Hal Hefner is a 15 year-old with a stuttering problem who is convinced to join the school debate team by debate queen/love interest Ginny. Hal can't quite get a word out at the debates, and he can' quite get the girl, who ends up transferring to a rival school. Wanting revenge, he seeks out Ginny's former debate partner/love interest, Ben Weksulbaum. Ben has dropped out of high school after freezing at state the previous year.
Pretty typical indie coming of age movie, with the standard quirky characters and awkward moments. This movie really annoyed me at first, especially because of Ginny who is always talking in debate mode. Most of the other supporting characters are pretty lame too, except for Ben and Lewis, the creepy kid who spies on Ginny from across the street.
It gets better towards the end, especially when Hal gets drunk and throws a cello through Ginny's window, which is a million times better then Cusack and his fucking boom box. I also liked when Hal and Ben get together to face off against Ginny. The two most likable characters against the most hated.
Anyway. Not great. Not terrible.
6 out of 10
Cloverfield Matt Reeves (2008)
Here's what this movie is like: It's like there's a hockey game on t.v. and I'm at my friends house and he's like "want to watch this?" and I'm like, "well not really" and he's like "come on it's really cool because the whole game is shown through a camera in one of the players helmets" and I'm kind of interested so we watch it and I admit some of the hits look cool and when the player with the helmet cam scores a goal it's kind of sweet but after awhile I'm just kind of bored because it's all kind of the same thing from the same angle with a only a few somewhat exciting parts. That's what Cloverfield is like. A hockey game from a helmet cam.
5 out of 10
The Rookie Clint Eastwood (1990)
The last movie Eastwood directed before he started caring about Oscars stars Charlie Sheen as the hot-headed rookie cop and Eastwood as the hot-headed veteran cop. They become partners and butt heads until Sheen messes up and Eastwood gets kidnapped.
It has some pretty sweet stuff like Sheen burning down a bar for some reason, and Eastwood driving out the window of the second story of a building as it explodes.
If you prefer Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby to Magnum Force and The Enforcer, this may not be for you. Otherwise it is pretty entertaining. Good dumb fun.
7 out of 10.
That's all for now. I'm just catching up.
3/150 movies
0/15 books
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