CC: Indiana Jones

Concession Confession: The Inside Scoop on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Could this movie have a longer title? Yeesh. Anyway...

Good and Plenty:
--I was worried that Harrison Ford would be old and not remotely Indiana Jones-like, yet somehow he was. Yay!
--I have a strange crush on Shia Labeof. So sue me.
--Good humor, good action.

Sour Patch Kids:
--I agree with Lady Blogpants, the monkeys were dumb.
--Indiana Jones now propagates another archaeological stereotype: the aliens did it! (I realize this is actually a real theory, but yeesh).
--There wasn't as much "mystery solving" as in previous movies, which I kinda missed.

Don't let me fool you---I liked the damn movie. George Lucas is still an ass, though.

Ironman? YES PLEASE.

I really really liked Ironman. I like-liked it. I want to make out with this movie and then buy it a turkey dinner at the Tallyrand.

Indiana Jones and the Superfluous CGI Creatures of Doom

Dear George Lucas,

Fuck you and your incessant fucking need to cram your films with stupid little "cute" CGI creatures making stupid little "cute" noises. Fuck. You. What do CGI gophers and monkeys have to do with the storyline of the new Indiana Jones movie? The answer is nothing. NOTHING. NOT A THING. They serve no purpose but making me angry. I hate you, George Lucas.

As for the rest of the movie? Honestly, as long as the Indiana Jones music is playing, you could show me 2 hours of Indy having a tea party with his stuffed animals and I'd walk away more happy than not.

Of course, Lucas would probably insist that the stuffed animals be CGI and make cute little noises the whole time.

I hate you, George Lucas.

Sincerely,
Lady Blogpants of Renotowne
(a certified movie reviewer)

P.S. Aliens? Are you fucking kidding me? You had 19 years to come up with a plotline and all you could do was dust off Close Encounters and add a heavy dose of the Endor scenes from Return of the Jedi? Booooooo! Go back to Modesto!

Concession Confession: The Inside Scoop on PRINCE CASPIAN

Good and Plenty:
--The scene where they sneak into the castle is awesome: good special effects, nice mixture of humor (at the beginning anyway) and action. The end of this sequence would have made me cry if I hadn’t been with people I didn’t know very well.
--Sergio Castellitto, the actor who played Miraz (the villain), was awesome.
--I heart both Tilda Swinton and Liam Niesson, so this movie gets extra points simply for having both of them in it. Again.
--Peter Dinklage, who played the dwarf Trumpkin, was also awesome. Excellent casting there ;)
--Prince Caspian was hot (even though I hated his hair…see below).

Sour Patch Kids:
--Moody!Peter. Ugh.
--Susan annoyed me for some reason. Possibly because she too was moody. Did everyone besides Edmund and Lucy have PMS in this movie, or what?
--Prince Caspian’s hair. Apparently he had extensions, but it looks like a really bad wig to me. Just saying.
--Peter’s grunting during the fight scenes. He made the same noise everytime…did they not get enough recorded and have to loop it or something? Yeesh.

Concession Confession: The Inside Scoop on IRONMAN

Good and Plenty:
--Excellent special effects.
--The plot wasn’t horribly weak, as it can sometimes be in this kind of movie. Which doesn’t make me love them any less, by the way.
--Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t have a fake English accent (I actually secretly love Gwen, don’t let me fool you).
--Awesome opening bit.
--I sort of love Robert Downey Jr., possibly because when I was a wee lass I loved that stupid movie with him and Melissa Tomei (Only You).
--The robots weren’t stupid like they are in Star Wars (I’m still bitter, George Lucas, still bitter).

Sour Patch Kids:
--The hero, Tony Stark, is pretty much a douche-bag the entire film (I’m sort of torn over whether or not I think this was actually a bad thing.)
--My dad told me to wait for the thing after the credits, and I did, and had no idea what was going on. So if you’re not into comic books, or don’t know anything about Ironman (like moi), don’t bother.

Concession Confession: The Inside Scoop on BABY MAMA

Good and Plenty:
--I love both Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. And together they are awesome!
--I have some sort of strange crush on Greg Kinnear that I cannot explain.
--Steve Martin.

Sour Patch Kids:
--There were several moments when I found myself thinking, “They could have cut that out and made this movie a million times shorter.”
--To quote Lady Blogpants, “Parts of it were formulaic.”
--The ending is totally obvious.

Am I doing this right?

Can I just start writing movie reviews? I saw some movies!

Let's see. I really liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Maybe it's just because I'm a sucker for anyone in any way associated with "Undeclared" ("Undeclared"? More like "Underrated"! Hooo! You with me? Because it was a good show that didn't get the recognition it deserved? Yes! Bap!). But actually I think the movie was funny, and not in a trying-too-hard Superbad kind of way. Seth Rogen, you are no Jason Segel. Writing-wise. Otherwise I bet you're pretty much the same guy.

And today I saw Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, which caused me to escape to slumberland.

Credit post!

Before we begin with the actual movie reviews, I want to just give a quick shout out to the following sites, where I found pictures of movie reels that I used in our header graphic. Maybe one day we'll be awesome enough to have someone fancy make us one. But for now this is what we have. DEAL.

http://www.blueskyvideoproductions.com
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http://www.foundationnews.org/files/1film_200503.jpg
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/subjectindex/film.jpg
http://www.ilovemovies.us/images/FilmReel.jpg
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http://www.grossmont.edu/history/images/film_reel2.jpg
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