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talkjawking100
I'm 21 years old.
I live in Salt Lake City, and attend Community College for a major in Music and minor in English.
I LOVE movies.
I LOVE music.
I LOVE (select) TV shows.
Fanboy-isms (things of which I claim to be a fanboy):
The Beatles, South Park, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, 24, Terry Gilliam, Monty Python, Lost, The Coen Brothers, Radiohead, The Evil Dead films, Talking Heads.
Top 10 Movies:
1. Jaws
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Magnolia
4. Princess Mononoke
5. Brazil
6. Almost Famous
7. No Country for Old Men
8. The Graduate
9. The Evil Dead
10. Chasing Amy
Top 5 Directors:
1. Terry Gilliam
2. Hayao Miyazaki
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Paul Thomas Andersen
5. Christopher Nolan
Top 10 Musical Performers:
1. The The
2. Radiohead
3. Talking Heads/David Byrne
4. The Beatles
5. Pinback
6. The Doors
7. Pink Floyd
8. The Beastie Boys
9. Beck
10. Wilco
Top 10 TV Shows:
1. South Park
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Lost
4. Rescue Me*
5. 24
6. Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined)
7. Angel
8. Dexter*
9. Monty Python's Flying Circus
10. Futurama
*It should be noted these shows I'm not fully caught up on. I'm only past season 3 of Dexter, and just finished season 5 of Rescue Me. I plan on seeing all these shows in their entirety eventually.
Shows I plan on watching:
Six Feet Under
The Wire
Mad Men
Shows I May or May Not Start Watching:
True Blood
The Sopranos
Arrested Development
Breaking Bad
Doctor Who
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Venture Bros
Veronica Mars
Shows I Will Never Watch:
Glee
Grey's Anatomy
CSI, Law & Order, etc.
Any new sitcom or procedural show.
Reality shows
Jersey Shore, The Hills, etc.
The above lists show only a loose idea of what I enjoy. I also enjoy reading, but couldn't put a list together very well. My tastes in general are pretty loose, I seem to only have a vague, yet widespread, collection of enjoyments. I'm more limited to what I don't like than what I do, really.
Reviews
Mononoke-hime (1997)
One of the most beautiful films in cinema that can stick with you for the rest of your life.
For those who have never heard of this, or any of Hayao Miyazaki's works, please do yourself a favor and offer the courtesy of checking out his works.
Forget everything you know about animation, if all you've experienced is the mind-numbing, lowest-common-denominator American money-maker cartoons. If you think all animated films are for kids (Disney films), or for very low-minded adults and teens (Adult Swim cartoons), prepare to be proved wrong. Hayao Miyazaki is a legend in animation that revolutionized the craft in his storytelling and imagery.
Princess Mononoke is a film of a journey, of war and peace, of character perseverance, and of balance. Set in a mythological Japan, it tells the tale of a warrior on a journey to fulfill a destiny of which he doesn't know yet. He has to endure demons, villagers, warriors, and forest spirits, both good and bad. And Ashitaka, the hero, is a peaceful mind unlike any other seen in films. He never waivers between what's good or bad, and only has the intention of peace and prosperity between all living things.
Before you go thinking this is a preachy medieval warfare yada-yada film you've seen a thousand times before, please trust me in that this film still deserves a viewing to even those with no immediate interest.
First, a warning. Ignore everything negative you've heard about this movie. I'm not saying this as a "fanboy" who gets irate when people give negative reviews on stuff I love, but because this film simply deserves a chance. It took me 3 times of seeing this before it overtook me and I fell in love with it.
So what makes this film so amazing, anyway? First of all, the obvious: the writer/director and animator: Hayao Miyazaki. Known for revolutionizing the animation world with his non-conventional children's films (Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away), this is his most mature film, and I don't just mean in terms of content. Yes, this film is PG- 13, violent, and probably not meant for the younger kids, but it's beside the point. The story is dark and deeply personal. Miyazaki had stated that after all his more family-friendly films were out, this was the film he felt "he just had to make". And there is an air of deep seriousness that comes with this film that's hard to miss.
