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which_chickHere there are two film reviews.
First, I tried to watch I (heart) Huckabee's. I've heard rather a lot about how swell a movie it was supposed to be, and the box for Huckabee's said it was a "laugh-out-loud" comedy. I'm glad it said so on the box, else I wouldn't have known. As it happened, I got about halfway through the film, to where the more-or-less main character was fucking the foreign chick who didn't shave her legs over the log in the woods and I decided then and there that winding yarn from hanks into balls was more amusing than continuing to watch the film. I had not laughed out loud once despite the instructions on the box. About the only useful thing I got out of the film was the startling realization that Jude Law has the sort of face that's just begging to bottom in a prison-rape porn film. I'd pay to see that. Or, y'know, some sword-and-sandals epic. He'd make someone a great boy. Honest. But the general run of the film? No. I didn't get it. Now, Roy warned me that Huckabee's was probably not going to appeal to me. He said that I would get damn tired of the wandering nature of the thing and its failure to be sufficiently surreal to be amusing in a Naked Lunch sort of way. I can DO surreal, if it doesn't suck, but I (heart) Huckabee's sucked. Please note that I gave up on Huckabee's before it was over. Perhaps the second half was more amusing than the first. Now, I didn't give up on Caligula, but that had... badly filmed nudity to redeem it.
Roy said he had a film I would find more amusing than Huckabee's. *sigh* He was right. The movie he loaned me was Dodgeball which is not a high-budget film. It is also not the sort of movie AT ALL that would dare to refer to itself as a film. On the upside, It's got Chuck Norris being Chuck Norris. It's got Lance Armstrong being Lance Armstrong (and he's damn funny about it, too -- I was impressed). It's got... the kind of stupid that I find amazingly funny. I admit that it's lowbrow. But damn. It's funny. Ben Stiller does an amazingly twitchy and annoying over-the-top job of being an asshole. Rip Torn does a really spiffy job of being the dodgeball coach. I liked him a lot. The blond lady from the bank (Christine Taylor) was lovely on several fronts. The dialogue, which is better and far more amusing than it has any right to be, includes gems like "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball" and "You're in a Chinese opium den, Timmy." I laughed out loud. More than once. Repeatedly.
Sometimes I wish I were the sort of person who liked Huckabee's more than Dodgeball. It'd be nice to be higher-brow than I am, but I gotta say, it would be really, really sad if I were the sort of person who felt I had to PRETEND that I liked Huckabee's more than Dodgeball even when that wasn't the fucking case. No. I'm big enough to admit what I really like.
First, I tried to watch I (heart) Huckabee's. I've heard rather a lot about how swell a movie it was supposed to be, and the box for Huckabee's said it was a "laugh-out-loud" comedy. I'm glad it said so on the box, else I wouldn't have known. As it happened, I got about halfway through the film, to where the more-or-less main character was fucking the foreign chick who didn't shave her legs over the log in the woods and I decided then and there that winding yarn from hanks into balls was more amusing than continuing to watch the film. I had not laughed out loud once despite the instructions on the box. About the only useful thing I got out of the film was the startling realization that Jude Law has the sort of face that's just begging to bottom in a prison-rape porn film. I'd pay to see that. Or, y'know, some sword-and-sandals epic. He'd make someone a great boy. Honest. But the general run of the film? No. I didn't get it. Now, Roy warned me that Huckabee's was probably not going to appeal to me. He said that I would get damn tired of the wandering nature of the thing and its failure to be sufficiently surreal to be amusing in a Naked Lunch sort of way. I can DO surreal, if it doesn't suck, but I (heart) Huckabee's sucked. Please note that I gave up on Huckabee's before it was over. Perhaps the second half was more amusing than the first. Now, I didn't give up on Caligula, but that had... badly filmed nudity to redeem it.
Roy said he had a film I would find more amusing than Huckabee's. *sigh* He was right. The movie he loaned me was Dodgeball which is not a high-budget film. It is also not the sort of movie AT ALL that would dare to refer to itself as a film. On the upside, It's got Chuck Norris being Chuck Norris. It's got Lance Armstrong being Lance Armstrong (and he's damn funny about it, too -- I was impressed). It's got... the kind of stupid that I find amazingly funny. I admit that it's lowbrow. But damn. It's funny. Ben Stiller does an amazingly twitchy and annoying over-the-top job of being an asshole. Rip Torn does a really spiffy job of being the dodgeball coach. I liked him a lot. The blond lady from the bank (Christine Taylor) was lovely on several fronts. The dialogue, which is better and far more amusing than it has any right to be, includes gems like "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball" and "You're in a Chinese opium den, Timmy." I laughed out loud. More than once. Repeatedly.
Sometimes I wish I were the sort of person who liked Huckabee's more than Dodgeball. It'd be nice to be higher-brow than I am, but I gotta say, it would be really, really sad if I were the sort of person who felt I had to PRETEND that I liked Huckabee's more than Dodgeball even when that wasn't the fucking case. No. I'm big enough to admit what I really like.
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Date: 2005-03-16 02:37 am (UTC)I haven't watched Huckabee's yet. Mostly because I haven't made it to Blockbuster in awhile.
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Date: 2005-03-16 03:14 am (UTC)And all of my friends. Loved. It.