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Cursed (2005)
Bizarrely Entertaining
It's hard to tell what genre this movie is... It isn't a horror movie... and even though many parts or hilariously entertaining it's not a comedy... I'm gonna say it's more a thriller/ spoof but even then it's not quite that...
Seeing other user comments i realized this is a movie you either get or you just don't...
It opens up at a carnival with Shannon Elizabeth and Mya getting their fortune read by Portia DeRossi, who warns them of danger by the moon. This might be horridly boring and predictable to you unless you see the spoof-like ness.
Now, up until Jimmy (Jamie Eisenberg) 's dog, Zipper, ran away i had forgotten Milo Ventimiglia was in this movie... i was immediately excited. I decided he played a good jerk as Jimmy's crush's boyfriend, Bo...
Then of course Christina Ricci's character, Ellie gets in a car accident Shannon Elizabeth gets torn apart (literally) and attempts to drag half her body up the hill... this of course made me laugh my guts out... because there's something about this film that just makes it not scary...and funny...
Ellie has a creepy dream where i predicted that it was a dream and that the person that opened the door was her boyfriend by the way (which should make the movie bad but it just doesn't) It's gory, and obviously gutburstingly funny.
hmmm let's see... other people get killed, but not before Ricci talks to Scott Baio playing Scott Baio (who later saves her from a werewolf), and not before Mya's hilarious comment to Joshua Jackson's character(Ricci's boyfriend): "Becky will just die when she finds out you were here" (cause she's already dead...ha ha...) The speedy transformations of Ricci and Eisenberg into werewolves, make them stronger so Jimmy decides to try out for the wrestling team kicking Bo's ass and returning the accusatory homosexual comments Bo had said to him.
Late that night Bo shows up to tell Jimmy that indeed he is a homosexual and that only Jimmy knew that. (no it is not a joke) Bo then attempts to kiss Jimmy. Ventimiglia's performance during this scene was brilliant. This is another part of the movie that you just get or don't get. There's no other way to explain it. Another line said by Jimmy which struck me as hilarious was when he explains to Bo that he's not gay and he's a werewolf. It was something like i need to go, but i'm glad you're gay, that's great, go be gay, yay gay! He had to take care of his dog, because he too was turning into a wolf.
Then the scene came where they were in the (what was it haunted house, fun house thing i don't know) and your scrambling to figure out who is the head werewolf... is it Jake... no really it was Joanie (Ellie's colleague? Who i recently saw in 13 going on 30 ha ha drastically different) who killed everyone after contracting the virus from sleeping with Jake... she then proceeds to flip the bird to Christina Ricci in her beast state...(indescribably hilarious) and then the cops kill her blah blah while all the time i'm wondering whether Bo was actually killed by the werewolf...(bites nails nervously) and... he wasn't... he's fine and my friend's hoping that Jimmy will turn gay and date him (Sorry, but it just doesn't work that way) Then the characters go home thinking everything's okay, and we the audience, knowing the mockery know that it is not so... The house is trashed (from Zipper) and the lights are out... So LET's GO TO THE BASEMENT! Where Jake can convince Ellie to join him as a werewolf where they can learn to deal with it. The scenes with Ellie and Jake aren't meant to be heartwarming ... I think they're meant to be clichéd. Anyways he tries to kill them, fails has his cut off by a shovel (I swear they show his decapitated head for like 5 minutes)and bursts into flames (conviently getting rid of the body and evidence) all the while Bo's (ex? i guess) girlfriend returns Zipper and walks off to the sunset making out with jimmy and apparently still hanging out with Bo, who she doesn't seem to care has recently come out of the closet.
Awww... Don't you just love happy endings?! Now, before you think i'm horribly morbid for laughing at all the death scenes... This movie is not scary. I like it because there's something indescribably entertaining, and not because it's bad either, cause it's not...it's something else...
Dream a Little Dream (1989)
Art Film?
When i first watched this movie, i found it to be completely bizarre. Some people may say it is bad, but it seems to resemble an art film to me. If you had to pick something that ended the eighties, i think it was this film. REM's the end of the world as we know it clashes with the eighties fashion of the movie. It's like a time warp, as that song reminds me of the nineties. It demonstrates a transition between two decades which is almost haunting. The story in itself is bizarre, though but i think that's what is appealing about it. It shows Feldman's acting talent that didn't quite get to be shown in other movies. Some scenes are downright crazy, like Feldman's Michael Jackson impression, and the dream sequences, but the overall feel of the film and the artistic direction, i think seals the end of the eighties.