58. The Dictator

Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) is the dictator of Wadiya and has been since he was a small child.  His lead adviser Tamir (Ben Kingsley) is annoyed with the way he is running the country and with the fact that he should have been the heir after Aladeen's father died.  So, he plans a way to get him out of power.  He takes Aladeen to America where he is kidnapped.  They were suppose to kill him but all they were able to do was cut off his beard before he escaped.  Beardless, no one seems to recognize Aladeen as he stands outside the UN where he is suppose to be giving a speech.

Aladeen's double goes and gives the speech for him.  A speech that was written by Tamir which declares that Wadiya is going to be a Democratic country.  This way Tamir can sell their country's oil and become filthy rich.  Aladeen won't hear of it and starts a protest.  That's when he meets Zoey (Anna Faris), who thinks he is trying to protest Aladeen and is all for democracy.  She offers him a job at her shop that is completely for feminism, vegans, organic, and political refugees.  Aladeen doesn't want anything to do with her.

Later he finds himself in Little Wadiya where he wanders into a restaurant filled with people that he supposedly executed.  It's there that he finds Nadal (Jason Mantzoukas), an ex nuclear researcher that was designing a bomb for him.  Nadal agrees to help Aladeen if he puts him back in power so he can finish the bomb.  The two decide the best approach would be if Aladeen took a job with Zoey so he could get a security pass into the hotel where Aladeen's double is staying.  While taking the job, Zoey shows him new ways of living and they end up falling in love.

So amongst all the ridiculous you have going on in the movie, there is that backbone cliche love story.  Most of the time I would love this, but I just didn't buy that these characters would ever been friendly with each other let alone in love.  They should have just focused on the ridiculousness of Sacha Baron Cohen.  And even though this movie was filled with celebrity cameos and comedians that I love it was just ok.  I feel like all the best moments in the movie were seen in the trailer.

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYplvwBvGA4

57. Blackout

Karl (Aiden Gillen), in preparation for the arrival of his daughter the next day, gets into an elevator at his apartment building, which is currently being renovated.  Joining him in the elevator is a young woman named Claudia (Amber Tamblyn), who has blood splattered all over her face.  As the doors begin to close, a hand pops in between them causing them to open once again.  Tommy (Armie Hammer), with piercings, tattoos, and bandaged fist, walks into the elevator.  They go up a few floors when all of a sudden the power goes off and the elevator stops.  When the lights come back on they realize they are stuck in this elevator.

Throughout the movie, you start to learn more about these characters as the foreshadowing hints at not everyone being a stand up citizen.  Karl's wife committed suicide a while back and he has been raising his daughter with help from a nanny (?).  He tends to go out at night, get drunk, and talk about his dead wife to pretty girls.  Claudia has been taking care of her grandmother while going to school.  Her grandmother says she needs to relax and have more fun and convinces Claudia to go to the beach with her.  On the way to the beach, the grandmother gets hit by a car.  Due to her old age the doctors don't think she will have long to live and Claudia was sent back to the apartment to get a wedding pitcher so that her grandmother could die with her love.  Tommy is a young punk that has recently been seeing a young woman.  When her dad comes back drunk and angry one night he hits her and Tommy comes to her defense.  He convinces her to run away with him and meet him at the airport later that night.

Since the three are desperate to get out, Tommy tries climbing up the shaft to the next open level.  This is easier said than done as Tommy falls back down to the elevator, snapping one of the cords and making it so the elevator is totally dependent on the emergency brakes.  He also ends up breaking his legs.  As time goes on, the people's patience is tried and they become more agitated with each other.  That's when Karl reveals to Tommy while he is high on pain pills, that he is a serial killer and if he doesn't get out soon he is going to cut Tommy's throat and rape Claudia.

Sounds like a pretty good idea but I felt as if something was missing.  Maybe there wasn't enough of a reveal that Karl was the actual serial killer.  He just seemed a little off the whole movie.  I feel like serial killers are better at hiding their true selves because you know I know so many of them (does Dexter count?).  But this might be the first movie I've seen where Armie Hammer didn't seem like such a dummy.  Then there wasn't enough suspense and struggle between the characters leading up to the climax.  It was just lacking a bit.  Then again how much more can you do while stuck in an elevator?

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OliMeNOJjA

56. Another Gay Movie

Andy (Michael Carbonaro) just graduated from high school and is about to head off to college.  There is only one problem.  He is still a virgin.  Well, he is a virgin when it comes to penetration (that's a sentence I never thought I would write).  Luckily he is not alone.  His best friends Nico (Jonah Blechman), Jarod (Jonathan Chase), and Griff (Mitch Morris) all are virgins.  After being harassed by Muffler (Ashlie Atkinson) about their lack of experience they decide to make pack to loose their virginity by Muffler's Labor Day party.  Sound familiar?  Because it should.