Please remember this, most of all: Miyazaki's films ARE NOT ANIME. Let me repeat: MIYAZAKI DOES NOT MAKE ANIME FILMS. The number one prejudice people will have going into his works will be their view on the strange, typical "Anime" world and their views on it. I am NOT an Anime fan, I'm generally neutral towards it. A few shows are entertaining, and one or two films, but I would never consider myself a fan. Miyazaki is completely different in style, animation, texture and story. The one thing that angers more than anything are the people who bash this film because they don't like Anime. I beg of everyone who hasn't seen this film to take that into consideration.
Miyazaki's paints a world like no one has ever seen, and always beautiful and fascinating. But what really brings his films to life is the music. Half of what makes his films so beautiful is the score of Joe Hisaishi, perhaps the most gifted musician in movies of all time. His music is intriguing, mysterious and impossible to look past. With films like this, I get to thinking his music was made for Miyazaki, and Miyazaki's films were made for Hisaishi. They balance each other perfectly and work marvelously.
Now, many people may not think much of this film the first time they see it, and I was no exception. I was a huge Miyazaki fan already when I saw it for the first time, and I was expecting to love this the same. But the first time I saw it, my feelings were neutral. So a few months went by, and I decided to give this another try. The same thing. It didn't strike me. So another few months go by, and another whim comes over me to give it one last shot. And it finally worked. I was swept away in the story for the first time, and it overtook me.
So if you see the film once and are not immediately in love with it, you may just need to try it again in due time. But please, don't think that I'm trying to make you feel that something's wrong with you if you don't like it. I know some people just won't like it, and some people even strongly dislike it. This review is my opinion and love of the film, and I'm just trying to do my part to help other people have their lives enriched like mine has been.
All in all, Princess Mononoke is one of the most amazing films ever made. Easily, it's probably the most well-made animated film, but the animation world aside, this film conquers a HIGH percentage of all films and sets a mark on all cinema. The sad thing is it will most likely be ignored because, A, it's Japanese, B, it's highly unknown, and C, it's marked as "Anime" and will probably never go past that categorization.
But at least take some of these many dragged on comments I have made into consideration if you haven't seen it. Most of you may be let down by it after reading how much I have praised it, but if there's at least a few who are affected by it as I have been, than I will live that much more in content. May Miyazaki's legacy live on through the rest of time.
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Deep Blue Sea goes right up with the Jaws films well, the later ones, anyway.
With a plot that is similar, boarding on rip-off, to The Poseidon Adventure, mixed with the typecast characters and CGI that would make the original Nintendo NES designers proud of themselves, you get what is certainly a popcorn film with that makings of a to-be famous B-movie.
The film begins, like any good horror film, on a group of partying soon-to-be teenage victims on a boat, drinking and making out. The second you see them, the second the audience can't wait for them to be brutally ripped apart. And sure enough, after a couple of creepy underwater P.O.V. shots, and a "did you hear something?" from one of the teens, the menacing sharks rip apart the boat. But as soon as they're about to be viciously eaten, a tough Willis-like scientist hero saves them by mere inches by capturing the sharks.
Meanwhile, back in the city, a scientist who we learn is the head honcho of the sea labs working on the creatures, has to explain herself to the leaders of the company why her test shark got out of the facility. Apparently, the test sharks are being genetically enhanced to create an antidote to Alzheimer's disease (yeah, I don't get it, either).
Back at her sea lab, where she brings along another expert from the company, we learn about the lab, which is conveniently located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and meet the Thomas Jane character from earlier who has the tough emotionless I-don't-answer-to-no-one attitude. Eventually, while extracting brain tissue from a shark later in the film, an accident occurs with one of the scientists and that, mixed along with a devastating rain storm and vicious creatures, sets the lab into a state of complete wreckage, and the characters have to fight their way to the surface.
First of all, if the film was trying to be subliminal about it's being inspired by Jaws, it didn't do a good job. One of the sharks is wrangled into the lab with, being conventionally pointed out by a character, a license plate stuck in its mouth. When they pull it out, it is not only a license plate, but the exact same one pulled out of the stomach of a tiger shark in Jaws. Oooh
subtle! Not only that, but every shark that is killed in the film is done as an homage to the first three Jaws films, which I won't spoil for the sake of the people who haven't seen the films.
While campy to the rim and packed full of clichés and tackiness, it seems to have a soft sense of knowing it. In other words, it knows it isn't going to be an amazing film, and merely for temporary entertainment. It doesn't, however, stop it from taking itself way more seriously than it needs to be.
