U-571 is probably about as historically correct as THE LAST STARFIGHTER, but I
don't care. If you go into a movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Jon
Bon Jovi expecting historical accuracy you're gonna be in for a bad time.
Set in the early days of America's involvement in WWII, there's a German
submarine containing a extremely important coding machine. The Americans
will do anything to get it so they dress up one of their own subs to look like a
Nazi one and send it in under the disguise of being a Nazi rescue ship.
I'm not gonna give too much away, but things don't go quite as planned and
non-Captain McConaughey has to commandeer the Nazi ship and limp this
half-broken mother back to England through Nazi infested waters.
Revisionist history complaints aside U-571 is an mildly entertaining film.
The idea for the story is pretty gripping, but the execution is only
average. I can't really put my finger on it, but despite the tight
situations these guys got themselves into I never had any doubt that they would
get out of it...or really even care if they got out of it. Bon Jovi,
predictable story, average action scenes, Harvey Keitel underused, dated CGI,
noble sailors sacrificing themselves, lots of yelling, nearly all male cast.
Worth a watch, if you're into submarine films, but overall it's pretty
forgettable. I was hoping for more.
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
KILLER JOE (2011)
A shitbag family hires a shitbag assassin to kill their shitbag ex-wife/mom. That's not the tagline, but it could have been. When trailer park drug dealer Chris finds out that his scumbag mom stole his dope he's all pissed off, cause if he doesn't pay his dealer back the 6 grand the drugs are worth he's gonna end up tortured and buried alive. So what's his plan? Hire crooked cop/assassin Joe to kill his mama so he can collect the $50,000 insurance money. Of course, being a dumbass, he couldn't do this on his own so he ends up getting his dad, his sister and his stepmother involved. Combined their I.Q.'s equal about 75.
The idea for KILLER JOE is alright, just alright, nothing more and in the right hands it could have ended up awesome, but in the hands of William Friedkin it ended up only so-so. While I was watching it I was mildly amused, but it was predictable and I'd never watch it again. If you need me I'll be in my room watching WILD AT HEART.
Nude scene
The idea for KILLER JOE is alright, just alright, nothing more and in the right hands it could have ended up awesome, but in the hands of William Friedkin it ended up only so-so. While I was watching it I was mildly amused, but it was predictable and I'd never watch it again. If you need me I'll be in my room watching WILD AT HEART.
Nude scene
I've lived my entire life in Texas and I ain't never heard anybody call KFC "K-Fry-C".
Poorly disguised fire sprinkler pipes.
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