Unleash the bats from the belltower, Bela Lugosi is dead.

yay for stuff! I need to get crackin on books. I read slow.

Hot Rod(Shaffer)

Rod Kimble is a naïf, a slacker living in a small US town with his mom, his younger brother, and his stepfather whose respect he craves. He also misses his dead dad, whom he thinks was Evel Knievel's back-up. Rod, a man-child, believes that he is a stunt man. When his stepfather needs an operation, with help from his brother and his slacker pals, Rod hatches a plan to set a school-bus-jumping record on his moped. First, his crew and he have to raise money to rent the buses and build the ramp. Trouble is, Rod's inept at his chosen career. Looming failure is complicated by the return of Denise, Rod's next-door neighbor and secret heartthrob, who is home from college. Is public humiliation at hand?

At first thought I was sure this movie was going to be all kinds of shitty but I was definatly wrong. This is probably my favorite comedy of 2007. It beat the shit out of Superbad. It had some stupid silly stuff but all in all it was pretty great off the wall humor. Really Glad I decided to see this movie.

9/10

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry(Dugan)

Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine are two firefighters. They are good friends. However, Larry is a widower (with two small children) and Chuck is single.

Larry dares Chuck one day to eat a dead rat, but he falls from the ladder that he was going to the drop the rat from. Chuck saves him but the two are rushed to the hospital and quickly recover. Larry calls in that favor big time when civic red tape prevents him from naming his two kids as his pension beneficiaries. All that Chuck has to do is claim to be Larry's domestic partner on some city forms. They think it will be easy because nobody will ever know. After Chuck agrees to the ruse (though reluctantly so, due in large part to his notorious womanizing), the two men go to Niagara Falls to get married, and Chuck moves in with Larry and his unsuspecting kids.

But an official becomes suspicious, and the new couple's arrangement becomes a citywide issue and goes from confidential to front-page news. Forced to improvise as love-struck newlyweds, Chuck and Larry must now fumble through a charade of domestic bliss under one roof. After surviving their mandatory honeymoon and dodging the threat of exposure, the well-intentioned con men discover that sticking together in your time of need is what truly makes a family.


I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry was a cute movie. Parts that made you lol. Parts that show what gay people have to put up with. The plotline was kinda dumb. But the cameos were all great. Plus Ving Rhames as a gay firefighter and naked in the shower. You can't really say no to that. It was also co-written by our very own Alexander Payne.

6/10

Punk:Attitude(Letts)

Punk: Attitude is a documentary on the history of punk rock in the USA and UK. The film traces the different styles of punk from their roots in 60s garage and psychedelic bands (Count Five, the Stooges) through glam-punk (New York Dolls) to the 70s New York and London scenes and into the hardcore present. Interviews with many of the musicians are edited with live clips and historical footage.

This was a pretty good documentary on punk rock and post punk and hardcore. I wish it focused a bit on some bands that I though needed to be focused on but other then that I really enjoyed it. Had some really cool people interviewed in it (Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore, Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene).

7/10


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