY underused cameos.
About fifteen minutes into this film I found myself turning to Nicholle and saying "This is a horrible movie." Painfully awful script, horrible pace, bad career move for John C. Reily, uninteresting and incredibly boring/stock characters, boring as shit fight scenes, and too many leads to a sequel I hope never happens and couldn't care less about. I find it interesting the fact that in the pre-production of this film, they had originally just titled it "Cirque Du Freak" but the sudden sickening boom in vampire love had to bump it's way into the title like a cheap whore. Willam Defoe, Salma Hayek, Jane Krakowski, Chow Yun Fat, and Patrick Fugit are among the cameos as the circus freaks, and are given complete pig slop for dialogue and screen time and they STILL outshine the main, ever-so-stupid, character. It was an insult for any of them to even be cast in this movie. There's so much wrong with this movie I could write a book, I just hope it's dead in the water as far as a revival or sequel because if this drivel gets continued instead of the vastly better and underapprecated Golden Compass series, I've lost all faith in the film industry.
Just don't see it, please god save yourself.
The Informant! -
Based on a real life story about an average man who blows the whistle on a corn company that fixes prices among other things.
4 out of 10 from what I saw of it, although it's not completely fair seeing as how I didn't finish. From what I saw it was an excellent character piece for Matt Damon, who is a chubby but quirky regular guy, but not the most captivating story line you've ever seen. Prehaps if he was blowing the whistle on something other than corn it might have been more interesting but it was...corn. You need a good attention span for this one, I just got a little too bored.