Paleoclimatologist Dennis Quaid has a bad feeling about global warming. He
spends a lot of time attending conferences and trying to warn people that the
human race is eventually gonna get wiped out by a new ice age. But even
paleoclimatologist Dennis Quaid can't predict that it's gonna to happen...the day after tomorrow! Yikes!
Even worse than the world ending the day after tomorrow is paleoclimatologist
Dennis Quaid's son, Jake Gyllenhaal, is in NYC for a school activity and he
hasn't had a chance to knock boots with supersexy Emmy Rossum yet. Ohhh, the
humanity! Is there no God?!!! Multiple hailstorms, tornadoes, tidal waves,
supercooled superstorms and wolf attacks later Jake is trapped in NYC and it's
up to paleoclimatologist Dennis Quaid to come save him.
And, of course, he does. Oops! Did I ruin the ending for you? I'm sorry. One of
the things that gets old in these disaster movies is no matter what, no matter
even if you have a superstorm the size of Australia breathing right down your
neck, the hero always seems to live through it all with only a few scratches to
show for their troubles. I guess that's what's expected, but still it'd be nice
if every once and awhile some of the main characters died.
Still, despite the we've-seen-this-shit-a-million-times-before script THE DAY
AFTER TOMORROW is entertaining. The CG destruction looks nice, the pace is
quick, Jake Gyllenhaal proves that even with a lame script he's still a good
actor, Emmy Rossum's smile created such a warming glow in my loins that it
could've thawed out a woolly mammoth's carcass from 60 paces, ice age-proof
wolves, paleoclimatologist Dennis Quaid, that guy from "Riptide" as the
President, Ian Holm's in a role that is beneath his talents and a completely
unexpected Friedrich Nietzsche reference...wow.
Recommended for fans of cheesy disaster movies...like me. I cannot get
enough of these things.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
INSERTS (1974)
In 1930, a once great silent film director (Richard Dreyfuss) is down on his
luck and reduced to filming pornos in his rundown Hollywood mansion. But he
can't even do that right, because instead of just leaving the camera on the
tripod (like the money man wants) Dreyfuss insists on moving the camera around
to give it a more realistic feel. One morning while filming an especially
energetic rape scene, the money man (Bob Hoskins) shows up unexpectedly with his
new girl (Jessica Harper). Stuff happens and Harper is left alone with
Dreyfuss...it's quite an eventfully day.
Before sitting down to watch INSERTS I had never even heard of this film, but it ended up being quite enjoyable and somewhat shocking for the sheer amount of nudity in it. Jessica Harper is pretty much topless in entire second half of the film! Not that I'm complaining, but I do want to complain a little bit about the complete lack of Extras on the DVD. It would've been nice to at least have an audio commentary, because now that I've seen the film I have a lot of questions about it including: What was the budget? Did it make any money? What exactly did United Artists expect from a film that takes place entirely in one room and consists of pretty much nothing but talking? How did this film even get made? Maybe because of the popularity of LAST TANGO IN PARIS? If it was filmed in 1974 why was it not released until 1976 and did it have anything to do with the popularity of JAWS? Was this story based in reality at all? Was the guy the "big cheese" they spoke of F. W. Murnau? What do the actors involved with the movie think of it now and how has it affected their career?
Should you watch INSERTS? I guess that really depends on your taste in films, but I recommend it. The story is interesting; it's cleverly written to lean towards the style of 1930's romantic comedies; all of the performances are excellent; a young Bob Hoskins; a young Veronica Cartwright; you get to see Richard Dreyfuss licking nipples and also because it's such a curious little film. I honestly can't think of anything else like it.
Before sitting down to watch INSERTS I had never even heard of this film, but it ended up being quite enjoyable and somewhat shocking for the sheer amount of nudity in it. Jessica Harper is pretty much topless in entire second half of the film! Not that I'm complaining, but I do want to complain a little bit about the complete lack of Extras on the DVD. It would've been nice to at least have an audio commentary, because now that I've seen the film I have a lot of questions about it including: What was the budget? Did it make any money? What exactly did United Artists expect from a film that takes place entirely in one room and consists of pretty much nothing but talking? How did this film even get made? Maybe because of the popularity of LAST TANGO IN PARIS? If it was filmed in 1974 why was it not released until 1976 and did it have anything to do with the popularity of JAWS? Was this story based in reality at all? Was the guy the "big cheese" they spoke of F. W. Murnau? What do the actors involved with the movie think of it now and how has it affected their career?
Should you watch INSERTS? I guess that really depends on your taste in films, but I recommend it. The story is interesting; it's cleverly written to lean towards the style of 1930's romantic comedies; all of the performances are excellent; a young Bob Hoskins; a young Veronica Cartwright; you get to see Richard Dreyfuss licking nipples and also because it's such a curious little film. I honestly can't think of anything else like it.
Is this the first occurrence of the word "boner-rama" in a big studio
movie?
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