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100 Movies I like, in no particular order.
1. Reservoir Dogs
2. Fight Club
3. Scarface
4. Army of Darkness
5. Platoon
6. The Punisher
7. U Turn
8. The Way of the Gun
9. The Seven Samurai
10. Pulp Fiction
11. Cop Land
12. Swingers
13. Office Space
14. Psycho
15. Night of the Living Dead
16. Ed Wood
17. Clerks
18. The Graduate
19. Evil Dead 2
20. Darkman
21. Bad Santa
22. Desperado
23. Unleashed
24. Leon the Proffesional
25. Sin City
26. I Heart Huckabees
27. Being John Malkovich
28. Rushmore
29. The Italian Job
30. Silence of the Lambs
31. Minority Report
32. Three Kings
33. Payback
34. Catch Me if You Can
35. Jaws
36. Adaptation
37. Goodfellas
38. Commando
39. The Godfather
40. Vanilla Sky
41. They Live
42. The Goonies
43. Made
44. Face/Off
45. The Terminator
46. Kingpin
47. Angel Heart
48. The 25th Hour
49. Rounders
50. Falling Down
51. The Royal Tenebaums
52. Heist
53. American History X
54. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
55. Equilibruim
56. Star Wars Episode 4
57. Die Hard
58. Assault on Precinct 13 (Original)
59. State of Grace
60. 12 Monkeys
61. The Shining
62. Toy Story
63. Chasing Amy
64. Shaun of the Dead
65. 12 Angry Men
66. The Warriors
67. Natural Born Killers
68. Baseketball
69. Taxi Driver
70. From Dusk Till Dawn
71. Animal House
72. Terminator 2
73. Blade Runner
74. Schindler's List
75. The Thing
76. Mad Max
77. The Fugitive
78. Forest Gump
79. Where the Buffalo Roam
80. Lost in Translation
81. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
82. Detroit Rock City
83. Half Baked
84. Cinema Paridiso
85. American Psycho
86. Elephant
87. The Sandlot
88. Reefer Madness
89. Get Shorty
90. 21 Grams
91. El Mariachi
92. Dogma
93. The Shawshank Redemption
94. Dazed and Confused
95. Kill Bill Volume 1
96. Boyz N Da Hood
97. Con Air
98. Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
99. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
100. Mystic River
Reviews
Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane (1998)
Clerks meets Reservoir Dogs.
So here's another by-product of the Tarantino/Kevin Smith indy craze that got huge in the later part of the 90's. The film contains most of what is said in the title. As one can expect, the film attempts to contain a lot of gun play, sharp tounged rapid fire dialog, and some dark humor.
The film is bad. All there is too it. However, it is enjoyable and there are plenty of things to appreciate. The movie does try to look bigger then it actually is, the director wanted to make a movie that was kind of out of his reach. Also it should be mentioned the film is remarkably offbeat, weird and sort of hard to follow in its bizarre antics.
What does work is actually the acting at points. Its not as laughable as one might expect from a movie with the word "octane" in the title. The film does come together with some mild laughs, but the film is simply trying too hard. For example the film has annoying and very much unneeded transitional vocab screens that came on screen (trying to be like Clerks much?) As far as the Tarantino pop culture dialog, there is an embarrassingly dumb attempt that made me roll my eyes. The characters debate if Johnny Cash was a homosexual for absolutely no reason.
Yeah. The film kinda sucks. But its worth a viewing to see what the film TRIES to be like.
Street Kings (2008)
Not the first of its kind, but certainly far from the worst.
Street Kings is an interesting product of a cop film. It isn't a wall to wall mindless action film but yet it remains fairly violent and gritty. It isn't really a cop partner flick but it features buddy elements.
The best way to define Street Kings is a cop revenge flick with some twists throw in for good measure. Predictable? For the most part. The action scenes are enjoyable. The film has a certain mean mentality that benefits the subjects the film discusses such as political corruption and racism. Keanu plays the role with distance and anger that from time to time works. The supporting cast holds the film together and makes it all come together nicely. The problem is the film may have a bit too many characters to juggle. The film has a rough time developing the characters and the given situations.
Again, this might be asking a bit much from a film called "Street Kings" but for a gritty 2 hour cop flick starring Keanu Reeves it could have gone much worse. Worth a viewing for its acting and action.
Homewrecker (2005)
Fairly amusing. Needs to be released on DVD!
Ryan Dunn has always been my favorite guy of the Jackass and Cky crew alike. I was happy they gave him his own show, he deserved it. Ryan Dunn being the hard-edged blue collar prankster with cool shades and tats, deserves some recognition.
Homewrecker was a funny show in which Dunn was able to show off his abilities to give you one crappy day. Kicked off with an awesome song from ASG, "Horse Whipper" Homewrecker is an obvious efforts to bring in fans of Viva La Bam and Jackass.
In short, people hire Ryan Dunn to get back at their room mates who have mistreated them. Dunn destroys their room and turns it into something bizarre, like a huge dungeon room or something. In between segments includes funny 1960's styled training videos of how to do small pranks at home on your room-mate. All easy to do and can be done in little time.
The show itself was a funny twist on other reality home design shows. Its a shame this one went off air. I REALLY HOPE this gets on DVD. Dunn's fans deserve it. Viacom! RELEASE it!
ECW December to Dismember (2006)
This is it. This is the PPV that will be marked down as the final blow to ECW
What a stupid boring Pay Per View. The entire thing was 2 hrs and 18 mins! 40 dollars!? Are you INSANE!? Aside from the "extreme" (ly crappy) elimination chamber which for some odd reason was verrrryyyyyyyyyyyy short there were no hardcore matches at all. In fact, the entire PPV was like 5 one on one boring matches that felt like a huge count down to a short finale. They didn't even supply enough of those to make it atlest 2 1/2 hours.
This PPV wasn't extreme. In fact, this PPV reminded me of side wrestling shows like "Sunday Night Heat" or "Velocity" or "Wcw Saturday Night or Worldwide" The biggest thing that made me angry was that Sabu wasn't in the final match, because of some stupid plot twist where he gets hurt backstage. So this means only 2 REAL Ecw stars are in the final event. RVD and CM Punk, the rest are stupid Raw and Smackdown characters who weren't popular or liked much.
The entire thing felt so differently then Ecw and nowhere near the quality of One Night Stand. What happened that changed this? One Night Stand 2 was matter of months before this and yet this is so different, why? Watch the DVD and you'll see what I mean. The entire thing felt so dull and lifeless.