casualties of war (1989)

"You survive the nam, you get to live forever man." - clarke

  If your looking for a Vietnam movie that is hard to watch and disturbing, this is for you.  What a better way to spend your afternoon, then watching a film based around a rape incident.  I know your going to run me over at blockbuster.  Brian De Palma had the odious task of directing this material.  He doesn’t disappoint, its good in a sense that it tells a true story but it lacks something that fails to make it great.  The female lead is great; you can feel her terror and pain.  Sean Penn as Sergeant Meserve is evil and believable.  His performance is amazing.  Fox is good as Eriksson but at times he sounds whiny and I kept thinking of family tides.  De Palma should have realized this and cast somebody else or waited a couple of years before making the film.  Then, we get to the part of the movie where we realize Eriksson’s been dreaming the whole time.  Really, can you say cop-out?  How about cliché?  What a stupid ending to a movie!

  Casualties of war, has some good extras.  Eriksson’s war is a good interview with Michael J. Fox.  A half hour documentary about the film is included, it is interesting.  Finally, five deleted scenes are included; none of these are remarkable.

6/10

birthday gifts

 

i also bought 20 hitchcock movies for $5 its actually 16 movies, its his early movies (20-30's) at target. two of the movies are repeats and two aren't movies their alfred hitckcock present episodes. so know i have over 30 of his films because i have another collection that was a lot more expensive. 

cds

books

movies i saw at the theater:
prometheus
three stooges

plus 3 flavors of ben & jerry's ice cream

he plead guilty

this is a follow up post to ripped from the headlines (link).

my former homeroom teacher mr. geyer plead guilty yesterday to molesting 3 korean boys. yep, its disqusting and gross.  gives me the creeps...

read about it here: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/673329_Former-Lancaster-Mennonite-administrator-pleads-guilty-in-sex-case.html

haredevil hare

1948 directed by chuck jones

"I'm going to blow up the earth." - marvin the martian

the three stooges

This movie was bad, probably, the worst film i have seen in a theater since alien vs predator, horrible. I was expecting a funny movie, what i got was a story i didn't care about and a bland form of comedy. Ps. including the jersey shore tv show into the movie was lame and stupid.



 

prometheus

this film is a so called prequel to alien but to me it was convoluted.  There were parts that were excellent like the beginning, and the end.  There were other parts that weren't so great like the one guy who kills a bunch of people, and I never knew you could cut open your abdominal wall and walk afterwards.  As a self-described alien fanatic overall this film is better than alien 3 (any movie is better than that pile of crap), and alien resurrection but it is not in the same league as alien, or aliens which is disappointing since i was expecting a lot more from ridley scott.  As an origin story it is average at best not great which is annoying.

jaws (1975)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195

8/10

blueberry cheesecake

I liked the graham crackers in the ice cream, i normally avoid cheesecake ice creams but i thought this one was excellent.

9/10

other ben & jerry reviews

cake batter

the cell (2000)

This film is disturbing but I think this was done on purpose.  Mind control doesn’t work as this film clearly demonstrates.  Horror, suspense, and weirdness are used to show this in the film.  If your interested in the plot look it up on imdb.  The actors are good in this film.  This picture has some cool special effects which includes the horse scene, its twisted.  A warning this movie has a lot of stylized violence and disturbing scenes, it is not for the timid.

The dvd has some interesting extras.  First, two trailers of the movie are included.  Then, an isolated score is included which is the soundtrack of the film.  The dvd has 8 deleted scenes, one of which is exploitive in my opinion.  Why?  Showing nudity just to show it is wrong in my opinion.  A cool bonus is six scenes with multiple angles.  Finally, two commentaries are available for your listening pleasure.

7/10

pistachio pistachio

I liked the ice cream, kind of simple but still good. However, I doubt I would regurally buy this ice cream since it was a bland ice cream, it didn't have any pazz.
 
6/10

bigot candy

I find it funny that if you disagree with gay marriage, they label you as a "bigot." really? I can guarantee you that most who do not agree with gay marriage do not wish harm on gay people; in fact i bet that they have gay and lesbian friends. Yea its a whole lot easier to label someone, instead of bothering to find out why they believe what they believe.  When you do that its called "intolerance." 

However, if somebody wants to harm, or kill a gay or lesbian that is bigoted and racist.  In addition, holding up signs saying their going to burn in hell isn't great either, all that does is show whats in the persons heart who is holding the sign.

a complicated issue...