Hey Everyone,
I have on my list of reviews to write:
1) Hugo
2) Underworld: Awakening
3) the Hallmark movie "A Smile As Big As The Moon"
Here's what's on the to-do list above that stuff:
OMG SPRING SEMESTER STARTED AND I HAVE TO START WORKING WITH CHILDREN LIKE 24 HOURS A DAY AND PREPARING FOR THAT AND SOME HIGH STAKES EXAMS THAT WILL BE REARING THEIR UGLY HEADS HERE PRETTY QUICK
So I just wanted to say that there'll likely be ungainly, unprofessional, and unpleasantly long delays between posts from here until late May. When (not if, right guys?! heh..heh..hehhh..trails off, eyes glazed over staring in general direction of stack of books and papers) I do end up posting, I'll put a status update on the ol' facebook. So if you're into reading this blog, cast your errant eye on my page when you feel like it (or more likely when you don't feel like working) and you'll find out pretty quick if there's anything new for you to look at or not.
-the complainer
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06 December 2011
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 (2011)
Dear Every Other Reviewer of Twilight,
Please stop complaining about the plot of the movies. Everyone knows the story is silly already-- we read the books. For those viewers of the movie who did not (or did not wish to) acknowledge how silly/terrible the plot is, and what a disgustingly distorted and unhappy relationship dynamic it represents, your review means nothing. They will simply say "haters gon' hate" and throw your review in the trash.
Kindly focus on the cinematic aspects of the movie that failed. They were nearly as catastrophic as the plot elements that you spent your precious word count critiquing. However, as stated above, the flaws of the story were already there in the book. Leave criticizing those up to the book critics.
Please see my review below for an example of an honest consideration of the film's strengths and weaknesses.
Thanks,
Cait (The Complainer)
REVIEW:
This movie sucked and was majorly boring.
Hideously inept acting, extremely poor pacing, and ill timed and ill themed musical accompaniment soured the entire film experience overall. Little details like garish yellow contact lenses and unintentionally hilarious use of special effects kept everyone wondering why they paid to see to the movie in theaters. Lengthy "conversations" between snarling wolves and extremely corny love scenes provided handy moments for bathroom breaks. Taylor Lautner doing a laudable attempt at a crying breakdown, providing what was to be the only emotionally resonant moment of the film for me, served as a handy litmus test for just how bad the movie was overall.
I am still going to see the final installment. I have no justification as for why.
But please get a new editor or a new director or something. At least make me able to pretend I didn't waste my twelve bucks and 100 minutes.
Please stop complaining about the plot of the movies. Everyone knows the story is silly already-- we read the books. For those viewers of the movie who did not (or did not wish to) acknowledge how silly/terrible the plot is, and what a disgustingly distorted and unhappy relationship dynamic it represents, your review means nothing. They will simply say "haters gon' hate" and throw your review in the trash.
Kindly focus on the cinematic aspects of the movie that failed. They were nearly as catastrophic as the plot elements that you spent your precious word count critiquing. However, as stated above, the flaws of the story were already there in the book. Leave criticizing those up to the book critics.
Please see my review below for an example of an honest consideration of the film's strengths and weaknesses.
Thanks,
Cait (The Complainer)
REVIEW:
This movie sucked and was majorly boring.
Hideously inept acting, extremely poor pacing, and ill timed and ill themed musical accompaniment soured the entire film experience overall. Little details like garish yellow contact lenses and unintentionally hilarious use of special effects kept everyone wondering why they paid to see to the movie in theaters. Lengthy "conversations" between snarling wolves and extremely corny love scenes provided handy moments for bathroom breaks. Taylor Lautner doing a laudable attempt at a crying breakdown, providing what was to be the only emotionally resonant moment of the film for me, served as a handy litmus test for just how bad the movie was overall.
I am still going to see the final installment. I have no justification as for why.
