I'm amazed to see no comments about Slings and Arrows. It was simply the best thing I've seen on television in the past few years. Every now and then something comes along that changes the way you look at television. Maybe it's The Prisoner, or Twin Peaks. This year for me it was Slings and Arrows. Easily the best thing to come out of Canada since Atom Egoyan and The Kids In The Hall, it's so well written, acted, and edited, that it blows shows like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and Carnivale out of the water. That's asking a lot, considering there are very few well written television shows anymore. It's not just well written, it's hillarious from start to finish. It's great to see Rachel McAdams getting a good role for once as well. Perhaps destined to play the dumb blonde highschool teen, she shines in this role - obviously she's meant for better things. The same could be said about every other member of the cast. This series is simply perfect, from start to finish - dying to see how this gets received abroad or when it'll see a DVD release.
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Happy Birthday to Me
(1981)
Most outlandish movie ending ever!
2 February 2004
I love this movie. I love shlock specifically but this is easily one of my favourites. The movie is awful - painful to watch and typical of the early 80s rush of slasher and horror films that were churned out without thought. What makes this movie so good is how awful it is. The ending is totally over the edge. A bunch of teenagers get killed (typically) and you get to the end to find out who the killer is - BUT WAIT! There's a suprising ending that has you believing the unbelievable! BUT WAIT!! There's another suprising ending that's even weirder and less believable than the previous one! BUT WAIT!!! There's an even wackier ending that makes the other two excuses for killing teenagers even more unbelievable. Seriously, the movie is crap, but the last ten minutes is worth watching just for the sheer shlock joy of it.
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