Wednesday, January 16, 2008


Couple of movie reviews for you...."Fido" and "Shoot 'em Up"....

The Good....

"Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "FIDO" will rip your heart out."(from Imdb.com)

Fido, starring Billy Connoly and Carrie-Ann Moss, is a subversive look into an alternate reality, where the fifties collide with zombie culture. Funny, touching, an excellent way to spend a few hours. Good Stuff.

Imdb's take...







The (really) Bad....

I haven't seen a movie this bad in a long time.

From Imdb....

"Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby's delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang's particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith's search for the child's ultimate safety."

Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti are arch enemies in this action/thriller. The problem? Owen kills probably 500 bad guys in this movie, using increasingly improbable/impossible moves. If you want to suspend your belief in the laws of physics, believe guns hold thousands of bullets, and listen to simply head-shakingly imbecilic dialogue, this is your movie. Makes my head hurt again just to think about the movie to be able to write this.

It's a stinking, reeking piece of crap. Just my opinion.

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