VH Corner

Colin Farrell is hunted down in a phone booth by a sniper that says he will kill him if he leaves the phone booth.

I found it to be dumb. I heard there was a slight twist at the end, but you could see it coming. When he was apologzing for stuff, I just didn’t care. Keifer Sutherland was funny a couple of times, but not enough to save the movie. I just couldn’t wait for it to be over.

I actually fell asleep about 20 minutes into it and we ended up watching the end of it the next night. Do you know how hard it is to find the scene you were watching when all the scene pictures on the DVD show him in a phone booth?

Rating: C

Don’t ya just hate when you wake up in the bed with a pretty girl who just happens to be the cousin of your fiance?

We also watched this with Keiran and Erin the same night we watched Equilibrium. It took me a while to remember the movie, since it was that forgettable. I should say that I do not like Selma Blair. She just bugs me for no good reason. I just don’t like her. Julia Stiles and Jason Lee are fine and bug-free.

The movie also starred my guy from The State (Thomas Lennon), who is also in Reno 911. As a side note, when The State was on MTV (it was a sketch show for four seasons) when I was in college, we had a drinking game for it (of course). You would drink when your cast member appeared on screen. Jason’s brother in the movie was my guy, so I kept wanting to drink whenever I saw him.

I think that might have been the only good thing about the movie. It was very predictable. You knew what was going to happen almost from the beginning. If I was sitting in the comfy chair, I probably would have fallen asleep and not missed anything, but I didn’t. Too bad.

Rating: D

Creepy ghost story taking place in a Spanish orphanage during the Civil War.

When I added a bunch of movies to Netflix, I had some foreign films here and there. Unintentionally, three of them showed up at the same time. By the time we reached this one, Jer was done reading subtitles. We have had this movie for four months. I was about to send it back since I didn’t think we would ever watch it when Jer finally wanted to watch it.

I’m glad we did. I enjoyed it. It is a Spanish movie that takes place during the Spanish Civil War at a school for orphaned children. There is a ghost that haunts the school of a kid that was killed. It is creepy like The Others, but it isn’t gross. It isn’t as scary as The Others either, but it is creepy.

There is also a little side story that explains the title of the movie about deformed babies with their spines on the outside of their bodies. The school doctor shows the main character the fetuses inside jars filled with rum or something like rum. He would sell this to the locals in town because people believed it would cure various illnesses. I dubbed this baby juice.

Rating: B+

Jim Carrey is offered the chance to be God for a while.

We watched this at the beer theater. It was amusing, but not as funny as Ace Ventura or Liar, Liar in terms of Jim Carrey movies. The entire sappy ending was dumb.

The reporter guy was hilarious. I loved the outtakes during the credits where everyone around him was laughing and he didn't crack a smile. He just kept going. Even Jim Carrey would crack himself up. The reporter guy never got out of character. He's awesome. He used to be on The Daily Show. He needs to go back or something because I never see him anymore but he's supa funny.

Rating: B-

Radioactive waste is at it again in the superhero world. This time it makes this guy blind, which in turn, makes him an acrobatic martial arts superhero. Of course!

We watched this with Kaile and Stacy. It was highly entertaining. Not the movie so much, but watching it with Kaile and Stacy. We talked through most of the movie making fun of it in the process. This improved the movie greatly. I don’t know if I would recommend this movie if you are not watching it with Kaile and Stacy.

It was way too serious. I kept saying that Daredevil needed to crack some jokes here and there, like Buffy, because Aflac was just dumb. He kept looking like he wanted to smile but would remember that he couldn’t. He wasn’t the right actor for the movie, or he could have been if the character wasn’t such a tightwad. The kid actor that played him when he was little did a better job.

Elektra was cool. Kingpin was okay. Bullseye was extremely dorky.

Whoever did the soundtrack for the movie needs to be shot. Not so much the music, even though it was uhhhh…not great, but the way it was introduced. Going from quiet to blaring rock music is quite jarring. Looking over rooftops doesn’t really warrant music being that sudden and loud. It just didn’t fit. Only two songs actually worked with the scenes. That Evanescence song when Elektra was stabbing the sandbags (nice drawing skills on her part) fit nicely. Also, the N.E.R.D. song to introduce Kingpin worked. Everything else didn’t.

Oh, and what’s up with Elektra’s last name sounding like Nachos? We could not get beyond that. Nachos!

Rating: B-

Sci-fi movie where people believe emotions are evil so people must medicate themselves to not feel or face death.

The fight scenes are awesome and completely not believable, but still very much fun to watch. Beyond that, this movie was predictable and not very exciting.

No one was supposed to have emotions and Christian Bale did a great job with that. When he didn’t have any, he didn’t have any. When he quit taking his medication, he would slowly register something on his face. His partner, Taye Diggs, would smile all over the place even though he had no emotions. Dork!

If you catch it on cable, watch it for the fight scenes. I would also recommend watching with a bunch of other people so you can have a conversation when the fight scenes aren’t on.

Rating: C

An homage to the 50′s and 60′s romantic comedies, but who cares about that. It stars Ewan McGregor and that’s all we really need to know.

It was a very silly movie. It did not take itself seriously at all. It had sexual innuendos everywhere with people making shocked faces when they got it themselves. It was a fun campy movie. It also had Ewan McGregor is almost every scene. A+ for that alone.

It almost had a too cheesy ending, but then it redeemed itself and continued on its silly movie path instead. If you watch it, keep watching the credits. There is no singing in the movie but Ewan and Rene sing over the credits while doing a dance number too. Funny stuff.

The only real downside was these two had no chemistry whatsoever. I didn’t think Rene Zellweger had any chemistry with Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire so maybe it’s her.

Rating: B