Andy, who is pinning over his German teacher (well now ex-teacher), tries his luck online and actually ends up talking to his teacher.  He goes over to the German's house but it turns out he broadcasts his BDSM "dungeon" online while people tell him what to do.  So naturally, Muffler finds him on the set and tells everyone about it.  Plus Andy has the overbearing father, still trying to be cool, that barges into Andy's room at the most inopportune times.  And let's not forget the whole apple pie I mean quiche scene in the movie.

Meanwhile Griff decides that his butt is not big enough.  So he starts going to the gym to try and improve it's size.  That's where he gets hit on my his trainer, who also happens to be an exotic dancer.  He gives Griff his business card and tells him to call sometime.  But Griff is in love with Jarod and just doesn't have the courage to tell him. When Jarod starts dating a guy he met while playing softball, Griff gets jealous.  Jarod doesn't seem to notice though and continues to get closer to the new guy.  But whenever they get close to having sex, he seems to chicken out and go a little soft.

And let's not forget Nico, who is searching for an older gentleman to show him the way and talk about Betty Davis with.  He first finds a guy online who isn't quite his type but he figures might as well give it a try.  Nico goes to his house the man ends up doing drugs, dancing up a storm, and ODing.  When the paramedics come they are able to revive him and continue the dance party while Nico leaves the room.  His next encounter happens with Survivor's Richard, who he invites back to his house.  Right when they are about to have sex, Nico suffers from diarrhea and is mortified by the fact that Richard heard him fart.

As the Labor Day party approaches, it is looking pretty hopeless for everyone except Jarod.  They all go to the party and right away Jarod heads off to a bedroom with his meat head.  Griff, feeling down that Jarod is hooking up with someone else, runs into the trainer and starts making out.  But he can see the silhouettes of Jarod and his boy through the curtains and can't seem to concentrate.  The guy takes a hint and tells Griff to tell Jarod how he feels before its too late.  Griff runs up to the room and gets there in the nick of time.  He confesses his true feelings and surprise!  Jarod feels the same way and they make love and then have sex and then just fuck.  Still feeling embarrassed about his latest mishap, Nic wanders around the party until he stumbles upon Grandpa Muffler (George Marcy) who was exactly what he was looking for.  And on the pool table they end up having sex.  Now there is just one more to go.  Andy, sitting all alone at the party, suddenly get ambushed by the rejects (Meathead and Stripper Trainer).  They decide to take him into the other room and use him for sex.

If you can't tell the plot basically is a gay American Pie to the point where they use the same jokes.  I'm not sure if it's suppose to be a parody movie or just a gay rip off.  Andy is Jim.  Nico is Finch.  Jarod is Oz.  Muffler is Stiffler etc.  I think I would have enjoyed this more if they just did their own version instead of following the plot of American Pie.  Although they did have some funny moments and guest appearances but overall I was disappointed that it wasn't more original.  I did enjoy the drag mom though.

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACgXr1BP6yA

55. Baby Shower

Angela (Ingrid Isensee), pregnant with twins, invites her closest friends to a secluded country home she has been staying at for a baby shower.  When the friends arrive they are surprised at how well Angela looks considering what has happened to her recently.  You see, she just found out her husband has been cheating on her and her mother has died, which is why she is now living by herself in the middle of nowhere.  Well, all alone except for Julio (Alvaro Gomez), who has been watching over the upkeep for her.

During the party, the phone keeps ringing but no one picks it up.  It's her ex-husband Felipe (Nicolas Alonso) trying to talk some sense into her but she won't hear any of it because she just found out that Felipe is about to go on a trip to the Bahamas with one of the women she invited to her party.  She demands to know which girl it is, but they have made a pack not to tell until after the safe delivery of her babies.  She gets into such a fit that the only person who is able to calm her down is the hippie cult lady.  While she is resting the other girls try to leave, but none of their engines are working.  When they try to call a mechanic they find that Angela cut the cord.  So now they are stuck until Julio comes back to try and fix it for them.  That's when they start to disappear, one by one, by a man who takes them back to barn (sometimes not even a barn) to punish them for what they've done to Angela and the babies she is carrying.

Ehhhhhh... What to say.  I wasn't a huge fan of this movie.  Too many characters introduced at once and I didn't like any of them except for the assistant who didn't have much of a role because she was the first to die.  It was just a gore fest with a small plot to it.  But I didn't really care if anyone lived or died.  It was the worst thing I have ever seen.  But it wasn't good either.  I just kind of waited for it to be over.

