movie: Willow
starring: Val Kilmer, Warwick Davis
genre; Action, Adventure
year: 1988
format: DVD
plot: A dwarf is given the task of keeping a baby safe as he tries to return her to where she came from. Along the way, he finds himself having to trust a thief, as they try to stay one step ahead of the queen's army, who want the baby for themselves.
It's been years since I watched this. I love sword and sorcery films, there's just something about them that really unlocks the imagination.
Okay, so on the usual, we've got a goofy buddy movie that happens to have a few "car chases" (carts and horses) a dashing hero that has a heart of gold, and smelts...okay no smelts; trolls, brownies and a few ogre-ish brutes that might as well have been trolls, and an evil queen. (You know, just because you happen to be over a certain age and know you're way around a grimoire doesn't mean you're evil...)
The one real flaw in this is, it's never really explained what the fear of the baby is? They just say "the prophecy has come true." But what exactly is the kid suppose to do?
Just once I'd like to see a movie where the hero gets pounded by smelts, for no reason other then it would be funny. Smelts, minnows, anchovies, capelins...like in a major battle where everyone is running around the castle with swords and battle-axes, roaring and screaming about death to the enemy, and just a big bucket of smelts getting tossed at them...with a line like "I said smite our enemies not smelt our enemies..."
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
year 3 Day 115
movie: Tucker and Dale vs Evil
starring:Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine
genre: Comedy, Horror
year: 2010
format: Netflix Canada
plot: Two guys spend what they think will be a weekend fixing up their new cabin, when a group of college students arrive and accidentally start to murder everyone on the anniversary of a mass killing.
Rarely do I come across a movie so good at taking the cliches and turning them into something worth watching. The whole time I was watching this, I was thinking "when Joss Whedon created Buffy, he was thinking about the blonde who never gets away in all the old horrors, and the dude who wrote this was thinking the same thing about the mountain hermits/psycho hillbillies"
Basically, what you have here is the perfect setting for a typical horror movie, dumb teenagers, lots of drinking, swimming at night etc, but instead of the mountain hermits being total psychos, they're the victims.
Genius. There are little nods to every horror film you've ever come across from the chainsaw to the newspaper clipping wall to bad 80's attitudes. Throw in Tyler Labine who is one of the most recognizable Canadian actors of the last twenty years, and Jesse Moss who played the uber creepy abusive teenaged werewolf boy in Ginger Snaps and you've got enough firm ground for a demonic library. Bonus with Alan Tudyk from Firefly and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, who brings the comedy with such ease.
Can't wait for the sequel.
starring:Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine
genre: Comedy, Horror
year: 2010
format: Netflix Canada
plot: Two guys spend what they think will be a weekend fixing up their new cabin, when a group of college students arrive and accidentally start to murder everyone on the anniversary of a mass killing.
Rarely do I come across a movie so good at taking the cliches and turning them into something worth watching. The whole time I was watching this, I was thinking "when Joss Whedon created Buffy, he was thinking about the blonde who never gets away in all the old horrors, and the dude who wrote this was thinking the same thing about the mountain hermits/psycho hillbillies"
Basically, what you have here is the perfect setting for a typical horror movie, dumb teenagers, lots of drinking, swimming at night etc, but instead of the mountain hermits being total psychos, they're the victims.
Genius. There are little nods to every horror film you've ever come across from the chainsaw to the newspaper clipping wall to bad 80's attitudes. Throw in Tyler Labine who is one of the most recognizable Canadian actors of the last twenty years, and Jesse Moss who played the uber creepy abusive teenaged werewolf boy in Ginger Snaps and you've got enough firm ground for a demonic library. Bonus with Alan Tudyk from Firefly and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, who brings the comedy with such ease.
Can't wait for the sequel.
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Coffee Talk Sept 7th
Anyone else get excited when they walk into a store and see a shelf or bin of new DVDs they've never heard of before? No, just me then... Well, found a few the other day when I was shopping that I've never heard of before, horror films to boot. I'm just debating if I should dive into them now or leave them till closer to Hallowe'en for the yearly Hallowe'en week movies? Decisions, decisions.
I've been struggling with trying to find another "what that movie inspired me to do" project for the blog. Because, to be honest, nothing has actually inspired me in a really long time. But I do feel that this blog is needing some more of those types of posts. And I know you're feeling it too.
It's the time of year when tv shows return for a new season. The only thing I'm looking forward to this year is season 10 of Supernatural.
Till later
I've been struggling with trying to find another "what that movie inspired me to do" project for the blog. Because, to be honest, nothing has actually inspired me in a really long time. But I do feel that this blog is needing some more of those types of posts. And I know you're feeling it too.
