Category: Movies

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

They really flipped the whole series upside-down with this one.

Rating: ɥɐd ɟo ʇno nɥɔ

Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)

The original was more solid overall; but this one is still fully functional.  I figured it would all be downhill after the first.  I guess I’ll see when I get to the rest.

Big Hero 6 (2014)

I didn’t know this was a comic book first.

It’s certainly much different from the comic book.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Jason has spent a lot more time taking boat than he has taking Manhattan.

That dog has been missing all this time and it just suddenly reappears for the life boat.  And now the dog is gone again…

Jason may have saved the girl from rape; but he was too late to save her from aids needle.

OK, that dumpster shot was too perfect.

YEEEEEES! It took way too long for that sorry old s.o.b. to die!

Oh no no no you silly goobers.  Electricity doesn’t bring Jason to death, electricity brings Jason to life.

Still waiting for the dog to show up again.

That’s…one of the goofier looking Jason faces.

WAT…he just turns into a normal human??  And I thought Jason’s face was always messed up, even when he was still alive originally?  Oh well.

Bingo! And THERE’S the dog!

Rating: Sex, drugs, & rock and roll.  Unmistakably 80s.

Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)

That was a surprise when James Randi showed up.

I thought it was amusing that P&T do a show at Trump’s casino.

Rating: Three of Clubs

New Nightmare (1994)

The plot overview on Wikipedia made this sound really stupid; but, it all works out quite well.

I wonder if all the actors who were playing themselves had greater freedom to ad-lib or reword their own lines to better match their own speech patterns, or if they all had to follow the script exactly as it was written?

Tremors (1990)

Rating: 9.5 Richter magnitude

The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

This is one of those anime where there are two options for English subtitles.  One matches the English audio, and the other, I assume, is the literal Japanese translation.  I like watching with English audio and translated subtitles on at the same time to see just how far off base they got with the dub.

Every once in a while there’s a perfect match where they actually say the same thing; but most of the time everything is reworded, and occasionally there’s a completely different conversation going on from one to the other.

Anyway, I’m hoping the next Ghibli film I pop in has a completely original story instead of being “inspired by” or “based on” something else.

Rango (2011)

So Johnny Depp is a lizard now.  Or maybe he’s been a lizard all along?  He could be one of THEM; that would explain his rampant success all these years, and…wait…what’s that knocking at the door?  Is someone the

NEVER MIND. GO BACK TO YOUR NORMAL HUMAN LIVES. EVERYTHING IS FINE.  THERE IS NO ONE AT THE DOOR. THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY.

THE CHARACTER OF WAFFLES IS MOST DEFINITELY THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE FILM.

WHEN RANGO SCREAMS HE SOMETIMES SOUNDS LIKE KERMIT THE FROG.  THIS IS SILLY.  FROGS ARE NOT LIZARDS.

RATING: FIVE DAYS OF WATER

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Well, that was a thing.

I guess I should have read the back of the box first; that would have explained a lot.

A different name would have helped; I was expecting a new adaptation, along the lines of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

This is more like if Return to Oz were just called The Wizard of Oz.

Rating: 10/6