Rating: *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r_P0wn2DLc

sorry couldn't find one with subtitles

54. Your Sister's Sister

On the one year anniversary of his brother's death, Jack (Mark Duplass) drinks too much and makes an ass out of himself.  His best friend Iris (Emily Blunt), who also use to date Jack's brother, is the only one who is able to cheer him up.  Turns out the last year has been really rough on Jack.  So she tells him he needs to take a sabbatical.  She tells him to ride his bike to her father's island house where he can be only with his thoughts and nature to try and figure his life out.  

He takes her advice, but when he gets there he finds out he is not alone.  Iris's sister Hannah (Rosemarie Dewitt) is also there on sabbatical.  Hannah just broke up with her girlfriend of seven years and is finally free to do whatever she wants.  And after drinking a bottle of tequila together, what she wants to do is Jack.  Jack goes along with it.  She puts a condom on him and about three thrusts later its over and they fall asleep.

Iris gets the day off of work and decides to head out to the house and see how Jack is doing.  She has no idea that Hannah is there or that they just slept together.  Although Jack is a horrible lier, she doesn't even suspect anything happened between them.  Maybe the fact her sister is a lesbian has something to do with it. As the weekend goes on the three learn more about each other.  For example, Iris tells Hannah that she is in love with Jack but doesn't know if she should say anything that might ruin the friendship.  Then Jack finds out that Hannah has desperately wanted a baby for the past couple of years.  

While Iris and Hannah go for a walk, Jack digs the condom out of the garbage and fills it up with water, just to make sure.  And to his horror, water starts pouring out everywhere.  Meanwhile, Hannah confesses to Iris about sleeping with Jack.  Iris runs back to the house to confront Jack and in doing so Jack tells Iris about the holes in the condom which makes Hannah spill the beans about Iris being in love with Jack.  Whew.  That was a terrible run on sentence but I don't care. 

Yet again.  Another movie with limited locations and actors, which makes you really focus on the story and not so much about the surroundings.  They did put a new twist on the whole, in love with my best friend story line.  Not too many of them end with the possibility of one being the the father of your lesbian sister's child.  I know this is a minor detail but why did Emily Blunt keep her accent?  Rosemarie Dewitt didn't have an accent?  But after awhile I stopped caring about that and just enjoyed the movie.  At times it did seem a  little long, but I feel like the characters were believable and I loved the ending.  That's not sarcasm.

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wglzH4dUoLQ

53. Stuck Between Stations

Casper (Sam Rosen) gets leave from the army to attend his father's funeral.  While he is home, he stops at a bar to get a drink and sees a familiar face.  It turns out to be Rebecca (Zoe Lister Jones) or as he remembers her Becky.  The two went to school together.  When he sees her with a group of guys that seem to be giving her a hard time, he goes to defend her honor which ends up as an ass kicking for him.  Outside the bar, she meets up with him to return his hat and even though she doesn't remember him they end up talking.

In fact, she goes to a party with him that is filled with people she doesn't remember from high school.  At the party she keeps getting calls from a professor that she used to sleep with.  Turns out his wife, who is head of the department, found out about the infidelity and stole Rebecca's computer that has her dissertation on it.  She tries not to think about it and just enjoy the night using Casper and his friends as a distraction.  They end up leaving the party and run into Casper's hipster friend Paddy (Josh Hartnett) who leads them to a circus party (typical hipster).  Throughout the night Rebecca and Casper learn more about each other but they made an agreement earlier that the night would not end with a kiss.  They would just stay friends.

Rebecca finally answers the professor's phone call and tells him that he better show up at her apartment in five minutes.  Not wanting to face him alone she takes Casper with her.  When they get to her apartment, he is waiting for them without the computer.  They get into a big argument which results in Casper putting him into a headlock.  They leave him and go to a park to get high.  That's where they come up with an idea to steal back her computer.  Casper has a narrow escape, but manages to retrieve the laptop for her.  As the night winds down, they go to Casper's house for one last beer and talk about some heavy issues.

There's something magical about just running into a person or meeting a person and spending the whole night together and then going your own way in the morning.  Maybe because IT NEVER HAPPENS.  But just because it's not realistic doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it.  At first I was a little thrown with the split screen action they had going on because I wasn't familiar with the characters yet or the pace of the story, but as the movie continued I grew fond of it.  Also, why don't I ever get invited to these crazy circus hipster parties?  I can see how this movie wouldn't be for everyone.  The character's don't always seem likable and there isn't a lot of action, just kind of wandering and talking.  But if you like character pieces then I think you would enjoy this movie.

