Anthony ™ (SummonMorphling)

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead Unrated

Of all the Wrong Turn movies, this is my least favorite. It had everything I expected, but like all trilogies in horror movies, the third is usually the weakest.

Plot: A high profile prison inmate transfer is taking place. We have a bus with a couple cops and a bunch of rowdy inmates. After being rammed off the road by one of the infamous mutants, it's pretty much a slaughter one after the other.

Stumbling along the inmates and the cop (who are walking through the forest trying to get to a phone or radio) is a girl who in the opening scene watched her friends get murdered by our mutant.

They find a truck load of money and they keep the girl and the cops to help carry the money. One by one people start to die (in amazing ways) and then after a while, the movie ends.

The movie was overall satisfying. The only thing it really lacked was intensity and suspense. The first one and parts of the second one were on edge. With the mutants popping up from anywhere. The feeling that an arrow can be shot at any moment. This movie, there was no guessing. At one point, the camera went beyond the view of the inmates to basically tell us, "look what's about to happen".

The Gore:

The gore was amazing in this movie. The beginning of the second movie has a chick get sliced in two, long ways. This one, has a guy getting sliced, long ways....into three. It made me so happy to see a bunch of the kills.

A part that was a little strange and almost seemed to be there ONLY for gross factor was the mutant cuts open a guys skull and eats a piece of his brain. But everyone else, he takes back to his place....it made no sense. It was a cool effect, but the movie could have done without.

The acting wasn't overall bad. The guys playing the inmates looked and acted the way escaped inmates should act. The cops, the same. The dialog was very smooth, too. It didn't have any corny over the top lines, just normal conversations. Which was nice because I half expected this movie to take a shit on the first two and just crap out. It didn't.

Overall, this movie owned. I had a hunger for some violence and this movie made me full, but still wanting seconds! I will for sure be buying this one when it comes out. Do yourself a favor and pick it up, too. Peace.

The Wizard of Oz G

Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) finds trouble in her sleepy Kansas town when her dog Toto soils the garden of town tycoon, Miss Gulch (Margaret Hamilton). Miss Gulch gets a legal order to seize Toto, but the dog escapes back to Dorothy. With a great deal of guilt, she decides to run away, but returns before a twister destroys her home. She is transported into another world where she meets a lion without courage (Bert Lahr), a scarecrow without a brain (Ray Bolger) and a tin man without a heart (Jack Haley). They all start a quest to find a magical emperor that will give them all they want. The film perfectly integrated the musical numbers with the action of the plot, enhancing and advancing the suspenseful narrative. The visuals are simply amazing, to this day. You've got outstanding set and production designs, and just watching the transition from the sepia tones Dorothy tolerates in Kansas to full-blown Technicolor of Oz. The actors have a conviction of their own that propels the story right up past its fuzzy pre-adolescent sentiments with a wholehearted boldness. The film has a boisterous energy that it is hard not to be caught up in, even despite the relative corniness of some of it. The Wizard of Oz is a film that is steeped in such classic status that the story surrounding it has become the stuff of legend, even urban legend. The Wizard of Oz remains not just a classic film, but a beloved one as well.

The Notebook PG-13

Since none of the film critics are common men or women they are simply not equipped to absorb and enjoy the endearing beauty of the Notebook. The theatre I saw this in was full of common men and common women. Full. It had sold out. At the end of the movie there was total silence and then most of the men scrambled to hide their tear filled eyes and tear stained cheeks as the lights came on. This caused most of the women to laugh at them. I have never seen a movie have such an effect on an audience...to see us all moved so by the simplest and tenderest of stories is a tribute to Nicholas Sparks, the movie, the director and actors and, just as importantly, the common man.