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These are some of my favorite films in no particular order:
400 Blows
Scarface
Cinema Paradiso
Blood In Blood Out
Cocaine Cowboys
Matrix
I Am Cuba
Fight Club
Balls Deep
Dazed and Confused
Saw
Big Blue
Love Me If You Dare
Savannah Smiles
Heat
Reviews
The Ride (2003)
If you are from Hawaii you like it.
The film made me fall in love with Hawaii all over again even though I don't live there anymore. The hawaii-ness (the green-blue ocean, the white sandy beaches, etc...) of the movie was gorgeous. Also, the dude who played Duke was perfect. There wasn't an angry bone in his body and he always had a lot of aloha and was always smiling. This is how I remember Hawaii. This was what was good about this movie.
On the other hand, the dude who played the hotshot surfer (Scot Davis) going back in time was probably the worst cringe-inducing acting that I could remember seeing in a long time. How embarrassing watching this guy's false range of anger, displacement, to sincerity and sorrow. I mean this is the thread of the movie for chrissakes. Everything he expressed on his face was false. The acting was terrible. The guy should take some acting classes or practice his lines in the mirror. He absolutely destroyed the watch-ability of this movie. Wow, that is very brutal of me, but I have to say it. Also, for someone who surfs, you can tell right away when he is paddling that he was not a surfer. Bruddah, keep your knees and ankles together and not shaped like a V on your board and don't rock back and forth. It should be more fluid.
This flick would've been better off as a straight story about Duke Kahanamoku and not left him as a supporting character and dropped the lead actor and dropped the convoluted time travel element of the story altogether and made it a straight story about the Duke. Now that would've been great. Sean Kaawa carried the scenes he was in, in this movie and would've easily carried a whole movie about the Duke on his back. As a matter of fact, this whole movie should've been about Duke, Blackie, and Caps - about three beach boys growing up in beginning-of the-20th-century Waikiki and how he turned surfing onto the world. At least those three guys injected much needed humor. Now that would've been a great flick. Maybe in the sequel.
Also, someone should rotate that Duke statue in Waikiki cuz he would never turn his back on the ocean.
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Da Ali G Show (2000)
Laugh Out Loud Funny!!!
This show is so repetitive. It's all the same from show to show. The level of humor is one-note, even across 3 sketches (Borat, Ali G, and Bruno). The whole show is basically an interview sketch where he basically tries to make the interviewees as uncomfortable and thrown off as possible, whether with homophobia in the flyover states (Bruno), unapologetic ignorance flavored with b-boyishness juxtaposed against old geriatric important farts... I mean figures of society (Ali G), and Eastern European fish-out-of-water tactlessness (Borat). It's all the same one-level of humor over and over again... but I can't seem to get enough of it. I sat through 12 episodes in 2 sittings. It is so flip-pin' funny - Booyakasha, yo check it, you gotta watch this show.
Some of the most memorable stuff off the top of my head. SPOILERS AHEAD.
- (Ali G) Trying to get Donald Trump to invest in his ice cream glove idea.
- (Bruno) Asking a fashion designer at a fashion show if he needs another male model and claiming that he is "chrysler's muse". Then crashing the runway anyway and doing the worm on it.
- (Borat) Going to an Oklahoma Council meeting and getting an arbitrary 10 minute stand up moment of silence.
- (Ali G) Getting anyone from Sam Donaldson to Gore Vidal to that pretentious guy on the Actor's Studio show to read Ebonics off a page, especially if it is accompanied by a beat-box. You gotta watch the end credits to catch it.
- (Bruno) Going to a senior's line dancing class and having a crush on an old fart and trying to get the old fart to notice him.
Watch this show, when you can.
The Weather Man (2005)
Worth Watching for Camel Toe Sequence.
That camel toe sequence alone was worth the price of admission. I couldn't believe how uncomfortably funny it was, but it wasn't left for just a laugh, but rather it also had created something poignant out of it that had lessons about perspective and how attitude is everything. I loved it. Cried and laughed all at once.
The rest of the movie I don't care to comment on, rather, I'm just writing gibberish to fulfill the 10 lines of text that IMDb requires in their guidelines. So basically go out and watch this movie and watch it for the camel toe sequence. It was so awesome that Spritz went right back to the clothing shop and bought his little girl dresses to address the camel toe situation. Very cute movie. That fat little girl stole the whole movie.