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLgX5Zw1LD0

52. The Hidden Face

Fabiana (Martina Garcia) takes pity on a man, Adrian (Quim Gutierrez) crying in the bar she works at.  Even though her friend warns her that men only cry when they are feeling guilty, she goes home with him anyways.  What starts out as a one night stand turns into a relationship as he asks her to stay at his house with him.  Alone in the country house all day she begins to explore and feel more at home.  However, whenever she is in the bathroom she gets the feeling that she is not alone.  When police show up at Adrian's house, she learns that his girlfriend Belen (Clara Lago) has disappeared and that he is a suspect.  But she stays by his side and in his house because he is a rich, handsome, Maestro that she is in love with.

Rewind!  Belen and Adrian live happily together in Spain.  One day he comes home with good news.  He has been offered a once in a lifetime opportunity in Bogota for one year.  He asks her to join him and she leaves her friends, family, and job behind to follow him to Colombia.  She finds a country home for them to rent from an elderly German lady, Emma (Alexandra Stewart) and everything seems to be going fine until she gets the feeling that things are so innocent between Adrian and one of the violinists.  She finds comfort in talking to Emma who shows her a secret room hidden behind the closet and bathroom mirrors.  When Belen finds Adrian and the violinist having a drink together in his office, her jealousy takes over and she decides to teach him a lesson.

Curious to see how he would react if she left, she packs up all her belongings and leaves a message saying that she has gone back home.  Then she goes into the secret room.  But since Adrian was coming home early to surprise her, she quickly locked herself in the room, without the key to get her out.  Now she is forced to watch as Adrian brings home a new girl, Fabiana.  Even though Fabiana is not the brightest bulb, she figures out that Belen is trapped (in the closet?) and she is the only one that not only knows, but also holds the key to her freedom.

I find the whole idea behind this story very appealing, so naturally I was hooked once I realized it wasn't a haunted house story.  I think everyone has had that time in their life where they got pissed and wondered what people would do if they just up and left.  But to be punished for doing it and then force to watch the love of your life moving on without you.  That sounds pretty terrible.  Not to mention being trapped in a dark cold room filled with Nazi memorabilia.  It kept the story simple which is refreshing because I feel like this could have been much more complicated.  But for the most part it was a story, in a house, revolving around three characters.

Rating: ****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG2aosEpQMs

51. Dil Bole Hadippa!

This movie taught me sooo much about cricket. Which isn't really saying much considering I know almost nothing about the sport. 

Veera (Rani Mukerji) has one dream in life.  To play for her country on the men's cricket team.  They have played Pakistan and lost to them for the past nine years.  However, Veera is stuck working for her father at her village's theatre company while she waits for chance to fulfill her dreams.  

Sick of losing to Pakistan year after year, Choudhary (Anupam Kher) decides to recruit his son Rohan (Shahid Kapoor), who happens to play cricket in London where he lives with his mother.  He tricks Rohan into coming to India and once there convinces him to stay for 6 months while he trains the Indian team so they can win against Pakistan.  He agrees to please his dad and holds open try outs for people to join the team.  Veera hears about the open try outs but when she goes to the field, they won't let her participate because she is a woman.  But when she is forced to play a man onstage for her father, she gets the idea to dress as a man and try out for the team.  

She ends up making the team disguised as Veer and starts training with the team.  It's only when she accidentally falls on top of a model trying to get with Rohan that he cover is close to being blown.  When Veer lands on top of the model, she dumps her drink all over her.  Veer goes to the locker room to clean up and ends up taking a shower.  When Rohan comes to see what the model is screaming about, he follows Veer to yell at him about being disrespectful.  He opens the shower and before him stands a naked Veera.  She quickly recovers telling him that she is Veer's sister.  Embarrassed Rohan leaves and apologizes to Veer.  When he realizes that he never apologized to Veera he goes onstage in the style of Shah Rukh Khan (is it sad that I know that).  Afterwards the two start hanging out more and he even confesses that he is in love with her and he wants her to be his girlfriend.  This however came the night before the big game.  So instead of answering his question right then and there, she tells him she will let him know depending on how he plays during the game.

The game is off to a good enough start, but when Veer makes a great catch and everyone jumps on top of her, one of her colored contact lenses comes out.  Rohan finds the lens and when he looks into her eyes he sees who she really is.  Bum bum bum.  

Friggin Bollywood.  I have no idea why I love these movies so much.  They are over the top and just a ball of cheese (hmmm maybe that's why I love it).  Plus add in the classic storyline of disguises and mistaken identities.  You had me hooked since she put on a fake beard.  Although it was still kind of obvious she was a woman (wrap those twins down girl).  Plus strong female characters always a plus.  It was an enjoyable movie.  There were a few things I didn't understand.  The model girl just tends to disappear.  Plus he seems to get super pissed when he finds out she was lying the whole time.  And then (SPOILER) when he blows her cover, shouldn't India lose the game based on a technicality?  Whatever.  Don't care.  Loved it.

