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Life on Mars (2008)
last episode "Let the Children Boogie" was hilarious
You're missing a lot if you've stopped watching the show.
Let's just say they had a really fun actor as the rock star, there's a unexpected cameo that's actually absolutely perfect, and some pretty witty dialogue between Sam and the boss's daughter. Throw in a bunch of hot girls, some paranormal craziness (explained eventually but there's got to be more to it than that), Sebastian Grace and the Electric Insects, and some acid trips and you've got yourself a great episode.
And oh yeah, Sam is about to get murdered.
Best recent quotes -
"Look you're very attractive. You're very smart you know. Uh very nice
very
well you're all the verys
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"You're really doing the show up at the door with no clothes on under the raincoat thing? You know someday that will be a cliché."
The Long Riders (1980)
This Sucks With a Vengeance
Well ... here in this movie we have probably the most uncharismatic, irritating, and charmless Jesse James in cinematic history. The guy is a bore and he has one facial expression the whole movie. Why watch this garbage when you can watch Tyrone Power or Colin Farrell or soon even Brad Pitt? Possible Spoiler? You know that bad feeling that you get when Dennis Quaid is kicked out of the gang in the first five minutes? (Quaid is totally wasted on his part). Well, it only gets worse. Turn the movie off. The only other bit of charisma in the whole movie is David Carradine as Cole Younger and you can tell he strains under the load. Carradine should be elsewhere playing the leading role instead of sharing the screen with lackluster James Keach and his fake beard. Instead (spoiler) we get to see Carradine shot 11 times and still walking around trying to help his brothers; and Jesse James stares at them with his "I'm a LOOOSER" facial expression, decides he can have a better gang, and walks out on them when they most need his help. Carradine at least has a good response "I like it better this way, Jesse; I get to see you run." The actor brothers idea was interesting, but it wasn't worth making the cast bomb as bad as it did. It might have been a fun movie if Jeff and Beau Bridges had been cast as the James brothers instead. As it is, it sucks. Don't waste your time.
War of the Worlds (2005)
"Oooh! Ahhh! That's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming." - Jeff Goldblum
This is a movie sadly lacking in Arnold Schwarzenneger, Sylvester Stallone, or even Vin Diesel. The result? The whole movie is about running away from the evil aliens. Great movie if your idea of a fun story is watching the humans running and screaming in terror as the monsters destroy everything for three hours.
Come on, at least give us Will Smith as a fighter pilot or something. "Who's the man? Huh? Who's the man? Wait till I get another plane! I'm gonna line ya friends up right beside you! Where ya at, huh? Where ya at? (smack!) Welcome to earth!" If you want to see the violent monster movie of the year, then wait for King Kong.
Hey, at least Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had a sense of humor.
Paparazzi (2004)
Icon's Latest Fun
I've got to say I highly recommend This. It's the latest movie produced by Mel Gibson (he has a funny cameo in it), and it's another one of the few conservative, fun, get the bad guys movies that are becoming so rare in the Theaters nowdays.
Cole Hauser (one of Bruce Willis' navy seals in Tears of the Sun) plays the main character, a new action hero in Hollywood who finds his family being stalked and harassed by Paparazzi. The hero decides to defend his family and takes matters into his own hands in a way that liberal film critics have been squealing and complaining about since it came out. You know the movie's got to be good when the headlines refer to it as "A Mean-Spirited Revenge Movie", "Mel Gibson's Insanity" and "A Crude, Violent Tale."
Cole Hauser actually makes a pretty good action movie good guy here. Along with Eric Bana and Johnny Messner, this movie puts him in with the few potential new generation tough guys in contrast to the crowded list of ever increasing metrosexual wimps.
Buy it or rent it when it comes out on DVD this January.