March Monstrosities...

Round 3 of 2009. I keep track of movies that I watched beginning to end. Check out JANUARY TASTINGS for a full detailed explanation and FEBRUARY FLOOZIES for more of the same...And so it beginnings, again...for the third time...

03.03 Red Cliff 2*
03.04 Fierce People
03.04 Hulk vs Wolverine
03.05 Hulk vs Thor
03.05 Killer Movie*
03.06 Watchmen*
03.07 Lake Placid
03.09 The Abandoned
03.11 300
03.16 Fist of the North Star (Live Action)*
03.17 The Messengers*
03.17 Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds*
03.18 The Unborn*
03.19 I Could Never Be Your Woman
03.20 I Love You, Man*
03.21 Death Race*
03.21 Religulous
03.22 Maid of Honor
03.23 August Rush
03.23 I Spit On Your Grave*
03.24 The Incredible Hulk
03.25 Bedtime Stories
03.25 Marley & Me
03.26 The Good, The Bad, and The Weird*
03.26 Monsters, Inc.
03.28 Monsters vs Aliens 3D*
03.28 L: Change The World
03.29 It Can Happen To You
03.31 Ong Bak 2*


*Red Cliff 2. If you watched the first Red Cliff you know that this is the second half to a fantastic epic story. Both are one in the same with each having it's own edifice of mood and tone. It's a must see for many of you.
*Killer Movie. Pretty much a run of the mill straight to dvd horror film. Good and Bad. It's about a reality television crew getting picked off, one by one. The big plus is that it stars Kaley Cuoco (Penny in Big Bang Theory).
*Watchmen. Great translation from the great graphic novel. All the action, sex, and violence gets ramped up a bit more for the big screen. Rorschach continues to be the best character in the story. What I highly dislike is the changed ending. It becomes less an alegory of 'what-if' and gets turned into a wantingly R-rated blockbuster. Overall, still a great movie.
*Fist of the North Star. 50% boring, 50% cool, 100% not as good as the anime movie of the same name. Dante Basco is unsurprisingly not a good fit in his role.
*The Messengers. Why is it that every time I see Kristen Stewart in a role, she acts exactly like the last role she was in, bored and stoned. What do film-makers see in her. Does she have the great connections everyone yearns for? Somebody give her some Red Bull so she can grow some wings.
*Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds. The title got the sloppy part down. It was very sloppy. The blood, gore, story, characters, narratives, focus, ending. All sloppy. The first Feast was a good monster movie. This adds more but isn't executed very well. Let's hope the 3rd Feast movie fixes things.
*The Unborn. After this movie and Cloverfield, I'm becoming a bigger fan of Odette Yustman. She does need to find bigger roles that do not involve running and screaming but she is easy on the eyes. As for THE UNBORN, it's a decent movie with great visual effects. David S. Goyer is still proving that he's a better writer than he is a director. Not a bad movie, but not great either. More than a few creepy scares are worth the wade through this average horror movie.
*I Love You, Man. Totes Magotes! Paul Rudd and Jason Segel make the perfect couple, for a buddy film. No they are not gay, but best buds that start off as if they knew each other in a past life. Lots of memorable quotables and a touching buddy comedy overall. This could possibly be on repeat viewing down the road. Now, on to the next movie while I am SLOPPIN' MA BAOSS!
*Death Race. Jason Stathem. You really need to stop doing movies just because they pay you. This could have been a decent film if it wasn't based on DEATH RACE 2000, a much more superior film this the wretched piece of sh*t. Please watch DEATH RACE 2000! Honestly, I think it's the best Sylvester Stallone movie of all time. Yes, better than Rocky and Rambo...Yes, you read me right. BETTER! David Carradine also stars. WATCH NOW...NOW!
*I Spit On Your Grave. Wow, what a disturbing revenge film. So disturbing that the revenge still doesn't make you feel good. Well, it relieves you by like 2% but this is still one fuc*ed up movie. Must see if you are into gut wrenching movies from the '70's. This movie also has ONE OF THE MOST GUT WRENCHING SCENES EVER! Trust me...you. will. cringe.
*The Good, The Bad, and The Weird. Korean western. yup. It is, seriously. It's a good action movie. I'm not into western movies at all but this is quite good.
*Monsters vs Aliens 3D. One of the better Dreamworks films. Plays the classic monsters homage angle pretty well. My only negative is that they focus on SUUUUuuuusaaan a little too much. Maybe they could have added 10 more minutes to focus on the other monsters a tad more. INSECTASAURUS and B.O.B. for the WIN!
*Ong Bak 2. Great action movie. Has all the pluses and minuses that any good action movie has. Watch it for the martial arts and not for the story. Tony Jaa movies are all good. I'd put this in between Tom Yum Goong (the best) and the first Ong Bak (great first feature film).


random facts:
favorite movie(s) of the month - Red Cliff 2, Watchmen and I Love You, Man
dud of the month - Death Race
number of international films - 5
total movies watched this month - 28 (even from last month)
most movies watched on one day - 2
longest span without a viewing - 5 days
most cringing movie - I Spit On Your Grave
guilty pleasures - Marley & Me, August Rush
Hulk related movies - 3


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