Palooza Presents...

[dell71]

Will post up reviews for (500) Days of Summer, Road to Perdition, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Adventureland and The Messenger tomorrow. Now it's time to get super duper hiiiiiiiigh.

Solid cross-section of flicks. Curious to see what you think about Road to Perdition.

 

[mgoblue2290]

Definitely agree Palooza, I wish there was more about the Basterds as well, like maybe a gun battle with the Nazi's in the orchard they were looking for or something.

 

[Palooza]

Palooza Presents...
Reviews
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER

Trailer:
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Directed by:
Marc Webb
Written by:
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Based off of:
n/a
Starring:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz, Clark Gregg, Matthew Gray Gubler
Genre:
Romantic Dramedy
Rating:
PG 13
Seen:
in the movies/on DVD​

Story:
500 Days in the relationship of Summer (Zooey Deschanel), an eccentric woman who doesn't believe in true love and Tom (Joseph Gordon Levitt) the greeting card writer who believes that love does exist and he's found it with her.

Positives:
Joseph Gordon Levitt as Tom - Tom's character is essentially every thing that we've seen from a female character in a romantic comedy, except the fact that Tom's beliefs are in a realistic, yet eccentric world created by Marc Webb, makes this movie much more than a romantic dramedy. The character of Tom is played perfectly by JGL. The many character arcs that Tom goes through are done with ease by Levitt. Hopefully this role will open up much bigger roles for Levitt, as he's been on top of the indie game for some time now. I will not be surprised if he wins an Oscar (or is at least nominated) within the next few years (if he isn't for 500 Days of Summer.

The music - Heelswxman would be proud of the music that plays throughout the movie. Between the over abundance of Smiths music and references plus the Hall and Oats, it's an "indie" music lover's dream.

Zooey Deschanel - oh my is she fun to look at. She's gorgeous even though besides her eyes, there is not one thing special about her. She once again shows off her pipes during a karaoke scene and sings a Smiths line or two, which makes her much more attractive.

the chemistry - This movie would not have worked if it hadn't been for the instant chemistry that was felt on screen from the second Tom and Summer met. Between Summer's beautiful blue eyes and independence and Tom's skinny ties and over-sized headphones, you truly felt these two were meant to be together from that first interaction in the elevator. Through everything that happens to the two of them, you truly feel that Tom deserves Summer and that Summer is deserving of Tom's love. Even from their last scene together, you understand that there should always be something there, regardless of whether or not it is love or just purely a friendship, even though both parties want different things.

the ending - I loved the realistic nature of the last few scenes in the movie. Between Summer and Tom's fall out to the role reversal we see in their last scene together. Add in the meeting of Autumn (Minka Kelly ohhh myyy ) I loved it.

Marc Webb - Everything Marc Webb did with this movie felt original. Although the movie may seem like the love child of movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and High Fidelity, it still felt like a breath of fresh air to me. Thanks to Marc Webb, the music, the reality/expectations scene, the ikea scene, the shifting through the timeline and the storytelling all felt genuine and new.

Narration - The voice of God narration makes this movie feel much more like a story, even with the jumping of the storyline. I'm not sure who the guy was, but from the second I heard his voice, I was sucked in.


Negatives:
It's hard to say what is truly bad about this movie.

Chloe Moretz as Rachel - Dell, like a few other people's reviews I have read, dislike the little sister character played by Chloe Moretz. I didn't really mind her the first 5 or so times I had watched this movie, but the last time I watched it (just finished about a half hour ago), I had thought about it every time she came on screen and I can completely understand where people were coming from. The wise beyond her years shtick gets old pretty quickly and after the soccer scene, I'd consider her annoying. I did think that they used her sparingly, which was smart. If any more of her, I think I would have noticed.

Summer - I loved her up until the scene on the bench. When she broke Tom's heart, I felt as though she broke mine. I shouldn't put this in the negative category, but god damnit, that was bitchy! The role reversal of the two characters is pretty much what saves me from hating Summer completely. She is now getting married, because she felt this man was the one, not Tom and Tom is left believing that if Summer wasn't the one, love does not exist.


Random Roles: You can see Chloe Moretz, Tom's sister, as Hit Girl in Matthew Vaughn's upcoming "superhero" flick, Kick Ass. The trailers of that movie alone blow her performance in this movie away, which was sadly a bit annoying.


Last word: PENIS!

Movie Rating : 9/10
Palooza Rating : 10/10



I'd also like to admit that I am easily entertained and that's why I've thrown both my own rating and a more realistic rating. I tend to overlook some bad things about a movie because I get so wrapped up, but I do understand what is bad about it.

