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Posted by: Eric Modyman in RipOff Reviews, Review Preview, Remakes, Rant, Randomonous Rant, Random Review, Random Answers, Random, Not Angry, NostalgiaCritic, Nostalgia Critic, Music Reviews, Movie Reviews, Mamma mia, Mac and Me, Life, Joker, Into the Woods, Idiots, Horror, Funny, Fuck, First time-be gentle, Dark Knight, Cutting Room Floor, Culture, Critic, Crap, Comments, Commentary, Comic, Celebrities, Bum Reviews 3D, Broadway, Bound, Book, Blog O Fun and Death, Bleach, Black Metal, Battle, Batman Begins, Batman, AVGN, Ask, Answers, Angry Video Game Nerd, American Film Institute, Adult Swim, About me, ABBA, 5 second movies, 10, 1 sentence review on
Oct 16, 2008
Ok, I know I said I was going to review Producers first, but I do not have the DVD in my possession at the moment. A friend is going to let me borrow his copy and I am still planning on reviewing it, but for now I am doing my first review on Little Shop of Horrors. I am currently working on the video and it should be up hopefully by the end of the week.
Posted by: Eric Modyman in Theme Song, That Teen With The Issues, That Guy With The Glasses, That Dude In The Suede, Review Preview, Remakes, Randomonous Rant, Random Review, Not Angry, Nostalgia Critic, Noobs, Music Reviews, Movie Reviews, Motivation, Mamma mia, Like, Life, Into the Woods, Interview, Idiots, Horror, First time-be gentle, Fairy tales, FaceBreaker, Epic Fail, Epic, English Language, Disney, Culture, Countdown, Comments, Comic, Celebrities, Broadway, AVGN, American Film Institute, About me, ABBA, 5 second movies, 4kids, 10, 1 sentence review on
Oct 09, 2008
By several requests, I have decided on my first musical film review. I will review Mel Brooks' The Producers. The review should be up within the next 2 weeks. To see the video, check out my youtube account. www.youtube.com/Modyman. Keep sending in other musicals you would like me to review and I will eventually get to them. Thank you again, and I look forward to all your feed back when I release my first review.
I am going to make use of this blog system to write a multi-part series refering to the title. Remember, these are strictly my and Jesus' opinions, and they reflect only our beliefs and the beliefs of the saved/chosen people. Without boring you with an introduction to how awesome this will be, I will just show you how awesome it IS.
Just in case my question for Ask That Guy didnt get answered, I made a fan group on Facebook for him: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49830315410
Edit: Wow, am I an idiot. XD Thanks to x33 for the info, and man, I can't believe I copy and pasted TWICE. Yeah, bear with me as I learn all this. :P Last night, the American Film Institute had their annual list celebrating some aspect of movies. You know the routine; top movies, top romances, top stars, top thrillers, top quotes. Last night, they had something different; selecting the top ten movies across ten different genres (frankly, I think they're running out of ideas). These were animation (although the great Brad Bird, and I agree with him, says animation is an ART FORM and not a GENRE), fantasy, sci-fi, sports, western, gangster, mystery, romantic comedies, courtroom drama, and epic. This is bit of a breakdown on each catagory, and what was right and wrong. Please feel free to diss me all you want for anything you disagree with, as I'm gonna be doing a bit of dissing all my own. :P Seriously, keep the comments nice and to the point. ANIMATION: For starters, completely dominated by Disney, but considering they've held the monopoly for the last 70 years it's kind of hard to blame the AFI here, and as it's purely American, anything from Japan or Europe is out of the question. But what about a nod to some of the independent, subversive animators out there? Ralph Bakshi, Don Bluth, Bill Plymton, Richard Williams? And why not Nightmare Before Christmas (Disney, still, but so very much unlike anything Disney has ever done)? Why not Iron Giant? Or heck, if you want to use an old, old movie, why not the Fleischer Studios Gulliver Travels? Aside from Shrek, a safe bunch of kid friendly choices. Hell, they studiously avoided the one truly most groundbreaking animated film of all time - South Park.
