bladespinner Reviews

Four Brothers (2005)

Good story, and a great way to end the summer.

[10/10 · 15 August 2005]

The movie was great. I had no problems keeping up with the plot. The camera work was great. The characters(4 brothers) themselves each had complicated personalities. I liked that. The supporting cast was marvelous. From the dirty cop to victor sweet. Action galore. I felt like this movie was somewhat influenced on real street life, versus much of the hip hop garbage we see on TV. Mark whalberg did it for me in this movie. A little short brawler with a quick fuse that would not take any crap. So all in all this movie has actually set a new standard. To bad they had to kill off the youngest brother to do it. I give it 4 stars.

The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Basically just the best animated movie based on a tv series to make it to the big screen!

[22 January 2004]

This movie at the time was practically perfect. Although their were some flaws, the movie itself was way ahead of it's time. Since there is not much for me to say good that has not already been said , i'll try and focus on the little things I thought otherwise dissapointing. First i think i'd like to list the flaws.

1.)Why is devastator the only giant(gestalt) robot in the film. By the time the movie came out, the series had produced several other more popular giant(gestalt) robots:Superion,bruticus,Menasor are just examples but there were more albeit powerful gestalts at that time. Not to say I don't like devastator, because he was the first, and my alltime favorite so it's good to see him get credit in the movie, but for him to be the only gestalt in the movie was ridicoulous. They could have at least thrown in his main rival Omega supreme(non-gestalt i think). But instead we get to see him pick apart the dino-bots. Like we have not seen that one before in the cartoon series. Gestalts were the second coolest thing about the caroon series in general up to that point after Optimus Prime himself. So for fans to get only the one gestalt who gets pummeled by rumble and frenzy later on in the movie is just retarded, and makes the movie look inconsistent just a tad bit.

2.)The end of the movie was rushed. I'll tell you why I know this. Unicron in his robot mode is a hell of a lot smaller than in his planet eating form. Several autobots are seen propelling themselves out of his right eye in the end. A good comparison would be myself jumping out of the statue of liberty's right eye. Mind you the statue of liberty is a giant statue standing on a very big planet earth. If unicron is planetary(earth/cybertron) size why then can we see the autobots crashing through his eye? They should big like microsized nothings to his eye. At least that's what I think. Another problem is with the autobots in general attacking unicron from the outside. The dinots breathe fire/laser beams on his butt, and he feels it, and tries to swat them in that area. It's just not feasable to think a planetary sized unicron would feel anything like this at all. Even at the age of 11 when I first saw the movie I was questioning this stuff. The only explanation I can think of is that unicron like megatron can make himself larger in his non robot mode. You notice in the cartoon series megatron could transform into a gun which could be big enough for a transformer to use, or if he wanted small enough for a human to use also. This would clear things up about the whole unicron size issue for me at least.

Well all in all it was a great great great animated film. The best ever released in america to date. Yes Yes it was even better than the lion king. I can say that with confidence since the animation at the time TTM came out was way ahead of it's time. Lion king's animation was right on time for when it came out, but not wayyyy ahead.

Ginger Snaps (2000)

A very diffrent werewolf movie, which is good by the way

[14 January 2004]

When i first saw the cover of this movie at blockbuster I knew it had to be a straight to video b movie. Fortunately I happen to like B movies, but after viewing what i saw, I am shocked that this did not get a theatrical release. All the director had to do was clean up a little bit here and there, and take the script a little more seriously. The acting was fine, since it's no worse than any other teen actors. I am confident with a few additions, and ommitting about 10% of the scripts beginning would have earned this movie a higher budget. But what do i know. Anyway I can't say enough good things about this film. It's a real gem alright. It starts off kind of funny, and does not take itself to seriously, and towards the end, outta nowhere it grabs you by the you know what. You become so concerned for the girl who was bitten, and her sister. It's actually kind of scary because you have no idea what will happen next to them. It's not some rehashed werewolf flick, where you can simply predict the outcome. Believe me no werewolf movie like this has been done to date. just a great film. It really deserved a broader audience. Much better than the bigger budget film AWIP.

Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)

This is one of the best horror sequels i've viewed in some time.

