Your Highness, not the highest in my opinion and from what I've seen from the other reviews, not really the best in the eyes of most. It's the classics tale of a knight going on a journey to save his princess with a sleight twist; he has a lazy soft little brother. This brother played by Danny McBride, who also wrote the film, makes it bearable to sit thru the whole film with his usual funny persona we see in all his films and his TV show east bound and down. But all in all it wasn't terrible and if your in the mood for a stupid humor comedy, it will provide. Also i'm a big fan of James Franco as well as Natalie Portman so they kind of suckered me into this one.
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Anchormazing
4 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Anchorman is a comedy classic that tells the tale or rather legend of the great Ron Burgundy, Head Anchorman for the San Diego evening news team. Alongside his team of Brian Fantana, Brick Tamlin, and Champ Kind, Ron and the crew are undoubtedly the best news team in town and have the game in total control, this is until one of the top Anchors in town, Mrs. Veronica Cornerstone joins the team and all hell breaks lose. Yet through all of the competition and confrontation, Ron and Veronica end up falling in love and all goes well in the end as most comedies do. Definitely recommend for anyone who finds Will Farrell remotely funny, it is my favorite film of his personally.
Billy Madison
(1995)
Classic Comedy
29 February 2012
One of the first of Adam Sandler's many great comedy films, Billy Madison is uniquely dumb yet hilarious. It chronicles the path for Billy to branch out from his everyday life of daiquiris and drunken debauchery with his fellow loser friends jack and frank, and go "back to school" to repeat all grades k-12 in a weeks time each. Doing so will be the only way he can convince his father to leave Billy his hotel empire. Watching Billy go through each grade again is full of so many random moments of laughter not to mention the love interest of miss Veronica Vaughn. All in all it is a classic as far as comedies go and I would recommend it for anyone.
The Living Wake
(2007)
Great Film
22 February 2012
I was surprised to see that it's user rating is so low, currently at a 5.7, I decided to rate it a 9. This was honestly one of the best films I've viewed in a while, especially in the genre of comedy. The main characters K. Roth Binew and his "Biographer" Mills go on for hours attempting to appease all of K. Roth's dying requests as it is believed he will die this day will be his last here on earth, as his is apparently diagnosed with an unnamed terminal illness. K. Roth's mission is to find the brief but powerful monologue he father claimed would come to him before the end of his dying day. It is a very quirky and eccentric comedy yet it has enough depth to keep you emotionally involved in the film down the very last scene. I would recommend this title for almost anyone.
The Black Dahlia
(2006)
Hype?
7 February 2012
Even with a cast full of some of my favorite actors and actresses in the business aligned with a rich plot and deep storyline, I was surprised to the disappointment the movie was to me as a whole. It seems like every turn in the story get left unresolved or in more cases resolved in none of the ways I was hoping or seemed would make it a better film. However, apart from the narrative, the film uses some very crafty and unique camera angles to help both capture and relay the emotions developing throughout the film, it is just to bad the story was not better developed. Don't get me wrong its not terrible and definitely worth the watch but just not near what I hyped it up to be.
Snatch
(2000)
Snatch
6 February 2012
A "pikey", or piker as it sounds coming from the mouth of Jason Statham's character Turkish, is a slang term for an Irish Gypsy. Brad Pitt plays the role of Mickey the leader of the pikey's who are a drunken crew of trailer dwellers with a love for fighting and dogs (degs). Pitt's character is a bare-knuckle boxer with a reputation for one-hit knockouts. Between drug-dealers, thieves, fighters, and boxing promoters and even hit men, there are countless entertaining characters to watch play out the true theme of the movie which is the fight for a priceless diamond, it ends very well and is definitely worth the watch. One of my personal all time favorite movies.
Howl
(2010)
Howl for expression
25 January 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Epstein and Friedman's depiction of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl is very well developed and although its progression of the message was slow and not to easy to follow at some points, it kept me satisfyingly intrigued throughout. They help you to understand what Howl as a poem truly represents, aside from the message Ginsberg was trying to convey, the most important aspect of the poem is its place in artistic history for the fight of free expression and freedom of speech. But what this film helps you to really grab an understanding for is that that is what the lines of Howl are all about, although many mistake the poem as just Ginsberg's expression of his "coming out" as a homosexual, if you take the time to read it or listen to Ginsberg explain the poem you'll see its more of an expression of expression, a "coming out" for any aspect of life that needed to be shown in such a perspective.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
(1989)
Pryor doing what he does
18 January 2012
See No Evil, Hear No Evil is an incredibly witty comedy with two of the funniest men to ever live in my opinion, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. In the film, Gene plays a deaf store owner named Dave who has gone his whole "deaf" life hiding the fact that he cannot hear what people are saying and can only read their lips. When Dave meets Wally, a blind man played by Pryor, the two become instant buds and help each other get things done with their handicaps. Until the two witness a murder but cannot truly give a story or be ruled out as suspects because neither of the both heard and saw what occurred so they are taken in by the law and go through many shenanigans on the way to explaining the truth. It is wildly hilarious and can fill the void for any good comedy night.
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