To continue making up for my 2 week hiatus from being you friendly neighborhood movie critic/advisor, I'm going to tell you about the 3 movies that you should consider watching. I'm not going to flat out recommend these to you because the determining factor on whether you will kind of like these movies or hate them, depends greatly on your own personal taste in movies. Note: I said either kind of like or hate because I think that these are the only two
ways people would feel about them. You're not going to love any of these, but they may be good for a Tuesday night when nothing else is on.
1. Fighting - We've all seen this storyline a million times. Poor, young, all-American kid who happens to be a great fighter gets the opportunity to turn his life around by using his only real skill and fight for money, but he can't do it alone, and is also a little (if not pretending to be) reluctant to do so because fighting is bad, so he needs the older, wiser mentor to help him along. This mentor starts out as a means to an end for the all American fighter boy, but ends up becoming his best friend. But don't forget the beautiful but resistant and troubled love interest because with all this fighting we need some sex appeal and our Johnny All American can't just fight for money, he needs to fight for something more. Love. Ah sigh...
The reason we've seen all of this a zillion times is because audiences LOVE IT! Say what you will about this, people love to see the good guy beat the crap out of the bad guy all while learning life lessons and getting the ridiculously hot girl.
This movie stars Channing Tatum (the guy from Step Up and GI Joe, who could be a big star if he doesn't screw it up), Terrance Howard, and a really hot actress named Zulay something (who's character is named...Zulay, which is pronounced 2 different ways by 2 different characters so go figure). The difference between this movie and all the countless underdog fighter movies that were made famous by our boy Rocky Balbo...er Ramb...er Sly Stallone, is that the fights are actually kind of believable and very raw. Also, there is a twist, in which you appreciate the filmmakers effort to add, but you see coming a mile away. All that being said, if you like those kind of fight-for-something-bigger-and-become-a-better-person movies, you like this one. Key word LIKE, not love.
2.
The Informers - Based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis (the guys who wrote American Psycho and Rules of Attraction) this movie is about a bunch of interlaced stories involving people living in 1980s LA. There's drugs, sex, and scandal. Everyone is lost in their own egocentric worlds. But really, not much happens. If you like movies where there are multiple story lines that are all connected by a common character, you'll like this. If you like seeing an actor in their last role before their death (morbid yeah, but its Brad Renfro's last movie, and he's actually probably the best actor in the whole thing) you'll like this movie. If you like seeing movies with some big name actors working together (see Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Bassinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke) you'll like this movie. If you're the kind of person who will watch a movie just to see some hot, young actress nude A LOT (see Amber Heard, Seth Rogen's girl friend from Pineapple Express) you'll like this movie. If you dislike movies that don't really have a resolution or a happy ending or a twist, then you will definitely not like this movie at all.
3.
Bottle Shock - This is a wine movie. Its based on a true event when California wines from Napa Valley beat French wines in a blind taste test for the very first time. It's not nearly as good as a movie like Sideways (and I still haven't figured out how much I really actually like that movie). Its not funny like that at least. But it does have all the "You have to love the grape, it has to be tortured, blah blah blah" stuff. Like he grape is a person. But whatever, that stuff doesn't bother me. However, the characters were pretty entertaining to watch, Chris Pine (Capt. Kirk for the new Star Trek) is the star, along with Bill Pullman as his dad, Freddy Rodriguez as the wine connoisseur/son of a Mexican immigrant best friend, and Rachael Taylor (the hot Australian computer girl from the first Transformers) as the love interest. While this movie wasn't great, it was entertaining. And if you like wine, you should appreciate it a little bit. My only regret is that I didn't drink wine while watching it. I think that would have made the movie a little better. So if you like wine, and happy endings, and seeing the French eat a big one, you'll like this one. But don't watch it without a bottle of wine.
ways people would feel about them. You're not going to love any of these, but they may be good for a Tuesday night when nothing else is on.1. Fighting - We've all seen this storyline a million times. Poor, young, all-American kid who happens to be a great fighter gets the opportunity to turn his life around by using his only real skill and fight for money, but he can't do it alone, and is also a little (if not pretending to be) reluctant to do so because fighting is bad, so he needs the older, wiser mentor to help him along. This mentor starts out as a means to an end for the all American fighter boy, but ends up becoming his best friend. But don't forget the beautiful but resistant and troubled love interest because with all this fighting we need some sex appeal and our Johnny All American can't just fight for money, he needs to fight for something more. Love. Ah sigh...
The reason we've seen all of this a zillion times is because audiences LOVE IT! Say what you will about this, people love to see the good guy beat the crap out of the bad guy all while learning life lessons and getting the ridiculously hot girl.
This movie stars Channing Tatum (the guy from Step Up and GI Joe, who could be a big star if he doesn't screw it up), Terrance Howard, and a really hot actress named Zulay something (who's character is named...Zulay, which is pronounced 2 different ways by 2 different characters so go figure). The difference between this movie and all the countless underdog fighter movies that were made famous by our boy Rocky Balbo...er Ramb...er Sly Stallone, is that the fights are actually kind of believable and very raw. Also, there is a twist, in which you appreciate the filmmakers effort to add, but you see coming a mile away. All that being said, if you like those kind of fight-for-something-bigger-and-become-a-better-person movies, you like this one. Key word LIKE, not love.
2.
The Informers - Based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis (the guys who wrote American Psycho and Rules of Attraction) this movie is about a bunch of interlaced stories involving people living in 1980s LA. There's drugs, sex, and scandal. Everyone is lost in their own egocentric worlds. But really, not much happens. If you like movies where there are multiple story lines that are all connected by a common character, you'll like this. If you like seeing an actor in their last role before their death (morbid yeah, but its Brad Renfro's last movie, and he's actually probably the best actor in the whole thing) you'll like this movie. If you like seeing movies with some big name actors working together (see Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Bassinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke) you'll like this movie. If you're the kind of person who will watch a movie just to see some hot, young actress nude A LOT (see Amber Heard, Seth Rogen's girl friend from Pineapple Express) you'll like this movie. If you dislike movies that don't really have a resolution or a happy ending or a twist, then you will definitely not like this movie at all.3.
Bottle Shock - This is a wine movie. Its based on a true event when California wines from Napa Valley beat French wines in a blind taste test for the very first time. It's not nearly as good as a movie like Sideways (and I still haven't figured out how much I really actually like that movie). Its not funny like that at least. But it does have all the "You have to love the grape, it has to be tortured, blah blah blah" stuff. Like he grape is a person. But whatever, that stuff doesn't bother me. However, the characters were pretty entertaining to watch, Chris Pine (Capt. Kirk for the new Star Trek) is the star, along with Bill Pullman as his dad, Freddy Rodriguez as the wine connoisseur/son of a Mexican immigrant best friend, and Rachael Taylor (the hot Australian computer girl from the first Transformers) as the love interest. While this movie wasn't great, it was entertaining. And if you like wine, you should appreciate it a little bit. My only regret is that I didn't drink wine while watching it. I think that would have made the movie a little better. So if you like wine, and happy endings, and seeing the French eat a big one, you'll like this one. But don't watch it without a bottle of wine.
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