[30 December 2003]

First I'd like to say that I am baffled that so many people dislike movies such as JC/part 1 & JC/part 2. The movies themselves can stand on their own as being original because the villan is not some rehashed version of freddy/jason/michael meyers/leatherface/pinhead/rawhead rex/pumkinhead/dracula/wolf man rippoff. Granted the creeper exhibits some of the hollywood motivated behavior similar to all the aforementioned creatures but never so much that he does not stand out and shine for his very own original efforts. I guess what i'm trying to say is horror buffs like myself needed the creeper as a refresher. Mostly all the horror icons have faded into some abysmal b movie categorys, and so we rarely get to see a bigger budget supernatural slasher these days with staying power. The fact is Both movies are scary, even though they are not scary as hell. The exorcist when it first came out was scary as hell, but that's because it had a helping hand since it touched on the very real subject of excorsim which links into the very real subjects of religion. As we all know reality(real subjects) bite. The jeepers creepers movies are adequate in it's attempts to only scare but not scare the hell outta you. But hey lets face it, this is as close as it gets. We all know when we go to bed after watching the creeper do his dirt that he's not going to actually jump in after us and have a snack(we are adults and not five year olds). Clearly this is not reality. So i'm sick of reading peoples comments saying the movie is not scary and does not even deserve to be on the big screen. Look at the movie for what it is. Give it credit for what it achieves. The make up and special affects were great(not constant force feeding of CG animation). The creeper was no less scarier in the second installment than in the first although because we are now more familiar with his guise and methods of killing he comes off a little less shocking. Still I cannot wait for the third installment, and i'm happy they had the ending with the stupid farmer and his son, because we at least know they will give us another sequel. My only gripe is with the directors decision not to give us some more background info on exactly what the creeper is. If you watch the DVD of JC 2 he says that he does not think the creeper is a demon(demons tie into religion), but more likely is what was once a human who had been cursed. Sounds like the story of golem/smeagel to me. I guess that origin could work, but i'm not entirely feeling it. If the creeper was a man at one point, why then did he go an entire two movies without speaking one whole sentence? The fact that he might have been human just raises so many more questions, and the creeper is already too damned mysterious to begin with. He's not a movie villain that you can get intimate with since his origin is foggy. It would be different if the creeper himself was also just as clueless as we are and was on a personal journey to find his beginnings as well(kind of like wolverine).

Mystery Men (1999)

Great Movie & a special treat for comic book fans

[5 December 2003]

This movie has set a standard which unfortunately will never be repeated. This is the only movie of it's kind that i can think of. However i heard it did not do as expected at the box office. Such a shame since Mystery Men was perhaps the best comedy of that year. The actors were great, and each was capable of selling there roles to perfection. But what really impressed me was the fact that they outdid themselves here. Some of the actors like Ben stiller, and Paul Reubens who have each proved to be a comic genius would come as no surprise to entertain in their roles. But the other cast including Greg Kinnear,William H. Macy,Geoffrey Rush, and Wes Studi shocked me. I've seen each of these guys do so many serious roles that i had no idea they had it in them to be quite so hilarious. In fact the entire main cast did outstanding jobs(especially Janeane Garofalo cause this movie would not be half as great without her presence). Even the support cast who played the following roles:Like the waffle man, who was at the super hero pool party(which is in my personal top ten funniset scenes ever),disco boys,Dr. heller,blue rajas mom. This is a movie all comic book fans should see many times, because you will always find something different the next time you see it. So much attention to detail was put into it. The movie cannot help but make you laugh. I hope they make a sequel with a theatrical release and not straight to video.

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

This is the best comedy i've seen in years

[4 December 2003]

This movie has made me laugh so hard, i started coughing and almost coughed my lungs out. First let me say that the movie has a ton of crude and distasteful humor which i could certainly do without, however no matter how crude or distasteful that humor might be to myself it is still neccessary. Why? Because what i find funny somebody else may think is stale. Granted most people find a scene where a toilet that has erupted feces all over a classroom is too much. However maybe there is still the ever watchful 3 percenters out their that need a quick fix, and managed to giggle when they saw it. So all i'm really saying is that the movie covers all bases(caters to the whole audience and keeps everybody entertained). They have mild humor(The kind that watches cheers,cosbys,roseanne, and friends) and excessive humor(The kind of audience that only appreciates MTV's jackass,beavis and butthead). Now that being said, I think the movie was better than awesome. It was a single achievement in that it successfully made fun at every teen flick from the span of the 80's till today. It was an extremely funny piece of work. I am really impressed with the actors and actresses, because they played their parts perfectly. Trust me there is no movie to date that even comes close to pulling off what this movie did. This movie damn well deserves a sequel, and i don;t mean straight to video either. This should have gotten the comedy of the year award. Scary movie 1 was good. Scary Movie 2 was better. NATM eats them for breakfast.