"Just one question. How come- How come you're not funny any more?" Kaye's question came back into my mind after my viewing of the teaser trailer to The Pink Panther 2, which, as my friend said, is just an expensive way of pissing on Peter Sellers' grave. I can't imagine why anyone wanted a sequel to a film everyone disliked, but that's Hollywood logic for you. It certainly wasn't because Martin was funny. If you don't want your eyes scared by the hideous sight of it all, here's the low down: Martin is back doing a bad impression of Peter Sellers doing a intentionally bad French accent without it being funny, trying to buy a cinema ticket. When refused, he sneaks around the back, tears a hole in the screen before poorly attempting to seal it back off. To steal a quote from my brother, it looks about as funny as A.I.D.S. My question is who they have slumming it this time: the last movie had respected performers Emily Mortimer, Jean Reno and Kevin Kline slumming hideously and I wonder who'd be stupid enough to come aroud for seconds.  But like I said, Martin's been like this for a while - the early 90s, in fact. What makes Martin different from someone like Eddie Murphy, who has had similar career bungee jumps, is that at least Murphy did have a comeback in the late 90s before screwing things up again. Martin has never had that - he's had one or two good comedies, but those were few and far between. Isn't it ironic that the last time the pair of them made a good comedy where one of them wasn't a talking donkey was 1999's Bowfinger? And that was nearly a decade ago. All comics in film hit this wall after a while because their schtick dries up once it reaches a certain point. Normally, this means they go into drama, like Jim Carrey. To be fair, Martin has done this before - most notably, in 1991's Grand Canyon. There he had a supporting role as an action producer (supposedly based on Joel Silver - thank you, IMDb) who discovers there might be more to life than complaining about missing a shot where some character's brains are blown onto a windshield in a film after being shot in the leg by a mugger - before reverting back into an asshole. Its a part Martin played well and shows he is more than capable of the transition (he apparently did a good turn in The Spanish Prisoner, but since I haven't seen that, let's pretend like it doesn't exist). But like Eddie Murphy, who showed a surprising amount of maturity in Dreamgirls (before managing to offend everyone on the planet with the black hole that is Norbit), Martin keeps reverting to the well that has dried up long ago. While Carrey might get slack for his turn in The Number 23, at least he tried something new, and that's why it's so much sweeter when the result is an Eternal Sunshine. Instead, we see Martin insulting Peter Sellers so much that Sellers is probably doing cartwheels in his grave.  Don't get me, wrong, Martin in the 80s was fantastic. The Man with Two Brains is great fun and quotable ("Oh, the pointy birds, oh, pointy pointy..."), while Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is my favourite Martin movie. And who could forget his four-letter filled tirade in the John Hughes classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles? Every time I see a trailer for a new Steve Martin movie, I recall these career highs and sigh. One wonders what the stereotype parodying Martin of The Jerk would have made of the obnoxiously stereotyped Martin of Bringing Down the House, the comedy that did certainly anything but. The latter contained the horrifying sight of Martin acting like a "wigger" that I still haven't bleached from my mind. (What's worse is that I paid to see it. In a cinema. At least I regret it, I suppose) I would say that Martin is probably at his best when he writes his own material. Plaid, Brains and Bowfinger all had Martin writing. Cheaper by the Dozen didn't, and it wasn't a very good comedy because it had a poor script and generally wasn't very funny (here's this for a bundle of humour - a big happy family moves to a new home where they become a big unhappy family, where one of the kids even runs away from home! That's hilarious, right?). That said, Martin might even be spent on this front - he worked on the screenplays for The Pink Panther remakes - egads, man! It's rare I suggest this, but I really do think Martin should call it day. He's had some really good ones to outweigh the really bad ones, but considering he's had a good run and that fact that he's spent nearly two decades laying a sledgehammer to his reputation, I think the only thing Martin should be doing is hosting the Oscars (you have to admit, last time he hosted that, he was funny).
I can already tell that you know I'm a fan. "Fan of who? Who is this 'Deadpool' and why do you like him so?" Sometimes, a man has to explain his passions, others can just see. If you ever picked up an X-Men comic book within the last 15-20 years, you may have seen him. Some may still ask, "I'm not exactly sure I've seen him in a Marvel comic before, how do I really know you're not just drinking motor oil cocktails?" Ugh, some people just don't wanna research. Fine you little mouthbreathers, not only am I gonna discribe him for ya, I'll tell you a bit of history! "Horray! A field trip! Will we be looking at dinosuars?" GET BACK IN YOUR GODDAMN SEAT OR I'M TAKING YOUR SNACK PACK! Sorry about that, I had to get warmed up. You see, way back in the late 80's, Marvel comics had a comic book out that featured Scott "Cyclops" Summers son from the future named Nathan, otherwise known as Cable. At one point he was leading a team of mutants known as the "New Mutants" and stared in the comic of the same name. Now at one point, they were going through a bunch of bad guys throughout the series, but somewhere around late 1990 and feburary of 1991, they introduced a new character to be made into an eventual regular throughout the X-Men line of titles. He was a blantent copy of DC Comics Deathstroke the Terminator. His name?
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