With the beginning of a new year comes January, the official dumping grounds for the worst of the worst in this year’s film litter, and this week offers up two prime examples with the good possibility of a third. Along with the Uwe Boll video game adaptation of “Bloodrayne,” and the not-dumb-it’s-funny-but-dumb-because-it’s-really-dumb “Grandma’s Boy,” horror auteur Eli Roth’s releases his latest feature, “Hostel.” The film, which has pretty much been described as a movie that would make even the “Saw” guys hurl, has received mostly positive reviews, but with the warning that it might not be as psychotic as the trailers make it seem. Also in wide release this week is the Steven Spielberg political thriller “Munich” and the Heath Ledger romantic comedy “Casanova.”
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Ringing in the New Year on DVD this week:
1) Wedding Crashers – BUY: It’s been a long time since an R-rated comedy has done so well at the box office, and the unrated version (with an additional 8 minutes of footage) will surely be funnier, or at least raunchier.
2) Broken Flowers – RENT: Fans of director Jim Jarmusch will undoubtedly love his latest drama/comedy starring Bill Murray. Everybody else, however, will not.
3) The Cave – PASS: Do you really need a reason NOT to see this film? Okay… then click the link.
4) Dumb and Dumber: Unrated Edition – BUY: For those of you who still don’t own this movie need to run out and pick up this copy, but there’s not enough special features on the single-disc release to warrant replacing your older copy. A handful of alternated scenes and endings just isn’t a big enough selling point. Where are the commentary tracks by Carrey and Daniels?
Yes, well, I got around to renting The Exorcism of Emily Rose from Netflix and watched it last night. What can I say? Not scary at all, but a decent amount of suspense, I suppose. It was certainly better than that horrid turd The Skeleton Key, which was neither scary nor suspenseful and yet another fine example of Kate Hudson wasting any remaining talent on pure crap.
Anyway, I noticed I had rented the “unrated” version of this flick and couldn’t figure out what the hell could have been in it that made it an unrated cut. It’s a pretty tame horror flick by any standards, and the special effects are pretty much all dished out in one minute of the movie. If you ever saw the trailer, you pretty much saw the “scary” parts and all their effects, in other words. My problem with the scares was that they relied too much on slamming doors and quick jump cuts to something loud that wasn’t scary. Cheap seat jumpers.
But the damn thing ran too long at 119 minutes, and being “based on” a true story, I could only feel that once again some serious shit used to go down in the ’70s (1976 was when the actual tale the film is based on took place). We need fresh exorcism stories, people. Fresh scares. Enough with mining old crap and rehashing even more of it into new remakes. The original Amityville Horror was lame enough. A new version wasn’t needed. I didn’t waste me time on that, thankfully.
I do think it would be good, however, if a really gory flick came out that wasn’t made by Rob Zombie that featured a soundtrack by Christopher Cross. Could you imagine how rockin’ that would be? Someone getting an axe to the chest and Cross bleating out a love song. Someone get the studios on the phone.
Bullz-Eye.com’s two lead movie reviewers, David Medsker and Jason Zingale, have laid it all out there, giving their lists of the best and worst the 2005 movie menu had to offer. They couldn’t see everything — quite frankly, they didn’t want to see everything — but they still managed to catch damn near every movie that hit theaters in 2005. Some were good (“Kung Fu Hustle”), some were bad (“Aeon Flux”), some were just god-awful (“Brothers Grimm”), and some simply blew them away (“Batman Begins”).
Some of David’s best movies of the year included “March of the Penguins,” “Sin City,” “Wedding Crashers” and “Jarhead,” while his worst list included “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
Jason, meanwhile, listed “Crash” as his best film of the year while also showing some love to “A History of Violence,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Brokeback Mountain.” “Last Days,” “The Aristocrats” and “Just Friends,” meanwhile, wound up on his worst list.
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Out on DVD this week:
1) Dark Water – RENT: Please, no more horror films imported from Japan! That being said, this psychological scarefest is actually pretty good. Then again, what more can you expect from a cast made up of Jennifer Connelly, John C. McGinley, and Tim Roth? To those who have seen “Aeon Flux,” don’t answer that.
2) Into the Blue – RENT: For as much as I hated this underwater treasure-hunter popcorn flick, you can’t deny watching the mesmerizing Jessica Alba in a skimpy bathing suit for 90 minutes.
3) The Shield: Season 4 – BUY: Perhaps the next best season of the series since it’s sophomore year, season four gets back to the good ‘ol days of Vic and the Strike Team taking down the baddies.
Also out this week is the direct-to-DVD movie “American Pie Presents: Band Camp,” a special edition of “Toy Story 2,” and Wong Kar-Wai’s latest, “2046.”
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