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70 Minute Star Wars Review

Ki — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:01:12 +0000

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My thoughts on the 70 minute Star Wars Review. The best review of any movie I have ever seen. Follow the link below to see all 7 youtube clips of the review.

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The Darjeeling Limited

Ki — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:57:25 +0000

The Darjeeling Limited

Wes Anderson’s has written some great films. I quite liked The Royal Tenenbaums and still haven’t got around to seeing The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, but I’ll have to get my hands on it to see if it’s half as good as his latest movie The Darjeeling Limited. Simply put The Darjeeling Limited is a master piece and the best film I’ve seen in the last year.

It follows three rich brothers as they travel around India trying to find themselves and bond with each other again like when they were kids. Their spiritual journey that is a little too well planned (laminated daily schedules) goes badly from the beginning, probably because of the all the Indian medication they’re downing. Once their antics got them kicked off a train in the middle of nowhere they were ready to give up and catch the next flight out of there. While finding their way back to civilization they stumble upon three children trying to cross a river. This is where their real journey begins.

I would recommend this to anyone and everyone, so what are waiting for? Go watch it!

Eagle vs Shark

Ki — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:07:16 +0000

Eagle vs Shark

I finally got around to seeing the little kiwi film that could; Eagle vs Shark. The best way I can think of describing it is a kiwi version of Napoleon Dynamite. The basic story follows a nerd who has a huge grudge on a Samoan boy who used to beat him up at school. He has been training in the arts of Kung Fu and fancies himself quite the pro now (Nunchuks are his specialty), so when his high school nemesis returns to his home town from Samoa he leaves at once to kick his ass and regain to families honour. Oh, and there’s a girl, a very geeky girl that is in love with the nerdy boy and will follow him anywhere, even back to his hometown.

Although the movie can get a bit dull in places there are plenty of great scenes that while have you on the verge of wetting your pants in fits of laughter. It is definitely worth watching if you are in the need of a good laugh.

A Film with Me in It

Ki — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:19:57 +0000

A Film With Me In It

Ivy, Simon and I just got back from seeing this film. We were actually the only three people in the whole cinema, which was a first for me. It was great having the cinema to ourselves because we could be over exaggerated and scream at the screen. It made the film that much more fun.

None of us had heard anything about this film beforehand, which is a great way to go see a movie. It allows you to go in with a clear mind, which means there is less chance you’ll be disappointed. It worked, I left the cinema thinking “Damn I didn’t expect that”. It was a black comedy that is pretty smart in the way it catches you off guard on many occasions. I can honestly say that I yelled “Holly shit!” during the shovel scene (you’ll have to watch it).

This isn’t the greatest movie, but it is a very good movie and definitely worth the ticket price.

Hank and Mike

Ki — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:54:43 +0000

Movie - Hank and Mike

Watched this master piece last night. It tells the story of a couple of Easter Bunnies that lose their jobs due to downsizing. Whose idea was it to fire Easter Bunnies? The same guy who came up with sponsored suicides!

The story follows the two bunnies, Hank and Mike, as they try to get there lives back together. After many failed attempts at ordinary jobs they quickly spiral downwards into a pit of sex, drugs, profanity, and self hatred!

Well worth a watch, if only to see a Easter Bunny snort cocaine of a bare breasted woman and be offered a rim job from a strung out white guy.

In Bruges

Ki — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:27:58 +0000

In Bruges

My brother, Shen, recently went for a weekend in Bruges, a small city in Belgium. After talking to him about his exploits he reminded me of the Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson film titled In Bruges. Colin and Brendan are hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss. The film of course takes place within Bruges.

The movie starts off quiet slow without much of anything happening for the first half. The comedic high light of the first half is when Colin tells a bunch of obese American tourists not to climb to the top of a famous tower because they are to fat to fit. (My brother assures me that the tower staircase gets very steep and narrow and doubts anyone of considerable girth would not be able to make it up.)

After a slow start the movie does pick up with a bunch of action scenes sprinkled with humor. The end result being a reasonably good flick worth a viewing.

Pineapple Express

Ki — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:36:36 +0000

Movie - Pineapple Express

Ivy and I went out for some pre-Christmas drinks with Nick and his girl. After a couple we headed back to the flat and watched Pineapple Express the new Seth Rogen movie. We were already a little buzzed from the booze, so in the perfect mindset for this flick.

At first I was weary about how this movie was going to turn out. Similar movies like Superbad were awesome, but when I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall I felt they were losing their appeal. Pineapple Express didn’t disappoint though and had even Ivy laughing the night away. So if you’re after a good comedy then give this one a go.

Super High Me

Ki — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:53:33 +0000

Movie - Super High Me

This movie is basically a take off of Super Size Me where a guy eats nothing but McDonalds for 30 days and sees how that effects his body and life, but instead of eating McDonalds he smokes marijuana.

Now, the idea of this interested me a lot. But the execution of this movie wasn’t as good as I think it could have been. To start with the guy smoking all the weed, Doug Benson, is a comedian that already smokes a lot of pot. So, right off the bat they have to do 30 days of him not smoking the wacky tabacy, so that they can do tests on him when he isn’t under the influence. Now, Doug has been a heavy smoker for the past 17 years of his life… 30 days isn’t going to make that much of a difference to the tests I don’t think. They should have gotten a guy (or girl) that has never smoked ganja before to do this. On the upside the guy is a comedian, so they show a bunch of his stand up stuff that relates around reefer, which is probably the bests parts of the movie.

Doug takes a few different tests before and after his 30 day relationship with Mary Jane; a lung capacity test, a SAT test, a sperm count test, an ESP or psychic test and he also get weighed before and after. Although this sounds like a lot, really the tests were done pretty poorly and I would have liked to have seen more health tests taken.

If you want to know how the tests turned out… well you’ll just have to watch the movie. Or google it? If dope and that sort of thing interests you then I would suggest watching Super High Me. It’s not as good as Super Size Me, but it’s worth a rental.