2009 Film Diary - Non 2009 Releases

Fascinating subject matter and an amazing performance from Frank Langella. If anything this film created sympathey for Nixon, which I appreciated. Something felt awkward and I hated Sam Rockwell's character. Michael Sheen, in my opinion, always looked like a deer caught in the headlights, which felt strange. I think this is a great film for history, but it has an obvious liberal bias. If anything the film made me want to investigate the actual interviews and see the real Nixon and how he handled the same event. I mean WHY watch this film as opposed to watching the actual interview? That is an interesting topic for thought.

This movie is soooooo ridiculous. I cant even count all the ways. This is the retarded step cousin to LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD except with worse actors and things that are even more over the top, unbelivable and just plan moronic. I swear I cracked up almost every second that Rosario Dawson was on screen as a what... Air Force Investagator? One of her worst roles ever. Billy Bob should be embarrassed of his role.. I hope he made some cash becasue he also was laughable in his cliche grizzeled Cop role. SOME DUMB, SO BAD, DIE HOLLYWOOD DIE.

Definately enjoyed this film. Its a cultural journey through india, the likes of which most Stateside folk have never seen or can hardly even imagine. Sure, its a bit of a fairytale, but that makes you leave with a big fat grin on your face. Enjoyed the score/music as well. I don't know that Id call it a masterpiece, but it was charming, heartfelt and moving. It only lacked REGIS !!

Forgettable but still fun flick about a drummer who doesnt want to grow up. Rainn Wilson is a lot of fun here. Very different from Dwight Shrute. I also enjoyed Emma Stone (who was great in THE HOUSE BUNNY) and Jason Sudeikis (SNL). The way the music biz is represted is totally ridiculous and unbelievable, but in this flick it really doesnt matter much. Get a few giggles and then forget about it.

Fantastic performances from Jodie and Terrance Howard here. Very emotinal and gripping. The growing relationship between Foster and Howard is the true highlight of the film. As I watching the film (caught it on cable) I didnt know who directed, but made total sense when I saw Neil Jordan's name attached. Amazing job from him as well. My major flaw with the film is the number of times the main character happens to accidentally walk in to crimes as they are occuring. On 3 or 4 occassions she happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. The crime rate in New York would have to be at ESCAPE FROM NY levels for that to occur. It hurts this otherwise really fantastic film.

What if Stanley Kubrick had made a Vampire Film? It might have possibly looked something like this. It definately had echos (at least stylistically) of THE SHINNING. Not to take anything away from Tomas Alfredson though, who here creates one of the most simple yet deep and rich "Horror" films ever made. Astonishing is about the only word I can use to describe this near masterpiece. This film is all about enviroment. You can almost feel the cold and snowy setting of this Swedish City pour through the screen. Sound is a MAJOR element to this film as we seem to hear every little breath from the characters. Theres is SOOO Much to discuss in this. Simple fantastic with and ending that will BLOW YOUR FREAKING MIND. Brilliant and haunting work.

OK.. I admit it.. The poster / DVD cover for this was the lone thing that pulled me in. Color me a Dude. BUT suprisingly, some of this flick is very fun in a very OVER THE TOP kind of way. Yes, its pretty awful, but its nutty style (very anime but with REAL PEOPLE) is very fun. Its like a jacked up episode of POWER RANGERS but not so dumb... but still kinda dumb. I wish they had kept the pace up that they had at the beginning and made this just a 90 minute battle, but sadly it gets bogged down in all this mundane talky relationship waste. WHY? This thing had all the ingredients to be a great ride, but instead becomes a chore to get through. I'll throw it on the GUILTY PLEASURES heap and visit it when I need some hot, cutest anime chick hoping around and slaying people in bad costumes.

This is a fascinating tale on a dumb stunt. Sure its an amazing feat of daring and courage, but really... is it something worth possibly losing your life over? I doubt this film would have been made and Phillippe Petit would have ever been heralded had he fallen to his death. The film itself is a great re-counting of the trials that it took to pull this feat off with lots of photos and film footage. Sadly, Petit himself comes off as an impassioned "artist" who has a great dream... but also very selfish, egotistical and reckless.

