Random_1 Reviews

Clerks II (2006)

genuine and funny...

[21 July 2006]

I was lucky enough to go to an advanced screening of this film, a luxury not often afforded to us normal movie goers, and a luxury not appreciated by a critic that I don't need to name. This movie was filled with laughs, but still managed to tell a truly genuine story. A story about people that get trapped in their dead end jobs, and struggle to find happiness and try to decide what they want in life. Eventually teaching acceptance and promoting individualism rather than trying to live up to some kind of social standard.

I was very impressed with the casting, everyone was great, and it was great to see some familiar faces, Afflec and Lee really left an impression even though they were only present in one scene each. Smith really presents a dramatic tone with his directing, a tone which is rarely set nowadays with most directors trying to match the style of Spielberg, Hitchcock, or (insert successful director here), and leave the movie looking like an impression, Smith isn't afraid to use his own style. Most movies today are very cookie cutter, but this is a refreshing change. What happened to directors just directing, instead of trying to follow a formula to get rich? Smith is a genuine and modest filmmaker, we can only hope that he keeps making movies, and maybe he'll inspire more "Hollywood" directors to stick to good/original material rather than weak big budget movies with all the latest young stars stinking up the screen. Cheers to Kevin Smith, cheers to Clerks II.

9 / 10

See No Evil (2006)

Stick with watching Kane on Raw for free

[19 May 2006]

It was hard to sit through this movie; I'm sure all the other posters will tell you about how awful this movie is, so I'll try to skip past all the awful plot points. In my opinion the biggest mistake in the movie was what they did with Kane. In most movies of this nature, they hide the great big maniac killer only showing his shadows in the beginning to make you wonder, and then at the end you see the killer and you get scared and you start to cry. Well at least that's what usually happens. But of course Kane is supposed to be the big attraction here, so they can't really do that when they have to give him his screen time. I think Kane was shown too much, and the novelty of his character wore off within 10 minutes of watching him. I really thought this movie was gonna be bad, but I won premier passes, and I decided to give it a chance, but I should have stuck with my gut, it was an awful movie. Kane's overexposure was what ruined the film; his screen time took up valuable time for other characters' development. Maybe this could have worked if any of Kane's screen time was valuable to his character in the movie, but it was just a waste of film. Most horror films do very bad with critics, and this movie is horrible even for it's genre, what I've said will be one of the best reviews, I can only imagine what critics are gonna say, but even the critics' dull puns will be better then anything in this movie. Also the twist/surprise if that's what it was intended to be was painfully obvious, and if you didn't have it figured out right away, you wouldn't care anyhow. I don't know why, I must be in a good mood toady, as I gave this movie 1.5 stars out of 5.