 

[Palooza]

Palooza Presents...
Flick Chart -- Top 100

1. Donnie Darko

2. the Matrix

3. Boogie Nights

4.Snatch

5. The Big Lebowski

6. 25th Hour

7. Apocalypse Now

8. Requiem for a Dream*

9. Leon: the Professional*

10. Collateral

11. The Shawshank Redemption
12. the Dark Knight
13. Knocked Up
14. Dead Poets Society
15. Iron Man
16. Chinatown
17. LotR: TT
18. Batman Begins
19. Fight Club
20. Scarface
21. the Godfather
22. the Bourne Identity
23. the Wrestler
24. Saving Private Ryan
25. Pulp Fiction
26. From Dusk Till Dawn
27. LotR: RotK
28. Children of Men
29. Goodfellas
30. Full Metal Jacket
31. the Bourne Supremacy
32. the Boondock Saints
33. Gladiator
34. Black Hawk Down
35. Reservoir Dogs
36. the Godfather - Part 2
37. Office Space
38. 21 Grams
39. Munich
40. Kill Bill - Volume 2
41. Platoon
42. Silence of the Lambs
43. No Country For Old Men
44. Back to the Future
45. Fargo
46. Shaun of the Dead
47. Stand By Me
48. American Beauty
49. Casino Royale
50. Closer
51. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
52. A Few Good Men
53. 3:10 To Yuma (2007)
54. the Shining
55. JFK
56. Watchmen
57. Lord of War
58. Finding Nemo
59. Cloverfield
60. Blow
61. Ocean's 11
62. the Prestige
63. the Curious Case of Benjamin Button
64. the Goonies
65. Mystic River
66. Clerks
67. There Will Be Blood
68. True Romance
69. Memento
70. Run Lola Run
71. Babel
72. Pineapple Express
73. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
74. Cast Away
75. Enemy of the State
76. Mission: Impossible
77. Garden State
78. Batman
79. Home Alone
80. Zodiac
81. There's Something About Mary
82. Unforgiven
83. Catch Me If You Can
84. Gangs of New York
85. Taxi Driver
86. Kill Bill - Volume 1
87. Tropic Thunder
88. X-Men
89. Rocky
90. Sin City
91. Seven
92. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
93. Mission: Impossible III
94. 8 Mile
95. L.A. Confidential
96. Borat
97. 12 Monkeys
98. Road to Perdition
99. Blade Runner
100. the Hangover

* indicates new to the top 10.

 

[Buzzman]

With 500 Days of Summer, Im still blown away both Dell and you never mention the expectation vs Reality scene(which was my fav scene) or How appropiately they used The Graduate to compare Tom and Summer.

 

[Palooza]

With 500 Days of Summer, Im still blown away both Dell and you never mention the expectation vs Reality scene(which was my fav scene) or How appropiately they used The Graduate to compare Tom and Summer.

I briefly mentioned the reality/expectations scene. It was one of my favorites as well, but since it was so deep into the movie and revealed so much about where the relationship was going/had gone, I didn't want to spoil anything.

 

[Buzzman]

I really liked your review on Road to Perdition.......................o wait:shot:

:saythat:

 

[Nukleopatra]

I'm not taking this thread seriously until you review the following film.

Review - [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upBzxKz-j4w"]YouTube- GUILTY PLEASURES - SUBURBAN SASQUATCH[/ame]

 

[The Buddha]

Palooza Presents...
Reviews
THE HURT LOCKER

Trailer:
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Directed by:
Kathryn Bigelow
Written by:
Mark Boal
Based off of:
n/a
Starring:
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty; Evangeline Lilly, Guy Pearce, David Morse and Ralph Fiennes
Rated:
R
Seen:
Online​

Easily the best movie I've seen all year. The acting is spot-on and the one element of the film that I enjoyed the most was how it took the big name actors and placed them in the most minor of roles and even...

 

killed them off without any hesitation or removed them from the movie completely, even after a single 30 second scene with them in it.

What makes the movie is how realistic and gritty it feels. There is a sniper scene halfway through the movie where you will understand what I am talking about. There is no true plot, it is just about their experiences. While I am very much someone who likes to see a story unfold, I found that Kathryn Bigelow chose the best way to tell these men's story.

The movie is also unique in the way that it doesn't follow a traditional unit, it follows a group of explosive experts (Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty) whose job is to handle any situation where a bomb is found. The movie is VERY suspenseful, well acted and well directed. This is by far the best war movie based in Iraq that I've ever seen. I almost choked up at the end, but if you see the movie, you will understand where Kathryn Bigelow was coming from.

I don't want to give anything away, so I am keeping this short. If you only see one movie this year, this should be it. I truly found no flaws in this movie and it is one of the first movies I have ever understood the hype for.

Last word: Go fucking see this movie.

Rating : 10/10

I just watched this move (actually decided to check it out after seeing you give it so much props). It was a damn good movie, the sniper scene you were referring to was amazing. Probably one of my fav war movies.

 

[Diivox]

Thanks Palooza my unemployed ass totally killed a couple hours while i was sippin on my breakfast beer.