This film is all about Mickey Rourke's performance, although it is quite "Rocky Balboa". Nice work all around in a very heartfelt performance. I also loved Marisa Tomei's character who, as an older stripper working to survive is the perfect compliment character to Rourke's has-been Wrestler, Randy. She, pretty damn bravely, performs as an honest, true to God stripper, titties open for all to see. In the end the message here is to be true to who you are, and sometimes mere survival isn't worth it. Its a very romantic ideology that looks great on film, but may not be so appealing in real life.

Leo and Kate give great performances here, but the film itself is no joy filled picnic. If you love watching 2 people fight for 2 hours then this is your movie. It also does nothing for the traditional family. So while I respect the performances I can say that I didn't have a great time suffering along with these characters and their miserable lives. Put it in that cetegory of "well made film" but NEVER want to see it again.

OUSTANDING!!! Absolutely Hillarious. Danny McBride is a raging bad-ass. His Fred Simmons Tae-Kwon-Do Master is King of the Losers but he has the heart to battle against his failing life. Betrayed by his Wife and the "Hero of his Life", in the end he proves he is the Champion that he always reminds you that he is. LOVED IT !!

Dug it !! Bad-Ass soundtrack. Great action pieces (stylistically done, of course) and a great story. Mark Strong takes over the "Turkish" - Jason Statham role here, but is still great in the part. Guy Ritchie is a bad-ass... from time to time. :-)

Earth Shattering performance from Streep, simply amazing. The film itself is heartbreaking when you see how people react to the situation. Its all so very uncomfortable, as it should be.

This has got to be the worst year for MARK WAHLBERG ever. He can only play himself and thats mostly just deadpan. Sadly the idea behind this film could have made for an interesting flick but it feels rushed and completely mis-cast. Its sad to see Chris O'Donnell demoted to supporting bit-part. How the HELL is Ludacris getting cast in films?? He is laughable and conpletely un-nessesary in this thing. I did really dig the demon imagery. Major Ups to the FX guys, but it it was the ONLY thing I wanted to see. Rather than these demons being hallucinations why not actually set this flick during the Apocalypse. Make that shit the real world collapsing in on Max. Then it's epic. Here its just eye candy with a stunted attempt at something worthwhile. Mila Kunis = THE WORST. So Bad. and The Bridges Brothers play THE SAME betraying best-friend in 2008. I could make a visual montage out of some of the visuals in this thing and fluish the rest of it. It would probably be about 4 minutes long.

OK.. ummm.. thats a big NO THANKS for me. I guess I can see how a certain audience would like this but for me it was an extended chore to sit through. Terrible on all levels, again, to me. If this is your thing then.. enjoy. ick.

I was suprised that Stone presented GW in such a sympathetic light. Its definately not a hatchett job by any means. Brolin turns in a fantastic performance and really nails all of W.'s mannerisms and speech. The film derails when it stops being a bipoic and jams all the Iraq screw-ups down our throats in such a pat way that DID NOT occur in real life. It becomes silly when you realize this is just Stone and the writers trying to cover all their "points" about how and why the iraq war was a huge mistake. Overall it is still an interesting effort.

JOHN HUGHES: THE NEXT GENERATION should eb the title of this sweet little film that pops with atmosphere in a one-night journey through the New York music scene. I have a complete crush on KAT DENNINGS. She's just gorgeous. Ari Graynor (as the drunk friend) has the best scene in the flick when she tries to beg a turkey sandwhich off a stranger. I literally replayed the scene like 4 times it was so funny. The constant music is appropriate and should be nice for fans of this type of stuff, but mostly it graited on my nerves. This film, of course, wasnt made for 40 year old dudes, so I give it some lee-way there. But overall I enjoyed it.