But please get a new editor or a new director or something. At least make me able to pretend I didn't waste my twelve bucks and 100 minutes.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
I want to preface this review by stating that the only reason I watched this movie was that it was the only thing in the house and I was desperate to avoid being productive for a time.
Why avoid the Pirates franchise, you ask? Well. I was already tired of the whole thing by the end of the second movie, and the third installment was so pointless to me that it actually made me angry. And yet! I set out to watch On Stranger Tides with some tiny, absurd grain of optimism. I believe I deserve a pat on the back for dredging up this speck of good will. Perhaps it sprung forth from the promise of mermaids and a hugely relieving lack of Kiera Knightley.
But let's not get too off topic. As you could probably predict, I was sadly disappointed yet again. Featuring a surprisingly uninteresting Penelope Cruz, an entirely indifferent Johnny Depp-- one small fraction of a bevy of other A-list actors who all appeared to be phoning it in-- the movie was another good example of how throwing money at a project will not and cannot make it entertaining.
It seemed the story was being made up by the director as the crew was dragged from overly elaborate set to unnecessarily exotic locale. Dialogue was entirely without merit. Performances were ho-hum, at best.
Cool special effects, unfortunate lack of any other aspect which deserves positive comment.
Blah. Don't waste your time.
Why avoid the Pirates franchise, you ask? Well. I was already tired of the whole thing by the end of the second movie, and the third installment was so pointless to me that it actually made me angry. And yet! I set out to watch On Stranger Tides with some tiny, absurd grain of optimism. I believe I deserve a pat on the back for dredging up this speck of good will. Perhaps it sprung forth from the promise of mermaids and a hugely relieving lack of Kiera Knightley.
But let's not get too off topic. As you could probably predict, I was sadly disappointed yet again. Featuring a surprisingly uninteresting Penelope Cruz, an entirely indifferent Johnny Depp-- one small fraction of a bevy of other A-list actors who all appeared to be phoning it in-- the movie was another good example of how throwing money at a project will not and cannot make it entertaining.
It seemed the story was being made up by the director as the crew was dragged from overly elaborate set to unnecessarily exotic locale. Dialogue was entirely without merit. Performances were ho-hum, at best.
Cool special effects, unfortunate lack of any other aspect which deserves positive comment.
Blah. Don't waste your time.
13 November 2011
Apollo 18 (2011)
Appall-o 18.
The only thing that made this movie better than Transformers was that they didn't waste nearly as much money making it.
Moon rocks are really spiders that go in your skin! And are really boring! And are trying way too hard with too many loud-music-in-place-of-actual-scares moments!
Just awful. Not even good for a laugh.
Blah. I had to go eat a donut afterwards to feel like the evening wasn't entirely wasted.
The only thing that made this movie better than Transformers was that they didn't waste nearly as much money making it.
Moon rocks are really spiders that go in your skin! And are really boring! And are trying way too hard with too many loud-music-in-place-of-actual-scares moments!
Just awful. Not even good for a laugh.
Blah. I had to go eat a donut afterwards to feel like the evening wasn't entirely wasted.
29 October 2011
The Craft (1996)
Definitely a major guilty pleasure for a lot of people around my age, The Craft does not fail to delight even fifteen (?!) years after it was made.
Fun fact-- The Craft carries more weight with me now than it did when I was however old when I first saw it because unlike then, I now live where the movie is set-- L.A. in all its grimy glory.
I will not try to claim here that The Craft represents a decent portrayal of Wicca, or even of high school girls and all their awkward 'practice' relationships, but I do maintain that it is hilariously entertaining. Plus the soundtrack is still awesome.
Recommended for an indulgent Sunday afternoon. Smug and incredulous laughs abound.
Fun fact-- The Craft carries more weight with me now than it did when I was however old when I first saw it because unlike then, I now live where the movie is set-- L.A. in all its grimy glory.
I will not try to claim here that The Craft represents a decent portrayal of Wicca, or even of high school girls and all their awkward 'practice' relationships, but I do maintain that it is hilariously entertaining. Plus the soundtrack is still awesome.