Across the Universe (2007)
While the film can certainly drive my car, the writing and characters don't seem to have that same driving quality.
The critics across the nation, as indecisive and inagreeable as they are, seem to have come to the conclusion that it's a visual fest with a story and music that fall in different categories. I certainly can agree with that categorization, because all three of the film's elements are vastly different to each other, and the film had quite a task to blend them together into what it is: a hippie-revolution era Beatles music musical with acid-trip visuals.
The film opens on Jude, an Irish dock worker in his 20s, singing "Babe" to the camera. If that doesn't establish what you're getting into, nothing else will. We see his departure into America and meeting anti-war activists Max and his sister Lucy, whom Jude falls in love with.
While the film's theme is all about the '60s anti-war movement and the idea of revolution in the modern age for years to come afterward, the film has a hard time getting a grip on this smart idea. The most obvious thing to talk about is the choice of music. In case you weren't informed (by the film's marketing or title), all the song and musical numbers are cinematic re-workings of The Beatles. This has caused the biggest line-separation of the film's viewers. With the die-hard fans of the band, half say the re-workings are bastardizations of the original work, while other fans feel they were made with great respect to the original work. Another population of the critics say The Beatles' should not have had any part in the music of the film and original music would have suited it better. As for me? My only complaint is that, while the Beatles were indeed an important and influential band of the era and suit it well, they were not the only band that did so. What if the film had musical numbers by the works of the Rolling Stones? The Doors? Bob Dylan? Different musical influences would have most likely added diversity to the music.
But that isn't to say the numbers are boring or dull at all! The music is well orchestrated and suits what happens on screen perfectly. Which brings me to the next element of Across the Universe: the visuals. To call the visual effects "eye candy" is an insult. An "eye feast" would be a little more appropriate. Your eyes never want to wander away from the screen in some truly amazing scenes. Even the dark scenes are bright and joyous, and don't even get me started on the hippie trip-out scenes. So if you're one of the many who don't want to hear The Beatles "bastardized", you can take your iPod to the film and enjoy the insane effects and beautiful visuals.
And, like any musical, the visuals and songs are selected to fit in with the plot and story, which brings us to the final element of the film: the story. This is, without a doubt, the film's true "flaw". While it has a great spark, focusing on revolution in the '60s in the anti-war movement, it has no real drive to bring the characters into the movement itself. Jude merely seems like a follower of the movement simply to stay with Lucy, the girl he loves. He never seems to feel the revolution and movement into his own life, sticking with the "misunderstood artist" attitude throughout. Lucy stubbornly sticks to the group of anti-war activists for no real reason except that she lost a family member from the war some month's prior. While the reason is strong, it doesn't seem to inflict onto what she's doing and why she's doing it. All in all, the characters follow through the personality stronghold, but are beautifully portrayed nonetheless.
But if for nothing else, the film must be seen for it's marvelous diversity from everything else that's come out lately. Though far from original (you can't really call a musical that uses songs from another band 'original') it sticks out more than even musicals like Chicago and Rent by a milestone.
Full Metal Panic! (2002)
The Anime for people who don't like Anime.
First off, I haven't written many reviews on IMDb this way, so if I do, that means the piece I'm writing on is really impactive. Full Metal Panic is to me, more or less, amazing.
The show is a perfect blend of high school romance, slapstick comedy, hard-pressed drama and balls-out action. It follows 17-year-old military sergeant Souske Sagara (pronounced "soh-skey") as he is assigned to protect 17-year-old Japanese high school student/orphan with the body of a goddess, Kaname Chidori (pronounced "kuh-nah-may") from unknown dangers. The dangers become apparent throughout the series as a bad guy with a scar on the side of his face, Guaron (pronounced "Gar-on") hijacks a field trip plane their class is on to kidnap Kaname and use her for mysterious reasons. You soon find out Kaname is part of a secret and extremely rare breed of people known as "The Whispered". Exactly what The Whispered are or who, we find very little out throughout the series. But it leads to some extraordinary events in the show's 24-episode run.
It's almost impossible to compress the series' events in a single review, so I'll just stop right there and let the viewer learn for his or herself. But know that if sounds like a typical weird explosion/sex Anime, you're pretty wrong. Yes, there does seem to be a focus on the guy genre (lots of robot action and hot half-naked babes, etc) but I know plenty of women who enjoy the show as well. And, it's not a "cutesy" Anime that the other half of the population seems to generalize it as. It has plenty of warm-and-fuzzy moments, but it's not what the show is based on.
