ForTommy2Lookie Reviews

Elevator Movie (2004)

A brilliant concept that was basically thrown together

[2/10 · 15 October 2008]

Watching this movie was like being in a crappy Hollywood acting class and watching two unprofessional actors do a (YAWN) scene for an hour and a half. The IDEA of this film is excellent, but it was put together very poorly, and why it was filmed in black and white is beyond me. Zeb, knock it off with the "trying to make your movie look artsy" with the black and white and the "off centering" of the actors. It doesn't work. It's just ignorant. Also, why after weeks and months of being in the elevator did the actors look cleaner than they did after being stuck for 2 days. You needed to see the progression of Zeb's character going mad.

And lastly there is one major thing I wanted to comment on: I love dry sick humor, (I'm a Family Guy fanatic) but the whole HA HA at the end credits that stated "No animals were harmed except for mice and lobsters" didn't fly with me in the least. Whether this statement was completely a joke or whether it happened to be real was NOT funny. Harming animals is not funny, even if it was intended to be a joke.

Mr. Sycamore (1975)

Thank God, I'm not crazy

[24 January 2008]

This film for the longest time made me think I was loosing my mind. I remember watching it on television long long ago as a little child with my mother. Her and I commented on the film all throughout the length of the movie at how wonderful it was.

Years and years later, I brought it up to her, "Hey mom, remember that movie we watched about the old guy who wanted to become a tree so he planted his feet in the backyard?" She had no freegin clue what I was talking about. I insisted we had seen the movie, and told her I even remember where we were sitting in the living room that night. She was clueless. So for a looong time afterwards I really truly thought I had imagined this story in my mind.

Finally, one day a friend and I were talking movies, and I joked with him about how I had created this weird story in my head about this movie about a guy who wants to be a tree, and all nonchalantly he was like, "Oh yeah, Mr. Sycamore... that was a pretty decent flick." WHHATTT?!! There really IS A MOVIE ABOUT THAT!!! And then I come to find out it was Jason Robarts who actually played the part.

I know, this wasn't even a movie review at all, and I have no idea where to find the movie now to watch it again and give it an honest vote out of 10. So I'll leave my story at that. :)

The Jazz Singer (1980)

I'm in shock

[8/10 · 20 October 2007]

I love Neil Diamond. I had always heard of this film, but never knew what it was about, what type of reviews it got... anything. So I Netflixed it this weekend, and I loved it. There were even times where I got choked up in parts.

So I came on here, saw the negative overall reviews, and was SHOCKED when I learned Neil won the Razzie Award for Worst Actor for this. I thought he did a very fine job. The story unfolded very nicely, the love story was genuine... I would say this film was even better than the "music" genre film Dreamgirls.

Sure it had it's glitches here and there, but for the most part I was very pleased.

1408 (2007)

A mess

[4/10 · 4 October 2007]

The only word that comes to mind to describe this film is a mess.

Generally, I love John Cusack in just about everything he's done... But in my opinion, this was his worst acting job ever... And maybe it wasn't all his fault since the film itself was all over the place. I don't know how close this film followed King's short story, but it's as though the story tellers would have one idea, begin to follow it, then suddenly yell out, "Hey, let's take this story in this strange direction by having John's character waving at himself through the window." Nothing that happened would follow through with itself, if that's the best way to put it, and the film was not scary in the least. The only remotely scary part of the film was Samuel L. Jackson's scene in his office persuading Cusack not to stay in the room.

I was looking forward to a good scare... but alas, this movie failed.

Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

It's impossible to credit Manos as the worst movie ever

[3/10 · 17 May 2007]

And here's why. YES, this movie was horribly acted. YES, the quality, editing, directing, writing, storying line, meaningless subplots were terrible.

But understand. This was a small group of no name people with a cheap camera who took a stab at a film with a very limited budget. If anything, (even though the film sucks) I applaud them.

ON THE OTHER HAND (no pun intended), take a movie like Battlefield Earth. There's others, but this one get's my vote for worst film ever. There's a fine difference between Manos and Battlefield Earth. Think of the concept behind this. FIRST, some nit-wit (we know who) wrote Battlefield Earth. THEN it had to be pitched to an agent. Agents takes the project on, THEN it needed to be pitched to a producer(s), THEN the producer needed to package it with big name actors and take it to the studio. THEN the studio has to green-light the damn thing. Then a bunch of Hollywood idiots invested MILLIONS with the anticipation that the film will be a success. Hal Warren and his little Manos film shouldn't even be ranked in a worst category, simply because it didn't take much of a budget and no one was destroyed (except maybe Warren's ego.) But I do agree, this movie was bad. It reminded me of a bunch of barn animals running around just bumping into each other.