Cleveland Sports Curse Inaugural Podcast
Deezo Feezo and I went crazy this week and started the long-awaited (by us) podcast. Check out my best impression of a sports talk show host.
To add Cleveland Sports Curse podcast to your podcasts in iTunes, you can do the following.
Go into iTunes.
Click on the Advanced menu.
Click on “Subscribe to Podcast”
In the URL field place the following address:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/csc/feed
That should be it. iTunes should download new episodes depending on your settings in iTunes.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse - DVD Movie Review
If you aren’t gay and you like zombie movies, then the Resident Evil series of movies is for you. Hell, even if you are gay, there is a distinct possibility that you might find Milla Jovovich sexy. She has some kind of ridiculous super-human sex-appeal as she jumps her way through this movie, exploding the undead masses.
This isn’t really one of the finer moments in cinema, but you don’t go into a movie like this looking for great acting performances and believability. You look for crazy action, beautiful people, scary creatures, and lots of violence.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse delivers all those things and it was pretty cool. I am looking forward to Resident Evil: Extinction which comes out on January 1, 2008.
The Reaping - DVD Movie Review
Rotten Tomatoes is my favorite movie review site because it compiles the reviews from all over the country to come up with a percentage. Usually it is somewhat in line with my thoughts on a flick. In the case of the reaping, I am not sure if I could have been any further off from the critics.
They HATE The Reaping. All told, on Rotten Tomatoes, The Reaping gets 7% which is REALLY low. But just for reference, the craptacular Dark Water starring Jennifer Connelly got 45%. I would watch The Reaping ten more times before I would watch that hunk of garbage again.
All I can guess is that all the wrong reviewers were reviewing this movie thinking it was going to be something other than a suspenseful horror movie. Maybe they saw Hillary Swank’s name and thought that they better take this movie seriously.
I liked it though. As far as suspenseful horrors go, it was entertaining. It was a little slow and probably needed some additional editing in spots, but the little girl was creepy. The town was creepy. The effects looked good. Hillary Swank looked good and acted well. It was better than your average horror movie.
Baby in the Oven
Opie and Anthony decided to make weird phrases number one on Google, so I thought I would see if I could just contribute my little bit to the campaign. The last time I heard, it was going well.
If you want to contribute, click the link below.
Opie and Anthony search for “Baby in the Oven”
The Nanny Diaries - DVD Movie Review
This movie was on the list because I knew Jen would want to see it. Plus, it has Scarlett Johansson, so I was game no matter what. It was ok. I never saw The Devil Wears Prada but I imagine that this could be an unofficial sequel and/or prequel.
Laura Linney plays the stereotypical Upper East Side Manhattan mother with a super rich husband, played perfectly by Paul Giamatti. Annie (Jahansson) plays a nanny to Linney’s kid. Wackiness and meanness ensue.
A few things. First, it was really gimmicky. The characters weren’t given actual names until they came to be decent people. So throughout the movie the parents of the child were Mr. and Mrs. X. The boy who she liked was “The Harvard Hottie.” And please don’t start lecturing me about why it makes sense. I know. I know. I just don’t care. I found it distracting and unnecessary. Secondly, if you have Paul Giamatti in your cast, don’t allow his character to run off to Chicago on business for half the flick. I don’t care what the book was about, the father could have been a more prominent part of the storyline. Thirdly, can we please stop casting musicians as actors? I just found the whole Alicia Keys experiment distracting. And trust me, it isn’t a racial thing. I can’t stand seeing Justin Timberlake show up in bit parts either.
After all my criticisms, you might think I didn’t like the movie. Over all, I really did, though. It was entertaining, had some decent lines here and there, and it starred Scarlett Johansson. So, it couldn’t have been all bad.
Hannibal Rising - DVD Movie Review
I love Hannibal Lecter movies. Silence of the Lambs, Manhunter, Red Dragon (Manhunter remake), Hannibal and now Hannibal Rising were all pretty good, even in their worst moments. Sure, it has a lot to do with Anthony Hopkins, but it also has a lot to do with the sociopathic nature of a guy who not only kills people, but eats them too, while being as smart and wily as any human being in the history of the world. That combination of brutality and supreme intelligence is what makes Lecter such a great character.
Hannibal Rising did justice to that character once more by showing us exactly where Lecter comes from. The movie wasn’t as fluid as some of its predecessors and the acting was more amateurish than any performance that Anthony Hopkins has ever delivered, but the storyline of Hannibal seeking revenge on those who harmed his family during WWII was phenomenal. The twist at the end wasn’t as mind-bending as they hoped it would be, but it was chilling just the same. If you like the Hannibal Lecter character, I don’t think this movie will disappoint you.
Next - DVD Movie Review
I wanted to see this movie because of the cast. Mostly because I could spend two hours watching Jessica Biel even if she was being filmed watching paint dry. Yes. I would watch Jessica Biel watching paint dry. Also, I used to have kind of a “thing” for Julianne Moore. So, I picked up Next starring Nic Cage. Now this is the theory I have come up with.
Nicolas Cage is a bad actor. He is almost a parody of himself. There are certain roles which make him seem slightly less bad than he is at other times, but mostly he is just bad. The problem is that he has a great eye for movies and he ends up picking really interesting projects. At the end of the day, you end up watching a sub-par performance by a leading actor in some pretty good scripts.
Such is the case with Next. It is about a guy (Cage) who can see two minutes into his own future at all times. What you end up with is a time-bending action movie with an intriguing storyline, that was completely entertaining despite Nic Cage doing that same weird parody of himself that he seems to do in all his films. If you can watch this movie with that filter, then you will enjoy it.
Ratatouille - Movie Review
Sorry to all those kids out there who want to read a good review of Ratatouille. It was just OK. And maybe this review has less to do with the actual quality of the movie Ratatouille as it does with the fact that Brad Bird is WASTING HIS and MY time with movies like this when he had the chance to create the greatest cartoon franchise in the history of cartoons if he would have just kept pumping out sequels to The Incredibles. The Incredibles was so far beyond any of the other cartoon movies that I have ever seen that it seems such a shame not to revisit it.
Ratatouille was entertaining, but it didn’t have any “wow” factor.
Superbad Movie Review
I finally saw Superbad recently and I have to say that this is probably the funniest high school movie since American Pie came out. I won’t drop any of the cliches that you have already been peppered with, but I will say if nothing else, check out the first 20 minutes. The first 20 minutes are so chock full of jokes and funny lines that you can’t help but laugh.
It is brought to you by the same people who brought you Knocked Up.
Small Town Gay Bar - DVD Movie Review
A note to my East coast friends: If you think that this county is a progressive, liberal place, you really have no concept for what certain parts of the country are like. Imagine what it must be like to be a gay person in Mississippi. That is the concept for this documentary by Kevin Smith’s friend Malcolm Ingram. Ingram, a gay man, takes us through the south to show us the story of a few different gay bars, the gay people who frequent them and the many detractors who hate them. The real bravery of this film are the southern gay people who were willing to talk on camera.
This movie wasn’t preachy, and held true to the documentary format. Ingram went to talk to Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church and didn’t editorialize at all. He let Phelps talk his “gospel” and let the viewers decide for themselves.
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