Directed By: Chris Columbus
Written By: Larry Doyle (Based On His Book)
Cinematography By: Phil Abraham
Editor: Peter Honess
CAST: Paul Rust, Hayden Panettiere, Jack T. Carpenter, Lauren London, Lauren Storm, Shawn Roberts, Samm Levine, Andrea Savage, Alan Ruck, Cynthia Stevenson, Patt Finn
This is a disappointment considering I loved the book so much. Soon as I heard that Hayden Panettiere Was staring as Beth Cooper I knew it was doomed. I thought in the hands of Chris Columbus this could be decent but this is studio chis Columbus not early screenwriting whiz Chris Columbus the man behind YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Basically that is what is wrong with the film the cast is just strange. But I can’t blame Mr. Columbus Totally since the screenplay is written by the author of the book. Who initially had the idea to write this as a screenplay but when there was no interest decided to write is as a book to garner more interest and low and behold they decided to make it into a film. But the funny thing is that it was better as a book!!! With a better ending that felt full while being ambiguous while this one just feels dead.
The film feels like it was sanitized from the book so it could play to younger teens but keeping some Raunch so that it doesn’t seem too tame. It’s a film that talks down to its audience by just lumping in one slapstick violent scene to the next. Instead of sticking to a novel that managed to be funny, Naughty but also reminded you of what it was like to be young and have that passion for a girl of your dreams. With your future ahead of you. This film just feels gimmicky. It has no soul.
The film is a perfect timewaster but you won’t laugh much or remember too much afterwards, it makes a threesome not sexy at all nor funny. This film will be perfect to put on television as you don’t really have to cut anything. Plus the characters don’t remind me of any real teenagers at all.
This film came and went to theaters with hardly a blip on the screen. Which is not all that surprising since as soon as I saw the trailer I knew it was doomed. It wasn’t funny and felt like it was trying way too hard. It was a struggle and after i saw the trailer my heart broke.
When it comes to the cast. Paul Rust is a good actor with a strange look but he still looks to old to be in this film. I thought it was impossible but the film finds a way to make Lauren London not attractive plus it doesn’t give her much to do. Hayden penirette is attractive but she doesn’t have the look or character to play this dream girl that many men obsess over she looks just regular to me. Plus her character half the time seems a little off or crazy and her later reasoning make no sense in the film. Plus with the age difference of her and the male lead it makes him more look like a molester then a paramour. The only actor who comes off good is Jack T. Carpenter, Who plays his sexually confused best friend while he is funny I only wish it was in a better film.
This film is not horrible but it’s not good or decent either. Maybe a good pick for older highly clean cut kids but all others will be bored except for maybe senior citizens.
Wait for TV. Which I’m sure it will be on in no time.
GRADE: D
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE (1985)
Directed By: Jack Shoulder
Written By: David Chaskin; Based On Characters By: Wes Craven
Cinematography By: Jacques Haitkin & Christopher Tufty
Editor: Bob Brady & Arline Garson
Cast: Robert Englund, Robert Rusler, Kim Myers, Clu Gulager
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
SCARY MOVIE 2 (2001)
CAST: Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans, Chris Elliot, David Cross, Richard Moll, Tori Spelling, Christopher Masterson, Natasha Lyonne, James Woods, Tim Curry, Andy Richter, James DeBello, Kathleen Robertson, Veronica Cartwright, Beetlejuice
Directed By: Keenan Ivory Wayans
Written By: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Alyson Fouse, Dave Polsky, Craig Wayans, Michael Anthony Snowden, Greg Grabianski
Based On Characters By: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Buddy Johnson, Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Phil Beauman
Cinematography By: Steven Bernstein
Editor: Tom Nordberg, Richard Pearson & Peter Teschner
To say this film was a disappointment would be a understatement now I didn’t love the first scary movie but I liked it and enjoyed it. Despite a few reservations and this film unfortunately this film doesn’t even come close to the quality of the original. It feels like a movie just based on squeezing some more dollars out of a franchise. I mean it has 7 writers which is never a good sign. That many cooks working on the same dish. I would bother telling you the storyline but as it seems non existent and the film doesn’t follow it. It would be a waste of time.