Recommended for an indulgent Sunday afternoon. Smug and incredulous laughs abound.
05 October 2011
Fright Night (2011)
This extremely entertaining update of the 1985 original has everything I enjoy seeing in a horror movie: humor, low stakes suspense, and an effervescent enthusiasm for making fun of itself.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching Fright Night from beginning to end, laughing along with my friends at all the ridiculous moments, most of which were delivered by Colin Farrell, who seemed to luxuriate in making his role seem as hilariously perverted and degrading/deviant as possible. Even when he's sucking blood out a parade of hapless teenagers, Farrell makes it brazenly obvious that what's really happening is intense, unbridled, and inappropriate sexual pleasure. It is extremely entertaining to watch Farrell run with this role, and I think he did a really smart interpretation of it that I'm not sure others could deliver.
The only problems I had with the film were that 1) the vampires were way scarier when they were not CGI enhanced than when they were. The climactic final monster scene was so overdone CGI-wise that I burst out laughing at the site of it. Leave Farrell with his black contacts and creepy just-jizzed-in-my-pants face alone. And 2) the kid playing the main character appeared to be a 30 year old man*. But he still did a good job in his role, as did the Russell Brand lookalike who played a very apropos satire of Criss Angel.
Overall, VERY worth your time, unless you watch the above clip and hate it. Because if you don't get what's funny about that clip, you won't think Fright Night is funny, at all... guy.
*Horrifying realization: he's younger than me.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching Fright Night from beginning to end, laughing along with my friends at all the ridiculous moments, most of which were delivered by Colin Farrell, who seemed to luxuriate in making his role seem as hilariously perverted and degrading/deviant as possible. Even when he's sucking blood out a parade of hapless teenagers, Farrell makes it brazenly obvious that what's really happening is intense, unbridled, and inappropriate sexual pleasure. It is extremely entertaining to watch Farrell run with this role, and I think he did a really smart interpretation of it that I'm not sure others could deliver.
The only problems I had with the film were that 1) the vampires were way scarier when they were not CGI enhanced than when they were. The climactic final monster scene was so overdone CGI-wise that I burst out laughing at the site of it. Leave Farrell with his black contacts and creepy just-jizzed-in-my-pants face alone. And 2) the kid playing the main character appeared to be a 30 year old man*. But he still did a good job in his role, as did the Russell Brand lookalike who played a very apropos satire of Criss Angel.
Overall, VERY worth your time, unless you watch the above clip and hate it. Because if you don't get what's funny about that clip, you won't think Fright Night is funny, at all... guy.
*Horrifying realization: he's younger than me.
25 August 2011
30 Minutes or Less (2011)
Lots of offensive jokes said by characters you weren't supposed to like anyway, so who cares, right? (Subtext here-- wrong.)
Really stupid story, really annoying Jesse Eisenberg, really pointless overall.
Don't see it, even if you want to.
Really stupid story, really annoying Jesse Eisenberg, really pointless overall.
Don't see it, even if you want to.
Paul (2011)
Another alien movie! But this one has British people, comic-con, and a bunch of jokes about gayness that seem like the filmmakers were trying to prove how OK they are with gayness!
Also: Seth Rogen. On the fence about him in normal roles, experienced slight distaste with him in voice-over mode as the gauche but ultimately friendly alien for whom the movie is named.
Some mildly amusing hijinks, Kristen Wiig doing some lukewarm comedy, and Sigourney Weaver in a strange caricature of a role that feels like some of her skits on SNL, and not in a good way. Involved a bunch of other celebrities I don't feel like listing.
Overall: probably not worth your time, unless you're really really into alien movies. In which case, still meh.
Also: Seth Rogen. On the fence about him in normal roles, experienced slight distaste with him in voice-over mode as the gauche but ultimately friendly alien for whom the movie is named.
