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The In-Laws (1979)
How Could Yor Forget "Oops. Pigs"?
This film began the series, continued when Danny DiVito says "Ooops. Cows." The homage of "Oops. Some creature", always makes me laugh. The interjection into a chase scene of two frames of a pig, or a cow or whatever, which began in The "In-Laws", even makes "No Soap. Radio" amusing, but only in relation. Yes, yes, yes, the funnest American film of the last fifty years, bar none. Some are as funny as, but none are funnier. And the Godless creatures who did the re-make should be ashamed for the rest of their lives. After the original nothing else will ever be quite as good. But the remake was just AWFUL! I still pause and re-wind on ""Ooops. Pigs." I would rather have dental work than watch the remake.
K.A.Muston
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Newest Season Very Disappointing
I am most alarmed at the way this new season in playing out. Lorelei looks horrible; she used to just shine and glow with inner warmth and intelligence. Now, Lauren Graham looks as if she's just been roused from sleep and force marched onto the set. And it's not just the look: females do have the right to age and thicken and get wrinkles and look older. It's worse than that: it's as if all the fun has been squeezed out of LG; she just doesn't look like she wants to be there anymore. I know there have been serious producer changes (the creator booked) but the changeover into just another, dull, predictable soap opera has been lightning quick. This was the show that "just said No" to I love you, and forced hugs. (If you will notice, most of the hugs and stuff like that esp. between Rory and her grandparents are nearly always extremely awkward, always funny little squidges and are over like that.) Rory's reaction to her parents marriage was so perplexing I was instantly annoyed: first she's angry, then she's angry because she wasn't invited, then she's happy about the marriage, but angry at... who the heck knows?
GG has lost it's way. They are in big trouble. The reason I know this for a fact is that, in the midst of the opening tease last night, my husband and I talked about running errands today. That never happened in any of the previous seasons. Ever.
Voodoo Moon (2006)
Dreadful movie!!!
I have only seen the first 45 minutes. It's horrid. The acting is stilted. That actor from "Reincarnator" (whatever) is an energy sucker. He huffs and puffs and looks as if he might inflate and explode. That's not acting. That's behaving. Of course he's always been a total ham. CC is herself, sweet, pleasant and Cordelia. The film is shot on what looks like 16 mm school grade stock. The camera work looks like a drunk monkey stole the tripod and ran around with it while the actors just kept speaking. The scene with the priest and the cop is some of the hokiest, idiotically juvenile dialogue and infestation of hideous special effects "artistry" (please: the cop raising up? You could plainly see where the wires were jerking up his pants, and the priest fires two bullets at the guys's chest, and a third squib exploded accidentally!)
CC deserves to have actual roles, not washed out copies of Cordelia Chase.
Strange Invaders (1983)
What a piece of dreck!
Where to begin.... This hideous excuse for a motion picture makes "Plan 9 From Outer Space" look well thought out. The music? It's culled from every single overwrought piece of PD shlock in existence. The focus? Hell, doesn't matter if in one shot there are thirty people standing in the road; the new angle shows a lone Packard with a waitress posing for Argosy Mag shots. Paul Le Mat, Diana Scarwid, Louise Fletcher, Wallace Shawn: fine actors who must have all been starving to death at that point in their lives and the director lured them to sign on with tempting bits of cat food. The production budget must have skyrocketed to well over fifty cents with the addition of The Space Alien Phallic Transportation Machine which, for a time, must have meant that the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile was not available. When Bad Movies Happen to Good Actors