The show is such a wide mix of emotions, I don't know how it could be done. And all in all, the show hooks any viewer into wanting to know more. The story arcs are excellently put out, the character work, though a little scrappy, is raw and enjoyable, and the dialogue (both original Japanese and the English dub) are very well-written.
I wasn't too big of an Anime person before I started watching this show. Before it I LOVED Miyazaki films (still do) and I thought Ghost in the Shell was a good movie. I caught a few episodes of this show's spin off series, "Full Metal Panic? fumoffu" (which is more romance and comedy, and almost completely different from this series) and thought it was enjoyable. When I bought this series on a whim, I was blown away.
And you will too! Just make sure you watch them from the beginning. You don't want to miss an episode of this legendary Anime series.
Brazil (1985)
A combination of The Never-Ending Story and an episode of "The Office", but swirled and composited together in such a magnificent way, it would make Kubrick blush.
Have you ever felt a gaping hole in your life? A hole in the shape of a desire to see a really good fantasy film that parades on an industrialized world with elemental characters that work with that plot in ways that send shivers down your spine? Well, this film will fill such a hole.
In a world full of remakes, sequels, book adaptations, and formulated/reformulated dry plots, seeing a film that breaks so many boundaries is almost an unbelieving experience. I almost felt the desire to pinch myself while viewing this film to see if it was real. It's a story with a fun-o-meter that goes beyond the breaking point well after the first hour. However, it has a peculiar way of going around it. I felt confused for the first half-hour as to why so many film-goers loved it, because as far as I could tell, it was another crazy Gilliam cartoon with an established script and a wide-angle lens to match.
Slowly, we go into the psyche of the plot and characters, and a glowing admiration grows in the mind, which grows on the verge of exploding on the film's final frames (assuming you're watching the director's edition of the film).
In England, sometime in the future, Sam Lowry works in a hustle and bustle office and is constantly visited by strange fairy-tale dreams involving an angelic woman whom he doesn't know. When he finally sees the woman in real life he does all he can within the power of his work position to meet her and fall in love with each other. With side performances including Robert DeNiro as the wacky superhero-esquire illegal heat technician, and ex-Monty Python member Michael Palin as Lowry's strange family-man boss whose job description seems to include secretly creating mass genocide, you may think the cast alone is a worthwhile reason to see this movie. But there is more.
Former Monty Python animator, the film's writer/director Terry Gilliam proves his true passion and talent are well outside images of clip-outs bouncing up and down in stop-motion fashion. Besides having defining characteristics of quirky characters, subliminally bizarre set designs, and constant use of wide-angle lenses (particularly on close-ups or in dream sequences), he sets a new characteristic with Brazil that many directors attempt to live up to: being all-out fantastic. With his ability to capture imaginations as well as attention, it's hard to deny that ideology.
If you seem unconvinced of Gilliam's talent, watch any film of his with DVD commentary. He points out for the audience almost every detail that no average filmmaker would ever notice after a hundred viewings. In 12 Monkeys, a time-travel sci-fi starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, Gilliam's avid attention-to-detail obsession is named "The Hamster Factor." In one scene of this particular film, there is a quick shot of Willis sitting in a chair, applying a shot to his arm. The shot was meant to be done in a quick take and be finished with. However, there is a hamster cage somewhere in the background, and Gilliam insisted the hamster had to spinning in his wheel during the take. The shot took 12 hours to complete. How this inept detail makes it masterwork, it's really hard to say.
The Hamster Factor has its roots in, you guessed it, Brazil. There are tiny details that are spectacularly sparkled into the film's many layers, which can easily go unnoticed, but when noticed, only add to the greatness of it all. In one scene, in which Lowry approaches a mourning widow gazing wide-eyed out a window, a vivid reviewing of the scene shows that during the entire three-minute take while Lowry gives a speech to the woman, you notice the woman does not blink during the entire segment. How anyone is supposed to pick up on it without being pointed out, you tell me.
If asked, in simple terms, what this film did for me, I would say that it simply proved to me Gilliam is an extraordinary filmmaker, no more, no less.