This is BLAIR WITCH on steroids. A fierce and brutal close quarters zombie nightmare falls on these unlucky folks trapped inside an LA Apartment complex, unable to get out and being attacked from within. This film is just brutal to the extreme. Jennifer Carpenter (from DEXTER) does a pretty convincing job of being hysterical for almost the entire film. I loved that this was only told from a single POV camera, really making it feel more like events as they actually happened. The filmmakers did an amazing job of cutting at just the right moments as to keep the real time vibe moving. YES, I have had my fill of Zombie movies, but this takes the best of the genre and makes its visceral and in your face and as it could be happening to you. Te film isn't perfect, but with a wrnching final act it truly makes it mark on the genre. How the hell am I going to sleep tonight after this?

While I appreciate the sentiment of the film I still can't get behind this film like I did FACING THE GIANTS. the acting is still wonky, corny and not believable in anyway. Kirk Cameron comes of as a pussy whipped fool who must bow down and get bitch slapped by a cheating and selfish Wife to prove a kind of non-attainable unconditional love that really only God can display. Sure it is a worthy goal, but what happens 2 weeks later when the Husband makes a mistake and doesnt clean the whole damn house? Just add a little bit of realism to this and maybe it could at least aspire to more than just Sunday school for the Church at large. Its not that I don't respect what Sherwood Baptist Church has accomplished with their films, its just that I think they are mostly already preaching to the choir.

WOW, did I ever HATE this movie. Hate is too kind of a word. I loathed every single person in this thing. I am in no way attracted to the "Bohemian" lifestyle and people who do nothing but go to Art shows, smoke cigarettes and drink wine all day. They seem like people from Jupiter or soemthing. I am too pedestrian, too Joe Wal-Mart to be concerned with "art" and "poetry" and haning out in cafe's in Spain. Does anyone actually work there? GIMME A FRIGGIN BREAK. Maybe its a good movie, I dont know.. but me personally it was liking getting teeth pulled watching this crapfest unfold.

Some had said that the film was very similar to FORREST GUMP, but upon seeing it I was shocked at truly how similar it felt in structure and with many characters. Theres Momma, Lt. Dan, Bubba, Jenny and even Lil Forrest. WTF?? Did Fincher miss this, especially considering that the writer was responsible for both scripts? Beyond that I can say a few good things.. Amazing (but not yet seemless) FX, beautiful score and great acting. On a technical level the film is flawless..but when reaching deeper it felt like a manipulation, like "and cue tears from audience". While I appreciate the sentiment in the film and a great performance from Pitt, I am rather lost as to my overall feelings on this, but I definately feel a sense of dissapointment.

This film brings so many issues, not just about the Holocaust but about a people's reaction to their part in it. How can those involved ever possibly re-pay for the atrocities? powerful and yet demanding issues. Amazing performance her for Winslet. I couldnt shake this film for awhile and it still haunts me when I consider all the issues. Is it even possible to have sympothy for those who participated in attempted genocide? My brain fries.

Fantastic performance by Penn in a moving bio pic. I don't have to agree with a particular agenda to know that prejudice is wrong. This film shows the true story but also addresses the issue of predujice. We live in a very different day now from when this film takes place, a world that was helped shaped by these events. Wether or not that is good or bad is a matter of perspective, but no one benefits from predujice that impeades basic human rights to be live a free life as you choose. I wish the story of Dan White had been fleshed out a little more as it felt tacked on at the end.

Oh man did this ever blow Donkey Balls. No suprise at all really as Hollywood pisses on a classic for it's branded attempt to steal cash from idiot teenagers on a Friday night. This was just so bad, especially with its retarded Military and slap you in the head Enviromental message. NO THANKS. What an embarressment.

Bwaaahaha.. Michael Moore bashing is such fun!! It was amazing just how many times the Michael Moore character was beaten up, stepped on, had stuff thrown at him. It was damn funny and satisfying. Sadly, the movie itself is pretty damn awful. Lame jokes, weak production values, bad acting.... yea...not good. So while laughing and enjoying the spanking at the expense of Liberals everywhere I still had to hold my nose.

