Director: Ruben Fleischer (his first movie, has directed some very funny online shorts)
Stars: Woody Harrelson (White Men Can't Jump, EdTV)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale, The Village)
YesNoSoso: 2
Hell F@$#ing Yeah. This movie was amazing. I'm not gonna claim this should've won the Palm D'or or anything, but it was one of the greatest movie experiences I've ever had. It was fun, scary, heart-warming and hilarious. It also has one of the greatest cameos of all time. I'm not even gonna say anything else about it, just go see this movie immediately, you'll want to hit the menu and watch it again.
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Showing posts with label Horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horror. Show all posts
6/25/10
6/24/10
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Director: Sam Raimi (Spider-man, Spider-man 3)
Stars: Alison Lohman (Big Fish, Million Dollar Kid)
Justin Long (Idiocracy, Still Waiting...)
YesNoSoso: 2
Readers of YesNoSoso are familiar with my love-hate relationship with horror films. I absolutley love a great horror film but loathe that 99% of them are total crap. Drag Me to Hell is that rare gem that beat the odds. An awesome story with a distinctive Raimi-flair (think Army of Darkness set in the real world), Drag Me to Hell will scare you while not insulting your intelligence. The last 20 minutes are downright amazing.
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Stars: Alison Lohman (Big Fish, Million Dollar Kid)
Justin Long (Idiocracy, Still Waiting...)
YesNoSoso: 2
Readers of YesNoSoso are familiar with my love-hate relationship with horror films. I absolutley love a great horror film but loathe that 99% of them are total crap. Drag Me to Hell is that rare gem that beat the odds. An awesome story with a distinctive Raimi-flair (think Army of Darkness set in the real world), Drag Me to Hell will scare you while not insulting your intelligence. The last 20 minutes are downright amazing.
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4/13/09
Let the Right One In (2008)
Director: Tomas Alfredson (Some Swedish shit I've never heard of)
Stars: Kare Hedebrant (Nothing else)
Lina Leandersson (Nothing else)
YesNoSoso: 1
I heard a lot of really good things about this Swedish vampire movie, but mostly it was a disappointment. Perhaps I built it up in my mind too much, but I just thought it didn't bring enough of a new spin to a very well traveled path. Don't get me wrong, it was a good movie, but its more of a tween love story than a vampire movie, and not a very entertaining one at that. Still as far as vampire/monster movies go, its certainly in the upper echelon and worth checking out.
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Stars: Kare Hedebrant (Nothing else)
Lina Leandersson (Nothing else)
YesNoSoso: 1
I heard a lot of really good things about this Swedish vampire movie, but mostly it was a disappointment. Perhaps I built it up in my mind too much, but I just thought it didn't bring enough of a new spin to a very well traveled path. Don't get me wrong, it was a good movie, but its more of a tween love story than a vampire movie, and not a very entertaining one at that. Still as far as vampire/monster movies go, its certainly in the upper echelon and worth checking out.
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1/15/09
Planet Terror (2007)
Director: Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Spy Kids)
Stars: Rose McGowen (Bio-Dome, Monkeybone [Bio-Dome is a stretch])
Freddy Rodriguez ("Six Feet Under", Lady in the Water)
YesNoSoso: 2
I usually have a tough a stomach for movies (except "embarrassment" humor like "Curb Your Enthusiasm), but even I had to look away a few times during my viewing of this movie. Still I'm a sucker for over-the-top craziness and this is the most over-the-top over-the-top movie of all time, at least as far as gross-out scenes. If you don't mind the violence this movie is pretty damn entertaining.
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Stars: Rose McGowen (Bio-Dome, Monkeybone [Bio-Dome is a stretch])
Freddy Rodriguez ("Six Feet Under", Lady in the Water)
YesNoSoso: 2
I usually have a tough a stomach for movies (except "embarrassment" humor like "Curb Your Enthusiasm), but even I had to look away a few times during my viewing of this movie. Still I'm a sucker for over-the-top craziness and this is the most over-the-top over-the-top movie of all time, at least as far as gross-out scenes. If you don't mind the violence this movie is pretty damn entertaining.
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1/13/09
30 Days of Night (2008)
Director: David Slade (Hard Candy [though I've never seen it])
Stars: Josh Hartnett (Sin City, 40 Days and 40 Nights)
Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, The Punisher)
YesNoSoso: 1
This was a strange one, there were times when it was an emphatic zero and times it was an emphatic two. There were some awesomely stylized shots and some genuinely scary scenes, but the "bad guys" were wholly unbelievable and the ending was pretty stupid. I will say that the set up to the story is one of the best I'd ever heard, although that may include my anticipation of an explanation of which there was none. Basically its a horror movie that takes place Barrow, Alaska. The northern most town of the United States that experiences 30 days of night where the majority of the town leaves. And then some scary shit happens. Ben Foster turns in another truly talented performance (I've recently loved him in 3:10 to Yuma and "Freaks and Geeks"), but not enough to carry the movie. Plus he disappears rather abruptly. Just bad execution all around.
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Stars: Josh Hartnett (Sin City, 40 Days and 40 Nights)
Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, The Punisher)
YesNoSoso: 1
This was a strange one, there were times when it was an emphatic zero and times it was an emphatic two. There were some awesomely stylized shots and some genuinely scary scenes, but the "bad guys" were wholly unbelievable and the ending was pretty stupid. I will say that the set up to the story is one of the best I'd ever heard, although that may include my anticipation of an explanation of which there was none. Basically its a horror movie that takes place Barrow, Alaska. The northern most town of the United States that experiences 30 days of night where the majority of the town leaves. And then some scary shit happens. Ben Foster turns in another truly talented performance (I've recently loved him in 3:10 to Yuma and "Freaks and Geeks"), but not enough to carry the movie. Plus he disappears rather abruptly. Just bad execution all around.