Jaws (1975)
One of the Greatest Films of Our TIme
Most people today do not see the genius of this movie and it saddens me. Now saying that, you may think that I am a middle-aged man who saw this film when it came out in theaters and remembers the hype of the day. I'm not. I'm 17, was born in '89, and saw this film six years ago, and loved it ever since.
Being 11 when I first saw this film, I only liked the gore and cool shark scenes. Being older and a bigger appreciator of cinema, I understand the amazingness and complexity that goes into this movie. If you are anything more than the average movie-goer, you know this movie is more than a "Dun-dun-duh! Shark is killing everyone! Dun-dun-duh!" The movie is about the responsibilities of the town's police chief and a marine biologist. Or, more simply, it's about characters. Without the amazingly written characters, this film would probably be nothing.
The characters are what drive the plot of the movie. The characters are so amazingly written that some of the most memorable scenes in the film don't involve the shark at all. The boat night scene is one of my all-time favorite scenes in movie history. In case you can't remember, it's the scene in which Hooper and Quint share the scars they've received in shark hunting, then Quint tells his story of being on the USS Indianapolis, and the men sing "Show me the way to go home." The scene provides laughs, chills, and tears. Laughs at the cracks the men make while showing scars, chills when you hear Quint's terrifying story on the sinking boat, and tears when you feel the men's desolation on the boat as they sing. And you thought this was a shark movie.
But I don't say that in mockery of the movie's shark scenes. The shark is what drives the movie and it provides some of the greatest horror moments in cinematic history. The shark, nicknamed Bruce, is one of my all-time favorite horror icons. But although this movie is driven by and focused on a shark, I do not think it's right to consider this a shark movie. Again, it's about characters reacting to the shark, and how they try to live their lives with this fear of the unknown in the water. Creating a story in that context, creating a movie not about the creature, but the FEAR and the COPING of the creature...that is a challenge. Steven Spielberg, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Benchley...all the writers participated, they delivered that concept in the perfect way ever done. This movie is a triumph that will always stand the test of time.
10/10. My absolute favorite horror movie.
P.S. Don't see the sequels. Or just don't expect a millionth of the same brilliance.
SLC Punk! (1998)
A Movie to Be Loved Forever
An unwise person will say this movie is just a stupid teen party movie. WRONG! This movie is all about maturing, changing, and growing up. It tells us the hard fact of life that we can't all stay young, living in the ideologies of our teen lives.
This movie has made me think more than almost any movie I've ever seen. It makes me think about where I'm going with my life, about love, political standpoints, friends, drugs, governments, and my future. All this is summarized in the life of the main character, Stevo. He is an college-graduated anarchist, confused as to where his life is going in the direction of constant parties and chaos.
Besides being a movie that makes me think about everything the character goes through, and applying it to my life, it is a cinematic standpoint. It is filmed excellently, considering it was done by an unpopular independent filmmaker, with excellent camera work and amusing storytelling. The narration is excellent, both mind-provoking and fun.
The acting is flawless. Believe it or not, before Matthew Lillard became Shaggy, he gave absolutely breath-taking performances on this film. His scene at the end brings tears to my eyes. And the other actors participate marvelously.
All in all, a movie to be loved forever. 10/10.
Secret Window (2004)
I may be the only person who loves the hell out of this movie.
Alright, I know most people may say it was okay or sucked. Most people agree that it was a ripoff of Fight Club, but the story was written in 89, some years WAY before Fight Club, so the plot twist was very original at the time.
This movie makes me really appreciate Johnny Depp. It shows he doesn't have to go "all out" to make a good performance. He plays just a boring, slow, tired man almost the whole movie, and still you can't keep your eyes off him. Not just him, though. All the actors are great and the story is an excellent edition of the Stephen King novella.
Although some of the points they left out of the novella hurt the movie somewhat, and the movie also changes the twist and completely turns around the ending, all for cinematic viewing purposes. As a Stephen King fan, this does suck, but as a movie lover, it freaking rocks! The movie is great, bottom line. Don't miss, and if you don't like it, try to see the movie from a different angle...and you might just love it as much as I do.
Red vs. Blue (2003)
Great! These writers are talented!