Ratings: ****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ-kme829JE

50. Eagle vs. Shark

Lily (Loren Taylor) works at a fast food chain.  At the same time everyday her crush Jarrod (Jemaine Clement) walks in and orders.  One day while the more attractive cashier is on break, he comes in with an invitation to an animal party he is throwing.  He tells Lily to give it to her, but when she does the cashier throws it away.  Lily takes it out of the garbage can and decides to go to the party with her brother.  

Dressed as a shark, she goes to the party which has quite the...ummm... interesting turn out.  At the party Jarrod, who is dressed as an eagle (hence the title) starts chatting her up and its clear these two socially awkward adults have some sort of spark between them.  At the party they have a "Fight Man" video game competition.  The winner gets to fight Jarrod.  Lily, now nicknamed Dangerous Person, plays the game and ends up getting to the final round where she will fight Jarrod.  During the fight, she can't take her eyes off of them and he wins the tournament.  

Later, while showing her his room, they have sex.  Very very brief sex.  The next day he asks her on a date, but ends up standing her up because he suffers from depression and needed to be alone.  He comes to her house to apologize and while there tells her he is going to be out of town to beat up his high school nemesis.  Unfortunately he has no way to get there.  Since somewhere in this storyline they have become boyfriend and girlfriend, she has her brother drive them.  She meets his family, when out of nowhere he dumps he because he has too much going on right now.  

Stuck in a town she doesn't know with her ex-boyfriend's family, she is pretty miserable.  But she starts to come out of her shell more as she gets to know his family better and he starts realizing what a mistake he had made.  

I probably did a horrible job of describing this movie because after writing it I don't think I would watch it.  But I loved this movie.  It had an offbeat humor that I found charming even though both characters, actually almost all the characters, were quirky.  Then you have Jemaine who almost seems to be playing the same Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords minus his wingman Bret.  It's a hard sense of humor to describe on paper but I guess it almost felt like a New Zealand version of Napolean Dynamite.  Completely different storyline though.  

Rating: ****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9JU84ZmZyo

49. Heckler

I just want to state that if for some reason Jamie Kennedy ever reads this God awful blog and I have offended him anywhere on it, I'm sorry.  Please don't track me down and ask why I said what I did.  It's nothing personal.

Heckler is a documentary produced by Jamie Kennedy and following mostly Jamie Kennedy about heckling/hecklers or anything that might be considered heckling (criticism).  The movie starts as a series of talking heads describing what the dictionary might define hecklers.  It then has chapters throughout diving more into the subject.  Such as how one deals with a heckler, and the difference between criticism and heckling, and when has that criticism gone too far.

I'm pretty sure anyone who is a fan of stand up comedy would like this movie, if not for the brief moment their favorite comedian is on the screen.  There are humorous stories and other ones that make you cringe.  At first I wasn't that into the documentary because it just seemed like Jamie Kennedy was whining about the fact that seemingly no one finds him funny and he is a person with feelings.  But once it got to the debate on what's the difference between a critic and a heckler is when I found it getting interesting.  It is an interesting debate that's for sure and comedians, coaches, and critics alike had some good points.  Then it started to get into internet blogs and made me feel like a horrible person for anything I have ever written on this site.  I don't think I'm that harsh of blogger though.  I don't recall ever telling someone to kill themselves.  I might have made comments about my brain melting away or wondering how a movie ever got made but I don't think anything was too harsh.  Anyways back to this movie.  I thought it wrapped up quite nicely and even though a few scenes throughout the movie seemed staged, you did get a sense of Kennedy coming to terms with the criticism and even maturing more about the subject matter.

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZDtw1hEKfI

48. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Okay.  So I watched this movie over a course of a week.  Let's see how well I remember it.

Francis Doyle (Emile Hirsch) goes to a catholic school with his best friend Tim Sullivan (Kieran Culkin).  Since they hate the evil nun that teaches to them, Francis, Tim and two other boys start working on a comic book called "The Atomic Trinity" (even though there are four of them).  In the comic book they fight off the villainous Nunzilla.  The movie goes back and forth between real life and this comic book adventure.

Sullivan gives Margie Flynn (Jena Malone) a love note that he says is from Francis, even though it's not.  Whatever the note said inside, it peaked the interests of Margie and the two start hanging out.  They talk about ghosts and spirits and what not before they briefly make out.  Later Margie confides in Francis about how she used to have sex with her older brother.  Naturally, this freaks Francis out, but he still likes her.  So they still continue to hang out which seems to be getting in the way of Francis and Tim's friendship.

