Gimetzco Reviews

Kickin' It Old Skool (2007)

i really enjoyed this...but then i don't support the academy.

[6/10 · 28 April 2007]

Kickin' It Old Skool...

it's a lot more all-encompasing (80s references) than i expected...and i knew every song in the film...because i'm old.

but it is very much a silly love letter to bad 80s hiphop cinema: Breakin' & Breakin' 2: electric boogaloo, beat street, body rock, krush groove.

the movie is VERY stupid...but so is every one of the aforementioned films that i listed (except maybe BEAT STREET, hokey, but NOT stupid). In it's core the film is "cute" but it's really meant for a specific audience.

my very favorite scene has to do with K.I.T.T. backing up and mumbling "i'm gonna back up and go somewhere else" while Justin and Jenn are on their first date. the joke is in K.I.T.T.'s voice.

the break battles were mostly impressive as well (thanks to Adolfo Quinones aka SHABBADO! aka OZONE!) and this little Canadian b-boy named Jesse Brown aka CASPER...that kid is fresh. can't act, but didn't need to.

it's a crap film, but crap in the best ways...like a bad 80s movie. i love it.

really though.

Scratch & Burn (2002– )

genius

[14 February 2004]

this show is a work of comedic and creative genius.

Mtv is NOTORIOUS for producing short lived works of genius (austin stories, the state, scratch and burn); while leaving terrible shows on schedule (any and all, including the mostly boring punk'd, and the deplorable jackass shows and spins off).

this show is much like the afformentioned show THE STATE, however what makes this show stand apart and is subsequently more creative than the State is that most of their skits are spoken in rhyme...yes, they rap and do so very well, not so much ghetto bling this and that like Snoop dog did in his awful show Doggy Shizzle Televizzle. Rather, SCratch and Burn's skits were more like music videos, and the style of their rap, thematically even, are not too far off from the rap of the late 80s: slick rick, fresh prince, biz markee...and that is a HUGE compliment to this show. it would be a shame if these genius' produced something in the style of 50 cent and his g-unit with their monotonous droning.

i would LOVE to have this show on DVD. but MTV doesn't often believe in it's good shows. M does not stand for Music for MTV, rather it stands for Mediocrity...it's a shame too because SCRATCH and BURN was for a very short time was what kept me watching that channel. and i'm all that matters, right?

Excess Baggage (1997)

Negative reviews are unfounded

[11 October 2001]

Ok, so i can't say that the negative opinions are Bull-Crap seeing as stating a preference can't be bull-crap. However, i think the reasons for these negative remarks are BULL-CRAP.

This film manages to get the viewer to care about the characters even though, in the beginning, we shouldn't. The Girl is incredibly spoiled but is a product of her father's neglect, so she acts out. the thief is a Thief, albeit one with some moral code. These people do wrong things but they eventually GROW, from wrong-doing to redeeming themselves throughout the film. Christopher Walken is great and downplays himself just right, Alicia Silverstone is great as the spoiled girl who learns to care, and Benicio Del Toro is also Great as the thief with a conscience...

don't believe the Nay-sayers...

the film is good. solid. fun.

=g=