I Love You, Man

Alright so, I totally got an awesome opportunity tonight - I got to see a private screening of a movie. This has not happened for me before. The movie? I Love You, Man.
Not only was this movie hilarious, but the actors were great, as was the story-line. Now, it is a little twist off of a combination of other movies but it is pretty original. The only problem I had with it, was that it took a bit too long to get to the climax of the story. Sure, it was great to see the friendship develop, but at the same time, I even caught myself looking at my watch. This rarely happens, as I am such an avidly fanatically-minded person, but when it does happen, it's for a reason. This time, it's because the development of Peter & Sydney's relationship took a bit too long.
However, as sexual as some of the jokes were, the costumes were fine, the lighting was great, transitions and shots were put together beautifully, and most of the wide frames were good. However, some of the moving wide frames were a little fuzzy, leaving the viewer confused as to if the editor was using footage from the area, or just used it as a fill, and the footage was from some place that had nothing to do with the setting.
All in all, this was a great film, though there could have been some improvement in certain areas for sure. However, for the current economic situation, this film did well on it's budget (presumably). There were definitely some memorable quotes from this movie, though; "Give some back", "You whore!", and course, "I'd like to make a spee-- NO!!!!"
So, until next time--

Epic Movie

A complete and total waste of an hour and a half. Seriously. The only good part of the movie were SOME of the costumes. The movie took parts of Narnia, Harry Potter, Snakes on a Plane, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The DaVinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, X-Men, Nacho Libre, MTV's Cribs, Click, some Jackie Chan moves, Flavor of Love, Borat, Star Wars, James Bond, and of course American Pie. I am sure there are more that I missed, but as I said, it was a waste of time, and I barely paid attention to it.
However, I decided to stick it out. The filming was pretty bad, although a lot of the accents were good. The costumes for the Narnia part were fairly accurate, and Chewbacca and the Storm Troopers were correct (minus Chewbacca's blue hair, of course). However, the outfits for the Charlie/Chocolate Factory were totally off (Willy Wonka looked REALLY creepy), the Oompa-Loompas were just WRONG, the shots of the entire movie were okay, could have been better, and the transitional shots were, well, practically non-existent.
One major part of the movie where it is obvious that this film is terrible, is where "Aslo" and "Silas" are fighting 'Jackie Chan style'. Aslo, played by Fred Willard, is replaced by some Asian guy, who can actually do the moves, and the shots clearly show his face, making it obvious the editor and director were not paying much attention to the shots being taken.
I was also very disappointed that Jennifer Coolidge stooped down to take this part. She played the "White Bitch" (parody of Narnia's White Witch), and, although she was amazing, as always, I still can not believe that she took this mediocre part. Within taking this part though, she reprised her role as "Stiffler's Mom". This is made self-evident by "Edward's" (Kal Penn, Harold & Kumar and now, House - he's awesome!) line, "Oh man, Stiffler's Mom!" Also, there is a shot from Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, wherein "Edward" says, "I have a feeling I've been here before," and later another character calls him Kumar.
You would think that the director/producer would have tried to make some of the parodies more subtle. But then again, this movie just goes to show how terrible movie really can be.

That's the end of my review. I don't want to waste any more time on this crappy film.
So, until next time--