When the class goes on a field trip to the zoo, they see a cougar.  That's when they get the idea to drug the cougar, sneak it outside of the zoo, and put it in the nun's office.  Brilliant idea right?  When the friends figure out Sullivan isn't kidding around they decide it's too dangerous leaving just Sullivan and Francis to figure out the details and follow through on the plan.  While working together, Francis just can't keep the secret to himself anymore.  He tells Sullivan about Margie and her brother and then one day in gym class, Sullivan lets it sleeps to him that he knows.  Naturally this puts a bigger rift into their friendship that only gets worse when the nun finds their comic book and expels the two boys.  They only reconcile over their attempt at one last prank.

First off, I want to blame Netflix if I didn't seem to understand story lines or just forgot things all together because the sound on this movie was all over the place.  I was constantly turning it up and down.  Get your shit together Netflix!  Considering the young actors in this movie, I thought everyone did a fairly good job.  Especially Emile Hirsch.  I could have done without the comic book sections of the movie however.  I thought it just kind of slowed it down to reiterate things we already knew in the movie.  Maybe if they didn't make it look like a 90's Saturday morning cartoon.  Shouldn't it be more of a comic book style?

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWtJpUCxU4Y

18 Movies in 4 days?!

Holy shit balls, Batman!  I have definitely been slacking.  Quick update before I hole up in my apartment after work to watch as many movies as I can.  Arrested Development will just have to wait a few days.

Updated List of Movies:
1.  Life of Pi
2.  Children of Heaven
3.  Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
4.  Timecrimes
5.  Henry Jesus Christ
6.  The Mighty
7.  Goon
8.  Bliss
9.  Mad About Mambo
10.  The Inbetweeners Movie
11.  The Way
12.  L'Auberge Espagnole
13.  The Awakening
14.  Fatal Attraction
15.  Skyfall
16.  Bully
17.  Soapdish
18.  Kolya
19.  African Queen
20.  V/H/S
21.  His Girl Friday
22.  Celeste and Jesse Forever
23.  Blue Valentine
24.  Elizabethtown
25.  Sleepwalk With Me
26.  Weekend at Bernie's
27.  Super High Me
28.  Extract
29.  Atlantis:  The Lost Empire
30.  What to Expect When You're Expecting
31.  Quen Pena Tu Vida
32.  The Pill
33.  The Human Experience
34.  The Rescuers
35.  A Little Help
36.  Swinging with the Finkels
37.  House at the End of the Street
38.  General Education
40.  Nobody Walks
41.  I Hate Valentine's Day
42.  Kissing Cousins
43.  Fever Pitch
44.  Strictly Background
45.  Killer Klowns From Outer Space
46.  Grave Encounters 2
47.  Funny Games

Netflix Categories:
Witty Romantic Foreign Dramas
Critically Acclaimed Emotional Documentaries
East Asian Dramas Featuring a Strong Female Lead
Comedies for the 1920's
Witty Romantic French Comedies
Witty French-Language Dramas
Quirky Independent Movies
Emotional Independent Dramas
Foreign Comedies
Australian Movies Based on Real Life
German-Language Thrillers
Independent Comedies
Suspenseful German-Language Movies
Critically Acclaimed Witty Comedies
Quirky Independent Dramas
Feel-Good East Asian Movies

47. Skyfall

I'm probably going to offend people with this because honestly I'm not a Bond fan.  However this one wasn't too bad.  I think it may be my favorite yet.

James Bond (Daniel Craig) is tracking down a man who stole a list with all the agents information on it.  He is assisted by Eve (Naomie Harris) and after a very long crazy fight between Bond and the man with the list, she is able to set up a shot to try and take him down.  It's not a clean shot though and there is a great chance she might hit Bond.  M (Judi Dench) tells her to take the shot.  She does.  And she ends up shooting Bond who falls off the train and into the water below.

He assumed to be dead by the agency when in fact he is living life in some remote area where all he does is drink the days and nights away.  When the list becomes public and agents start dying, he goes back to London to track down the man with the list and end the killings.  But he has to be reinstated again and take all the original tests.  Although M says that he has passed all the tests, its clear he was struggling the whole time.  They hook him up with some new gadgets courtesy of Q (Ben Whishaw) and send him out into the world.

He manages to track down the man he was fighting earlier and after a few fights and kills and even a Bond girl, he is brought to a deserted ghost town on the middle of an island where he meets Silva (Javier Bardem). Silva was also a spy back in the day but feels that the trust he put into M was the reason for his downfall.  So he is set on getting his revenge and killing her.  And Bond can either join him or be against him.

