I'd been waiting to see this movie for a long long time, and I almost didn't see it in the theaters because it really wasn't playing anywhere local. But CJ and I decided to push and headed all the way out to the Hollywood Hits Discount Theater, which is a rip off, because it's really not that discounted at all. Hanover is much cheaper. BEWARE THE HOLY SPOILERS.
7-14-04 "Saved!"
Notes from the Red Book
trailers-"Mean Girls", "Napolean Dynamite"
CJs excited
abortion clinic scene kinda wrong
ok, short shorts like those would NOT be allowed
Emmanuel shooting range-"An eye for and eye"
your differently-ableness
Mandy is very...militant....reminds me of.....hmmmmm
"Let's get our CHRIST on!"
"We're gonna kick it Jesus-style!" (oh! STOLEN from DCTalk!)
"Are you DOWN with G-O-D?"
internal prayer monologues
I like Pastor Skip...what's the catch.
"It's all about population of the planet, and don't get jiggy with it until you're married."
"Not born a gay, born again."
"No, I was thinking something a little less gangsta."
Exorcist theme! Classic!
"Last year I got saved so I could go on the ski trip."
gold loincloth....ugh
"It is not cool in the eyes of God"
Huh...she lost her halo.
Looks like Skip's had a rough night.
Ok. Ok. This review is going to an interesting one to write, and I have to gear myself up for it. Ok. All right, first off, to anyone who doesn't know, I'm a born-again Christian. Yes, I am proud to admit it, it changed my life and I am happy to be one. That being said, I amso glad I went to see this movie, even though every Christian south of the Mason-Dixon line was running around screaming about how awful it was. I thought this was a fantastic movie. But let me recap the movie first, before I start in on what I thought.
This movie is about a Christian girl named Mary, played by Jena Malone, who became a Christian when she was three, and was raised in a Christian home. She has the perfect Christian boyfriend, and the perfect Christian friends, and is about to start her perfect senior year at a Christian high school. Then she finds out her boyfriend is gay. So she decides to try and "de-gayify" him by having sex with him. It doesn't work, Mary ends up pregnant, and her boyfriend, Dean, gets sent to a half-way house. Mary can't understand why God would mess up her life like this, and soon her perfect Christian friends are ostracizing her because she is suffering from a crisis of faith. She is also trying to hide her pregnancy. She finds help from the school outcasts, one of which is wheelchair bound Roland (Macaulay Culkin), who happens to be the brother of Hillary Faye (Mandy Moore), Mary's former best friend. He also happens to be an athiest. The other is Cassandra, the only Jewish kid in the entire school. Mary also finds a new boyfriend in Patrick, the skateboarding son of the school's hip principal, Pastor Skip. Eventually, her pregnancy becomes known, and Mary and her new friends must find a way to stay in school and end the year well.
They acting was fabulous in this movie. It was the first time I'd seen Macaulay Culkin in anything in years, and he did a great job, meaning, I forgot I was watching Mac, I was so absorbed in his character. Jena Malone I had seen a few times before in things like Contact and Stepmom, and this was a real stretch for her. Glad to say, she stretched well. Mandy Moore did a Jekyll and Hyde thing from her performance in A Walk to Remember, and it was just eerie. I mean, she was CREEPY. The script was well written, someone had obviously done their homework. But, the main problem I had with this movie I have heard echoed by other Christian movie reviewers...there was no balance. All we saw were "bad" Christians. The only ones who showed Mary love were the Jewish kid and the athiest kid. I really wish we had seen a strong, loving, Christian-we're not all bad!
I will be the first to admit I am not the perfect Christian. Is there such a thing? I mean, we all make mistakes. But the Christians in the movie were portrayed as more akin to Pharisees and hypocrites. More about giving off an Christian look, than about acting as a true Christian would, out of love. That was the main argument CJ and I both had. I lost count of how many times we turned to each other and said, well, I would have done it this way, or I would have said this, or acted this way. But who can say until we're put in the position? I like to think I would have acted a certain way. I mean, I've never bombed an abortion clinic. I have friends who are Jewish, athiest, what have you and that doesn't mean I can't be friends with them because they believe a different thing than I do. I certainly wouldn't bar them from my life. Unless they were Satanist, that I would have a problem with. But I'm digressing all over myself.