It's the time of year when tv shows return for a new season. The only thing I'm looking forward to this year is season 10 of Supernatural.
Till later
Saturday, September 6, 2014
year 3 day 114
movie: 30 Minutes or Less
starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride
genre: Comedy, Action
year: 2011
format: Netflix Canada
plot: A man who wants to hire a hitman to kill his father in order to inherit millions, kidnaps a delivery guy and forces him to rob a bank for him in under 8 hours.
I want to say I hated it, but I actually liked most of this movie. I shuffled past it more then once thinking it wouldn't be any good at all because I'm not a fan of Danny McBride; but this was surprisingly interesting. I wouldn`t say it was funny, but it had a few moments of well written dialog.
I have to admit, I pretty much watched this for the sole reason of it being a Jesse Eisenberg movie. When I spotted the Insane Clown Pose t-shirt on one of the bad guys, I was thinking it was going to be a hint at something, but sadly it wasn`t.
What I never understood was, if the McBride character had enough balls to hire a hitman and kidnap someone, why didn`t he have enough guts to just do the hit himself?
starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride
genre: Comedy, Action
year: 2011
format: Netflix Canada
plot: A man who wants to hire a hitman to kill his father in order to inherit millions, kidnaps a delivery guy and forces him to rob a bank for him in under 8 hours.
I want to say I hated it, but I actually liked most of this movie. I shuffled past it more then once thinking it wouldn't be any good at all because I'm not a fan of Danny McBride; but this was surprisingly interesting. I wouldn`t say it was funny, but it had a few moments of well written dialog.
I have to admit, I pretty much watched this for the sole reason of it being a Jesse Eisenberg movie. When I spotted the Insane Clown Pose t-shirt on one of the bad guys, I was thinking it was going to be a hint at something, but sadly it wasn`t.
What I never understood was, if the McBride character had enough balls to hire a hitman and kidnap someone, why didn`t he have enough guts to just do the hit himself?
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
year 3 Day 113
movie: Mom's Night Out
starring: Sarah Drew, Sean Astin.
genre: Comedy
year: 2014
format: Shaw Video On Demand
plot:A group of over stressed moms plan a Saturday night out, leaving their husbands to look after the kids. But before they can even sit down to dinner, everything falls into chaos.
Again, all I could think was Adventures in Babysitting while watching this. Chaos includes : missing cars, missing kids, one husband who is scared of their own children, a trip to jail and a car chase in a taxi. There were a few mild seconds where it was funny, namely when the Sean Astin character had to pop his shoulder back into place, and when the cop pulled the dad over with the car full of kids. But all in all, the humour didn't come with the main characters; which were the moms, but with the minor characters which were the dads and kids.
The opening sequence of the Drew character blogging made it seem like it was going to be going in a totally different direction, like the movie Motherhood, (Uma Thurman plays a mommy blogger in that too) but it ended up relying on the same old stuff we've seen a hundred times in these movies. (Fun Size, Adventures in Babysitting, The Sitter)
This would have been so much more interesting if it had followed the chaos the dads/kids side of the story and not the moms.
starring: Sarah Drew, Sean Astin.
genre: Comedy
year: 2014
format: Shaw Video On Demand
plot:A group of over stressed moms plan a Saturday night out, leaving their husbands to look after the kids. But before they can even sit down to dinner, everything falls into chaos.
Again, all I could think was Adventures in Babysitting while watching this. Chaos includes : missing cars, missing kids, one husband who is scared of their own children, a trip to jail and a car chase in a taxi. There were a few mild seconds where it was funny, namely when the Sean Astin character had to pop his shoulder back into place, and when the cop pulled the dad over with the car full of kids. But all in all, the humour didn't come with the main characters; which were the moms, but with the minor characters which were the dads and kids.
The opening sequence of the Drew character blogging made it seem like it was going to be going in a totally different direction, like the movie Motherhood, (Uma Thurman plays a mommy blogger in that too) but it ended up relying on the same old stuff we've seen a hundred times in these movies. (Fun Size, Adventures in Babysitting, The Sitter)
This would have been so much more interesting if it had followed the chaos the dads/kids side of the story and not the moms.
The Nosferatu Adventures S6 p1
The Nosferatu Adventures
page 155, chapter 155
Rolf cracked his neck as he thought about what the hold up was. There should have been a second shadowy image for Harker. The image to let the temporary Fate know what the other man's reincarnation would be. But there was nothing. Just the old form. Scratching at his beard, the werewolf crossed his arms over his massive chest.
"Okay man, something's not right here." he blinked a few times, smacking his temple with the palm of his hand. "Reception I guess is fine." he shrugged, as the voiceless soul tried to ask what was happening. Rolf held up his hand telling Harker to calm down. "You died. I'm here to help you pass on."
