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IMDB

3/5

So after seeing this the other week I thought why not blog about it?

Basically it’s about a guy who accidentally becomes magnetized and destroys all the videos in a friends video store. They then try and re-make the films on their very low budget and become local stars because of it.

Okay so it is a film written and directed by Michel Gondry, who also directed one of my favorite films, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and that’s why there is a serious aspect to it, going deep into how the art of film-making is dying and the industry is all about making money now. Now I went along to see this film thinking it’d just be a full on comedy film with a loose story and a lot of laughs, well I was happy that this was not the case. Although it is very funny at parts it is also serious in others.

I havn’t ever liked Jack Black, as a musician he was nothing special, as an actor it’s the same, but as an actor he suits being in the comedy role. I feel he let this film down a bit on the serious parts, but did well in the comedy.

Overall I thought the film was pretty good, but I think the acting brought it down. Maybe i’m just not used to Jack Black being in a serious role, but I think he should stick to being the idiot like usual. If you have some spare time and nothing better to go and see then this might be a good choice.

IMDB

3/5

So I went to see this film after hearing all the hype about it and I was disappointed. Okay so it was a semi-decent movie in itself, but all the hype i’d heard beforehand made me think that it would be an amazing film, not just an average comedy that you don’t need to pay much attention to.

Okay so the story if you don’t know it already is that two best friends in high school are invited to a party where they offer to get the alcohol as one of their friends has just acquired a fake ID. They think that if they get the alcohol then they will have a chance of sleeping with the two girls who are having the party. They get split up with their friend Fogell (the one with the fake ID) when he gets taken for a ride with some cops. After this hilarity ensues with them all trying to get alcohol for this party.

Now the acting was pretty good. It seemed to me that the actors have real chemistry from working together in the past and knowing each other as friends for such a long time.

As far as teen movies like this goes the script was pretty well written and moved along at a good pace.

 To say the least I wasn’t that impressed, the hype was too much for what it was, but it was still an okay film to see if you are bored one night. Although I thought previous movies by the same people such as the 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up were much better.

IMDB

4/5

The film follows a 35 year old games prgrammer, who seems to be really good at his job, just hasn’t got very far in life yet.

After his roommate spends all their rent money on Filipino hookers he gets thrown out of his house and has to find a new place to stay. After an incident with his best friends mum he ends up living with his grandma and her two strange roommates but to sound “cool” to his younger co-workers he pretends that he is staying with ‘three hot babes’. In the end his boss steals the game he is making (but has told no one about apart from his grandma) and tries to pass it off as his own. Thats the basic plot of the movie.

There is quite a lot of drug taking, nakedness and just plain weirdness in this film. For example there is a monkey which knows karate. I think I have said enough about that now. I will say that the film kept me laughing for a good portion of it.
I would recomend this film to anyone who likes a good comedy, if your a “geek” then you might like it even more.