Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day weekend.
It's a time to celebrate. A time to relax, fire up the barbeque, maybe watch a parade, drink, and generally have a relaxing three days off of work.
Well, I hope you all are happy with it, because I'm stuck working all weekend. Way to rub it in. Jerks.
The task at hand involves me being indoors for about 40-50 hours straight while monitoring an automated process to check for errors. It's me, a computer, and my dvd player for more than two straight days. As it stands right now, I've been at it for a little over 16 hours, and I'm running on about 2 hours sleep.
Jealous?
So far, my movie selection has consisted of the following:
- 6 episodes of Band of Brothers
- Van Wilder
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Sideways
I'll be keeping a running tab of brief reviews on these, when I get the chance (and as I see fit). I'm holding off on reviewing BOB until I see all the episodes, so that one will be coming a little later.
In the meantime...
Van Wilder
Exceeded and fell short of expectations at the same time. Had a few scenes that had me in tears, but for a low-brow comedy had much less gratuitous nudity than I expected.
I found the acting in this movie surprisingly good. Ryan Reynolds nailed his part, even Tara Reid was somewhat believable. The rest of the characters were nicely over-the-top. (Quick side note: Who's Reynold's agent? The guy goes from Van Wilder to Blade 3 to The Aminityville Horror in like 3 years. How many other actors have this sort of meandering career path so quickly?).
Good movie, had lots of potential but failed to deliver for the most part. Worth watching once, but it's not one of those staple comedies that you can stick in your DVD player for a month straight. Could have been better with a few adjustments:
- The gross-out scenes really hit the mark here but there were only 2. Needed a few more.
- As I mentioned earlier, dumb comedies like this one need more random breast scenes.
- Had the same tired plot as pretty much every college comedy ever made-- cool but delinquent student(s), threatened to get kicked out, makes up for it in the end. You know the deal. Animal House and PCU come to mind (Tim Matheson even had a part in this). Throw in the token romance sub-plot and there you have movie-in-a-box. I really think I could make a movie like this for around 30 dollars.
Final Score: 5 out of 10.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Not much to say about a classic that hasn't been said already. I may need to watch this again because I forgot to watch for Nicholas Cage's cameo (credited here as Nicholas Coppola). Always good viewing. For you young folks, if you haven't seen this one yet, it's out on DVD-- go pick it up.
Final Score: 7 out of 10.
posted by BJC @ 7:40 AM
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Yep. Big ol' migration.
It's a necessity born out of the fact that we need to do this when nobody's working and I'm the only one who knows the software.
IT's a bitch.
So many Tech Geeks and no one has reviewd "Tron" yet? Dammit!!
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