Some mildly amusing hijinks, Kristen Wiig doing some lukewarm comedy, and Sigourney Weaver in a strange caricature of a role that feels like some of her skits on SNL, and not in a good way. Involved a bunch of other celebrities I don't feel like listing.
Overall: probably not worth your time, unless you're really really into alien movies. In which case, still meh.
Cowboys and Aliens (2011)
This movie was a headache-inducing combination of dull and annoying.
It could be the fact that I find Daniel Craig a little... what's the word I'm looking for... fugly?
Or maybe it's just that I'm pretty tired of Harrison Ford for no real reason other than an interview on Conan that was completely devoid of direction or charm.
However, I'd say the most likely reason I didn't enjoy Cowboys and Aliens is because it seemed like it was trying to be some type of trendy, hip update on the western, but then it wasn't. I saw weak copies of character types and appearances from both Rango and True Grit (in fact, I read in EW that the costume designer actually used fabrics from True Grit for this film), but Cowboys and Aliens had nothing on either of those movies, despite the budget and the talent involved.
I guess I was glad it wasn't a sequel to anything, and it wasn't another insufferably banal superhero movie. However, being glad a bad movie isn't another type of bad movie doesn't make it good. The only points it gets in my book is the horrifying ugliness of the aliens. NOT. ENOUGH.
Blah.
It could be the fact that I find Daniel Craig a little... what's the word I'm looking for... fugly?
Or maybe it's just that I'm pretty tired of Harrison Ford for no real reason other than an interview on Conan that was completely devoid of direction or charm.
However, I'd say the most likely reason I didn't enjoy Cowboys and Aliens is because it seemed like it was trying to be some type of trendy, hip update on the western, but then it wasn't. I saw weak copies of character types and appearances from both Rango and True Grit (in fact, I read in EW that the costume designer actually used fabrics from True Grit for this film), but Cowboys and Aliens had nothing on either of those movies, despite the budget and the talent involved.
I guess I was glad it wasn't a sequel to anything, and it wasn't another insufferably banal superhero movie. However, being glad a bad movie isn't another type of bad movie doesn't make it good. The only points it gets in my book is the horrifying ugliness of the aliens. NOT. ENOUGH.
Blah.
15 August 2011
Sliding Doors (1998)
Since I didn't watch this movie until now, thirteen years (has it really been thirteen years since 1998?!) after it came out, I can only assume I missed the zeitgeist boat on this one.
If you don't already know, the movie is about how different Gwyneth Paltrow's character Helen's life has the potential to be, hinging on whether or not she makes a train one day after getting fired from her job.
Thoroughly and charmingly silly in plot and acting, Sliding Doors feels highly inconsequential all the way through, even when poor Helen (SPOILER ALERT) is lying in a hospital bed dying after tragic accidents that leave her maimed in both alternate lives.
Overall it was an amusingly outdated bit of fluff. Bonus points for the friend who keeps bursting out laughing when something terrible happens to Helen's philandering lover (see the first 60 seconds of the clip). It was what I felt like doing throughout the entire thing.
If you don't already know, the movie is about how different Gwyneth Paltrow's character Helen's life has the potential to be, hinging on whether or not she makes a train one day after getting fired from her job.
Thoroughly and charmingly silly in plot and acting, Sliding Doors feels highly inconsequential all the way through, even when poor Helen (SPOILER ALERT) is lying in a hospital bed dying after tragic accidents that leave her maimed in both alternate lives.
Overall it was an amusingly outdated bit of fluff. Bonus points for the friend who keeps bursting out laughing when something terrible happens to Helen's philandering lover (see the first 60 seconds of the clip). It was what I felt like doing throughout the entire thing.
02 August 2011
20 March 2011
Red Riding Hood (2011)
A lot of close-ups on Amanda Seyfried's way too big eyes as she gazes unconvincingly longingly at some very not cute Edward/Jacob knock-offs.
Bewildering story, inane details (Large metal elephant that you can torture someone in by putting a fire under it??? How did anyone ever think this was a good idea?!), infantile delivery and editing choices. PS. There's a choreographed dance scene.
