Good neighbors

Good neighbors.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1576440/

Finally, a movie that shows the dark underbelly of Canada. They seem nice with their maple syrup and love of hokey...but deep down it’s a savage land.  Story follows a man who moves to a building in Montréal during a time a serial killer roaming streets. He befriends a waitress (The main protagonist of the movie) with a love for cats and a wheel chair bound man. Each character a bit weird and each one could be the killer. The movies almost like a total different movie half way through. The first part is a slow character pieces that should be called the adventures of Lolcat girl and Wheels. The rest a nice twisted dark comedy. It was just slow to get there.  Part of that attentional sense they had to build up characters. Each character could be a killer but they don’t play it in a way that there constantly making shifty eyes at the camera. The all seem normal, and ok people but keep showing signs of oddness.  It all in a pretty realistic way sense you probably met people like this. It really that over the top until the twist. But I kind of wished the twist happen early and build upon that cat in mouse games. I say this because half the movie NOTHING happens. Then it becomes a pretty good movie. Also would like to see the character dance around each other once the other shoe drops. Now the ending probably not super realistic. The characters plan seems kind of dumb.  It relies on luck more than anything and it basically acts like forensics though exists. But still witty enough where I will let it slide. B

Beneath the Darkness

                A well respected Undertaker and widower (Dennis Qauid) hold sinister motives and only a teenage trouble maker seem to know of his horrible details. He much works to exposed him in a town where the cops don’t believe him and parents (as explain by noted poet Will Smith) just don’t understand. What starts out as kid investigating the spooky house of the local undertaker turns into a cat and mouse game begins.  The opening of this movie is pretty good. I always had a fear of being stuck into small spaces and a sense of helplessness and being buried alive does a trick. The bad guys start of pretty creepy at the beginning. But later on he goes to over the top into the Joker category... He more comfortless tying Batman to a giant bowling pin (as a giant bowling ball comes towards our Cape crusader) then being in a horror movie. Don’t get me wrong you can tell Dennis having some real fun going over the top, and it does have some fun cheese factor. But you can guess everything that going to happen step by step. The cliques are so clique that even calling them clique is now clique. It does nothing new and it not over the top enough to enjoy its goofiness.   Grade C

My Bloody Valentine and American the Bill Hicks Story

Bloody Valentine 3D- As reviewed by someone who saw it in 2D
Little bit spoiler
A pick Ax wielding miner going around killing people in horrible ways…only Dean Winche…I mean some prodigal son can stop him. Movie opens up with new clipping blaming the main character for deaths of people in mines. Apparently he hit the wrong switch that might have caused an explosion. The mourn the deaths of his colleagues...he decided to have a drunk party in said cave with his friend. Pick Ax guy appears and starts killing people in very over the top bloody ways. Now some of these kills would look good in 3D. But looks kind of goofy in 2D sense it comes out looking very fake when it doesn’t pop out. Friends leave him to basically die and face the miner alone. He saves by two cops, who shoot the miner. Reveals that said miner is one of the people who were put in a coma when the cave collapsed. This not a spoiler. This happen in the first 10 minutes of the film. It then starts up again when Dean Winchester returns to the town just when the killing happens. He much deal with a town who hates him, a cop who married to his old girlfriend, and deciding if he should sale his dad mining company. Pretty good start of the movie. Is the killer back from the dead, is it a new killer all together. Only time will tell.