I just got Season One today on DVD, not knowing or having ever watched episodes before, and mostly just going off what my friends have told me, and wow! What a surprise to behold! I was laughing out loud a LOT! The first bit in the whole first 19 episodes just hooks you in and keeps the laughs coming.
When I first heard of it, I didn't think it would be that great of an idea, because of the whole idea. Characters recorded from a video game and dialogue looped over to make them look like they're talking? Sounds kinda dumb.
Not so! If you have doubts, ignore them! Buy season one, and you will enjoy it the whole way through! 9/10!
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
It was once okay, but now it has slumped down to complete idiocy.
Let me start like this: If I see one more VOTE FOR PEDRO or I LIKE TATER TOTS shirt, I'm gonna snap. I'll literally kill whoever I see wearing that shirt.
Why is it that an average, half-okay half-mediocre comedy, gets turned into the most over-hyped over-used indie CRAP on this world? Now I have a hard time admitting this, but I didn't mind it the first time I saw it. I thought "The worst day of my life, what do you think?" was one of the most clever lines in showbiz history. There were a few others like that, but overall it was really overrated, I thought.
I thought the movie would lose popularity very quickly, like a lot of movies that come out nowadays and are way over-hyped. But no. Oh no no no. I was sadly mistaken. This movie only got more popular. Especially here in Utah, where Mormons finally found a movie that was over-hyped that they could watch (since it's PG-rated), and the popularity still isn't dead. I say something to someone that a normal person would respond "cool" to, they do that stupid-ass "Yessssss". And that was just yesterday.
And the worst of all: a church held a youth dance a few months ago. Now, when I say 'dance', you think of teens dressing up and picking up girls to go and dance to soft love songs and hip pop songs and drive home afterward, right? Yeah, that's what dance it was.......except it was a NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE THEME DANCE. That's right. Everyone was to dress up as their favorite NP character and go to the dance.
Yeah. Believe it.
So, I say to every fan........STOP PRAISING THIS MOVIE LIKE IT WAS THE MESSIAH OF COMEDY. It was only okay, and now it is a major ball-sucker. I give it 2 out of ten, just for the small things that still manage to make me chuckle, but that's it. That's very kind of me, considering the annoyance I get from the die-hard fans makes me wanna give this a negative ten.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
The Number One Comedy EVER!!!
Who cares it's violent? Who cares it's offensive? Who cares every other word is the 'f' word or the 's' word? This movie is about three things: 1, to stand up for censorship and the fact that we shouldn't take so seriously. 2, to show parents that they need to worry more about what their kids know and learn rather then worry about what they're watching. And, 3, to LAUGH and HAVE A GOOD TIME!
1: Censorship has it's ups and it's downs. It's ups are that people are comfortable with watching censored shows so they won't get offended. It's downs are when it is taken to far and people go too far with it trying to blame everybody and everything...everyone except themselves. That is what is shown that is wrong with our country. We see something as insignificant as this, and if given the chance, we would seriously start a war rather than take the blame. We've gone into a world where America is never wrong, when in fact, it has about a million more things wrong with it than it does right. Also, this movie deals with censorship in language more than anything else (that's why it swears so much, so people can realize that 'hey, these are just WORDS. Words don't hurt!') Because that's exactly it. Words don't hurt. But violence and some graphic sensuality is seen on TV all the time. Recently, I saw a movie on TV that was edited down, so we didn't hear the 'f' or 's' word, but we still saw a guy's head being cut off. That's right, a guy's HEAD being CUT OFF. Uncensored. But thank God our kids didn't hear the bad words. What's good about this movie is that the parents realized that the deaths and violence in the war they caused was way worse than their kids hearing some naughty words and profanity/vulgarity. Unfortunately, in today's world, parents will never learn.
2: Parents need to worry about being parents. Not fighters. That is what Kyle is talking about in the end. What he says isn't just about him and his mom, it's about every kid in the world and every mom in the world. Particularly in America. If kids are watching bad shows or R-rated movies, than it's up to parents to tell them what's right or wrong and decide if the kids should watch these things. Not go so far as to suing or fighting the creators of the bad shows. You can't just shield all bad programs from kids and expect them to all understand it when they're 18. Basically, you need to start small and end big. Show them G-rated programs and Nick Jr. cartoons until about 6 or 7. Then start with PG movies. These movies have very little offensive material, and it starts small so it can build up to PG-13. Kids will ask "what does 'damn' mean" or "why did they hit each other" and you, as parents, explain. Then they understand what they mean and whether they are good or bad. Then, around 10 or 11 you can start with PG-13, with a lot more subjectional material. Slowly, they begin to build with what they feel is right or wrong and understanding it all. And then when they can start watching R-rated movies, they are all different, so pick certain ones and build from there (however, the South Park movie, Team America, and similar movies can wait till the end). Then, when they are 18, they will know what their parents consider wrong and right and can build their own opinions on wrong and right and decide how they want it to be in their own adult lives.
