The Mighty Boosh

The Mighty Boosh

Recently I have been turned onto the show “The Mighty Boosh” by my good friend Francesco from Brooklyn. It is a very funny British show. But i need to remind you, it is a British show, and some Americans just don't get British humor. I don’t know if I should even blog about it, because it's fun having this little secret of mine, but I feel that it is funny enough that people should watch it. It is a lot like the show Flight of The Conchords, but it is the BBC take on it. I like FOTC better, probably because I saw it first, and it caters more towards Americans. The mighty boosh is original, for it started in 2004, before FOTC itself. So far, 2 complete seasons are finished, and you can watch most of it on Hulu, or download it off of a torrent website.

 

Developed from three stage shows and a six episode radio series, it has since spawned a total of twenty television episodes for BBC Three and a live tour of the UK. A recent festival has been held and forthcoming album of their music and another live tour are also planned. (More on them, click here)

 

It mostly takes place in a flat (apartment) of two friends who work at a zoo. Watching their adventures, funny random songs, and amazingly funny outfits and mustaches, this show will have you laughing hard. 

 

You can watch it on this link here, or download it off of any bit torrent website. 

**Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)**

Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) 

This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. I love love love love love love it. I am a sucker for most French films, but most French films seem to be weird comedies or romantic films. This one stands out from most French films because it is a thriller and murder mystery. It has you on the edge of your seat the whole movie, questioning who really is the murder, and the ending makes your jaw drop, almost like the ending of Fight Club did to most people.

 

Directed by Guillaume Canet and staring François Cluzet as Alexandre Beck and Marie-Josée Croze Margot Beck, who are husband and wife, this film takes you through the journey of Alex’s life 8 years after his wife was murdered at his family’s old swimming hole. The murder story itself has many holes in it, and it leaves many police men baffled for many years. 8 years later some bodies near the swimming hole were dug up, and allows the opportunity for this murder case to reopened. A lot more unanswered questions come up, and Alex’s name gets thrown in the newspaper. Once the case is reopened and publicly known, he starts getting contacted by someone whom he thinks is his wife who has died, and soon strange people are following him. The question is, who murdered his wife? Why was she murdered? Who will defend and help Alex? and will he ever find solace in his wife’s death? I don’t want to spoil any more of the movie for you, but trust me when I say its amazing. Its honestly one of my favorite thrillers.

 

This movie is just absolutely beautiful. The music is amazing with a great song by Jeff Buckley in it, and perfect music to set the tones for many suspenseful scenes. There is wonderful cinematography in it as well. It isn’t the typical French film were it is famous shots of the Eifel tower, but rather it shows normal life in Paris France. I really enjoyed the characters in this movie, especially the main character Alex. He really loved his wife so much, and you can see his passion for her through out the movie as he tries to solve her murder mystery. As he starts digging around for clues, he receives help from unlikely people. His lesbian sister's wife, and a gangster whose child was saved by Alex. As time goes on, weirder and weirder things start coming together, and eventually you find out the true murder story, and how more than one person was actually murdered.

 

I honestly give this movie a 10 for 10. I bought this movie as soon as I found out it was available for DVD release. The special features and things like that were okay, but this DVD is defiantly worth owning. It’s a good French thriller. I actually ended up seeing this movie 3 times in theaters because I was so entertained by it, and I wanted to show it to 3 different people. I must give a fair warning though, there is one boob scene for those that are cautious about those scenes. You see a dead body of a naked woman for a second. The language is mild, and nothing to offensive. The movie does not have a rating, but I would have a hard time giving it an R rating if I was asked too.

 

Overall, I would say if you have not seen this movie see it now. If you want to see a new movie, go see this one. If you want to be on the edge of your seat, and have your draw drop from a good ending, see this movie. It is amazing.  Awards it won.  

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Men In Black 3?

Seriously, Men In Black 3? Well in reality, i think it will be good for Will Smith to stick to roles he is good in, comedy roles. 

http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/men-in-black-3-ghostbusters-3-officially-announced.php 

Fast and Furious 4

Fast and Furious 4

 

I actually saw this movie. I can’t believe it either. I paid $12.50 for it, and I am still regretting it. I even knew what I was getting into before I saw it. Obviously there was to be expected cheesy one-liners, a deep Vin Diesel voice, and Paul Walker trying to act like a bad ass. I can regretfully claim that I have seen all the fast and furious movies, but this one was actually the best one yet. I think they should have stopped making fast and furious movies after the first one. When they made a second one, I had to see it just to see how bad it was. Then I saw Tokyo drift on an airplane once, and I was so glad I never paid money to see it. Then the fourth one came out, and I fought the urge to not see it, but I ended up seeing it for some reason. The reasons are unknowin, and yes I do want to fight myself for seeing it.

