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Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
The last day of camp is ALWAYS the most important...
This one-day movie begins (oddly enough) early in the morning, as both campers and counselors alike prepare for their final day at Camp Firewood in the all too memorable year of 1981. Harmlessly enough, the film opens with a wonderful look at Janeane Garofalo's dry wit, and after the first half hour, degenerates into a series of roll-on-the-floor-and-vomit-a-lot-because-it's-so-damn-funny vignettes which will make you ask for more. If you take yourself or comedy too seriously this movie is definitely not for you. If you're extremely concerned with continuity errors, poor cuts, and mismatched eye-lines then don't waste your time because all you'll do is complain. But then again, you probably don't laugh and smile as much as the rest of us wonderful wonderful people. Reminiscent of their earlier work on MTV's The State (1994), Wet Hot American Summer is a gem of the sketch comedy feature genre. As in their earlier work, Director/Writer David Wain and Writer Michael Showalter capture the bland repetition of reality and scrunch it together with the wonderful absurdity and punctured silliness that made Monty Python my hero's for life. Finally Life of Brian and Holy Grail have a new companion on my shelf of weekly-watched comedy... Wet Hot American Summer rules!
The Boondock Saints (1999)
Boston Badguy Blowout!
This movie was, dare I say, perfect. There was nothing I didn't like, except the poor availability due to an exclusive deal with (blech) Blockbuster, and the subsequent and thus-far non-release of this fine film on DVD... But complaints aside, this movie pumps me up more than any action film I've seen since Alien2. I'm excited every time I pop it into my VCR. Rock!
Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
What every film school makes you watch...
Okay, we had to watch this in film school, and I thought it wasn't anywhere nearly as impressive as people say. I was accused of being an idiot, but I'm sorry this film just didn't speak to me the way it did to others. Brakhage is good, I will not say otherwise, but I don't feel that this short is the pinnacle of his career that I was led to believe it is.