Harker threw himself at the larger male, trying to grab a hold of his shirt, but found his hands drifted through him. Stunned, Harker stumbled backwards, falling to the floor, a look of pain and grief in his eyes.
"Look bud, all I can think of is that you made a deal or something with your god. Did you?" he asked crouching down on his heels, flicking his hair out of his face. Harker shook his head mouthing the word no. "Well, something is getting in the way."
Meanwhile...
The Fort...
The Necromancer raised an eyebrow, puckering his lips as he washed his hands. The body was very fresh, only about an hour old. He figured it wouldn't take longer then a few minutes. He glanced again at the female who hovered near the painting of King Leo and Ash, that still hung in his chambers. He couldn't wait to get his hands on her blood.
That had been the deal, he saves Harker, and our heroine gives him a few liters of her vampire blood. The Necromancer was practically salivating he was so jazzed at the thought. It had been decades since he'd come across a human vampire. He'd been making due with the blood from the yellow eyed bat creatures for years, almost given up hope of ever coming across someone like the female ever again.
Quickly he got to work. The Necromancer held his hands over the body, feeding his own energy into it by a yellowy-green light that seemed to course out of his palms, chanting something under his breath. Our heroine was too busy trying not to watch, that she missed whatever it was he was saying.
Suddenly her nose started to burn, forcing her to sneeze. Turning, she saw Harker's chest begin to move, to fill up with air slowly. She moved quickly to stand beside him just at the elbow of the Necromancer. Watching as he started to talk to Harker.
"Do you remember what happened? Do you know your name?"
Slowly the male opened his eyes, looking around as a hoarse whisper escaped him. He nodded as tears ran down his face, his hands then going to where the wound had been. "I...I...was murdered. This woman barged...barged in with a dagger..." he spotted our heroine reaching for her.
"Do you know your name?" the Necromancer asked again.
"Harker. Captain Harker Frankenstein."
The Necromancer's face twitched at hearing that. He took a short step backwards, clearing his throat, smoothing down a stray strain of hair. "Huh...very good...you need to lay very still for a few minutes, as..." he cleared his throat again suddenly looking around the room. "...your limbs need some time to...to work." he turned then grabbing our heroine by the elbow herding her out of the room. Once outside in the hallway, the door shut he let his panic show. "You didn't tell me he was a Frankenstein!" he began to pace back and forth biting his nails.
"What's that got to do with anything?" the female asked.
"Everything! There is a curse..."
"Yeah, only on married members of the family." she said flicking her fingers through the two streaks of grey in her hair.
"Not that! That's nothing but a harmless anti-cheating spell. Any rootworker could conjure that. I'm talking about the real curse."
"Um, sure okay. There's something else? What did that family do for curses to be slapped on them?"
Meanwhile...
Rolf stood back up to his full height shaking out his hands. "We're running out of time. If we don't move you on to your next life soon, you'll be stuck here in this room, for years. Unable to touch or talk or anything. Now, I'd love to say that this isn't going to hurt a bit, but to be totally honest, I have no idea if it will. But you've just got to trust me okay?" the dark haired werewolf took a deep breath, relaxing his shoulders raising his hands towards the shadowy figure. His strong fingers were just millimeters away from touching the two soul points, one at the heart chakra and one in the chakra between Harker's eyebrows.
Rolf's fingertips never made contact. Instead, they drifted through the spirit causing the larger male to stumble forward. Stumble right through him. Turning quickly, the stunned werewolf found himself alone in the room. "Huh?"
Tune in again for another installment of the Nosferatu Adventures starring your heroine...me.(straight up story. Now I need to find a really great curse for the family.)
page 155, chapter 155
Rolf cracked his neck as he thought about what the hold up was. There should have been a second shadowy image for Harker. The image to let the temporary Fate know what the other man's reincarnation would be. But there was nothing. Just the old form. Scratching at his beard, the werewolf crossed his arms over his massive chest.
"Okay man, something's not right here." he blinked a few times, smacking his temple with the palm of his hand. "Reception I guess is fine." he shrugged, as the voiceless soul tried to ask what was happening. Rolf held up his hand telling Harker to calm down. "You died. I'm here to help you pass on."
Harker threw himself at the larger male, trying to grab a hold of his shirt, but found his hands drifted through him. Stunned, Harker stumbled backwards, falling to the floor, a look of pain and grief in his eyes.
"Look bud, all I can think of is that you made a deal or something with your god. Did you?" he asked crouching down on his heels, flicking his hair out of his face. Harker shook his head mouthing the word no. "Well, something is getting in the way."
Meanwhile...
The Fort...