 

What is the plot of this action packed adventure movie you might ask? Well…It’s about driving fast with furious rage. It’s always about revenge. People are after Vin Diesel again, and Vin Diesel is after the drug lord who killed his girlfriend. Paul walker is working for the government law enforcement again, and does undercover work again. He cuts a deal with the FBI and Vin Diesel. Do they get their revenge? Does the FBI get what they want? Does Paul Walker become a bad boy again and let Vin go? See this mess of a movie, and you’ll find out.

 

Now I feel bad for totally bashing this movie, incase someone who actually ever reads my blog wants to see this movie. It did have some great driving scenes. A lot of adrenalin through out all the driving scenes in the movie. Good explosions, some good fights, and amazing one-liners. It was so cheesy that it was good.

 

Vin Diesel is not a horrible actor. He is known for doing bad movies, but I blame it on the writers. In real life, through interviews I have seen him in, he is just a real big geek. He did fast and the furious because he loves cars. He did the Riddick movies because he loves sci-fi stuff. In high school he said his favorite game and sport to play was D&D. So I blame the writing on how horrible this movie is. Vin Diesel needs to be put in a bad guy role, and I feel that he will truly shine more. But at the same time, with a body and voice like his, he is destined for B rated movies for a while.

 

Paul Walker is just a tool. Need I say more? Not really, but I will. I don’t know how writers write a script and then accept Paul Walker to play one of the main roles. I just don’t like him, and I refuse to type about him any more.

 

You should by now know what your paying for before seeing this movie. You can’t walk in and expect Citizen Kane. This is movie is an excuse for Hollywood to make more money. They pump out crap and see if people will eat it up. I am shocked that people like crap still. But its true, and that’s how Hollywood makes money, they cater to others needs. Now I know some will disagree with my blog here, and if you do, tell me about it. But if you’re rude about it, I will tell you to get bent.

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AdventureLand

Adventure Land

Honestly, you will get a different opinion from most people on this movie, but I loved this movie. Mostly because I could relate a lot to the main character. He reminded me a lot of myself, a hopeless romantic, and also someone who wants to be a writer. Most people were expecting a super bad kind of movie, since the movie poster says right in the front “from the director of superbad”. But overall, it wasn’t the most amazing movie ever, but I think it was a good/fair clever romantic comedy.

 

Directed by Greg Mottola (director of Superbad) and staring Jesse Eisenberg (The education of Charlie Banks), Kristen Wiig (SNL), Bill Hader (SNL, Hot Rod), Martin Starr (freaks and geeks), Ryan Reynolds (New X-men movie, Just Friends, Van Wilder) and the ever fabulous Kristen Stewart from Twilight. It was a good cast that worked really well together. I especially liked Stewart and Eisenberg as the two main characters. I thought they did very well together. There was really good chemistry between them, and they felt very real. I have always been a fan of Stewart ever since the movie “In the Land of Women” She does well at playing the bad ass troubled teen. But they were a good team together, and I would really like to see them work together again.

 

The movie is A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world. He deals with girls, heartache, love, and the finding the right one. It’s a simple, but entertaining movie. (For a more detailed plot, with spoilers, click here)

 

The thing I liked most about this movie is that the characters seemed so real. They weren’t trying hard to have characters that were so far fetched. They seemed like people that you would meet in real life. I especially could relate to the main character James (Eisenberg) because I have had similar summers, and I have been known to be a hopeless romantic. I really liked the character Kristen Stewart played too. I think this is her best role yet. She really shined in this movie, especially when you compare it to twilight.

 

The things I didn’t like about this movie was Ryan Reynolds character. I am not use to seeing him be a douche bag, so that was weird. But he always seems to small weird parts in the weirdest movies. There was some down time parts and slow parts that could have been better. But overall, I liked the movie better than I didn’t like it. I give it 1.5 thumbs up.