I agree with your review of Inglorious Basterds completely, even the end parts about needing more character development. But the movie is pulp tarantino, the performance by each and every person on the screen are fucking incredible. I mean, take away the lights, the sets, the costumes, all that shit, and fundamentally a director is there to get the best performance out of his people, and Tarantino does that with everybody, i mean everybody, from the butch chick at the bar to Shosanna's lover to "missyoulapadeet". I'm a tarantino guy to the bone, and this film is his masterpiece.

my only real complaint is that so much of it is in a foreign language. I hate to say it, but the lack of quotes from this movie is gonna keep it from being truly epic in the long run. I quote pulp fiction multiple times a day, and probably will for like, ever. the best dialogue is in a subtitle, which, duh i get it nazi germany/france, cant really be helped, but its the only chink in the armor of an otherwise masterful film.

 

[Buzzman]

you can still quote, the subtitles dont prevent you from saying it in English.

BTW, "Say goodbye to your Nazis BALLS!!!"

 

[I LastWish I]

where is this shit at

 

[Palooza]

where is this shit at

I am only able to access the internet for like a half hour a day at the school library, so once I can actually get some quality time with the internet I'll post the one million reviews I didn't post.

 

[Buzzman]

so you dont have access to a comp other then at school? WTF

 

[Palooza]

so you dont have access to a comp other then at school? WTF

I'm in college.
My laptop broke.
I haven't received the new one yet.
I have to use the biblioteca.

 

[Palooza]

Palooza Presents...
Reviews
ADVENTURELAND

Trailer:
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Directed by:
Greg Mottola
Written by:
Greg Mottola
Based off of:
n/a
Starring:
Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Reynolds, Matt Bush
Genre:
Comedy
Rating:
R
Seen:
In Theaters/DVD​

Story:
Instead of heading to Europe with his friend from school, James (Eisenberg) stays home for the summer and reluctantly works a job at an amusement park named Adventureland where he learns more in one summer about the real world than he did in four years at college.

Positives:
I think the label of "from the director of Superbad" did not help Greg Mottola's semi-autobiographical film. Considering 90% of movie-goers are semi-retarded , it's not surprising that people went into this movie looking for Superbad 2. The movie is raunchy, yes and it is funny, but it's nothing like Superbad. What separates this movie from Superbad are also the reasons why this is a superior movie (but not comedy).

For the first time in a long time, I sat down and watched a "comedy" that felt real. That felt as though these characters were three dimensional and not just recycled copies of cliches. Every character, no matter how small or minor felt as though they belonged in the world that Mottola created. This stems from the film's exploring of the inbetween life of a recently graduated student. Most of the characters [James (Eisenberg), Em (Kristen Stewart), Joel (Martin Starr)] are people dealing with the "what's next?" aspect of their lives that comes after graduating college. James thinks he has everything figured out, but when money becomes an issue for his family, he realizes that his wants are going to have to take a backseat to his needs. Each and every problem that all of the characters go through are very much related to real life.

Soundtracks can make a movie better than it truly is. There is something about great music that just automatically improves a scene. For example, in Adventureland, Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law" completely makes a scene where James is running through the park from a large, unsatisfied customer who wants nothing more than to beat him up.

Jesse Eisenberg shows Michael Cera how to quirky and awkward without looking like a bitch/faggot/weirdo.

Bill Hader is one of the funniest guys in "the business" today. He's even funnier when he is paired up with his Saturday Night Live coworker, Kristen Wiig. In this movie, they are hilarious as the owners of Adventureland, Bobby and Paulette. They have perfect chemistry as some of the only older characters in the movie. Between their ideas on how to save money for the park by creating their own stuffed animal prizes to Bobby's handling of situations (the guy who wants to beat up James, the litterer and when he takes over the game for James), each of them delivers, especially Bill Hader.

Negatives:
Greg Mottolla made this movie based on his own life in Long Island. Why the fuck would you substitute Long Island (as shitty as it is ) for a Pittsburgh suburb? I hate Pittsburgh and everything that has to do with it, so this obviously bothered me. The idea that James was so close to the city, yet so far away at the same time could have built on his wanting to escape from home.

I have no problems with Ryan Reynolds normally (sorry Nuk), but in this movie I fucking hated his character. Maybe because I've seen this movie close to 10 times and so I know everything this sneaky bastard is going to do. This may be intentionally done by the Greg Mottola, I don't know. This wasn't the case of where you hate a character so much you love them, i just fucking hated Conell. His character's true nature is shown in two instances of the song "Satellite of Love" by Lou Reed and both these instances showed me how much of a fraud this guy was and might have been the major factor in my hatred for him.



Random Roles: Rollover minutes boy Matt Bush plays Jesse Eisenberg's childhood friend, Frigo, who happens to be obnoxious and hilarious.

Last word: I've been to where they filmed this movie (Kennywood Park) and it sucks.

Movie Rating : 8/10
Palooza Rating : 9/10

 

[Palooza]

sidenote -- since I have a computer again, I am open to suggestions of both movies and tv shows to watch/review.

 

[I LastWish I]

sidenote -- since I have a computer again, I am open to suggestions of both movies and tv shows to watch/review.

Watch something horsecock

 

[Nukleopatra]

Dude, start watching some fucking movies.

I think I'll make a thread like this, too. I need to keep track of the shit I watch.

 

[Palooza]

Yeah, I was meaning to get into this, but I got high. And I got sucked into tv shows.

Maybe after I do the top 100.