This is the first film of Tomas Alfredson that I've seen, and if he keeps this up he'll be a great great director.

This film is categorized as horror but in my opinion the only relatively horror thing about this film is that the Eil is a vampire. This is a really great film and I was really surpised because I didn't expect much.

The thing I loved about this is that it's more of a coming of age story for Oskar, the little boy who's withdrawn from the people in his school and is a loner. It's really capturing seeing this little boy and this vampire develop this bond and go see what happens throughout their friendship.

The 2 leads gave really great performances and were amazingly believable. I loved the slow shots where the director really captured the beauty of the environment.

This is a beautifully directed film and I think that really adds to the feel of it.

Had this film been released in September and not October of 2008, I'm sure it would've been a shoo win for Best Foreign film at the Oscars.

Though it did get recognized at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, Chicago Film Critics Association, and the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards at all three where it won best Foreign Language film. It also won at many other Awards associations which is great.

I haven't read the book of which this is based off of, but I read that it gives more of a back story on Eli the vampire and gives more of glaringly dark view into the loneliness of Oskar and what leads to him becoming a friend with Eli.

I wish more people would see this film, unfortunately there are many ignorant people who refuse to see foreign films because they're to lazy to read to subtitles. But honestly it's their loss, there missing out of a really great film. I definitely recommend you check this out.

9.5/10

"This is the Dopest Dope, I've ever smoked" Saul

After waiting almost 3 months I finally got a chance to see Pineapple Express, and I've gotta say that the wait was worth it.

Since I seen the first trailer for this I had high expectation's and they were completely met. Not once in the entire film was there a joke that fell flat.

This film isn't as raunchy as Superbad, but there are plenty of other jokes that will have you falling out of your chair, rolling on the floor and clutching your sides with laughter. 

One of my favorite things about this film was James Franco, he takes the gold with his performance as Saul the lovable Drug Dealer. I was completely surprised by how good Franco's performance was. It's not an Oscar performance, but this is a big change from his regular roles and he's shown he's got what it takes to make comedy. Not to cloud over Seth Rogen who was also great, Danny McBride's performance as the middleman was also good.

In the past 3 years Seth Rogen has starred and costarred in some of my favorite comedies of all time including The 40 year old Virgin, Knocked up, Superbad, and this.

This is the third film I have seen of David Gordon green and I have to say it's my favorite. It' completely different from The other 2 films that are good in there own sense, Snow Angels, and Undertow. This si the first time he's ventured into comedy and he did it like a pro.

The script for this film is great. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are a comedy writing duo made in heaven. Well that might be a bit of an overstatement seeing as how they've only written this and Superbad. But both of those films are comedy at its best. None of this Jason Friendberg and Andy Seltzer shit.  In the past year they have made 2 of my favorite comedies of all time (Superbad and this).

Judd Apatow produced this film, he just has a knack for producing fantastic comedies aside from all the ones I've said above he also produced Step Brothers, Talladega Nights, Forgetting Sarah marshall, Anchorman, and others.

The soundtrack in film is pretty impressive and keeps the flow of the film moving nicely. Though I was disappointed the the song from the trailer (M.I.A Paper Planes) was not included in the film.

This film centers on a man and his pot dealer. Dale Denton (Rogen) witnesses a murder and goes on the run with his pot dealer Saul (Franco). Through this there are car chases shootouts, and not to be left out tons of weed smoking.

This film is hilarious and I definitely recommend it to anyone who likes comedy and anybody who's a fan of Seth Rogen, or Judd Apatow's work.

10/10  

Just a few more days until Halloween. When all the weirdos come out and kids go out and get candy. But my favorite thing about it are the films to watch on this day. These are my top 20 favorite horror films of all time. 

1.The Exorcist------------2.Event Horizon

The newest films I've added to this list is The Strangers. I thought the pacing was great, the acting was great, and the scares were great. This film had me popping up every few seconds. I loved it and thought it was one of the more genuinely scary films to come out in a while.

The others are all great and I love them. If there's a film on this list you have not seen, I definetly reccomend you pick it up. I will be having a Haloween movie marathon and will be viewing all 20 of these films.

There are a few films that are omitted like Se7en and The Silence of the Lambs which I love and are 2 of my favorite films of al time, but they are more crime/thrillers than horror same with Frailty though it is not one of my favorite of all time.

Also Friday the 13th, I've gotten slack for this, but for me it's just not all that. Sure it's a relatively entertaining film, but nowhere near in my opinion one of the scariest films I've seen.

