HOT TUB TIME MACHINE: This movie has everything I look for in a movie, and life for that matter, hot tubs and time machines. If I had a hot tub that transported me back to 1986 I would totally play with my G.I. Joes until way after midnight and not go to school because I wanted to play my brand new Nintendo Entertainment System until my tiny fingers became bloody and misshapen from all the wondrous finger mashing. Well, what would you do?? I’d only be 9 years old and I had yet to learn how to train my dragon, (see below).
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: I don’t know about you, but I learned how to train my dragon when I was 12 years old in between sessions of spanking the monkey, choking the bishop and as Kevin Spacey said so eloquently in AMERICAN BEAUTY, “Saying hello to my monster.” In what I can only assume is another in the tired series of stories featuring the love story of a boy and his dragon, (see AVATAR, THE NEVERENDING STORY, ANY MOVIE FEATURING SARAH JESSICA PARKER), this looks to be another reason to find your buddy with the pot card, eat some brownies and sit back motionless for 2 hours with funny looking glasses on saying “whoah” multiple times to yourself and others. Or you can see the movie.
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PreView Reviews: How To Train Your Hot Tub Time Machine Dragon
LouVision: Drinking Tecate & Watching “Dead Snow”
I agree with the Swiss-German chick. APRIL FOOL’S DAY is a classic.
(Also this is a test of my WordPress for Blackberry).
Batman Begins & Iron Man are the Same Movie
Ever wonder if Hollywood is just getting a tad bit lazy these days? Well, they are. Also, these comic book characters have always been just a tiny bit too similar..
Catching Up with Pop Culture: Inglourious Basterds
For various reasons, some valid (getting married) and some not (sheer unadulterated laziness) I’ve been lagging behind the cultural zeitgeist on a few things over the past couple years. So, with the injection of the perfect storm of Netflix/HDTV/BluRay into my former 20th Century entertainment center comes some better late than never reflections on some films or yore. Being that this film came out last year, I see there no reason to warn of spoilers.
Un Poster d'Italiano
First up, is the comical romp through German occupied France during the gay old Forties known as INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. After snoring through JACKIE BROWN, just not feeling KILL BILL(s) and being bored to tears with his half of GRINDHOUSE, DEATH PROOF, even though I was at a midnight screening at Mann’s Chinese Theatre passing a gallon size cup of Jack & Coke back and forth with a dozen of my closest friends, you could say that Quentin was close to being relegated to just “that interesting character I’ll watch interviews for” and not for the visionary director he once was.
Well, that all changed last night when my eyeballs were done being Tarantinoized once again. And while I still think PULP FICTION is his best work by far, with RESERVOIR DOGS a close second, BASTERDS definitely comes with guns blazing up the rear to third.
As I was watching/reading the movie, (which by the way will require a second viewing for that very reason), it occurred to me that when QT is firing on all cylinders, with his chapters and splintered timelines, he’s basically been making foreign films his whole life. This time, he just went it did it. And did it well, no less. Read more