I tried to put myself into the character's shoes. I'm a youth leader at my church, and if I had found out one of my teens was gay, and another one was pregnant because of trying to "help" him...it would be a problem, yes. I'm sure I know of some teens who would act the same way as Hillary Faye put in the situation. As a matter of fact, Hillary Faye reminded me so strongly of someone I know, it kinda freaked me out.
As a Christian, I believe that making a decision to ask Christ for forgiveness for the wrong things in your life and following his teachings is an important one. But this belief has become so politically incorrect, I am not as forward with my beliefs as I should be. I will willingly share them with anyone, and most, if not all of my friends know of my Christian beliefs. If you want to know more, I will gladly tell you. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that many Christians live in a bubble, with their Christian music and their Christian friends, their Christian T shirts and their Christian movies. What they don't realize is that they're never gonna reach anyone unless they come out of the bubble! The large majority of people are not going to come to the bubble on their own, so we have to leave the bubble to come to them. That was the mistake Hillary Faye made. She was so stuck in the bubble, so stubborn about leaving, that she was really building walls to keep her people in and everyone else out.
People have said this movie promotes tolerance. It does. Do I agree with tolerance? To a degree. I will tolerate things, but I will not condone them. For example, I tolerate abortion because it is legal and I must. But I do NOT agree with it in any way shape or form, for several reasons, one of which being I think there are too many childless couples to waste human life like that. BUT...I also understand that not everyone in this world has a Christian viewpoint, and I cannot force them to believe like I do...only explain to them WHY I believe what I do. I leave the decisions on what to decide up to them. It's like what I do with teens...I offer counsel, give examples from my own experience, and I'm not afraid to say I don't know if I DON'T know. But I do offer to help them find answers. And I pray, which helps a great deal more than some would think.
Wow...that was a lot more than I planned to say. Anyway. It was a great movie, I really liked it. It's the kind of movie I would LOVE to show on movie night at my church...but probably couldn't get away with it. But see it, by all means. You might discover something more about yourself....and those "crazy fundamentalist whacko Christians". And the gospel was shared...sorta!
Until the next time this is Sarah saying, "I crashed my LIFE into JESUS!"
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
7/13/04 "Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy"
Movie Night with Niki again, yay! It's been so long...and she drove down because she said I drove up the past few times and it was her turn...I love my friend. BEWARE THE GROOVY SPOILERS.
7-13-04 "Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy"
Notes from the Red Book
trailers-saw the tail end of something called "Collateral"? We got to the theater late and were darn lucky just to be seated together.
"God, I look good. Everyone, come and see how good I look!"
"By the beard of Zeus!"
lots of random undies at that party
"You have a breathtaking heinie. I wanna make friends with it."
jammies and headgear
"Are you paying attention, Ron?" "Nope."
"LOUD NOISES!"
Vince Vaughn!=Wes Mantooth
"We could have some chicken, some sex."
cologne closet
"That smells like a used diaper filled with Indian food!"
"It smells like a turd covered in burnt hair!"
jazz flute?
"Take me to Pleasure Town!"
"I friggin love you!" "I friggin love you, too!"
Afternoon Delight
odd uneven mustache
crazy cat show
Jack Black!
"I'm in a glass cage of emotion!"
"I'm gonna punch you in the ovary. Yup, right in the baby-maker."
Luke Wilson! Tim Robbins! BEN STILLER!
"Son of a bee-sting!"
"No touching of the hair or face."
Planet of the Apes, Spartacus riffs
"You POOP mouth!"
Superman quick change in bathroom
"Newsteam ASSEMBLE!"
"I'm riding a big, furry tractor!"
Oh, this movie was a stitch. I heard one critic say "This is the movie you'll be quoting the rest of the summer." So right on. I've already used the ovaries line about a dozen times.