Whew. Now...
3: Humor. This movie is a comedy. If you can't laugh at it, then you have a very low sense of humor. But you are entitled to your opinion. But leave us fans alone. I've heard the complainers say they don't like it because of the excessive language. That is the whole point of the movie, der! To prove that language doesn't hurt us, they are just words. And if it's because it's annoying, then just ignore it. I personally didn't find the excessive language annoying, and I don't know why it can be annoying when it's used in perfect situations in this movie! Anyway, if you don't like this movie, stop wasting your time bitching about it.
So, in conclusion, this is just a movie. Don't take it seriously, and just treat it like it is. It's meant for you to have a fun time, and if you didn't then that's too bad. If you did, then that's what the creators wanted. I give this movie a 10/10. In a weird way, the most profanic cartoon in the world has taught me a lot. South Park can do that to you :).
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Not the worst of the JAWS movies
CONTAINS SPOILERS
Almost everyone on this board will tell you the worst shark movie is JAWS THE REVENGE. But, believe it or not, it is not. There is a worst JAWS movie, and it is called JAWS 3-D. It is the worst for multiple reasons: 1, a 10-foot in appearance shark is claimed to be 35 feet in length. 2, way too much blood, gore and sickness. 3, crappy 3-d effects. 4, no original cast from 1 or 2. 5, hiring a PRODUCTION DESIGNER to be a director (Joe Alves, production designer of Jaws 1 and 2 is director). 6, taking place in sea world, Florida, about 9 states away from Amity. 7, a dolphin being taken into the shark's mouth and the scene fading with the dolphin squeaking painfully, later to see that same dolphin swimming happily and unharmed. 8, multiple more incidents of continuity. 9, more and more.
But enough about JAWS 3. I am here for JAWS THE REVENGE. And I am here to say it is better than the third. I can hardly believe it was nominated for "worst visual effects". Did anybody see the effects in JAWS 3? It's like the designer was on his first day of using a computer and they told him to do the effects for JAWS 3. There are almost NO continuity effects in JAWS 4. And another thing, this movie had a believable plot line. Also, an original cast member, Lorraine Gary, returned and did a fairly good job. There is a huge list of things that made this film better than the third, and I don't have time to name it. I know there are some obvious dumb-dumbs in the movie (shark gets to Bahamas at plane speed, shark roaring, etc) but it was overall much more believable and fun than the embarrassment of 3. I would almost say this is better than JAWS 2, if it hadn't been for one factor: the ending. How the hell does a man get in a sharks mouth, taken down into sea by it, than live with a only a ripped shirt and a some blood on him? Maybe it was some kind of joke, like how he said earlier about the shark "only liking white meat" or something. And, another factor that hurt the ending: the shark exploding. What the HELL?!!! It isn't possible. But I realized after research that it was Universal's insistence or something and they gave them a small budget to create the explosion. However, I later discovered, while watching the movie on AMC, that the movie had an alternate ending. If they had kept this ending and released on the DVD, I would vote this movie better than 2. In this ending, Jake does not survive (sad but logical) and the shark is speared on the boat, not exploded. When I saw the ending on this channel I flipped out in excitement, then anger. WHY DIDN'T THIS ENDING STAY?!!! WHY?? It made more sense!!
Well, you can't always get what you want. In conclusion: JAWS 4: Had it's mistakes but it wasn't like JAWS 3, which was just one big mistake. For the record, here's how I rank the JAWS quadrilogy:
(Out of ten stars) JAWS: 10. JAWS 2: 8. JAWS 3: 2. JAWS THE REVENGE: 6.
Also: I would like to point out that the creators of JAWS 4 made a good move at ignoring all the events that happened in JAWS 3 and following right from JAWS 2. Way to go!