Hillary Duff = RAGING HOT!! Beyond that this film is a decent black comedy thats trying to offer a message about Capitalism in war and such, blah blah. While it's funny at times it is never able to be taken seriously. There sometimes feels to be giant jumps in scenes that dont make sense. Overall its kind of a mess with no real focus.. is it an Anti-War statement? Anti-Capitalism? Character Sketch? I can never get enough of Marissa Tomei or Hillary Duff so that was a plus. Middle of the road stuff here. MEH.

I was dumb founded at how off the charts HAMMY this was. Full of "hostage" cliche goodness. Reese Witherspoon was so amazingly awful in the movie that she certainly almost entered MOVIE JAIL for this turd alone. Remember the "Hostage returns home" scene where, Cab pulls up to the home (of course they wouldnt have met him at the Airport right?), Son is playing with ball in yard.. long stares with deadpan emotion, longing stares commence and continue, Wife walks out of house with newly born baby in arms to join in the cavalcade of long, emotion-less stares... not a single tear on said Wife's face. Until they slowly, like Zombies, move in to each others arms.
Im not kidding you I was LAUGHING OUT LOUD!!! Gavin Hood shouldnt be directing traffic. RENDITION, had I seen it in the year it was released, would have easily been on my WORST of list.
"Wheres my HUSBAND?? Just tell me hes OK" - LOL!!! Witherspoon FULLY LOADED! OH, And Jake Gyllenhal.?? He looks stoned the entire film. When did , EMPTY EMOTIONLESS face = acting?? Because in this movie its the ONLY direction I imagine these people are getting. OHHH and you'll love the little Time structure twist that brightens up the whole movie. For lack of a better word RETARDED is the only thing that suffices, I honestly could not role my eyes up into the back of my head harder.
AND finally.. lets remember ONE thing... WE (The United States) are the REAL Terrorists... not THE TERRORISTS.
Thanks Hollywood. Losers.

Love this classic. Saw it many times as a child. Still great even today. Love jean Hersholt as the "grandfather". The scene where Heidi helps the sickly girl walks can make a grown man cry.

So.. you want to be a big shot in Hollywood. Well.. enjoy that. Check the flick.

QoS is the first true SEQUEL in the Bond film series. Yes, there are obvious films that overlap with repeat characters (non-regulars) but this is the first DIRECT sequel. It's really a continuation of CR from frame 1. I guess I'm OK with that, but as it's a NEW thing it takes a moment to get used to.

Immediately I knew something was wrong when we didnt have our official "BOND" BULLET SHOT. YES, we didnt get it in CR either at the very beginning, but once we witnessed BOND commit his first "kill" the shot was pulled out of that story context and made sense...so with that I figured that QoS would the "first" Bond film (from the Craig Re-Boot) to open with the official, traditional BOND in the gun sites bullet shot. ... Well it wasn't there... instead it was at the end. HORSE SHIT!!! I didnt like it. Tradition is a beautiful thing so why f**k with it? They were able to bring MORE to it in, and give it more meaning in CR, but here it's just an after thought pushed back to the end credits. WRONG!! I hated that.
SPIN: Now, you could maybe spin it this way. Were they waiting to show it at the end while this one big VESPER arc (CR and QoS) was wrapped up BEFORE he earns his MI6/007 status to actually get his "BULLET" open? Well maybe... I mean CR and QoS are essentially one long story.
In reality though I dont buy that and I give the filmmakers and whoever made that decision to piss on tradition an EPIC f**k YOU for screwing the shit up.

Moving on.

I did NOT like Danny Kleinman's latest efforts creating the title sequence...I missed the credit sequence (just wasnt looking at the names) and I wondered if Kleinman had even done them. MAybe it's just my opinion but I just found the sequence kind of lame...but then again I felt liek the Bolivian Dessert wasn't any interesting location in anyway so it wasn't very interesting in the title sequence as well.