Scream isn't scary, but it's a horror film that I can watch over and over again, I really love it and it always entertains me. It's the same with The Faculty, and Final Destination.

I also have to give honorable mentions to a few other horror films that are really great.

Night of the Living Dead (90)

Evil Dead (81)

Saw ( Kinda tired of the series though the only one that i thought was bad was III, and IV was okay)

The Devil's Backbone

Pet Cemetary

High Tension

The Descent

The Lost Boys

The Thing

The Hills Have Eyes (06) This is very good. I've seen both the original and the remake and the remake is much better. This is one of the few remakes like Dawn of the Dead that either are as good or surpass there originals

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/thewackness/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEjw-OkMv3w

Now Unfortunately films like this have gone unnoticed by the general public, and most people that wanted to see this haven't because it got screwed over by the film studio and got a limited releases. That shits fucking amazes me how a great film like this can get a limited release yet shit like Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer films get wide releases. But I digress so lets get to my review.

The Wackness had me when I saw the first trailer, I could not see this movie soon enough. Lately films have that I couldn't wait for were disappointments, fortunately this isn't one of them.

The film starts off fast with Luke Shapiro (Peck) sitting in Dr.Squires(Kingsley) office there's some small conversation between them and during those first five minutes I knew I was gonna love this film.

There are plenty of funny moments in this film that will have you laughing wether it's the conversations about girls, drugs, or life between Squires and Luke, or the awkwardness of Luke around girls.

Josh Peck and Ben Kingsley are great and have fantastic chemistry. When both are on the screen they are just unstoppable, I just loved the way they're relatsionship develops through out the film.

I'm a sucker for coming of age flicks, hell this reminded me a lot of A guide to recognizing you Saints another coming of age film set in New York. Luke Shapiro is a drug dealer in New York who you can't help but feel sympathetic for. His parent's never stop fighting, he's looked at as a nobody in high school, and to top it off he can't get a girlfriend.

But luckily being Dr.Squires drug supplier in exchange for therapy sessions has its perks, Luke develops a relationship during the summer with Squires step daughter Stephanie who in high school never acknowledged Luke's existence for 4 years.

But through those problems he evolves into a different person who you can't help but love. A few select moments there's narraration, which for some films doesn't work, but I had no problem with it here and thought it fitted well.

The setting in New York is great, the atmosphere of the 90's is just fantastic, I loved the feel of it. New comer Jonathon levine did great in his first directorial debut.

The soundtrack is also great, there's a mix of Hip Hop, R&B, and rock which you just can't go wrong with. I especially loved Red man's version of Just a Friend.

Like I said earlier Peck's and Kingsley's performances were great, but there were other small performances that shouldn't go unnoticed like Mary Kate as The hippie, Red Man as Shapiro's supplier, and Famke Jensen as the exercise crazy mom of Stephanie and wife of Squires.

By the end of the film, this had jumped into the list of my 20 favorite films of all time. It's a great coming of age story. I definitely recommend it.

10/10

CONTAINS SPOILERS

I love The Faculty it's a very cool film. When I was younger it was my favorite film. It's obvious Williamson was very much influenced by other films like Invasion of the body Snatchers, and the Thing. As you can see in a lot of scenes most notably the one the tsting scene.

Kevin Williamson did great, After writing Scream, he was able to deliver another great film. I wish he made more films like this, I know what you did last summer and Cursed are shit compared to Scream and this.

One reason I loved it was because of the cast, this film is very much character driven. There was never a dull moment in this film. My favorite character had to be Zeke (Hartnett), who was just too cool to not like.

Your average highschool teens are written much better in this than your average horror movie, wether it's the Jock, the cheerleader, the outcast, the drug dealer, the shy girl, or the nerd everyone gives a great performance.

The cameos are nice Robert Patrick plays the Mean football coach, Jon Stewart is cleverly named "Professor Edward Furlong" funny seeing as how The T1000 is in this, would this be a Robert Rodriguez film without Salma Hayek who plays the not so hot school nurse, there's also Danny Masterson before his 70's show days. Famke Jennsen plays the hot student abused school teacher.

The direction was great and Robert Rodriguez has yet to disappoint me, scratch that Shark boy and lava girl was shit.

The soundtrack was awesome every song fits perfectly from Another Brick in the Wall, It's over now, or Stay young a great, great underrated Oasis song. I love it.