One main problem is EVERYONE in this town a doucebag. Everyone seems to be auditioning for ahole of the years accept for Maybe Dean, and his X love.  Thus you really don’t care about most of the character that die in this. That said not sure your suppose to. The deaths are very out there, and it’s over the top. It doesn’t seem to take it self serious. It’s a throwback to old slashed films of its kid, but with out constantly having to wink at you to make sure you’re in for the joke. It this one scene where this girl runs around naked for what seem like 20 minutes, while a killer chases her. Then there another of midget getting killed in what has to be the biggest one sided fight in cinema. If I saw this in pack theather, hopped up on soda, and having 3D boobs flashing in my face, I probably give it a higher score. But no, I saw it alone on Netflix...with only hand lotion and crippling sense of lonliness to keep me company. So that colors my view of this.
That said even with that, the ending pretty dumb even by dumb movie standards...and probally doesn’t make that much sense. Think they wanted to make it different from the original ending to give it some surprise...but  forgot to make it makes sense. Nor does it make you root for the red herring. Cause to made said red herring such a douce..you still don’t care if they live or die. The way they did it been done in a couple of movies as of late. It’s a new Clique that getting pretty old.  It basically would require the killer to have super speed to work. Also ends kind of abruptly for my taste. The main villain at the end doesnt really strike me fear
With that said it’s a good rental. See it with some friends...get intoxicated with your drug of choice, and enjoy



American- The Bill Hicks story
I should confess something. I never watch Bill Hicks perform or really knew that much about him. I know some comic snobs may frown on my lack of knowledge. But before you judge note, I see BILL ENVAL’s HERE YOUR SIGN 12 times, and seen the Carrot Top’s comedy Opus Chairman of the Board 5 times. So I know my shit
But heard people talking about him so decided to check out the documentary. The documentary followed his life, career and family from teens and to his death. I use basically just the people close to him, and few people he worked with to tell the story. This to me sets it apart from other comedy documentaries where it just talking heads of other comedians telling how awesome the comic is.
This made it not over sentimental…but still sad at times. It didn’t use too many clique or elevate him to saint hood. There was no candle in the wind song playing. They didn’t play “Bad repetition” or shit every time he did something controversial.  When he was an f up they say it, when he was great they say it.  I did like the family parts sense apparently family was very important to the guy sense he didn’t get close to that many people. And like the friendship of his best friend.  It made him seem like a swell guy to hang out with who actually was on the way to rehabilitation before he died. His comedy was brilliant, and I didn’t know how many comedians inspired by him and basically copy his stick and persona. It actually help that I didn’t know how he died. Because I assumed it would be him drugged out and in a pool of shemale Asian hookers in Bangkok. Nope he quit all that stuff before he died, just not quick enough.
The way they shot it was pretty good. It was basically a lot of still pictures, but the pictures moves, and pastes it over back drops. It was like one of those motion comics, and the pictures would transition smoothly into old footage. You got to see how he crafts his comedy from the start. He started as a teen, so you saw a clean cut comedian that was part of a duo who mixed in music, to a clean cut solo act, to a shock act, to a political comedian who travels the world, to an angry police comedian. In each one was funny in its own way.  You actually got to see how a joke crafted and perfected. It fact the drugging seem like him trying to figure his act out and get confidence and build a persona. I started out with some drinking, then mushrooms then heavier stuff.  But it just got a bit too real for him and he had to straighten out. As I said before he never really got super coked out.  He may of made an fool of himself on stage but don’t expect the doors or him getting shot in a meth deal gone wrong. It was kind of PRO drugs at times. Least it was pro rare intake of drugs for an occasional spiritual journey in the desert. You saw some of the people in comedy in the early 80’s and 90’s. A lot of the people that were with them you will have no idea who they were. So I guessing they never really hit it big
I would like to see aspects of his life they didn’t touch. Like did he have any girlfriends? What about his beef with Leno, like to see how living in the UK was.  Sense yea being big in a UK one thing, but everyone likes to big in their own country.  It be nice see that dynamic. Sometimes it was hard to get a sense of what level of fame he had at certain parts of the movie. This did show being on the tonight show doesn’t mean you wont have to do shitty clubs or you will be rich. Sometime it wasn’t clear how many years has passed. It also got slow at parts, like when he was traveling across the country.

Still even with the missing stuff, I am glad I checked it out and think me not knowing who the guy is help the me enjoy the movie more. It short and pretty breezy.  I am sure if you were into the guy, you would like to see how he did his comedy