So, this movie takes place in the seventies, in San Diego, and it focuses on a news team, headed by Ron Burgundy, the man's man, played by Will Ferrell. He, and all his news room cohorts, are all huge male chauvanist pigs. So when Christina Applegate, who plays Veronica Corningstone, arrives to join the news staff, she finds herself the butt of all their jokes. Her biggest dream is to the first woman anchor, which the men think is hilarious. But when Ron has a run in with a biker and can't make the 6 o'clock news, Veronica covers for him and does a splendid job. She is hired on as his coanchor, much to the chagrin and dismay of Ron and his sexist friends. A war of words and practical jokes begins, and when Veronica takes advatage of the fact that Ron reads EVERYTHING that appears on the teleprompter, he is fired. Will he regain his anchor position? Will he and Veronica ever date again? Will he best the other anchors and keep his ratings? Tune in and find out!
Will Ferrell is so darn funny. The guy is the most amusing person I've seen in movies since Mike Myers. I really really need to hunt down some old SNL reruns and catch some of his past action. All I've ever really seen him do were the Spartan cheerleaders,Alex Trebek, and the "Cowbell" sketch. Christina Applegate seems to be keeping a career nicely, if not widely. I was mainly impressed with her ability to deliver the snappy comebacks. I found myself thinking, wow...I wish I could do that. Of course, the writers write hers for her, but she still delivered them wonderfully. But the guy who really stole the show was Steve Carell, the weatherman with an IQ of 48. Will some one please give thisguy more to do?? After seeing him as Evan in Bruce Almighty and now as Brick...riding a big furry tractor...I about died. The guy is TALENTED.
I don't know why I loved this movie, and hated "Old School" and loved "Elf". They all had the same guy...oh well. This movie was worth it just for the "Rumble" scene between the rivalling newsteams. I spotted "Spartacus" and "Planet of the Apes" riffs in there...brilliant. Also the funniest darn scene in the movie. Niki and I frist thought it was some sort of odd dream sequence...and when it wasn't, we just shrugged and went with it. And it was fun to see random cameos by Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jack Black, and Luke Wilson. I heard someone refer to them as "the comedic Rat Pack"...could be...until someone thinks up a better name than that. Any ideas?
Until the next time, this is Sarah saying, "Stay Classy, Massachusetts."
7-13-04 "Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy"
Notes from the Red Book
trailers-saw the tail end of something called "Collateral"? We got to the theater late and were darn lucky just to be seated together.
"God, I look good. Everyone, come and see how good I look!"
"By the beard of Zeus!"
lots of random undies at that party
"You have a breathtaking heinie. I wanna make friends with it."
jammies and headgear
"Are you paying attention, Ron?" "Nope."
"LOUD NOISES!"
Vince Vaughn!=Wes Mantooth
"We could have some chicken, some sex."
cologne closet
"That smells like a used diaper filled with Indian food!"
"It smells like a turd covered in burnt hair!"
jazz flute?
"Take me to Pleasure Town!"
"I friggin love you!" "I friggin love you, too!"
Afternoon Delight
odd uneven mustache
crazy cat show
Jack Black!
"I'm in a glass cage of emotion!"
"I'm gonna punch you in the ovary. Yup, right in the baby-maker."
Luke Wilson! Tim Robbins! BEN STILLER!
"Son of a bee-sting!"
"No touching of the hair or face."
Planet of the Apes, Spartacus riffs
"You POOP mouth!"
Superman quick change in bathroom
"Newsteam ASSEMBLE!"
"I'm riding a big, furry tractor!"
Oh, this movie was a stitch. I heard one critic say "This is the movie you'll be quoting the rest of the summer." So right on. I've already used the ovaries line about a dozen times.
So, this movie takes place in the seventies, in San Diego, and it focuses on a news team, headed by Ron Burgundy, the man's man, played by Will Ferrell. He, and all his news room cohorts, are all huge male chauvanist pigs. So when Christina Applegate, who plays Veronica Corningstone, arrives to join the news staff, she finds herself the butt of all their jokes. Her biggest dream is to the first woman anchor, which the men think is hilarious. But when Ron has a run in with a biker and can't make the 6 o'clock news, Veronica covers for him and does a splendid job. She is hired on as his coanchor, much to the chagrin and dismay of Ron and his sexist friends. A war of words and practical jokes begins, and when Veronica takes advatage of the fact that Ron reads EVERYTHING that appears on the teleprompter, he is fired. Will he regain his anchor position? Will he and Veronica ever date again? Will he best the other anchors and keep his ratings? Tune in and find out!
