I normally post new reviews on Thursday, but last Thursday night I completely spaced it off. Didn’t even cross my mind until next morning in the shower. I hurried up, got things ready, and had the review posted by noon — and what did I forget then? To mention it here, naturally!
The first sign is forgetting to post your reviews. The second is forgetting to zip up. The third is forgetting to zip down.
Anyway:
On a Dark and Stormy Night (2010) is a single location psychological thriller with a handful of characters who mostly transition from living to dead. The problem is I WANTED them dead.
And this week (see, Ma, I ‘membered!):
Dying God (2008) is a cop-vs.-monster movie that was made under the mistaken philosophy that cranking all of the cliches up to 11 is as good as creativity.
#1 by lyzard on January 21, 2011 - 1:33 am
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I was beginning to think we’d done something to offend you. And I rely on you to remind me when it’s Thursday.
No, really.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on January 21, 2011 - 7:15 am
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But when it’s Thursday over here, isn’t like Tuesday or something down under? How does that work?
#3 by The Rev. on January 21, 2011 - 8:54 am
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Also, @!#$ing magnets–how do they work?
#4 by Clown Hammer on January 21, 2011 - 8:51 am
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So, Fabrice Lambot wrote and directed a movie in which a whore-mongering, girlfriend-punching cop and a crippled pimp track down and destroy a homicidal rapist who also happens to be God. And the only girls that die during their assaults are those that need to be punished for their infertility, the others presumably being left heavily pregnant with monster-spawn.
My dear Mr. Lambot, it is one thing to have women problems and quite another to have a problem with women.
#5 by Nathan Shumate on January 21, 2011 - 9:30 am
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At least Fallon shows signs of extending his charms to everyone, regardless of gender. There’s a scene in which the smalltime hood that he’s blackmailed into being the courier for his guns gets caught by one of the pimps that the cop has double-crossed, roughed up, and left tied to a chair. The cop finds him, and instead of releasing him or helping him, he shoots him in the head.
I assume that the Blu-Ray disc contains the deleted scene with Fallon microwaving a kitten.
#6 by Clown Hammer on January 21, 2011 - 10:44 am
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Does the kitten owe him money?
#7 by Nathan Shumate on January 21, 2011 - 10:51 am
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Hey, don’t try to blame the victim here.
#8 by Jen S on January 21, 2011 - 12:26 pm
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Jeez, Nathan, what, do you read transcripts from the Nuremberg Trials to relax in your off hours?
I honestly wonder if screenwriters/directors of this type of mysogynist crap realize exactly how much of their personalities are being thrown around onscreen. I can just picture everyone in their lives having to read/view these things and suppressing truly epic eyeroll/sideyes while reasurring them “No, Terry, it’s wonderful! Really…um, gritty. And realistic. Of course it is. *whispering to self* Oh, God, do I need a drink. He just has NO IDEA, it’s so embarrassing…”
#9 by Clown Hammer on January 21, 2011 - 1:53 pm
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See also: Neil Labute’s The Wicker Man (2006).
#10 by Nathan Shumate on January 21, 2011 - 2:41 pm
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Labute’s definitely got issues. Former Mormon, you know.
#11 by Clown Hammer on January 22, 2011 - 11:14 pm
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Really? I’d chalked it up to him being a member of the He-Man Woman Haters Club.
#12 by Nathan Shumate on January 23, 2011 - 8:40 am
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I’m not saying he isn’t, mind.
#13 by Nathan Shumate on January 21, 2011 - 2:42 pm
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My next review will be a refreshing change of pace. Honest.