Introit

Welcome to my realm of reviewing: a place where I review anything I feel like...but it will probably be 99% movie reviews. Depending on how lazy I am at the time, the reviews will range between a sentence or two and the length of a master's thesis. Realistically though, the lengths will be somewhere in the middle.

Every time I see a new movie, I run over to Facebook to make a 1-sentence review of it on Flixter, so I figure this will let me go more in-depth on what I thought of it. I certainly will try to write out a new review every time I see a new movie, so my frequency of new postings will range anywhere from multiple times in one day to one in a week.

I will NEVER have movie spoilers, so don't worry.

By the way, I don't discriminate on movie genres...you will see reviews of ALL kinds of movies ranging from horror exploitation films to Saturday night chick flicks...but don't expect me to look at them from the same angle :D
Expect to see a lot of reviews of obscure movies though, particularly independent horror films.

I also take requests, so if there is a movie anyone wants me to review, feel free to ask.

Well, so far it does feel like I am typing to a brick wall, but at least this gives me something to do for the time being. If anyone is reading this, thanks in advance!!

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

3 Quickie Reviews

I've seen a few movies lately but it is really hard to be motivated when I'm almost certain I'm only writing this to myself. Because of this, I have some quick reviews:

Toy Story 3
Animated / Comedy
Voices of Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, etc
Directed by Lee Unkrich

No need to explain what this is about since unless you've been living under a rock for the last 10 years, you have probably heard of Toy Story. I definitely grew up with Toy Story, especially since my friend and I frequented Mr. Gatti's Pizza and the room we sat in played it constantly. However, I was not crazy about Toy Story 2. Luckily, the third one picked back up again. There was about a 5 minute segment in the middle where I thought it dragged, and this is the only thing preventing it from a perfect score, really. I was ultimately satisfied, though slightly depressed by the ending.
Final Score - 9.5/10

Hot Fuzz
Comedy / Action / British
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Directed by Edgar Wright

This is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it probably around 15 times now but it NEVER gets old. I can always find new things to appreciate about it, and showing it to someone who hasn't seen it is a real joy.
Final Score - 10/10

Voices
Independent Horror / Korean
A Bunch of Koreans
Directed by Ki-hwan Oh

Yet another of the After Dark Horrorfest films, this Korean movie was in the third run of ADHF. Honestly, I don't know what to think about it. It is extremely psychological with an interpretive ending...though come to think of it the entire movie itself is interpretive. Is it psychosis? Angel of Death? Curse? Disease? it's anyone's guess. I really need to see it again to get a more accurate score, but for now...
Semi-Final Score - 6.5/10

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