The Song....whatever. I like the "hook" but the rest licks balls. Jack White and Alicia Keyes? The sounded like they were trying to out SHOUT each other. Enough solo artists (duet here). Lets get a group to do the next song. JEEZUS.

BLAM!!.. CAR CHASE...
umm yea... NOT INTERESTED in your DAMN "PAUL GREENGRASS" impression Mr. Forster. Why does BOND need to be influenced by BOURNE ? f**k BOURNE... yes, I said it.. f**k Jason Bourne.. James Bond is LEGEND.. Bourne is a FAD that burned itself out after 2 movies (the 3rd was just a duplicate of 2), but here we need to try and completely bite that hideous shakey-cam style? During the opening sequence I was loving me some MARTIN CAMPBELL. Thanking him for CR.. thanking him for locking down his damn camera and making it classy... but here we are back to jerking off with one camera and screaming LOOK. LOOK. LOOK at my nifty shaking relaistic action sequences. Im am OFFICIALLY calling this shakey shit DONE now. Its over. Its tired. Its MORONIC. Even Michael"f**k" Bay is smarter than to shake his shit up like this. To me, just about every single action sequence in this film is worthless. YES< there are occasional beauty shots in there.. but the shakey, combined with an ABSURDIST editng pace made me want to throw monkey shit at the screen. Who the f**k do these people think we are? I had to shake my head a few times as I litterally got dizzy. Its NOT stylistic.. its SHIT.

At the beginning we basically get zero to none exposition. Its just action scene..breath..action scene..breath..action scene... AND sadly.. the first 3 f**k chases in no way compared to the mega-brilliance that was the PArkour laced sequence created in CR. Again.. MARTIN CAMPBELL.. we loooovvee you....
about the ONLY action sequence I liked was the cross-cutting between the musical drama and Bond getting pics of the "Quantum" members/chase sequence.

Finally things slow down and we start to see things coming together.

DAME Judi Dench was great as always as M.. but where the hell were those MI6 headquarters? Bolivia? London? Bond was here then there and everywhere. I kind of lost my sense of location in the film. We even ahd to go to the dessert.. leave.. and then come back again? Was is this.. PHANTOM MENACE.. lets go to Coruscant.. no lets go to Naboo.. back to Coruscant.., wait back to Naboo.. WESA GOING HOME !!! Well.. where the f**k is home?

Bond girls... Well the Red-headed babe.. MEOW.. Smokin HOTTT. Glad to see that Bond wasn't so tied up in his grief that he couldnt blast that. Had he not it would have been VERY Un-Bond of him.

The main Chick in this film was just a passenger. Really pointless to the story. Sure, she helped Bond catch a lead on the whole thing but her continued plot in the story was worthless. I think maybe the writers wanted to create a complement character to Bond (with their REVENGE fantasies) but they never really connected, and definately had no chemistry. AND I never bought her fire and passion to kill the General/soon to be Dictator as well. She was eye candy. What Bond cant do the deal alone? Gimme a break..but Bond usually has a lady in tow so, the tradition continues.. just make her more nessesary next time Id say.

Repeat Characters/Regulars: As I said Judi Dench, as always performed her part well. I loved that face to face with Bond after he John McClained everyone in the elevator. She ultimately trusts Bond.

Felix Lighter - SANCHEZ !!.. err no. Jeffrey Wright is great. loved him again here, although his part was even less than in CR. We NEED to see this guy kick some ass soon. Lets just hope he's not replaced by Don Cheadle in Craig Bond 3.

THE JAR-JAR MOMENT:
OK.. lets call it like it is. WHO THE f**k THOUGHT A HYDROGEN BASED f**k HOTEL IN THE DESSERT WAS A GOOD IDEA?????
If all it takes for your hotel to completely BLOW UP and burn down is one truck backing into it... then MAN do you have problems.
In no way was this stupid shit, set up, elluded too or referenced until about 4 minutes before shit started blowing up. And WHY the hell was that hotel in the middle of nowhere?? Was this the NEW VEGAS in bolvia that was going to be built? Was HYDROGEN HOTEL the Flamingo? Maybe I missed something here.. but this was like VIEW TO A KILL Stupid. YES.. things blow up GOOD.. BOOM.. they just blow so DUMB.

