Synopsis: Based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into America's biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the $35 billion-dollar-a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. George Jung (Johnny Depp) pursued what he thought was the American Dream. Rather than become just another construction worker like his father, George moves to California where he discovers the profitable pleasures of selling marijuana. A spell in prison introduces him to big-time Colombian dealers, and soon George is involved with their plan to export tons of cocaine to American shores. He becomes fabulously wealthy, but takes a dizzying fall that knocks him out of the underworld.

The plot itself was ok.  It seemed a bit bland and would jump from scene to scene with a high predictability rate that felt almost like movie deja-vu.  My highlights for this movie was Johnny Depp (well DUH), Paul Reubens (of Pee Wee Herman fame) playing a drug dealer, and Bobcat Goldthwait to have a quick appearance as a aficionado of cocaine purity.  I was cracking up to see Paul Reubens play a flaming hair stylist in the beginning of the movie (Methuss could not see Reubens being able to portray a character that way and I saw it a mile away *lol*) and to see Bobcat as thin as he was during the one scene he was in.

I'll be generous and give this movie a 2 out of 5.  I'm just glad I was watching it on cable.

current mood: disappointed

The movie was the opening night of Blade II (if you were not already fully aware of that from the poster displayed in this journal entry).  Wesley Snipes comes back as Blade the daywalker, here to battle against something more powerful then the vampires he has been tracking down throughout his life.  A new kind of super-vampire has been created, and it is up to him and a team of vampires to stop them.

...and yes, you get to find out at the beginning of the movie how and why Whistler (played by Kris Kristofferson) is back when you originally thought he had died in the first movie.

Overall, it was a very good movie with overwhelming actions and great special affects.  If you were to compare it to the first movie, it still is a good one, but not nearly as spellbinding as the first.  The characters seemed a little weak in the knees and a bit predictable (for me anyway), for the plotline seemed to follow a pattern that was a bit too familiar to the first movie (possibly because I have watched the first one so damn much *lol*).

I give this movie 4 out of 5. If it wasn't for the action and special effects, it would have received a 3.5 rating.

current mood: discontent

It was a really good movie honestly. The plot was a bit weak, but the hilarious lines and slap stick comedy completely made up for the plot. Denis Leary (voice of Diego) shocked me and John Leguizamo (voice of Sid) was absolutely amazing.

Just to watch little Scrat trying to merely hide his acorn throughout the movie, makes it absolutely hilarious to watch.

I give this movie 4 out of 5. It would have been 3, but like I said before, the comedy made up for what the plot lacked.

I would say that if you are in the mood for a comedy, go see this movie. :)

current mood: accomplished

Pixar did it again by making a fabulous movie that was really enjoyable. You would think that they would loose their touch after making such incredible movies such as Toy Story, Toy Story Two, and A Bug's Life. If you think that, you definitely think wrong.

Monsters, Inc web page from Pixar

Set in another dimension where monsters live their everyday lives like the humans do, they have a company that makes energy for their world by collecting screams from children that they scare by getting into children's bedrooms through their closets. Their biggest fear is to have a human child touch them, for they think that they will become contaminated by it. They figured wrong.

Boo, a child from the human world, finds her way into the monster world and it makes their world go upside down. Sulley, a big glue furry monster with purple spots and horns, does his best to bring Boo back home to her human world. Mike Wazowski, the little lime green one-eyed monster, is his best friend and Scare Assistant who does his best (although he tends to fight it every step of the way) to help Sulley bring Boo home.

This was truly a great movie. The computer animation was yet again astounding, and at times it was very difficult to decipher if what you had seen on the screen was digitized or real. There were many moments when the movements of Sulley would give you the impression that you were looking at a man in a costume then it being generated by a computer.

The story line was just as incredible as the effects. There were many a punch lines that were extremely hilarious, as well as moments where the viewer would become shocked and also cry (as yours truly had). The movie combines all the right elements--there's a good guy, a funny sidekick, a slime bag, a climactic chase scene and an adorable reason for things to end happily.