Will Ferrell is so darn funny. The guy is the most amusing person I've seen in movies since Mike Myers. I really really need to hunt down some old SNL reruns and catch some of his past action. All I've ever really seen him do were the Spartan cheerleaders,Alex Trebek, and the "Cowbell" sketch. Christina Applegate seems to be keeping a career nicely, if not widely. I was mainly impressed with her ability to deliver the snappy comebacks. I found myself thinking, wow...I wish I could do that. Of course, the writers write hers for her, but she still delivered them wonderfully. But the guy who really stole the show was Steve Carell, the weatherman with an IQ of 48. Will some one please give thisguy more to do?? After seeing him as Evan in Bruce Almighty and now as Brick...riding a big furry tractor...I about died. The guy is TALENTED.
I don't know why I loved this movie, and hated "Old School" and loved "Elf". They all had the same guy...oh well. This movie was worth it just for the "Rumble" scene between the rivalling newsteams. I spotted "Spartacus" and "Planet of the Apes" riffs in there...brilliant. Also the funniest darn scene in the movie. Niki and I frist thought it was some sort of odd dream sequence...and when it wasn't, we just shrugged and went with it. And it was fun to see random cameos by Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jack Black, and Luke Wilson. I heard someone refer to them as "the comedic Rat Pack"...could be...until someone thinks up a better name than that. Any ideas?
Until the next time, this is Sarah saying, "Stay Classy, Massachusetts."
Friday, July 09, 2004
7/9/04 "King Arthur"
Ok, so we were SUPPOSED to go see "Anchorman", except it was sold out. So we went to see this instead. BEWARE THE LEGENDARY SPOILERS.
7/9/04 "King Arthur"
Notes From the Red Book
trailers-"Alexander", "Without a Paddle" (Seth Green AND Matthew Lillard-let the chaos commence), "Ladder 49", "The Village" (I'm DYING to see this movie. No pun, no pun!)
ok, so far this is Braveheart wanna be...not too impressed
Who plays Lancelot..he's kinda hot
"I'm gonna drink til I can't piss straight."
Who is Galahad?
hmmmm...Arthur prays for his pagan knights....huh...even offers his life in exchange.
No human should fear to kneel before his faith.
interesting look at first century Christianity
sword in stone-father's burial mound
"Those Saxons are so close behind my arse is hurting."
Ugh...Keira too young for Arthur.
Lancelot/Saxon death by sword/arrow-funny
cool soundtrack
Stonehendge of course
Ok, this movie I had heard both good and bad things about, but it was one of those ones I had to see for myself to judge. It's a new take on the King Arthur legends. This version has Arthur being born in Britain, but raised as a Roman soldier. He is a good and fair man, believeing, as he was taught by his teacher, that all men are created equal. He is also a Christian, which puts him sometimes at odds with his pagan knights, who were conscripted into his service. These include Lancelot, Boors, Galahad, and Gawain. After being in Arthur's service for fifteen years, they are finally to be granted their freedom...but Rome has one last job for them to do. Arthur and his knights must trek across country to evacuate a Roman senator and his family from their home and keep them from harm at the hands of the vicious Saxons, headed be Stellan Skarsgard (whom I totally thought was Geoffrey Rush the whole movie, but I digress).
Guinevere pops up as a Celtic Xena-like battle queen and Merlin as a sort of Druid shaman of the Celts. Lots of blue facepaint abounds. Lots of battles. Arthur and Guinevere get married in the end at Stonehenge.
Ok, not a bad movie, but not a great one either. This film was basically a Braveheart wanna-be. But it never quite hit the emotional vein that Braveheart did. Oh, it came close a couple of times, but it just didn't stick by you in the same way. The battle scenes were mediocre, but then, after Return of the King, ALL battle scenes not hand crafted by Weta are mediocre.