 

Just a warning, it isn’t as filthy as superbad, but there are some F-bombs and lots of pot smoking. But if your bored, I say catch a matinee of it, but if your over 40, you might not like this movie that much. 

MoNsTeR's vs aLiEnS

Monsters vs. Aliens
Honestly, I was not impressed by this movie. I even saw it in 3-D, and half way through the movie, you could tell they got tired of doing the 3-D animation. Yeah it was a good clean family film, but there was so much more that they could have done with the story. It was a boring story, with no real climax and it felt like it was just being dragged on and on and on. I didn’t hate the whole movie, but overall I didn’t love it either. I know that this is a children’s film, but so many of these dream works and pixar films these days try to market to more than just children.

First off, the cast was fabulous for this movie. Lots of big names and lots of good funny people in it. Reese Witherspoon was Susan/Ginormica (main character, monster tall) Seth Rogan (superbad, Knocked up, freaks and geeks) was B.O.B., Hugh Laurie (Dr. House on House MD) was a mad scientist cock roach, Will Arnett (Job on Arrested Development) was a half man half fish sea monster, Kiefer Sutherland (24, lost boys) was General Monger, Rainn Wilson (Dwight from the Office) was the Alien Warlod Gallaxhar, Stephen Colbert was the President of the United States, Paul Rudd (I Love You Man, Role Models) was Susan’s fiancé, Jeffery Tambor (Dad in Arrested Development) was Susan’s Father, Amy Poehler (SNL, Baby Mama) was the voice of the Alien super computer, Ed Helms (Andy from the Office) was the news reporter, and John Krasinski (Jim from the Office) played one of the commanders. As you can see it was a very full cast of brilliant comic genius who didn’t really get to shine to their full potential. The only who actually did well in this film, and really made it funny was Seth Rogan as B.O.B. He is just naturally funny, and has a really good laugh.

The plot of this Movie is Susan (Witherspoon) who was living her quite life in Modesto, California, gets hit by meteor on her wedding day that contains powerful matter in it. During her wedding vows she starts growing, and becomes monster tall, and the government raid her wedding, capture her, and call her a monster and put her in a monster prison. That’s where she meets the other monsters, like B.O.B. (Rogan), the missing link (Arnett), and Dr. Cockroach (Laurie). They will never get out of prison, until Gallaxhar (Wilson) finds out that the meteor that hit earth contains material that he needs to create a new world and decides to destroy earth as well, so the government sends the monsters to fight the battle.

The things I liked about the movie were that it was clean. I wouldn’t expect it to be dirty at all, but it was good clean humor. There weren’t any jokes that really only adults would get, or anything sexual at all. There are no bad words for kids to repeat over and over again. I like the fact that the movie is about a woman finding her own niche, her own beat in life. It is very pro feminism, which I think is a good thing to install into young women these days. Women need to know that they can do anything in life if they want to. Susan, the main character, finds out through trials and experience that she is her own person and that she is who she is, no matter what people or society tells her. People made fun of her and picked on her, but that didn’t get to her. It was a very good clear message. I also loved Seth Rogan in this film. He was awesome. He was very funny and clever. He made me laugh a lot in this film. Stephen Colbert did pretty good in this film. My favorite scene with him in it was when we approached the alien starship for the first time, and played the song from close encounters of the third kind and then did a break dancing battle to show that he came in peace. The 3-D animation was really cool at the begging, then after it a while it was old and was nothing special.

My problem with the movie was that it jumped into the plot way to fast for me. It just started, and left me with questions at the begging of the movie. I wonder how a little kid must have felt. I have to admit, seeing it in 3-D was pretty cool. I hadn’t seen a 3-D movie since Captain EO with Michael Jackson at Disney Land. But half way through the movie it felt that the animators got tired of trying to make it cool 3-D scenes, and it got less entertaining as the movie went on. I really felt the movie just dragged on for me. I had a hard time staying awake.

Now, this I am not saying that my 6-year-old Nephew and 4-year-old niece wouldn’t love this, in fact, they probably would want to see it multiple times in theatres. It’s got a good feel to it. Nothing negative, lots of bright colors, and things that kids would laugh at it. To a 6-year-old boy, a talking cockroach or a clever sea monster is hilarious. Aliens that have big heads and women that are as tall as buildings are pleasing to their eyes. The only way I would actually see this movie again is if my niece or nephew asked me to take them to the movie. I would get more joy from them laughing than anything else.