MUSIC SCORE: David Arnold is back again but with a mostly invisdible score. I sure miss the old John Barry days when you were allowed to create an actually THEME. Background music is what this was...thats all. I liked the occasional musical referances to VESPER (themes from CR) but other than that it was just noise.

SUMMATION:
I did not hate this film. I actually LIKED IT. I have alot of complaints though and I wish things had been done differently. Craig was fine.. but I felt like I didnt get enough of him. Gone were the quiet moments. The talks Bond had on the train with Vesper...I mean I dont think he has 2 minutes with anyone. I missed Bond in this film. I missed little referances to the canon of Bond films, or "origin" moments. Theres no "shaken not stirred".. theres no "Bond James Bond". I mean this thing is total OFF on its own. Thats fine if the film is trying to make itself an indivdual film.. they all MUST stand alone.. but this intentional avoidance of all things BOND is off putting to hard-core fans. I did like the drowned in oil chick (the poor HOT red head) and its obvious referance to GOLDFINGER. I guess I just wanted some more direct referances. Just light little touches.. nothing major.
SO.. I didnt hate it.. I liked it.. blah blah...

CASINO ROYALE was BAD ASS. Plain and simple. ANYTHING they did was going to be hard to pull off with CR being so good. I dont think this effort was a waste. In baseball terms Id call it a standup double...but definately NOT a triple. CR was a home run all the way, with runners on..But QoS just felt like a very close to empty gas tank. I probably will point my fat finger at Mark Forster here. I have enjoyed his past films but he in no way exudes the McTiernan juice that was coursing through Martin Campbell's veins during CR. Not even close. It smelt of WANNABE. and the film smelt of LICENSE TO KILL. (just not as dumb) The film is a scuffed and tarnished Silver medal. better than Bronze but nowhere near a polished Gold.

Fun and quirky comedy. Not a silly farce like you might think, but rather a serious movie with comedic elements. A nice time.

Awesome fun. Paul Rudd is fantastic as usual. Juts a great time, Great to see McLovin in another film. Also loved seeing all the THE STATE alums in here.

John Wayne invented "Bad Ass".

Color this a guilty pleasure if need be but I had a damn good time with this wanna-be Chinese Cinema flick. Sure.. it's american made, but thats not down home fight choreography. Just great, great stuff. Chan and Li are fantastic in this as well. Right or wrong.. I had a blast with my 2 boys at the theater enjoying this bad-ass chop sockey radness. Loved Jet Li as the Monkey King.

Quirky, aimless doc. with glorious footage shot under the ice in Antarctica. Since this free flowing piece never really aims to "say" anything it just comes across as a mildly interesting travel log about the people who live and work in Antarctica. Strip the amazing footage away and this feels hollow and pointless. This might work better if you stripped out the interviews and just ran music over the Anterctic photography.

Re-watched this for the first time in many years. WOW! I forgot how much this movies stinks. Toobad, because the centrail idea is very interesting. Sharon Stone is hideously miscast and bad in this. This movie is an embarresent.

Only the Japaneese can make a good GODZILLA movie. Had a great time with this. Sure, the MAN IN SUIT effects are cheesy compared to bog time Hollywood FX, but the intent is great AND I enjoy the sense of scale and scope. Godzilla looks KA-FRIGGIN-HUGE, and that is something Hollywood blows it on. SCOPE. Make it feel BIG. Enjoy the story as well, although it was the same story we've scene in every GODZILLA movie mostly.. GOdzilla protects Tokyo from the evil OTHER Monster. Great fun to be had here.