PPS. This movie sucked.
Worth a laugh, maybe, as a rental. Do not pay to see it in a theater. They couldn't even get the shots of the winter landscape scenery right. Ouch.
Bewildering story, inane details (Large metal elephant that you can torture someone in by putting a fire under it??? How did anyone ever think this was a good idea?!), infantile delivery and editing choices. PS. There's a choreographed dance scene.
PPS. This movie sucked.
Worth a laugh, maybe, as a rental. Do not pay to see it in a theater. They couldn't even get the shots of the winter landscape scenery right. Ouch.
Leprechaun 5: Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)
Just a little late for Saint Patrick's Day!
I love a movie that is self-consciously terrible. One that really acknowledges its own disfunctionality and gets a little carried away with itself celebrating it.
Enter Leprechaun 5: Leprechaun in the Hood. Oh my goodness this is a terrible movie. The story makes no sense at all, the actors seem like they're trying not to laugh as they deliver their lines, and even the gore/sex factor usually providing some vague sense of interest in a B-movie doesn't quite deliver.
And yet. AND YET! Leprechaun 5 still manages to be amusing. Each scene of half-baked ideas for outlandish deaths, mythological maniacs who speak in rhyme, and random "Zombie Fly Girl" gratuitous gold plastic hot pants (yeah, you read that right) seems like it's trying to outdo the last. The result: an entertaining and surprisingly light evening of entertainment.
Certainly good for a few hours of escapism, if nothing else.
I love a movie that is self-consciously terrible. One that really acknowledges its own disfunctionality and gets a little carried away with itself celebrating it.
Enter Leprechaun 5: Leprechaun in the Hood. Oh my goodness this is a terrible movie. The story makes no sense at all, the actors seem like they're trying not to laugh as they deliver their lines, and even the gore/sex factor usually providing some vague sense of interest in a B-movie doesn't quite deliver.
And yet. AND YET! Leprechaun 5 still manages to be amusing. Each scene of half-baked ideas for outlandish deaths, mythological maniacs who speak in rhyme, and random "Zombie Fly Girl" gratuitous gold plastic hot pants (yeah, you read that right) seems like it's trying to outdo the last. The result: an entertaining and surprisingly light evening of entertainment.
Certainly good for a few hours of escapism, if nothing else.
29 January 2011
The Green Hornet (2010)
Waste of time, money, and talent.
Incredibly boring action sequences, virtually no punch lines.
Unbelieveable, uninteresting, unsatisfying. Pretty much unwatchable.
Blughhghghghhhhh.
Incredibly boring action sequences, virtually no punch lines.
Unbelieveable, uninteresting, unsatisfying. Pretty much unwatchable.
Blughhghghghhhhh.
02 January 2011
18 October 2010
Severed Ways (2007)
Wanna watch the worst movie ever? Watch this!
You’ll see:
-Poop coming out of a dude’s butt
-Extremely anachronistic headbanging to metal
-Guys in really bad wigs speaking slangy Norse in digitally-altered-to-be-lower voices
-Random acts of arson
-Unexplained and unnecessary shaky camera
-Beautiful scenery of northeastern Canada
In short: all you could ever wish for in a bad movie. Ripe for a couple hours of colorful commentary from you and your friends (possibly inebriated). Vent your pent up aggression, sarcasm, and rage toward your TV or computer screen. The movie can’t talk back, and won’t make any effort to get you to like it!
A spectacle of unspeakably bad moviemaking. Enjoy.
You’ll see:
-Poop coming out of a dude’s butt
-Extremely anachronistic headbanging to metal
-Guys in really bad wigs speaking slangy Norse in digitally-altered-to-be-lower voices
-Random acts of arson
-Unexplained and unnecessary shaky camera
-Beautiful scenery of northeastern Canada
In short: all you could ever wish for in a bad movie. Ripe for a couple hours of colorful commentary from you and your friends (possibly inebriated). Vent your pent up aggression, sarcasm, and rage toward your TV or computer screen. The movie can’t talk back, and won’t make any effort to get you to like it!