The main problem with recent spoof films and this one in particular is to stay on subject and still have a main plot. This film brings jokes about the subject it is spoofing but it has no real main storyline it starts off with one then seems to forget it and seems too busy with the jokes and spoofing more modern day people and events then actual scary movies which is also the problem with comedies like MADTV and the wayans own IN LIVING COLOR while both are legendary and hilarious they won’t age gracefully as all of there comedy are based on modern celebrities and events that 10 – 20 years from now audiences will be scratching there heads to understand the jokes or if they weren’t around when the film was made will be wondering who they are talking about.
Tori spelling is in this movie and was supposed to be a small comeback but I wonder if it was just stunt casting because she barely makes a mark in a role almost any actress could have played. Most of the cast reprises there roles from the first film even the ones who were killed return with hardly any explination. The bad thing about this movie is with all the talent involved it should have been funny or at least funnier but it’s not. There is a chuckle here and there but as a whole I can’t say it is successfully funny the jokes just seem stale.
I also had one of many bad experiences seeing this film in a theater I had some woman sit next to me who i didn’t know and our seats while separate were connected together and all through the movie she laughed loudly at everything even things I thought were funny I would start to laugh and then so would she so hard that she drained whatever I found funny about it out. So that I would pray no more jokes would come to make her almost have a coronary. I have since seen the film at home and still have the same opinion of it that I had that day.
The opening sketch was supposed to have Marlon Brando in a way spoof the exorcist but when he got to sick to do the role he was replaced by James Woods now if Brando would have done it. He is the only thing that would have made this movie noteworthy. This was also the last semi decent Scary Movie Sequel all after this one are horrible.
Bottom line if you liked the first one you will probably like this one.
GRADE: D
Directed By: Keenan Ivory Wayans
Written By: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Alyson Fouse, Dave Polsky, Craig Wayans, Michael Anthony Snowden, Greg Grabianski
Based On Characters By: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Buddy Johnson, Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Phil Beauman
Cinematography By: Steven Bernstein
Editor: Tom Nordberg, Richard Pearson & Peter Teschner
To say this film was a disappointment would be a understatement now I didn’t love the first scary movie but I liked it and enjoyed it. Despite a few reservations and this film unfortunately this film doesn’t even come close to the quality of the original. It feels like a movie just based on squeezing some more dollars out of a franchise. I mean it has 7 writers which is never a good sign. That many cooks working on the same dish. I would bother telling you the storyline but as it seems non existent and the film doesn’t follow it. It would be a waste of time.
The main problem with recent spoof films and this one in particular is to stay on subject and still have a main plot. This film brings jokes about the subject it is spoofing but it has no real main storyline it starts off with one then seems to forget it and seems too busy with the jokes and spoofing more modern day people and events then actual scary movies which is also the problem with comedies like MADTV and the wayans own IN LIVING COLOR while both are legendary and hilarious they won’t age gracefully as all of there comedy are based on modern celebrities and events that 10 – 20 years from now audiences will be scratching there heads to understand the jokes or if they weren’t around when the film was made will be wondering who they are talking about.
Tori spelling is in this movie and was supposed to be a small comeback but I wonder if it was just stunt casting because she barely makes a mark in a role almost any actress could have played. Most of the cast reprises there roles from the first film even the ones who were killed return with hardly any explination. The bad thing about this movie is with all the talent involved it should have been funny or at least funnier but it’s not. There is a chuckle here and there but as a whole I can’t say it is successfully funny the jokes just seem stale.
I also had one of many bad experiences seeing this film in a theater I had some woman sit next to me who i didn’t know and our seats while separate were connected together and all through the movie she laughed loudly at everything even things I thought were funny I would start to laugh and then so would she so hard that she drained whatever I found funny about it out. So that I would pray no more jokes would come to make her almost have a coronary. I have since seen the film at home and still have the same opinion of it that I had that day.
The opening sketch was supposed to have Marlon Brando in a way spoof the exorcist but when he got to sick to do the role he was replaced by James Woods now if Brando would have done it. He is the only thing that would have made this movie noteworthy. This was also the last semi decent Scary Movie Sequel all after this one are horrible.
Bottom line if you liked the first one you will probably like this one.
