Showing posts with label sidekick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sidekick. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Day 14: Shoot 'Em Up

Method of Acquisition: Borrowed

Runtime: 86 minutes Year: TBD

Plot: Clive Owen does lots of shooting. The reason for the shooting is that Clive Owen finds a baby, and Paul Giamatti is not happy about it. So Clive Owen gets a lactating hooker to help him out.

Review: The title pretty much said it all. It leaves out that Clive Owen's second choice weapon is a carrot and many a person gets their face impaled with a carrot. Also, carrots seem to be a proper alternative to fingers in pulling a trigger. Clive Owen delivers the baby right before the mother gets shot and cuts the umbilical cord with a gun. He makes contraptions for shooting guns. There is a skydiving scene with what else? A gunfight. And after all the problems are resolved, Clive Owen happens to be at a diner right as it gets robbed by people with guns. The movie ends with another shoot out. It was entertaining enough, but I certainly wouldn't watch it again. I think I may have grown a penis in the process of watching it.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Day 9: Trancers 3 & 4

Method of Acquisition: Borrowed

Runtimes: 75 minutes, tba Years: 1992, 1994

Plot: Jack Deth travels from 1992 to 2353 to 2005 and then to another dimension where there are vampires.

Review: The Trancers series is fucking amazing! Helen Hunt is only in the third one for about 5 seconds and Jack gets a reptillian android as a new bestie and just when he gets told at the end of Trancers 3 that they are now partners, Trancers 4 opens with Jack turning him into a lamp. The Trancers get even better since in the first 2 movies they are basically zombies. The third, they are soldiers that control their tranciness. The fourth they are vampire nobles. Fucking awesome.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Day 1: UHF

Method of acquisition: Borrowed
Runtime: 97 minutes Year: 1989

Plot: Weird Al goes from fast food clerk to running his own television station which becomes a hit overnight much to the dismay of a rival station owner.

Review: Everything in this movie can be put into at least one of these two categories: wackiness or physical comedy. Michael Richards plays a janitor who gets his own television show and has big teeth! How wacky! There is a battle where Weird Al has really big muscles! Even more wacky! Many of the new television shows that Weird Al puts on the station are wacky spoofs. A really awesome trophy makes a cameo and a good trophy can make up for a lot. All in all, it was awesomely predictable, but not as awesomely bad as I had hoped for.