Rancor: "Dick Steele couldn't stop me 15 years ago, and all the Dicks in the world can't stop me now!"
Coleman: "Apparently he hasn't seen the size of some of our newer members."
Peter Mann: Leonard, have you ever seen anything like this before? Leonard: Why you asking me if I've seen some shit like this before? Do I look like I've seen some shit like this before? Hell, no I a'int never seen no shit like this before. Who the fuck would wanna climb up one of these walls and hang one of these? Musta been a big elephant-ass motherfucker.
My wife and I went to the theater yesterday and did two matinees back to back:
And then:
Crimson Peak was beautiful to look at, the set designs were incredible, amazing wardrobe, I love the setting/time period and gothic atmosphere. The acting was excellent and dialogue was great. What held this movie back from being great and just made it a decent flick was that the plot was so generic and predictable. And it was not scary. If they could have fixed those two things this movie would have been so much better. Not that it wasn't worth watching; I still enjoyed it. It reminds me of Scorsese's film Shutter Island. That movie was very well executed like Crimson Peak, and both movies the twists and turns were completely obvious as to what they were going to be near the beginning of the films.
Now Bridge Of Spies...holy crap now THERE was a great movie! Very dry and you have to pay attention, but if you like this kind of film then RUN to go see it. I'd compare it to another Spielberg film, Lincoln. That movie was also very dry but fantastic. Even though they are different time periods I feel like they have a lot in common about how the story is told with pacing, low key on the action, but making you hang on every word of the characters.
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
"Hey, man, my pops always said the quickest way to a woman's heart - the church.
-It's actually through the ribcage, but that's a bit messy."
San Andreas - I know a great deal of people loved this flick, but I was a bit disappointed in it. More than anything else, it ends up being a Father's plight to save his daughter and everything else was used as a plot device, kind of like the Day After Tomorrow.
Twixt (2011)
"And when is this most tragic of melancholy topics most poetical? When it most loosely alludes itself to beauty. The death, therefore, of a beautiful girl is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
Seed of Chucky (2004)
"A masturbating midget?"
Blade II (2002)
"You're human.
-Barely. I'm a lawyer."
Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
"Every time we pull a trigger and it feels good, because no lawyers can reverse that. It all comes down to justice and pressure. There's only that much difference between a cop and a maniac cop."
Funland (1987)
"Sabotage."
Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
"You're crazy!"
Cheerleader Camp (1988)
"I think we'd all be better off if she'd think more about the team and less about getting honey on her muffin."
The Wedding Ringer- This was a lot of fun, and I was pleasantly surprised by Kevin Hart not overdoing any of his scenes. Seeing Penny swear kind of threw me for a loop, too. She looks SOOOO much better with long hair.
Blade Trinity [Unrated Edition] (2004)
"We call ourselves the Nightstalkers.
-Hmm. Sounds like rejects from a Saturday morning cartoon.
Well, we were gonna go with the Care Bears, but, uh, that was taken."
I know people hate on this flick and it is the weakest and there are problems with it, but there's a lot of moments I dig (like Dracula trashing a Goth vampire botique).
The American Scream (2012)
"When you're scared, you're most alive. People need that."
This wasn't great, but a pretty-good documentary about a few families in Fairhaven, MA that do their own haunted houses and what goes into it. [Expires on Instant Netflix at the end of the month.]
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