Harold and Kumar are on the way to Amsterdam but get mistaken for terrorists and are sent to Guantanomo Bay where (spoiler alert!) they escape and go on the run to find a guy who can help them (thank goodness they saw him at the airport!) and stop a wedding (thank goodness they saw her at the airport!).
I didn't have high (get it!) expectations when I saw the first one but I loved it. I thought it was hilarious even though I wasn't stoned when I saw it. The sequel just can't compare. It's the same deal with one crazy scenario after another, but each one seems to be just a weaker version of what we already saw in the first one. Neal Patrick Harris is back. The giant bag of weed is back. Even Christopher Meloni returns. But none of these things are as funny as the original.
It's weird that a movie about two guys going to get burgers had a better story then a movie about two guys escaping from prison and being pursued by the law. But that is the case. If you liked the first one, you will be disappointed. If you didn't like the first one, you will hate the sequel.
5.5/10
Doomsday dir. Neil Marshall
I saw this week and here is what I remember about the plot: it didn't really matter. The real point of this movie was to have a hot chick (Rhona Mitra) battle cannibals with mohawks, a giant covered in armor in a gladiator type arena, and a chase sequence where she ramps her car through a graffiti covered bus and a guy's head flies into the camera. Basically lots of cool stuff happens and there is some story about getting a cure for all these people or.... I don't know. It's stupid, but a bunch of badass stuff happens and Rhona Mitra is super hot. Good movie to have on at a party or something because I'm sure it's just as good if you can't hear anything, or if you miss chunks of the story.
7.5/10
True Romance dir. Tony Scott
Huge cast (Balki from "Perfect Strangers" has a bigger role than Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, and Tony Soprano) but Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are the stars of this violent love story written by Quentin Tarantino. Clarence (Slater) and Alabama (Arquette) steal a briefcase full of cocaine and try to unload it all at once before the gangsters they stole it from can catch them. Also features:
-- Brad Pitt smoking pot out of bear shaped honey bottle.
-- Val Kilmer as Elvis
-- Balki also has more screen time than Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, and a dreadlocked Gary Oldman.
Pretty Awesome. Tarantino's most hollywood-ish script is well taken care of by director Tony Scott (who hollywood-ed up the ending.)
9/10
Across The Universe dir. Julie Taymor
I couldn't watch this whole movie. A bunch of people sing Beatles songs, quote Beatles lyrics, and are named after Beatles characters. I like the Beatles, but I don't like watching actors sing their songs. It seems like people liked this movie, but it was too much for me.
4/10 on the off chance it got better.
Shotgun Stories dir. Jeff Nichols
Pretty standard indie drama. Three brothers (Son, Kid, and Boy) live together (Kid and Boy move in from their tent and van, respectively) when their mom comes to tell them their dad died. They "crash" the funeral, attended by the family their dad started after leaving his sons and finding God. They manage to piss off their half-brothers, and things eventually get ugly.
This movie would've been really good if it ended better. Two main characters die suddenly and one of them off camera. The film kind of stumbles towards an anti-climactic ending after that.
7/10
The Man Who Was Thursday (book) G. K. Chesterton
I saw in a magazine that said this was one of the funniest books ever. It's not. It was first published in 1908. It was probably the funniest book ever in 1908.
Anyway a guy working for the police infiltrates an Anarchist group of seven who all have days of the week for names. He finds out he is not the only undercover cop in the group, and things start getting predictable until the end which I had high hopes for, but was disappointed. There's supposedly some sort of Christian allegory but I didn't really get it.
6/10
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
After the war, friends get drunk and go to parties and bullfights. Pretty great.
9/10
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