That was a very brief summary I know, but I feel it would take forever to describe all the fights and characters and ending.  The movie looked gorgeous minus a few fake looking shots but come on are you really going to put them on top of a speeding train going over a bridge just to make it look 100% real.  Nope.  And I loved Javier Bardem in this movie.  He was unsettling, which I feel is usually the case when he plays a villain, and conniving and always seem to be a step ahead of him.  Plus I'm pretty sure he had a crush on Bond which always makes things more interesting.  I feel there were throwbacks to earlier Bond movies because names seemed familiar, so I'm sure anyone that is a Bond fan will appreciate that.  Also I liked that they decided to simplify things more for the finales.  They didn't need this huge set where things are blowing up and buildings are collapsing.  It was just a few people barricading themselves in a house.

Rating: ****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kw1UVovByw

46. House at the End of the Street

Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) and her mother Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) move to small rural town where they rent a house next door to a murder site.  Years earlier, a young girl murdered her parents in the house.  They say she drowned but they never found her body so urban legend has it that she is living in the woods.  At a block party or some sort of neighborhood gathering, Elissa meets Tyler (Nolan Gerard Funk) who invites her to join his save the planet (or something cheesey like that) after school group.  Really its just a giant party where everyone is getting wasted.  Typical high school.  He tries to get with her but she manages to fight him off.  Distraught she leaves the party and starts the long walk home.  Cue the stranger to pick her up.

At first she takes her mother's advice and does not get in the care, but once it starts raining she excepts the ride.  The stranger is Ryan (Max Thieriot) who lives next door in the murder house.  In fact it was his family that was murdered there and now he works at fixing up the house while going to community college.  Elissa feels for this depressingly sweet neighbor boy.  The next day she takes over a CD for him and the two start to get to know each other a little bit better.  But not well enough to know about his sister being alive and well and living in a room in the basement desperate to get out and cause chaos.  As they continue to get closer, the townspeople seem to hate Ryan more, plus it's getting more difficult for him to keep an eye on his sister.

I don't want to give away the ending, but I may just do so in this paragraph.  You've been warn.  Although the film had a look and feel of being one of those classic grainy B movies, there seem to be something lacking.  Maybe it was the lack of chemistry between the two main characters or possibly that I don't buy a skinny little guy would be capable of breaking someone's foot with just his hands.  They did have a couple of good scare moments.  The one that comes to mind is when the lights go out in the basement and the flashlight keeps turning on and off.  However, and this could be because I'm a nerd, I thought the story was kind of predictable.  It's a remake you say?  Well guess what I've never seen the original and I still new what was going to happen.  They also seemed to have elements of the story that seemed unnecessary because they didn't go into it.  Why do we need to see his parents taking drugs?  He never mentioned it to her.  I'm not even sure he was old enough to know what was going on?  Seemed pointless.

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w16stVhviHc

45. Mad About Mambo

I'm not going to say this is a good movie, but it probably is a guilty pleasure.

Set in Northern Ireland, catholic Danny (William Ash) wants to be a professional football player after graduating high school.  Right now he hopes to play for the Belfast, a protestant team.  However, Danny seems to lack a certain focus and rhythm.  When Belfast signs a catholic Brazilian to play, it gives Danny the idea that maybe he should take up the samba in order to improve his game.

Since he goes to an all boys catholic school, he convinces his friends to help him learn the samba through how to videos, but when they doesn't work he seeks out professional help.  He goes to his first dance class and meets Oliver (Theo Fraser Steele), another high school football player.  Except Oliver is there to support his girlfriend Lucy (Keri Russell), who hopes to win the young Irish Latin dance competition.  Oliver decides to befriend Danny and invites his soccer team to play a friendly match with his school's soccer team.

During the game, Danny trying hard to impress Lucy accidentally trips Oliver, breaking his foot.  Not being able to play soccer or compete in the dance competition with Lucy, Danny offers to be Lucy's new dance partner.  At first she refuses but when he calls her a spoiled brat that gets everything she wants, Lucy decides to show him how to dance to prove him wrong about her.  They start working together, and Danny improves his dancing and game tremendously.  Enough to earn him a tryout with Belfast, the same day as the dance competition.

It sounds cliche and at times it is, but I was cringing where I should be and laughing where I should be and almost cheering (let's not get carried away) when I should be as well.  However, the whole timing of the romance between the two characters seemed a little off.  And Oliver was too nice to the point where I thought he was gay, and if he wasn't gay then I felt bad because he did nothing wrong.  Plus there was an element of the movie that seemed to be focus with whether or not the Lucy character would end up in England or stay in Ireland, and they made it seem like she would be staying for a guy if she did, which pissed me off.  But otherwise I thought it was very cute.  A good chick flick.