Guinevere sort of irked. I kept going back and forth on whether I liked her or not. I just had a really hard time getting the virginal, lady-in-waiting version of Guinevere out of my head. But on the other hand, it was rather cool to see her stand as an equal with Arthur. And the traditional love triangle between her, Arthur, and Lancelot was almost non-existent. The most the movie made of this was a few looks between Lancelot and Guinevere as if to say, "Hey...you're pretty interesting. I'd like to know you better." But nothing ever comes of it. Oh, and the sex scene was just CREEPY. I really felt this Guinevere was too young for Arthur and that just made it uuuugggggllly.
Arthur's Christianity was interesting. He obviously relied a great deal on his faith in God, even when his closest friends were pagan worshippers. But, his faith did not keep him from sleeping with Guinevere before they were married...or marrying outside his Christianity. But, perhaps he was disillusioned due to the atrocities he witnessed others carrying out in Christ's name during the course of the movie. I found it very touching how he prayed for his men even though they held no belief in his God.
Ok, spoiler here-when Lancelot dies, I laughed right out loud...it was too funny, I couldn't help it. He gets an arrow in the chest from the Saxon guy, and then he turns around and hucks his sword in the guy's chest! It was like he was saying, "Oh yeah? Well, well, screw you! Take THAT!" It was funny, and I felt kinda bad, because I know it was supposed to be sad...oh well.
Personally,my favorite King Arthur movie is Excalibur. It just feels right, it feels like the legend we all know. But my favorite King Arthur is Sean Connery. Because if any man was born to play King Arthur, it's Sean Connery. But Nigel Terry is a REAL close second.
So see it if it sounds interesting, but it's different..just warning ya.
Until the next time, this is Sarah saying, "Excalibur's better."
7/9/04 "King Arthur"
Notes From the Red Book
trailers-"Alexander", "Without a Paddle" (Seth Green AND Matthew Lillard-let the chaos commence), "Ladder 49", "The Village" (I'm DYING to see this movie. No pun, no pun!)
ok, so far this is Braveheart wanna be...not too impressed
Who plays Lancelot..he's kinda hot
"I'm gonna drink til I can't piss straight."
Who is Galahad?
hmmmm...Arthur prays for his pagan knights....huh...even offers his life in exchange.
No human should fear to kneel before his faith.
interesting look at first century Christianity
sword in stone-father's burial mound
"Those Saxons are so close behind my arse is hurting."
Ugh...Keira too young for Arthur.
Lancelot/Saxon death by sword/arrow-funny
cool soundtrack
Stonehendge of course
Ok, this movie I had heard both good and bad things about, but it was one of those ones I had to see for myself to judge. It's a new take on the King Arthur legends. This version has Arthur being born in Britain, but raised as a Roman soldier. He is a good and fair man, believeing, as he was taught by his teacher, that all men are created equal. He is also a Christian, which puts him sometimes at odds with his pagan knights, who were conscripted into his service. These include Lancelot, Boors, Galahad, and Gawain. After being in Arthur's service for fifteen years, they are finally to be granted their freedom...but Rome has one last job for them to do. Arthur and his knights must trek across country to evacuate a Roman senator and his family from their home and keep them from harm at the hands of the vicious Saxons, headed be Stellan Skarsgard (whom I totally thought was Geoffrey Rush the whole movie, but I digress).
Guinevere pops up as a Celtic Xena-like battle queen and Merlin as a sort of Druid shaman of the Celts. Lots of blue facepaint abounds. Lots of battles. Arthur and Guinevere get married in the end at Stonehenge.
Ok, not a bad movie, but not a great one either. This film was basically a Braveheart wanna-be. But it never quite hit the emotional vein that Braveheart did. Oh, it came close a couple of times, but it just didn't stick by you in the same way. The battle scenes were mediocre, but then, after Return of the King, ALL battle scenes not hand crafted by Weta are mediocre.
Guinevere sort of irked. I kept going back and forth on whether I liked her or not. I just had a really hard time getting the virginal, lady-in-waiting version of Guinevere out of my head. But on the other hand, it was rather cool to see her stand as an equal with Arthur. And the traditional love triangle between her, Arthur, and Lancelot was almost non-existent. The most the movie made of this was a few looks between Lancelot and Guinevere as if to say, "Hey...you're pretty interesting. I'd like to know you better." But nothing ever comes of it. Oh, and the sex scene was just CREEPY. I really felt this Guinevere was too young for Arthur and that just made it uuuugggggllly.