A spectacle of unspeakably bad moviemaking. Enjoy.
Kick Ass (2010)
I really wanted to like Kick Ass more than I was able to. I thought “Hey! Kids imitating/deconstructing the notion of superheroes while making cheeky jokes! What’s not to like?” Sadly there was a lot not to like.
There was the silly-bad score (not usually something I comment on but definitely was distracting here), the overly flippant use of adolescent (sex/sexuality based) humor, and in my opinion, a failed effort to cover the back story of too many different characters to get me interested in any single one. I’d have much preferred a movie that delved deeply into the psychology of one instead of three (or four or five) misfit superhero/villain wannabes.
I think the makers of Kick Ass were going for smart pastiche of the extremely overplayed superhero genre, but ended up with something too insincere to be homage, and something with too much undirected minor tinkering with genre convention to be truly or interestingly divergent from what’s already out there.
Overall, underwhelming. Not worth it.
There was the silly-bad score (not usually something I comment on but definitely was distracting here), the overly flippant use of adolescent (sex/sexuality based) humor, and in my opinion, a failed effort to cover the back story of too many different characters to get me interested in any single one. I’d have much preferred a movie that delved deeply into the psychology of one instead of three (or four or five) misfit superhero/villain wannabes.
I think the makers of Kick Ass were going for smart pastiche of the extremely overplayed superhero genre, but ended up with something too insincere to be homage, and something with too much undirected minor tinkering with genre convention to be truly or interestingly divergent from what’s already out there.
Overall, underwhelming. Not worth it.
22 September 2010
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (2010)
Caution: SPOILERS ABOUND!
Jake Gyllenhaal runs around in the desert flailing swords and other weapons while half-heartedly courting an extremely beautiful but predictably shrewish woman. Oh crap! Everyone dies!! But wait—here come the magic swirling sands of time travel. BOOM! Every problem is fixable when you have the ability to access the ultimate do-over. Falling in love all over again, but now under the perfect circumstances instead of really really tragic ones. The end!
Ok now, despite what you may expect, I didn’t hate this movie. Even though the plot was decidedly silly, I still was left with a feel-good glow after all was said and done. Why? Several reasons:
1) I actually really enjoyed the wholesomeness of the romance between Gyllenhaal’s main character, Dastan, and Tamina, played by Gemma Arterton. There weren’t any of those lurid almost-but-not-really-sex-and why-would-anyone-like-this-when-they-could-just-watch-porn scenes. Instead there was some sweet hand holding and maybe two kisses. Refreshing.
2) I thought the color was really well done. Not something I usually notice unless it’s especially good or bad, and in this case, the images were just really beautiful to look at scene after scene. They were tied together into one wonderfully vibrant palette of oranges and blues, for the most part. Very nice.
3) The absurd moment of realizing I was looking at Alfred Molina in brown-face (playing the character Sheik Amar). What the hell? So ridiculous that I had to laugh. (Almost as ludicrous as Jake Gyllenhaal playing a “Persian” prince with an inexplicably British accent.)
4) Sometimes I like a sugar-coated happy ending and Prince of Persia definitely delivered in that regard. I was actually pretty appalled over the course of the movie as it became clear that literally everyone close to Dastan was going to die. So when the end rolled around and everyone was alive again, my relief was palpable.
So. Not the best entry for the one year anniversary of A Phantasmagoria of Complaints, largely because I didn’t really have too many complaints. However, I’ve enjoyed blogging for a year now, and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it.
The Phantasmagoria continues soon with a photo of a yet to be baked celebratory one year blog anniversary dessert, a top and bottom five (or ten?) list of movies that feature a jump to the future (or maybe time travel in general), as well as a review of a friend’s exciting indie film that I’ll provide a link to so you can watch it if you like.
