Annie Hall
I love 70's intellectual humor. Hey,
I can still hang. I laughed at a William F. Buckley AND a Truman Capote joke. I love the therapy. Everyone is on valium and in therapy. Plus, no one really works. And no one takes "college courses" like that any more. Plus the whole "smart people doing coke like after dinner coffee" thing. Ahhh, the nostalgia...
But seriously, I think Woody has matured over the years. I suppose all those neurosies can be hell on your arteries.
All that being said...What sort of vapid cuntery is this? And I like Woody Allen.
Heckler
I had to wait about a week before I could write this "critique". Jamie Kennedy makes some very interesting points about hecklers. Personally, I think they are one of the lowest of the low on the planet. They are up there with
child molesters and
Kathy Lee Gifford. Showing the classic clips of
Hicks (being awesome) and guitar dude (not awesome) was a really great part of the film. Kennedy doing his stand-up and having scarf-wearing, girl pants sporting nancy-frat-boys calling him a "douchebag" and "not funny" was nice. Not that I'm saying that Kennedy is a great comedian, but these guys are funny (sad funny) just by exsisting.
Now, on to the part of the movie that really, really, REALLY got to me.
Critics and hecklers are NOT the same thing. The real time embarrassment that hecklers put a stand-up comedian/any live performer through and the ramblings of some blogger/forum shitter/newspaper lackie several hours/days later is a lot different. Kennedy sits there with this sort of shocked and hurt look on his face as he reads reviews of "
Malibu's Most Wanted" and "
Son of the Mask" to bloggers/journalists that have gotten "personal" in their reviews and attacked Kennedy and his body of work personally. Listen, Kennedy, here is a tip. As an entertainer, you often times have to "repackage" or "reuse" jokes, right? Ways to pep them up and make them more interesting?? Entertaining?? Make people want to watch/read/pay you money??? OK, here is my review, if Jamie Kennedy had his way.
"The movie was not good. The plot was bad. The story was poorly written.
This movie was not my cup of tea. It is my opinion that this movie is bad."
See the hypocrisy of this whole thing is that Kennedy makes fun of all sorts of people in a very personal fashion. Every single comedian on the planet does. Heck, in this movie, he has some morbidly obese women in bikinis burn his negative reviews. FAT WOMEN RAGE!! But when someone calls him out OMG MY WITTLE FEEWINGS ARE SO HURT HOW DARE YOU *CRIES*. Also including the clip of Uwe Boll beating up some Internet nerds for hating his movies and talking shit was really ineffective. Rather than showing the "ultimate revenge" for an entertainer, it just looked like a bully beating up the smart kids on the playground. I would have liked to have seen the nerds at least work out a little. Jesus,
Lowtax, lift some weights or something. The fact of the matter is that Uwe Boll makes really horrible movies based on video games. Period. He continues to make these movies and be paid for them. That doesn't excuse the fact that they are not good. OH NOES I GONNA GET PUNCHED IN THE FACE!!! Just because you punched somebody doesn't mean they are going to shut up, you moron. That is the typical bully mind-set. These guys are just going to talk louder!! All you have gotten is a small cardio workout, a little bit of self-satisfaction, and oh look, more money for the bully/moron. In the end, I suppose its all about self-promotion and the notion that "there is no such thing as bad press", a point that Kennedy makes himself. If someone hurt my feelings then handed me a check afterwards, well, it would ease the pain just a little, and I believe that Kennedy does make that point effectively (hot tub scene with Deep Roy). In the end, Kennedy brings up some valid points and some points that piss me off (hell, I write this stupid blog, so I guess I'm a critic??). Speaking of the critics in the movie...
John Lovitz (hey, John, didn't you do a little animated show called "
The Critic" making fun of movies and the stars in them???) and
Christopher Hitchens (Good lord, the man criticizes God. That being said, I love him so I'm a bit biased). See it or not, "Heckler" will definitely bring up some interesting conversations if you like movies and entertainment.
3 and out of 4 stars
Death at a Funeral
A funny, sweet, light-hearted film about death and hallucinogens. A really solid cast helps this film not feel disjointed, as it well could with as many story lines that it juggles. It all works out in the end (although I think the ending scene cries out for an "Uncle Alfie" sequel). Really cute movie. Never-mind the fact that the awesome and wonderful
Peter Dinklage steals every scene he is in. Also
Alan Tudyk does a hilarious turn as a dosed lawyer trying to win over his girlfriends tyrannical father. I really loved
Andy Nyman as Howard. So awkward and blabby. He reminded me of, well, me at funerals. Worth a pick-up.
3 out of 4 stars
Little Miss Sunshine
How have I never seen
this movie? I don't think I've stopped smiling since I started watching. I remember that my mother and step-father saw this movie and said it was "trashy" and the language was "horrible". They also had some sort of complaint about Steve Carell's character being gay (which my step-father has a real problem with for personal yet misguided reasons). That is the thing about getting movie advise from my mom and step dad. It is a forest for the trees type situation. They couldn't see past the "objectionable parts" to the heart of the movie, which is really sweet and sad and funny and brilliant. The only character that really annoyed me was emo-boy. Yeah, I get his part in the soup that was this movie, but he just, I don't know, bugged me and for no real reason. Actually, I get now why my parents didn't like the movie at its heart. The Greg Kinnear character is them. Both type A, both rudely honest and both terribly ignorant about how most people interact with each other in society. Sort of like how a four year old just spouts out whatever. It makes sense now. It also gives you, dear reader, an insight into the
miasma that is my personality. *cackles evilly*
3 and 1/2 out of 4 stars
Ghost Town
I usually hate these kind of emotionally-manipulative romantic comedies. Makes you want to call up anyone that you've ever cared about/hurt/loved/paper-cut/yada-yada and spew all sorts of emotional dreck. Like I said, I usually hate these movies. I didn't hate this movie. I
loved this movie. Rick Gervais is wonderful as the acidic, abrasive, obsessive compulsive Bertram Pinkus, a dentist who goes in for a routine medical procedure and voila, HE SEES DEAD PEOPLE!! Its kind of like
M. Night Shamamadingdong mixed with
As Good As it Gets (and not just because Greg Kinnear is in it). Tea Leoni is cute in just about anything she does, although maybe not the strongest actress, she's a good crier. An empathetic crier. Ok, Ok, I wept openly watching this film. Good god, I'm ending this review before all my street cred goes flying out the window.
3 and 1/2 out of 4 stars