The Necromancer raised an eyebrow, puckering his lips as he washed his hands. The body was very fresh, only about an hour old. He figured it wouldn't take longer then a few minutes. He glanced again at the female who hovered near the painting of King Leo and Ash, that still hung in his chambers. He couldn't wait to get his hands on her blood.
That had been the deal, he saves Harker, and our heroine gives him a few liters of her vampire blood. The Necromancer was practically salivating he was so jazzed at the thought. It had been decades since he'd come across a human vampire. He'd been making due with the blood from the yellow eyed bat creatures for years, almost given up hope of ever coming across someone like the female ever again.
Quickly he got to work. The Necromancer held his hands over the body, feeding his own energy into it by a yellowy-green light that seemed to course out of his palms, chanting something under his breath. Our heroine was too busy trying not to watch, that she missed whatever it was he was saying.
Suddenly her nose started to burn, forcing her to sneeze. Turning, she saw Harker's chest begin to move, to fill up with air slowly. She moved quickly to stand beside him just at the elbow of the Necromancer. Watching as he started to talk to Harker.
"Do you remember what happened? Do you know your name?"
Slowly the male opened his eyes, looking around as a hoarse whisper escaped him. He nodded as tears ran down his face, his hands then going to where the wound had been. "I...I...was murdered. This woman barged...barged in with a dagger..." he spotted our heroine reaching for her.
"Do you know your name?" the Necromancer asked again.
"Harker. Captain Harker Frankenstein."
The Necromancer's face twitched at hearing that. He took a short step backwards, clearing his throat, smoothing down a stray strain of hair. "Huh...very good...you need to lay very still for a few minutes, as..." he cleared his throat again suddenly looking around the room. "...your limbs need some time to...to work." he turned then grabbing our heroine by the elbow herding her out of the room. Once outside in the hallway, the door shut he let his panic show. "You didn't tell me he was a Frankenstein!" he began to pace back and forth biting his nails.
"What's that got to do with anything?" the female asked.
"Everything! There is a curse..."
"Yeah, only on married members of the family." she said flicking her fingers through the two streaks of grey in her hair.
"Not that! That's nothing but a harmless anti-cheating spell. Any rootworker could conjure that. I'm talking about the real curse."
"Um, sure okay. There's something else? What did that family do for curses to be slapped on them?"
Meanwhile...
Rolf stood back up to his full height shaking out his hands. "We're running out of time. If we don't move you on to your next life soon, you'll be stuck here in this room, for years. Unable to touch or talk or anything. Now, I'd love to say that this isn't going to hurt a bit, but to be totally honest, I have no idea if it will. But you've just got to trust me okay?" the dark haired werewolf took a deep breath, relaxing his shoulders raising his hands towards the shadowy figure. His strong fingers were just millimeters away from touching the two soul points, one at the heart chakra and one in the chakra between Harker's eyebrows.
Rolf's fingertips never made contact. Instead, they drifted through the spirit causing the larger male to stumble forward. Stumble right through him. Turning quickly, the stunned werewolf found himself alone in the room. "Huh?"
Tune in again for another installment of the Nosferatu Adventures starring your heroine...me.(straight up story. Now I need to find a really great curse for the family.)
Monday, September 1, 2014
year 3 day 112
movie: Punch Drunk Love
starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson
genre: Romance, Comedy,
year: 2002
format: Netflix Canada
plot: After a chance meeting outside of his office, a socially awkward man falls in love with his sister's friend. But before they can even have their first date, he gets himself into trouble with a group extorting him for money.
This was weird to say the lest. Not great, not bad, just odd. There were moments when I wanted to compare it to those romantic comedies of the 1960's. I could easily see Jimmy Stewart playing this role.
The lead character has been bullied and mocked his whole life by his family of sisters, that he's pent up so much anger and has become depressed. The character seems to be a chronic liar through most of the film, only to have waves of guilt that force him to tell the truth.
I'm not too sure what the point behind this movie is, other then maybe to take a closer look at how society looks at depression in men?
starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson
genre: Romance, Comedy,
year: 2002
format: Netflix Canada
plot: After a chance meeting outside of his office, a socially awkward man falls in love with his sister's friend. But before they can even have their first date, he gets himself into trouble with a group extorting him for money.
This was weird to say the lest. Not great, not bad, just odd. There were moments when I wanted to compare it to those romantic comedies of the 1960's. I could easily see Jimmy Stewart playing this role.
The lead character has been bullied and mocked his whole life by his family of sisters, that he's pent up so much anger and has become depressed. The character seems to be a chronic liar through most of the film, only to have waves of guilt that force him to tell the truth.
I'm not too sure what the point behind this movie is, other then maybe to take a closer look at how society looks at depression in men?
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