Director:

George Roy Hill

Starring:

Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith Osborne, and Kevin O’Morrison

Rating: Pg

Genre:Chevy Chase-arific, Feel good comedy

Premise:

Andy Farmer(Chase), a sports writer attempting to write a great American Novel, moves from the hustle and bustle of the city with his wife Elizabeth Farmer(Osborne) to a quaint country town in Vermont to focus on his writing and building a family. But like any Chevy Chase movie, he runs into trouble with the towns people, jeopardizing his living situation, career, and even relationship, humorously of course.

Review:

A typical Chevy Chase movie, and if you don’t know what we mean by that here it goes:

Slap-stick humor, miscommunication humor, very little potty humor, yet good vibes all around. The movie does a great job of exemplifying murphy’s law in a tasteful and hilarious fashion, and of course it has a unicorn-jumping-over-a-rainbow-daddy-isn’t-leaving-mommy-yay! happy ending. The film often times had us waiting in suspense for the next thing to go wrong, sometimes with us yelling out what we thought would happen.  We’ were usually right, sugary comedies are meant to be predictable.

One of our only qualms with the film is the amount of dated material and subject matter.  I know- it’s a feel good comedy, but it’s still a little hard to relate to payphones, old cars, and handwritten maps.

Verdict:

An overall enjoyable experience the whole family can enjoy. We recommend this to those who want warm and fuzzy feelings, (for the majority) clean humor, and anyone who loves Chevy Chase.

On the other hand, if you are in search of sex, drugs, violence, and hate Chevy Chase/Have a popsicle for a heart this is far from your movie. Try Thankskilling.

Ratings:

Tyler’s Rating: 6.5/10

Not bad for a late 80’s movie, but old humor isn’t always good humor.

Chris’s Rating: 7/10

Not my normal taste in comedy, but overall enjoyable, not so sugary that i puked in my mouth.

Dana’s Rating: 8/10

 ”I like it.”

Director:

Beto Gomez

Starring:

Miguel Rodarte, Jesus Ochoa, Joaquin Cosio

Rated: Pg-13

Genre:

Foreign, Comedy, Action (1 out of 3 ain’t bad…)

Premise:

Don Julian, a Mexican drug lord is sent by the wishes of his mother to rescue his brother, who is an american soldier who is missing in action in Iraq. Julian takes a team of four combat veteran Mexicans to help him on his quest.

Review:

Boring from start to finish. Minute amount of combat and comedy. The best part of the movie was when Julian enters the matrix and shoots the opposing soldiers. There are countless scenes of walking and dialogue that did anything but further the plot, and make us laugh.

It may relate to the Mexican culture and how they view family, but it’s too cheesy to dip a whole bag of tortilla chips in. (Trust us, it’s funner than this movie). 

Verdict:

We would never watch this movie willingly, ever again. We can count the amount of times we laughed on two fingers, and one of those was because of a fart we had during the movie. We recommend this if you like action movies without action, comedy movies without comedy, and generally wasting your time.

We wish we could say more but there is nothing left to say, besides don’t waste your time.

Ratings:

Tyler’s Rating: 3/10

Awesome movie to fall asleep to.

Chris’s Rating: 2/10

Ay Carumba!!! (it doesn’t deserve anything wittier than that, if they don’t try than neither will I)

Director:

Chan-wook Park

Starring:

Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang

Rated: R

Genre:

Foreign, Drama, Twisted as hell

Premise:

The main character (Dae-su) is imprisoned for 15 years, is let out and seeks revenge on his captor and spends the duration of the film discovering who captured him and why. Really can’t say much more without spoiling the film.

Review:

Overall enjoyable movie, but the slow pace through the majority of the film made it difficult to stay involved. Although several scenes of gore and disgusting revelations, kick ass fight scenes, and inclusive suspense kept us interested in the main characters unknown past as it’s revealed. Keep an eye out for the knife in Dae-su’s back through the elaborate and unique fight scene. Tension and suspense of the movie were occasionally met with little moments of subtle dark humor, which were completely necessary considering the subject matter. If you’re eating during this movie, finish before the last 30 minutes.

There are a few versions of this movie where one is dubbed and one has subtitles, unlike most foriegn films the dubbed version was quite enjoyable. Several scenes left us a bit confused, but it could have been the director’s intention. The filmography in the ending was phenomenal and surpasses the standards of your average foriegn film.

Definitely a movie you should see at least once, but not with your sister.

Verdict:

 We recommend this film if you enjoy psychological thrillers, lots of twists and being mind fucked. If you don’t have 2 hours to watch a drawn out film with little action but the occasional outburst of glorious violence, avoid this movie.

Ratings:

Tyler’s Rating: 7/10

Slow with an extreme twist and shout that the Beatles would be proud of.

Chris’s Rating: 8/10

Several parts of slow detective work compensated by stomach-turning twists and hammer related dentistry.

Director:

Jordan Downey

Starring:

Wanda Lust, Natasha Cordova, Lindsey Anderson

Premise:

Five teenagers just get out of school and are on their way home for Thanksgiving. On their way home they run into a hometown legend, a homicidal turkey created by a Native American necromancer made to avenge his people from the first Thanksgiving

Genre:

Cult, Horror Comedy, Gore and Terrible Acting

Review:

Any movie that starts out with a naked pilgrim getting chased by a turkey, is bound to be an instant classic. Hilarious one liners like “You’ve Just been stuffed” after the turkey has sex with one of the characters before he kills her. Along with the painfully long flash-back and “sensual” scenes are what makes this movie enjoyable to watch. To a legitimate horror film fanatic, watching this movie will make you want to stuff yourself…. with cyanide. The acting in this movie makes Nicholas Cage in Ghost Rider look like Heath Ledger in Batman.

Due to the lack of a budget, Thankskilling was a creative disasterpiece. If anything we can say that it’s a success, it sticks to your brain like gum to shoe, you’ll never forget how hard you laughed at the murderous antics of our favorite character; Turkey.

If you are looking for a good laugh, turn on this movie and your eyes will be “harder to close than the John Bennett Ramsey case.”

Verdict:

We recommend this movie to people that like Gore, Hilarious one-liners, and movies that are so bad that they are hilarious. If you are trying to watch a movie that you want to take seriously, avoid this movie.

Rating:

Tyler’s Rating 7/10

Chris’s Rating 6/10

Dana’s Rating 4.5/10

Greetings fellow movie fanatics,

We are just like you. we can NEVER sleep, because of the amount of caffeine we consume makes it is impossible to sleep. All we spend our time doing is watching Netflix while chain-smoking countless amounts of cigarettes. So before you waste your 1-5am watching shitty movies, check in with us because chances are, we already have.