Comedy movies loosing their "funny"

I recently saw "A very Harold and Kumar christmas" and if I could use one word to describe how I felt, it would be disappointed. Having loved the first two Harold and Kumar films, I was very much looking forward to the final chapter of the trilogy, but I was wrong. It is basically the same humor as the first two movies but with just some Christmas themes thrown on top. After leaving the movie theater I thought, why are comedy movies suddenly turning into two categories, movies that are actually funny, eg: The Hangover, and movies that try too hard to be funny, eg: the movie I just saw. Hopefully Will Ferrell will come out with a new movie to save us all…

2D, 3D, what can be next

Whenever I go back a watch a classic movie, like Saving Private Ryan, I always wonder why something like that hasn't been recreated. Not just Saving Private Ryan, but good movies in general. It seems like the only movies coming out today are ones that appeal to a 3D audience, even though I have no problem with 2D. Everything today is meant to be bigger, louder and more explosive, some things that can definitely take away from the quality of a movie. In my opinion, films should only be in 2D, because it seems to all get wasted in the 3D.
Now I am not saying that 3D is bad, it is cool for certain stupid movies like "Shark Night", but please don't try and put a decent movie like "Pirates of the Carribbean" into 3D, because it truly takes away from the films core plot, which I could not tell you because that is how much the 3D is distracting. You just sit in the theatre and wait for the next cool thing on the screen to look like it's going to come out and touch you. This  silly movie game needs to end.

Spinoffs on spinoffs

For some strange reason, movie companies think that spinoff's of a popular movie side character are great ideas for major films. A very recent example is Paramounts, Puss in Boots. I have no idea where I stand on this movie, because I'm the same guy who said that Wall-e was going to be the worst movie ever. However after seeing a only a preview, I was convinced that this movie would not waste my time. I guess since that Shrek has run his course, they feel their only chance of success is with this excuse for a movie. Like really, what could the plot line possibly be? Someone is in danger and they need a small cat to save them? Call me when that movie comes out.

Why I hate centipedes.

For this blog, I try to talk to about bad movies with a weak plot but possibly with a few stars. So it is usually a well known movie that is just flat out terrible. But recently I came across a trailer for The Human Centipede 2. For those of you who haven't seen the first one, my advice is DON"T WATCH IT. It is no lie, THE MOST disgusting movie I have ever seen. I don't even want to describe what it's about, but if I had to in a few short words, It's about an insane german surgeon who fantasizes about creating a human centipede, basically 3 humans that share the one digestive system. They share one digestive, one. So you're probably wondering how is that even possibly? Well here comes the revolting part, they are all surgically connect mouth to anus in a line. So the person in the front eats the food, and you can only imagine how it gets to the other two. My stomach is getting sick just picturing it. The movie just centers around this horrific creature and then a bunch of things quickly happen; the police show up looking for the missing people, because the surgeon couldn't any volunteers, wonder why... The films ends with the surgeon, 2 police officers and the people in the front and back of the centipede. Leaving only the person in the middle, trapped as the film ends.
      This movie was one of the worst films ever. I don't care when people say how it reinvented horror and stuff like that, it was just plain disgusting and now theres a sequel coming out in 2012. And according to the director, Tom Six, he said that the first one is going to look like My Little Pony compared to the second one. Oh my god, I can't wait to see it...

Now that the summer blockbusters are disappearing from movie theaters and awards season is still months away, we are entering a grey area for the film industries. With no more Transformers or Harry Potter to go see, we are now forced to sit through Spy Kids 4: All the time in the world. I'm not taking anything away from the quality of movies out today because there are some movies that do look interesting, such as Contagion and Planet of the Apes. But when there are films like Shark Night, it almost insults the viewer because it makes them feel like they are too stupid to watch a more intense movie than just sharks killing people. Hopefully the film industry will release a movie similar to Saving Private Ryan or The Departed in the near future because I don't know how many more tacky movies I can spend 10 dollars to see.

Now that the summer blockbusters are disappearing from movie theaters and awards season is still months away, we are entering a grey area for the film industries. With no more Transformers or Harry Potter to go see, we are now forced to sit through Spy Kids 4: All the time in the world. I'm not taking anything away from the quality of movies out today because there are some movies that do look interesting, such as Contagion and Planet of the Apes. But when there are films like Shark Night, it almost insults the viewer because it makes them feel like they are too stupid to watch a more intense movie than just sharks killing people. Hopefully the film industry will release a movie similar to Saving Private Ryan or The Departed in the near future