Alright, here is part 2 of our Iron Man 3 review. Sorry for the delay, I was celebrating Mother's Day and couldn't find the time to finish editing this beast. Now that we are done reviewing it, did you agree? Did we miss something? Comment Below! Also, KICKSTARTER!
This is a big one folks! The start off the Summer Movie season, for us anyway. Thanks to the Gonya family for paying our way in (You should check out our Kickstarter, we're poor), we got to see Iron Man 3 in theaters! So sit back and listen to us as we spoil the whole thing. It's best if you seen the movie as well. Comment below if you agree with us or if you disagree.
Hey gang, thought I'd toss this up as I'm editing our large Iron Man 3 review. Join as we talk about these Trailers! All posted below is you can check them out too, and these are the most recent trailers too, so you may see something new. Do you agree with our point of view? Are you excited for these? Give a listen to our short mini talk about the trailers we saw before Iron Man 3.
So it's my time to do a movie of the week again, so I've obviously found another awesome documentary for you to check out! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! This has kind of become my thing, and I'm okay with that. This is a pretty strange story that I had never even heard of, but I stumbled upon this while browsing Netflix and was pretty blown away.
Without spoiling too much, a kid went missing, a guy pretends that he's a kid so the cops will take him to a shelter, and later uses the missing kids identity so he doesn't get caught. As fucked up as all of that sounds, it only gets stranger and more confusing. I was hooked into this story after about the first five minutes. I really can't say much more than I have without spoiling it (Why would you want to watch a documentary that was totally spoiled for you, idiot?!) So I'm not going to say too much more about it.
You should check this one out, as it is on Netflix's instant queue. It's an extremely strange story, emotional, and overall just an awesome documentary. WATCH IT! Seriously, what are you waiting for? Oh, you're still here? Go to your Netflix enabled device and watch this...right now. Do it. DO IT!!
Doctor Who is my Jam. I love this show. Which usually puts me in these blinders and a bias about it in general. But something started to form last season. Something I couldn't talk about because Whovians would throw a shit fit. Well, here we go. I do not like how Steven Moffat writes. Blasphemy, I know. It's like he doesn't know who to follow in the show. Episodes where the Doctor has been away for 100 years, or that Amy and Rory have been gone 5 years are maddening. Remember when Russell T Davis was the lead writer and the stories would connect? You always saw where the Doctor was next. He would step into the Tardis and the adventure would continue from there. Not years later. As well as, Moffat write as if the last 50 years of Doctor Who didn't happen, and ignores everything in the past... eh, that's a cheap shot, because he does make little nods. Ok, so he brought River Song with, but her story is weak as hell. I felt we should have had at least one god damned episode where she was the companion. Another thing about that episode, Spoilers Ahead!
"After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own." - IMDB.
Silver Linings Playbook stars Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, and the return of Chris Tucker. This won some awards, got nominated for others, and was received pretty well. I just came out on DVD so you should pick it up and check it out. Tune in on this Sound Board filled episode and see what the guys had to say.
"Four men who start a neighborhood watch group as a way to get out of they day-to-day family routines find themselves defending the earth from an alien invasion." IMDb
I'll be honest. I'd never heard of this movie before. I don't recall seeing any trailers or advertisements for it, and I'm really not even sure when it came out. I'm sure a cursory look at IMDb would tell me, but who has that kind of time? I do, but I don't really care. So, with all that being said, when I stumbled upon this movie while scrolling through my OnDemand menu, I didn't really know what to expect. I just saw the cast and figured, why not? Could be funny. I was mostly right.
So, I really feel like the filmmakers here didn't really care too much about what the story was gonna be. I think they just wanted any vehicle to put these four guys in a room and have them riff about whatever for 90 minutes. I guess the dart landed on aliens. Anyway, the basic premise is as follows: Ben Stiller is the manager at a Costco. One night, one of his security guards is violently murder-splattered all over the store, and the cops don't seem to be doing much about it. So, he decides to start a neighborhood watch to try and prevent stuff like this from happening. He puts up flyers, and along come Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and that guy from The IT Crowd, who all join up as pretty much a means of hanging out, drinking, and tearin' shit up. Along the way, a pretty weakly thought out alien takeover plot starts to form. Basically they figure out that the security guard was killed by aliens, and they took his skin and are hiding among us in plain sight...we better do something about this! Meh, whatever. As I said before, I don't think they really cared what the story was about.
You can definitely pinpoint the scenes where Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill are just making shit up, as if they pretty much just hit record and said, "fuck it, say whatever you guys want! I'm sure there will be 20 minutes here and there that will be funny!" I notice this kind of thing now when it comes to these guys, especially with Jonah Hill. I didn't mind it so much in movies like Knocked Up, but now he does it in pretty much everything he is in and it becomes obvious and borderline annoying. How about we make a movie with a script? I dunno, just a thought.
One other thing that bothered me is that early in the movie, before the security guard gets his skin ripped off, they make a point of showing you that he just got a brand new tattoo. So, I immediately think that it will later be a decent reveal of someone being an alien...cause, ya know, the alien who's wearing the guys' skin will have that same tattoo, probably somewhere weird or upside down or whatever. It was a clear set up with an easy payoff. It never happened. It's like they were gonna do it, and just forgot about it, or it got left out or something. I guess it doesn't really matter, but it was something that stuck out to me as a misstep.
That really all I have to say about this movie. It isn't much, but then I wasn't expecting much. It made me laugh a few times. There were some boobs in it at one point. There was some silly Weekend at Bernie's-esque-alien-corpse-prop-comedy somewhere in there. They accidentally blew up a cow, which was amusing...what else do you want from these guys really? This was clearly just a nice paycheck for these guys, and they probably had a lot of fun making it and dickin' around with each other. Good for them. So if you like these actors and the line-o-rama kind of dialog they are known for, then by all means, watch the movie. It will at least keep you occupied while you eat a couple of sandwiches and update your facebook every few minutes.