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1/2/09
1408 (2007)
Director: Mikael Hafstrom (Derailed and some foreign shit, his name has that 'a' thing with a circle over it and the o has 2 dots over it, so he's probably Scandinavian or Klingon)
Stars: John Cusack (High Fidelity, Must Love Dogs)
Samuel L Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Deep Blue Sea)
YesNoSoso: 0
I don't get it. This movie got respectable ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. One reviewer said it was one of the best adaptations of a Stephen King (its his short story). I thought it sucked. A shitload. I like John Cusack, well I like it when he doesn't do generic hollywood crap (which has been with an ever increasing rarity) but frankly this movie is beyond him. He's pretty much forced to single handedly carry the movie through its frights and derangment and simply doesn't have the chops.
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Stars: John Cusack (High Fidelity, Must Love Dogs)
Samuel L Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Deep Blue Sea)
YesNoSoso: 0
I don't get it. This movie got respectable ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. One reviewer said it was one of the best adaptations of a Stephen King (its his short story). I thought it sucked. A shitload. I like John Cusack, well I like it when he doesn't do generic hollywood crap (which has been with an ever increasing rarity) but frankly this movie is beyond him. He's pretty much forced to single handedly carry the movie through its frights and derangment and simply doesn't have the chops.
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11/19/08
Cabin Fever (2002)
Director: Eli Roth (Hostel, Hostel: II [that worked out nicely!!])
Stars: Rider Strong ("Boy Meets World", My Giant)
James DeBello (Detroit Rock City, 100 Girls)
YesNoSoso: 2
I am definitely going to get shit for this, but I actually liked this movie. As I stated in the 28 Weeks Later post, I love a good Horror movie but hate 99.99% of the genre. I thought this was fresh take on an old concept, executed extremely well.
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Stars: Rider Strong ("Boy Meets World", My Giant)
James DeBello (Detroit Rock City, 100 Girls)
YesNoSoso: 2
I am definitely going to get shit for this, but I actually liked this movie. As I stated in the 28 Weeks Later post, I love a good Horror movie but hate 99.99% of the genre. I thought this was fresh take on an old concept, executed extremely well.
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9/19/08
28 Weeks Later (2008)
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Intacto)
Stars: Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, Eragon)
Rose Byrne (Marie Antoinette, Wicker Park)
YesNoSoso: 2
I love a good horror movie, but if forced to give the horror genre as a whole a YesNoSoso ranking it would be an emphatic 0. 99.999% of horror movies are awful. Same goes for sequels (It is the next installment of 28 Days Later). The Washington Generals have a higher success rate than the average horror film and are way more entertaining. That's why I'm so stoked when I come across a truley good one (I can think of very few horror movies or sequels with YesNoSoso 1's and even less 2's). 28 Weeks Later, however, pulls it off. The exploration of life after the virus is both believable and interesting. Many times sequels seem forced (Matrix Revolutions, Spiderman 3, almost every other sequel), but a truly good sequel subconsiously merges the subsequent plot into a encapselating story arc (Godfather II, Spiderman II). 28 Weeks Later accomplishes this rare feat in a very entertaining movie.
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Stars: Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, Eragon)
Rose Byrne (Marie Antoinette, Wicker Park)
YesNoSoso: 2
I love a good horror movie, but if forced to give the horror genre as a whole a YesNoSoso ranking it would be an emphatic 0. 99.999% of horror movies are awful. Same goes for sequels (It is the next installment of 28 Days Later). The Washington Generals have a higher success rate than the average horror film and are way more entertaining. That's why I'm so stoked when I come across a truley good one (I can think of very few horror movies or sequels with YesNoSoso 1's and even less 2's). 28 Weeks Later, however, pulls it off. The exploration of life after the virus is both believable and interesting. Many times sequels seem forced (Matrix Revolutions, Spiderman 3, almost every other sequel), but a truly good sequel subconsiously merges the subsequent plot into a encapselating story arc (Godfather II, Spiderman II). 28 Weeks Later accomplishes this rare feat in a very entertaining movie.
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Cape Fear (1991)
Director: Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Michael Jackson's "Bad" Video)
Stars: Robert DeNiro (Raging Bull, The Fan)
Nick Nolte (A Thin Red Line, 48 Hrs)
YesNoSoso: 2
I know its sad that I haven't seen this movie until 2008, but it was well worth the wait. Anybody that knows me I'm a sucker for gimmicks and honoring classic works with homages and Cape Fear hooked me from the beginning. From classic Hitchcock/Film Noirish opening credits to the clever and unforced inclusion of the main stars of the original, Cape Fear can be appreciated on a number of levels. These artistic details are smoothly incorporated into a very solid movie displaying an excellent pace (just a side note, I see pace as the most "subconsious" barameter of a movies quality. How well a movie that progresses logically and enthrallingly is very crucial to the overall experience)
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Stars: Robert DeNiro (Raging Bull, The Fan)
Nick Nolte (A Thin Red Line, 48 Hrs)
YesNoSoso: 2
I know its sad that I haven't seen this movie until 2008, but it was well worth the wait. Anybody that knows me I'm a sucker for gimmicks and honoring classic works with homages and Cape Fear hooked me from the beginning. From classic Hitchcock/Film Noirish opening credits to the clever and unforced inclusion of the main stars of the original, Cape Fear can be appreciated on a number of levels. These artistic details are smoothly incorporated into a very solid movie displaying an excellent pace (just a side note, I see pace as the most "subconsious" barameter of a movies quality. How well a movie that progresses logically and enthrallingly is very crucial to the overall experience)
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