I finally took the plunge and watched it. I didn't hate it. I was led to believe it was the worst crap in history. Wrong. Yes, its most definitely a chick flick. It also has wrinkles in Vampire Mythology you would never expect. I mean vampire Baseball? WTF? Yea, kinda silly, killy kinda dumb in spots, but completely watchable, at least to see where the story takes us. I have noit read these books.. but such a reluctant Vampire as Edward is reminds me of Anne Rice's epic Vampire Novels, which I read most of. It never rises to that level in anyway... but for the teen crowd this is Lestat lite. Anyways.. I dont know.. did like carter Burwell's score, but thats a given. Didn't hate, didn't love it.

How about a big ol' bag of "HELL FUCKING YES". This is EXACTLY what I expected from Timur Bekmambetov (The NIGHT-WATCH films). I crown him the new big official action BAD-ASS on the planet. Fuck all the dirty scabs like Ratner, Bay and their moronic little clones. Lets let the guys who have the juice and the balls to bring the HARDCORE back into action movies through the gates. It takes someone OUTSIDE of the brain-dead coffins of Hollywood to do something right. Sure, this movie is over-the-top, but I knew that going in. Its done icreativily and with intelligent film grammer that isn't happy with just recycling ripped off John Woo cliches. Yea, I don't buy that a bullet can be curved around a room, do a full 360 going through about 6 skulls either... but it sure played cool within it's own microcosm of "Super-Assasins". So just say YES to this return to style even if it comes from the other side of the world.

Very funny comedy/farce which also shares a brutal message about race relations in the late 60s/early 70s. This is actually the first Melvin Van Peebles film I have seen. I look forward to more of his voice in his other films, especially in relation to the time in which the films were created. The ending is un-forgiving with it's message and really ends on a powerful note.

Yes, the premise is ridiculous, but beyond that, I definitely enjoyed this light comedy. Great role for Costner who has always been one of my favorite actors. Nice message with a perfect ending. Enjoyable, simple and sweet. The Faux Political Commercials alone are worth the watch.

This is all kinds of BAD in many ways, but I do salute Simon Hunter for being extremely ambitious.. to a point where it's measly budget cannot live up it's the vision. There's an interesting plot in there somewhere that sadly gets snuffed out under the weight of cheesy digital blood, hideous and uneven pacing and laugh out loud atrocious acting. While I think this "cheap behemoth" could possibly develop a cult follow I don't think that it's ready for prme time by a long shot. It's too bad really, as I think that there are promising elements to it. I am interested to see where Simon Hunter goes next. File under Coulda Been.

Middle of the road remake, that of course, has nothing to do with the original film. A great example of how Hollywood shoplifts a "brand" to then do whatever the hell it wants with it. This is a paint by numbers Zombie flick. No suprises. It is very over the top corny with Zombies always leaping and jumping and running at "faster then human" speed. Cracked me up the way Zombies just changed within seconds with all the flesh on there body festering up instantly. DUMB. Not the worst Zombie flick, but not too great either. Nick Cannon = SUPER dumb.

In this movie Jennifer Connelly is about the hottest and most beautiful female ever commited to film. She's breathtaking. Overall the movie rings hollow in that what starts as an interesting character study in to all things "John Hughes" about High School peer class level turns super DUMB when 2 bumbling thiefs enter the picture. This fairly lame movie will be timeless if anything for Connelly's devastating appearance. TOO DAMN HOTTT !!!

Beyond seeing what happened to the FROG Bros. in this re-hash (almost remake) of the first film, there isn't much going on here. and WHY cast a main character who looks like an almost perfect double for Jason Patric? The main vampire was laughably BAD. Bad acting goes to horrible everytime he opens his mouth. While I didn't completely hate this, I felt like the majority of it is a waste of time. Why not make it a sequel and tell me what happened to the original characters rather than just repeating the same crap with new people? Corey Feldman was fun (although Hammy) in his return as Edgar Frog. IF we get another sequel can we focus on Edgar and not all this other crap? Meh.