GRADE: D
Thursday, March 19, 2009
DEVIL IN THE FLESH (1998)
CAST: Rose McGowan, Phil Morris, Alex Mcarthur, Sherrie Rose, Aloma Wright, Wendy Robie, Rick Overton
Directed By: Steve Cohen
Written By: Kurt Anderson & Richard Brandes (Story)
Kevin Carlin-McCall & Steve Cohen & Robert McCall & Michael Michaud (Screenplay)
Cinematography By: Joseph Montgomery
Editor: Micharl Thibault
This Film isn’t anything you haven’t seen before.
A Teenager gets a dangerous obsession with her teacher and refuses to let anyone get in her way.
The film Starts off like a less refined “Lolita” but soon morphs into a teenage “Fatal Attraction” with a higher body count and more flirting and no sex. As the story goes along we find out the girl played by Rose McGowan has a dark secret which you could probably guess 5 minutes into the film. She also stands out because as most of the characters in this movie are tanned as the movie takes place in florida. Especially her Competitions for the teacher. So as she walks around in the sun drenched town she is so plae like a gleaming ghost.
Another of my HBO Original premieres the film is bad it tries for a twist ending that is predictable. You know who all the eventual victims will be as soon as you meet them.
Even though she is good in the film and I do like her as a actress Rose McGowan is a little long in the tooth to play this role. Though the film is billed as a erotic thriller there is a serious lack of nudity and sex. Sure there is flirting and skin on display in skimpy outfits sorry fellas it is false advertising though for the ladies the leading man who is not believable as a teacher he looks too smarmy does take his shirt off a lot. This was before Matthew McCongnahey Did it in most of his movies.
This movie should just have just reveled in the other product out there and been a typical skinemax movie that it wouldn’t be as blaringly bad. Just a typical sex thriller, but as it stands now it is a really bad movie
Only watch if you are a Rose McGowan Fetishist. She appears in a lot of bad movies and is usually good in them. Sometimes the only good thing, but hey she has to work.
It amazes me it took so many writers to come up with something so cliché and bad. You would think one of them had talent and a original idea. It’s entertaining in a trashy way but nowhere near good.
Directed By: Steve Cohen
Written By: Kurt Anderson & Richard Brandes (Story)
Kevin Carlin-McCall & Steve Cohen & Robert McCall & Michael Michaud (Screenplay)
Cinematography By: Joseph Montgomery
Editor: Micharl Thibault
This Film isn’t anything you haven’t seen before.
A Teenager gets a dangerous obsession with her teacher and refuses to let anyone get in her way.
The film Starts off like a less refined “Lolita” but soon morphs into a teenage “Fatal Attraction” with a higher body count and more flirting and no sex. As the story goes along we find out the girl played by Rose McGowan has a dark secret which you could probably guess 5 minutes into the film. She also stands out because as most of the characters in this movie are tanned as the movie takes place in florida. Especially her Competitions for the teacher. So as she walks around in the sun drenched town she is so plae like a gleaming ghost.
Another of my HBO Original premieres the film is bad it tries for a twist ending that is predictable. You know who all the eventual victims will be as soon as you meet them.
Even though she is good in the film and I do like her as a actress Rose McGowan is a little long in the tooth to play this role. Though the film is billed as a erotic thriller there is a serious lack of nudity and sex. Sure there is flirting and skin on display in skimpy outfits sorry fellas it is false advertising though for the ladies the leading man who is not believable as a teacher he looks too smarmy does take his shirt off a lot. This was before Matthew McCongnahey Did it in most of his movies.
This movie should just have just reveled in the other product out there and been a typical skinemax movie that it wouldn’t be as blaringly bad. Just a typical sex thriller, but as it stands now it is a really bad movie
Only watch if you are a Rose McGowan Fetishist. She appears in a lot of bad movies and is usually good in them. Sometimes the only good thing, but hey she has to work.
It amazes me it took so many writers to come up with something so cliché and bad. You would think one of them had talent and a original idea. It’s entertaining in a trashy way but nowhere near good.
Friday, January 30, 2009
MANHATTAN (1979)
Directed By: Woody Allen
Written By: Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman
Cinematography By: Gordon Willis
Editor: Susan E. Morse
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Wallace Shawn, Mariel Hemmingway, Michael Murphy, Meryl Streep, Michael O’Donoghue
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