Vocal talents of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi and James Coburn were of the characters you had heard throughout the film. How could you go wrong with a cast like that?

This is definitely a worth while movie to see. I know this viewer will definitely pick it up on DVD as soon as it becomes available!

I definitely give this movie 5 out of 5.

The Stuff - What happens when you cross the classic Blob with bad diary products? You get a wholesome snackfood that eats its victims from the inside out. The whole concept of the film just doesn't make any sense at all. I mean, if you saw white yogert like stuff oozing up out of the ground would you eat it and ask questions later? Pfffft. Yeah right. It's pretty hard to figure out where even I could improve on this film. Maybe having the stuff first emerge inside of a sweets factory and end up in the mix of some foodstuffs might have made more sense. The cream-filled zombies could have used some serious scare tatics instead of the cheep meltdown effects they used and something tells me that I sure would have a hard time keeping a straight face running from a flood of shaving cream. The remake of the Blob in the early '90s had far more of a serious scare factor involved. Although, I do remember the priceless scene of a harmless cat getting too curious for his own good with a container of the Stuff. Just seeing a glob of yogert slowly consuming a cat is probably worth the rental alone.

Bad Channels - Full Moon Entertainment is probably the king of modern day B-Movie entertainment, but this one pretty much takes the cake as far as going totally off the wall. A fungus-like-alien with a robotic sidekick invades a small town radio station to set up its base for collecting pretty women for its personal collection. It manages to snag three women using a strange MTV ray that hypnotizes, teleports, and then shrinks them into doll size for shipment back home. However the alien is thwarted by a renegade shock jock that outsmarts the alien and finally figures out that he can use standard bathroom germicide to destroy the fungus invader. This film is probably best left as cannon fodder for MST3K. Nuff said.

Bats - Since Alfred Hitchcock made the Birds, there has been uncountable swarm horror films made that just never match up to the film that spawned them. This was definitly one that just ended up falling out of the sky before it broke free of the script that bound it. The main bad guys turn out to be mad scientists who genetically altered two giant bats (appropriatly named Bert & Ernie) which escape and infect a cave of normal bats into becoming rabid killers. All of the bats become unstoppable to the point that they have to use a giant refridgerator to defeat the swarm, kill the main two bats by accident, and outrun the overly aggresive military before they bomb the whole town with napalm. The whole plot becomes redundant with cat and mouse games with the bats and paper thin characters. Why were the bats so easy to kill? Why didn't the bats just leave when they knew their cave was threatened? Hell, they were smart enough to know to when one of their own was bugged and tore it apart. They should have just made the bats far more sinister and at least had some main characters that stood a chance without any simplistic plot conviences to save the day.

A Boy And His Dog - A Post-Apocalypse science fiction/monster movie that just reeks of B-Movie to the point that it's almost funny. A soldier (played by a very young Don Johnson) along with his telepathic super-intelligent dog are trying to survive the wastelands of World War 4. They encounter a group of survivors (who look more like mimes then anything else) which are hiding from mutant "elephants" known as Screamers and hunting down fertile males to repopulate their colony. I thought Rocky Horror was complacated to explain to outsiders, this film just leaves you scratching your head no matter how many times you watch it. I probably could rewrite this film in whole from scratch and come up with something far more humorous and just as off the wall without being idiotic. In fact, I might just do that as part of a future project here.

Cemetery Man - I was wrong, THIS is the strangest movie I've ever seen. A cemetary caretaker finds himself playing exterminator as the population of his workplace doesn't wanna stay dead. Then as if things didn't get bad enough, he falls in love with a woman visiting her dead husband and then has to keep killing her after her husband wakes up and murders her. His best friend eventually falls in love with the head of a corpse and takes her home to have her mounted inside of his broken televison set. After having conversations with a statue of Death, he decides to clean up the cemetary once and for all. After you start to wonder where in the hell all of these blue lights floating around all the time are coming from, it's revealed that we have been looking inside of a giant snowglobe. WTF?!