As always, please let me know if there is anything you’d like to see reviewed here, or if you have a bone to pick with me regarding one of my reviews.
Thanks for reading! Always good to see hits on my statcounter.
-Cait, The Complainer
Jake Gyllenhaal runs around in the desert flailing swords and other weapons while half-heartedly courting an extremely beautiful but predictably shrewish woman. Oh crap! Everyone dies!! But wait—here come the magic swirling sands of time travel. BOOM! Every problem is fixable when you have the ability to access the ultimate do-over. Falling in love all over again, but now under the perfect circumstances instead of really really tragic ones. The end!
Ok now, despite what you may expect, I didn’t hate this movie. Even though the plot was decidedly silly, I still was left with a feel-good glow after all was said and done. Why? Several reasons:
1) I actually really enjoyed the wholesomeness of the romance between Gyllenhaal’s main character, Dastan, and Tamina, played by Gemma Arterton. There weren’t any of those lurid almost-but-not-really-sex-and why-would-anyone-like-this-when-they-could-just-watch-porn scenes. Instead there was some sweet hand holding and maybe two kisses. Refreshing.
2) I thought the color was really well done. Not something I usually notice unless it’s especially good or bad, and in this case, the images were just really beautiful to look at scene after scene. They were tied together into one wonderfully vibrant palette of oranges and blues, for the most part. Very nice.
3) The absurd moment of realizing I was looking at Alfred Molina in brown-face (playing the character Sheik Amar). What the hell? So ridiculous that I had to laugh. (Almost as ludicrous as Jake Gyllenhaal playing a “Persian” prince with an inexplicably British accent.)
4) Sometimes I like a sugar-coated happy ending and Prince of Persia definitely delivered in that regard. I was actually pretty appalled over the course of the movie as it became clear that literally everyone close to Dastan was going to die. So when the end rolled around and everyone was alive again, my relief was palpable.
So. Not the best entry for the one year anniversary of A Phantasmagoria of Complaints, largely because I didn’t really have too many complaints. However, I’ve enjoyed blogging for a year now, and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it.
The Phantasmagoria continues soon with a photo of a yet to be baked celebratory one year blog anniversary dessert, a top and bottom five (or ten?) list of movies that feature a jump to the future (or maybe time travel in general), as well as a review of a friend’s exciting indie film that I’ll provide a link to so you can watch it if you like.
As always, please let me know if there is anything you’d like to see reviewed here, or if you have a bone to pick with me regarding one of my reviews.
Thanks for reading! Always good to see hits on my statcounter.
-Cait, The Complainer
15 September 2010
Machete (2010)
Not quite bad enough to be truly awesome yet not anywhere near good enough to be likable.
Definitely not worth seeing in theaters but maybe (maybe maybe) worth renting, eventually, if you have nothing else you’d like to watch.
Good for a few chuckles and a handful of cringes. Overall: fair.
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Note to people who read this blog regularly: the one year (!!!!!) anniversary of "A Phantasmagoria of Complaints" is coming up and I’d like to know if anyone would like to see anything specific appear here on the blog. A review of a particular movie, a new top (or bottom) ten list, etc, whatever your hearts desire. If I don’t hear anything I’ll probably just end up baking myself something fancy to celebrate and then posting a photo and everyone will be jealous so you should probably just suggest something fun, ok? OK.
Definitely not worth seeing in theaters but maybe (maybe maybe) worth renting, eventually, if you have nothing else you’d like to watch.
Good for a few chuckles and a handful of cringes. Overall: fair.
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Note to people who read this blog regularly: the one year (!!!!!) anniversary of "A Phantasmagoria of Complaints" is coming up and I’d like to know if anyone would like to see anything specific appear here on the blog. A review of a particular movie, a new top (or bottom) ten list, etc, whatever your hearts desire. If I don’t hear anything I’ll probably just end up baking myself something fancy to celebrate and then posting a photo and everyone will be jealous so you should probably just suggest something fun, ok? OK.
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