It's too bad it wasn't that big a hit with Josh Hartnett staring, which is even more suprising because Usher though he shouldn't have been in this was which I'm guessing was a decision from the studio to get the publicity on this film bigger.

I actually loved the ending, I don't always love happy ending, but I thought it worked with this film especially with the song It's over Now it was great.

One thing I thought was funny was that the whole film Casey (Wood) was shorter than Delilah (Brewster), but at the end he's magically as tall as her.

I give this a 9/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w09rqkY0hbg

The first 12 seconds of the film clip from Harsh times is how I feel about these films and the 2 Terrible Hack filmmakers that make them.

This all started in 2006 the film that would start it all Date movie from the 2 worst writers of the Scary Movie series.

Date movie was a film made by Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg. They've writted and Directed all 4 of these crap/shit/terrible films.

I remember hearing about this shit in school from a couple of people who said "That movie was fuckin funny." I had thought this film looked terrible, but I always give a film the benefit of the doubt as to not wrongly judge it before I have gotten a chance to see it.

Well, after viewing it I knew I was right.

Date movie was an absolutely terrible film starring Alyson Hannigan (Oh where hath Willow gone) who despite not doing a bad job with what she was given could not save this film.

It was terrible, with minute after minute of moments that the filmmakers/writers apparently thought would be funny like to list a few, A woman walking for a short period of time in slow motion being sprayed with water and then eating a burger, a mother beating up Micheal Jackson after he dances over to her son and starts talking to him (all in the background while the 2 main character have an argument), and Lil Jon popping up behind the 2 main characters again while they're at a Dinner table and proceeding to say "Yea...What...Okay!!".

These random moments are sprinkled throughtout the film making it a terrible viewing experience for any film goer.

Secondly on too a film that actually suprised me because it was actually fucking worse than Date movie which seem impossible.

I can't give a full review of this film because I could not sit through 30 minutes of it, I'll just give a quick skim of it. Unlike Date movie, Epic Movie had no almost redeeming qualities in it like Date almost did with Alyson.

Again like Date movie, Epic Movie is sprinkled with pop culture references that are supposed to be funny, but just fall as far away as humanly possible from the funny line. Moments in the film include the main characters dying over and over again, but still coming back, a very terrible reference at Pirate of the Carribean with a terrible headache inducing rap, and ooh a Superman joke lifted from a scene in Superman Returns where instead of his eye blocking a bullet shot at him it actually hits him. This film is just unbearable.

Thirdly, yes unfortunately these flms continue to be made. The same formula of the past 2 films was done again with Meet the Spartan. 

Not so clever pop culture references, all played together with the song of the week. It's fucking amazing that a film could be made worse than epic or Date Movies, but it's was done. Meet the Spartans is terrible, again no redeeming qualities. This film oesn't even make sense it's so terrible. There are Break Dances, Brittney Spears and american Idol jokes, and many many more terrible attempts at making the audience laugh.

Coming soon unfortunately is Disaster Movie which looks to be even worse than Date, Epic, and a little worse than Meet the Spartans.

The thing that really gets me about this shit is it's called Disaster movie. But from a viewing of the trailer any regular moviegoer would think it's Summer movie spoof. It's fucking terrible, I'll give you a quick idea of whats in this film here are some of the jokes from the trailer; Sex and the City girls are crossdressing guys, Iron Man gets hit by a falling cow (Not even clever, but are these films ever), Hancock falling off bench or something similar (what really irks me about the Hancock spoof (Not even because a spoof is :To make good natured fun of, which is not this) is that just from a viewing of the Hancock trailer anyone can think of this, not even seeing the film, but just the trailer; there are many more, but wait there is one that terrible.

Juno break dancing, How the hell is this related to a Disaster film ? I'm guessing the filmmakers thought "ooh look, she's supposed to be pregnant and she's break dancing that's funny" It's just terrible.

The thing that makes me angry is that this generation's teens go see this shit, which is why they're making sequels. These films are made on a shit budget and what looks like a shooting time of a month, and since people go see them, they're raking in more than it took to make them. To film executives, studio managers, and film greenlighters that means PROFIT, which is what film is all about to them, so guess what another one of these films is made.

I hate when people ask if I've seen these films and say they're funny, I just feel like knocking they're fucking brains out.

People who like these films should be placed into mental institustions, so that they can't have kids and further this world's population of stupid fucking people.

Also The 2 Hack filmmakers should be tortured hours on end for making this shit.