Must... stop... watching... this...

Ow! Pain! Hurt!

I have been known in my parts (especially through friends and during my college days) to be the Queen of Horror flicks around here. I have seen more than you can imagine, and have loved them all for their own reasons.

This movie, however, I cannot love... except for one thing.

Take all the cheese you can think of in a B movie (the acting, the special effects, the acting, the horrible puns, the acting) and you've got An American Vampire Story. Did I mention the acting?

Dear god, the website is just as bad (in my opinion).

Johnny Venokur plays Count Eric (aka "Moondoggie"). Trevor Lissauer plays the main character in the movie, which I feel is the dumbest virigin boy that I have ever fucking seen in a movie. Adam West plays Dr. Von Helsinmeister (ouch) aka "The Big Kahoona" (double ouch).

What is sad is the two best actors/actresses in this movie are played by Deborah Xavier and Carmen Electra. Their characters are the two vampire girlfriends/wives/whatever to Count Eric.

The only thing good about this movie (that I can see) is Carmen Electra. She seems to be the only one that paid attention in acting school.

Oh and there is a scantally dressed, wicked catfight behind the couch between the two female vampires.

Unless you like to torture yourself, don't rent this movie.

I definitely give this movie 1.5 out of 5 and the only reason why it got 1.5 instead of .5 was for Carmen and the catfight.

current mood: disappointed

This isn't a complete assessment of the movie The Storm Riders, but I just had to let you know of this.

I have only seen the last fifteen minutes of this movie. This movie impressed me in fifteen minutes was Mortal Kombat and Xmen did in over an hour and a half. I sat there, with a McDonald's fry in my hand, inches away from putting it in my mouth, frozen in time during that entire fifteen minutes. I was scared to even blink, for I thought I would miss something!

Taking astounding artwork, great action, stupendous special effects, and adding in live action, this made all the anime comics and video games I have ever played, come to life before my eyes.

I'm still overwhelmed by what I saw. My mind is just dancing to the fact of what it my eyes were able to see on my television. It was everything I dreamed would happen in a comic turned movie that has never happened until now.

You cannot get this movie on DVD. I seriously doubt you can get it on tape. I had the ability to see it because it was on The Action Channel of my cable system.

 If you get this channel, make sure you stop that block of time out of your life to see this!

With what little I have seen of this movie, I give it 5 out of 5.

current mood: shocked

This review will be the first in my series of four. This one is on The Crow: Salvation. I will do my best to not give any of it away.

The first Crow movie was a classic. Always have, always will be. The second, well, it left a bad taste in my mouth. The soundtrack rocked my ass off, but I can honestly say that the album was the only thing good that came out of that movie.

I was very skeptical about seeing this third one. It never came out in theaters and went straight to tape. I only found out about it by finding the soundtrack one day at my local music store. So tonight, I rented it. If it flopped on it's ass, at least I won't feel bad for buying it.

This movie astounded me! It had a wide cast of well known actors (Kirsten Dunst, Eric Mabius, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, William Atherton, Fred Ward, and others). The acting was ACTING and not just "Ok, time to act now" like the second one felt like. The story was something that kept me wanting to watch.

I can, however, understand why it went straight to video and did not bother being shown in theaters at all. Even though I feel this movie is very good, it did not have the same quality of most theater movies that came out at the time this was made. It did not have enough action and explosions as most watchers usually want. The movie itself had a feel that it could have been made for television, if it wasn't for the fact that it was very graphic and had a boatload of nudity and emotional violence in it.

I have been a fan of O'Barr for a long time. I loved his comics to death (so to speak). From what I gathered from the extra "behind the scenes" clips, O'Barr was really into making sure this third Crow movie was more accurate to his storyline than the second was. That in itself, made me very impressed.

I consider this movie better than the second, but not as good as the first. I seriously doubt that they will ever be able to make anything as good as the first, ever.

Personally, you be the judge yourself. Go rent it and give your honest opinion about it.

I give this movie 3 out of 5.

current mood: accomplished