Erica and I wanted a light movie to watch and what could be more light-hearted than Hotel for Dogs. Like Snakes on a Plane, the movie's right there in the title. Completely light-hearted, sweet, and predicable. Thank goodness it doesn't have any deceased parents, families being torn apart, or issues of saving animals from shelters. Aw, crum.
I really can't tell you what people not in our particular circumstances might think about this movie. A cute, dumb movie with dogs? Something like that.
Fuerza Bruta is a crazy dance/music/performance piece. It's an amazing spectacle and Erica and I loved seeing it in New York. The show is coming to Chicago starting May 21 and I heartily recommend seeing it if you have the spare $50.
Setting a mediocre thriller in an exotic location just means you can add implausible environmental complications to your implausible characters.
FuzzyCo grade: C-
Robot shoes say: ran 3.05 mi on 3/14/2010 at 9:43 AM with a pace of 10'06"/mi
I forgot the daylight-savings time chance this morning, so I was still in bed when Shaun buzzed the door to meet me for a run, but other than that a fine run.
Daybreakers starts with an incredible premise—if vampirism starts spreading in a population, before long everyone will be vampires and who will they feed on then? And for kicks, it layers on a noir feel, which is like the bacon of movie motifs—it goes with everything!
And from that great start, the movie manages to squander every good idea and meanders around from pointless action sequence to makes-no-sense confrontations, until the final dramatic but-why-did-he? ending.
FuzzyCo grade: C-
Bottoms Up's claim to fame, if you can call it that, is that its two stars, if you can call them that, are Paris Hilton and Jason Mewes (Jay of Jay & Silent Bob). I had picked up a copy of the movie for $2 at a Big Lots because hey, Paris & Jay! And then someone gave us a copy with a post-it that said, "Not that you asked, but I was uncomfortably surprised w/ how much I liked Paris Hilton's performance in this otherwise crap movie." I don't know who that was, and I almost don't want to know because I don't want to know which of my friends is insane. Otherwise crap? It's entirely crap. This is a terrible, terrible movie. And not even so-bad-or-weird it's good like Plan 9 or The Room or something. Just teeth-gratingly bad. It's boring and offensive and badly acted and makes no sense and poorly edited and just really, really bad.
FuzzyCo grade: F
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The Princess and the Frog
District 9
Moon
Law-Abiding Citizen
The Colour of Magic
Smiley Face
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