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Here are my notes while watching "Fantastic Voyage". I was cracking up a lot.
Traffic cops inside building for golf cats
Overhead projector
Generals smoking giant cigars
Flagrant Stephan Boyd saying: "You can't shrink me!"
"We can't be certain of anything"
Lots of tape drives
"There's a button and switch for everything"
They use Morse code from the "wireless" to communicate!!!
Massive lights on giant computers
Giant eyeballs
Giant hypodermic that also shrinks
Radar antennas around his head
All the psychedelic inside the body images... The White Corpuscles are the best! (I can't believe I spelled corpuscles correctly!)
The best: General lights up another giant cigar then whips out a slide rule to calculate how long it would take for the sub to go thru the heart
Not too much to say about Inglorious Basterds. If you like Quentin Tarantino movies, then you'll like this one.
I liked that Brad Pitt was channeling his inner Warren Oates as the leader of the Basterds. I really like his character.
Bonus: a Nazi named General Frank.
Now, 2012 is what you want in a thriller!
Several times during the movie, which I watched at the movie theater, I found that I had been holding my breath and also grabbing my own leg.
Lots of crazy special effects and excellent John Cusak action. I really like him.
Go see it. They were saving all the animals like Noah's Ark, so I'm assuming there were chickens, although I didn't see them or hear them.
The President's first name is Thomas, so that's rare.
A Man Apart is not a real lame movie, but it definitely mediocre.
When Vin Diesel is your star and he's apart and he's also the narrator, you know what you're in for.
It's listed as a thriller, but it's not thrilling at all. For it to be a thriller, I have to notice that I've been holding my breath. I was breathing normally throughout the whole movie.
But since part of it takes place in Mexico, you know what that means! But no, in the Mexico scenes, they are mostly on airstrips and the bad parts of town.
But wait! The final scene is in a rural village in Columbia, where the bad guy is from... Vin slowly limps down the cobblestone streets past all the lookouts and then you hear some dogs barking and finally: Chickens! YAY! They are not that fun because they are just clucking around. It would have been better if Vin had zoomed down the street in a fast car or started blasting away with a machine gun and then the chickens would have been way fun. Oh well, you can't have everything.
I'm going to make this review short and sweet.
You don't need Denzel as a loser schlub in any movie. It was bad casting.
It's got flagrant Travolta cackling over the price of gold going way up. It is a lame ass movie.
So I say, stick with the original - Taking of the Pelham One Two Three (1974) with Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw and Martin Balsam. That is the real good movie.
The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke as an old broken down professional wrestler is a very interesting and very watchable movie.
Most of the wrestling scenes made me laugh because it brought back memories of when I was growing up watching wrestling every Saturday. Kenji Shibuya, Pat Patterson, Ray "Everyone is a pencil-neck" Stevens, Bearcat Wright, etc. They had the classic fake wrestling moves down pat.
Marisa Tomei is very sexy as a stripper that has sympathy for Randy the Ram.
Why is it that every movie or TV show I watch has hospital scenes lately? Did they always have them or am I just noticing them more lately because I was in the hospital for 4 days last month? It's very weird. I guess I'll have to make that something to watch for now in movies. A new category! I'm also adding Sports as a category.
Best line as Randy is on the pay phone canceling his upcoming matches: "Hey Frank". Perfect - a new Frank category - Payphone Frank.
Ricochet is a thriller starring Denzel Washington as the good guy and John Lithgow as of course, the bad guy.
It starts out with a double cross gone bad and as the Hit man tries to escape, a girl comes out of a port-a-potty and says: "Hey Frank" to her off screen Frank boyfriend and gets turned into a hostage by the bad guy. Can't recommend having a boyfriend named Frank in a movie. It never works out. You're at the festival one minute enjoying the perfume of the plastic rolling toilet and the next minute you're looking a cop strip down to his underwear and shooting the guy holding you and his blood spatters all over you. Frank isn't going to stand for that. He's gone with the wind. Poof!
It's got a lot of twisty twists and then has Ice Cube come to the rescue and there's a big finale on the Watts Towers. It's a good movie.
Here are my notes while watching "Fantastic Voyage". I was cracking up a lot.
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