Arthur's Christianity was interesting. He obviously relied a great deal on his faith in God, even when his closest friends were pagan worshippers. But, his faith did not keep him from sleeping with Guinevere before they were married...or marrying outside his Christianity. But, perhaps he was disillusioned due to the atrocities he witnessed others carrying out in Christ's name during the course of the movie. I found it very touching how he prayed for his men even though they held no belief in his God.
Ok, spoiler here-when Lancelot dies, I laughed right out loud...it was too funny, I couldn't help it. He gets an arrow in the chest from the Saxon guy, and then he turns around and hucks his sword in the guy's chest! It was like he was saying, "Oh yeah? Well, well, screw you! Take THAT!" It was funny, and I felt kinda bad, because I know it was supposed to be sad...oh well.
Personally,my favorite King Arthur movie is Excalibur. It just feels right, it feels like the legend we all know. But my favorite King Arthur is Sean Connery. Because if any man was born to play King Arthur, it's Sean Connery. But Nigel Terry is a REAL close second.
So see it if it sounds interesting, but it's different..just warning ya.
Until the next time, this is Sarah saying, "Excalibur's better."
7/6/04 "Dodgeball: a True Underdog Story"
Ok, this movie was pretty much what I expected-complete and utter foolishness on the scale of Old School. But, CJ really wanted to see it, so, we did. BEWARE THE STUPID SPOILERS.
7/6/04 "Dodgeball"
Notes From the Red Book
trailers-I have no idea...we got to the theater late just as the movie was beginning.
Ben Stiller is BUILT
guy from Office Space
pirate Steve?.....ok....weird
Ben Stiller's spandex...oy
scary cut out Ben Stiller w/ freaky eyes
pump up package? sigh...
camera in cut out eyes! good call by CJ
"L for LOVE!"
Troop 417-"You're all adopted, your parents don't even love you!"
It's Booger!
Drug screen-good call by me
"I didn't think Nazi camp got over until 8."
"we will...we WILL..rock you."
"You're about as useful as a poopy flavored lollypop."- (I just have to say, this one line made the movie worthwhile.)
"Time to put your mouth where our balls are."
"Nobody makes me bleed my own blood."
It looks like the eighties threw up in her house.
ESPN 8-the Ocho...if it's almost a sport, we've got it.
Jason Bateman is a spaz (and the second reason the movie was worth going to see.)
David Hasselhoff!!!!
Lumberjacks, Kamikazes, the Skillz that killz....She-mullets??
Is that a hickey on her neck?
Lance Armstrong!!
SHATNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHUCKNORRIS!!!!
"Thank you, Chuck Norris!"
Ok, this review is going to be short, because this movie was ultra silly and really had no redeeming film qualities except for the random star cameos, Jason Bateman, and the great line "You're about as useful as a poopy-flavored lollypop."
The plot, which was pretty much given away in the trailer, centers around two gyms-a snobby high tech gym where the people are full of themselves, and a crappy, rundown gym where everyone loves you just the way you are. Of course the run down gym, owned by Vince Vaughn, is going to run into problems with the the rich gym, owned by Ben Stiller. Ben Stiller wants to take over Vince Vaughn's gym. So the run down gym enters a dodgeball tourney in Vegas to win the money to save their gym from destruction. And of course they win. And if you think I've spoiled the ending of this for you, you can't really tell me that you thought they were going to lose. Come now. Honestly.
Ben Stiller was pretty funny, but a bit manic for the role. He was really built tho, which you don't usually see and was quite nice. Vince Vaughn was ok...just ok. But the star cameos were the best. CJ and I were constantly going, BOOGER! SHATNER! HASSELHOFF! CHUCK NORRIS! Yeah, that was us making all the noise down in front. What can I say? The movie was boring and we were amusing ourselves. Don't come with us next time. And I can never, never see Christine Taylor without thinking, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! And there was this scene in the trailer where Ben was showing Vince his cowboy cardio class...and it was missing...huh.
The movie is one of those mindless humor movies which you go to when you've had a long day at work and there was nothing good for lunch in the cafe, and CVS didn't put your pictures on disk like you asked them too and you had to work late and spilled soda on your shorts and the candy bars you snuck into the theater melted all over your bag and to top everything off, you're still exhausted from your crazy Fourth of July weekend. I probably wouldn't have gone if I was in the mood for a REAL movie. So, yeah...skip it. But most of you probably know that already. Unless you have some extra brain cells you don't care about, then by all means, attend. But if you have that much brain matter you don't care about, then you probably didn't need me to tell you to go see it, because you probably already have.
Until the next time, this is Sarah saying, "This MOVIE was as useful as a poopy-flavored lollypop."
7/6/04 "Dodgeball"
Notes From the Red Book
trailers-I have no idea...we got to the theater late just as the movie was beginning.
Ben Stiller is BUILT
guy from Office Space
pirate Steve?.....ok....weird
Ben Stiller's spandex...oy
scary cut out Ben Stiller w/ freaky eyes
pump up package? sigh...
camera in cut out eyes! good call by CJ
"L for LOVE!"
Troop 417-"You're all adopted, your parents don't even love you!"
It's Booger!
Drug screen-good call by me
"I didn't think Nazi camp got over until 8."
"we will...we WILL..rock you."
"You're about as useful as a poopy flavored lollypop."- (I just have to say, this one line made the movie worthwhile.)
"Time to put your mouth where our balls are."
"Nobody makes me bleed my own blood."
It looks like the eighties threw up in her house.
ESPN 8-the Ocho...if it's almost a sport, we've got it.
Jason Bateman is a spaz (and the second reason the movie was worth going to see.)
David Hasselhoff!!!!
Lumberjacks, Kamikazes, the Skillz that killz....She-mullets??
Is that a hickey on her neck?
Lance Armstrong!!
SHATNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHUCKNORRIS!!!!
"Thank you, Chuck Norris!"
Ok, this review is going to be short, because this movie was ultra silly and really had no redeeming film qualities except for the random star cameos, Jason Bateman, and the great line "You're about as useful as a poopy-flavored lollypop."
The plot, which was pretty much given away in the trailer, centers around two gyms-a snobby high tech gym where the people are full of themselves, and a crappy, rundown gym where everyone loves you just the way you are. Of course the run down gym, owned by Vince Vaughn, is going to run into problems with the the rich gym, owned by Ben Stiller. Ben Stiller wants to take over Vince Vaughn's gym. So the run down gym enters a dodgeball tourney in Vegas to win the money to save their gym from destruction. And of course they win. And if you think I've spoiled the ending of this for you, you can't really tell me that you thought they were going to lose. Come now. Honestly.
Ben Stiller was pretty funny, but a bit manic for the role. He was really built tho, which you don't usually see and was quite nice. Vince Vaughn was ok...just ok. But the star cameos were the best. CJ and I were constantly going, BOOGER! SHATNER! HASSELHOFF! CHUCK NORRIS! Yeah, that was us making all the noise down in front. What can I say? The movie was boring and we were amusing ourselves. Don't come with us next time. And I can never, never see Christine Taylor without thinking, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! And there was this scene in the trailer where Ben was showing Vince his cowboy cardio class...and it was missing...huh.
The movie is one of those mindless humor movies which you go to when you've had a long day at work and there was nothing good for lunch in the cafe, and CVS didn't put your pictures on disk like you asked them too and you had to work late and spilled soda on your shorts and the candy bars you snuck into the theater melted all over your bag and to top everything off, you're still exhausted from your crazy Fourth of July weekend. I probably wouldn't have gone if I was in the mood for a REAL movie. So, yeah...skip it. But most of you probably know that already. Unless you have some extra brain cells you don't care about, then by all means, attend. But if you have that much brain matter you don't care about, then you probably didn't need me to tell you to go see it, because you probably already have.
Until the next time, this is Sarah saying, "This MOVIE was as useful as a poopy-flavored lollypop."
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