Rating: ****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ohzo55kIA

44. Celeste & Jesse Forever

I absolutely loved the first 10 minutes of this film.  Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) seemed to have a great dynamic.  They hang out all the time, have ton of inside jokes, it's almost like they have their own language with each.  When they go out to eat with their couple friends, Beth (Ari Graynor) and Tucker (Eric Christian Olsen) -- who are about to get married, Beth storms off in a fit of rage.  "It's just two fucking weird!"

Why is that you ask?  Because Celeste and Jesse have been separated for the last six months and in fact are going through a divorce.  Neither sees anything wrong with their relationship.  They've been best friends forever and now that they aren't together, they fight a lot less.  Jesse doesn't seem them as friends.  He figures he will just give her some space, and they will eventually get back together.  One night when he is drunk and leaving a concert he gets a call from Celeste.  She needs help building an Ikea dresser, but as both fail to build the dresser and turn to alcohol they end sleeping together.

In the morning Jesse thinks this is a sign they are going to be getting back together, but Celeste makes it very clear that is NOT going to happen.  Feeling hurt, Jesse starts seeing other people and asks for some space.  Since Celeste is going on a book tour.  While away, she realizes how much she misses him and that she does indeed want to get back together.  When she returns the two meet up but before she can say anything he drops on bomb on her.  While they were separated he slept with another woman.  And now that woman is pregnant and he wants to give it a try with her.  Cue downward spiral for Celeste.

The movie kind of reminded me of a break up I head.  Now it wasn't a marriage and it wasn't six years (kill me), but it was the whole best friend thing.  Except I was Jesse and the guy was Celeste (and no.  no pregnancy was involved).  So I could kind of relate to that movie.  But I felt like it was more depressing than I thought it would be.  I was expecting some cute comedy, what I got instead was a realistic portrayal of getting over a break up.  I thought the writing was good and although it wasn't a gut buster, it did have moments.

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQoH1IGRB3w

43. The Pill

Oh boy.  How to I explain this movie without making it sound like all women are crazy and all men are dicks...  I probably can't.

Free spirited (if that's what you want to call it) Mindy (Rachel Boston) invites writer Fred (Noah Bean) back to her apartment for a drink after meeting earlier that night.  It's pretty obvious what her intentions are.  Fred on the other hand seems really hesitant the whole time.  But more like a chicken rather than nervous kind of hesitation is that makes sense.  They play a drinking game and one thing leads to another and they almost have sex.  Almost as in, Fred took too long putting on a condom and Mindy fell asleep.

Later in the night, she awakes to a "happy" sleeping boy so she decides to wake him up by getting on top of him.  Instead of letting him do the responsible thing and put on a condom she holds him tight hoping it would bring them closer together.  In the morning, Fred is about to leave when he remembers having unprotected sex.  He asks her is she is on the pill.  Nope.  Catholic.  Fred starts freaking out, when Mindy reassures him that she knows her body and she isn't ovulating.  That answer isn't good enough for Fred.

He forces her down to the local pharmacy, where he makes her take the morning after pill in a very jerkish way if you ask me.  Naturally she gets annoyed and pissed off and walks off leaving him with the bill.  When the pharmacist rings him up, he tells him to make sure she takes the pill with food because she might throw it up.  She also has to take the second pill in twelve hours.  Not having Mindy's number, he quickly pays and then chases after her.  He tricks her into eating breakfast with him by pretending to be interested in her.  When his true intentions come out (but not the mention of the second pill), she uses it to her advantage and makes him come to her ex boyfriend's with her to get the rest of her stuff and even tells her family that Fred is her new boyfriend when they show up to her brother's wedding.

Throughout the day Fred becomes more drawn to Mindy.  But he has to leave her briefly to greet his live in girlfriend when she gets home from a business trip.  Now this girl, Nelly (Anna Chlumsky), is the exact opposite of Mindy.  And Fred's demeanour changes the moment they are together.  He fakes an excuse to get back to Mindy so he can make sure that she takes the second pill, but things go a little sour when Mindy finds out about Nelly.

Netflix gave it a pretty low rating and I even read a couple of the reviews on Netflix about this movie, however I didn't think it was that bad.  Sure it was a little ridiculous at times and the characters didn't seem quite fleshed out, but it was an interesting idea.  I feel like they could have gone about it to make the people not seem crazy.  But it had me laughing (maybe not for the right reasons).

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neNUxd4sbxo

42. Blue Valentine

When the family dog gets hit by a car, Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) take their daughter to Cindy's father house so they can get things in order.  They decide after mourning the dog, that they should go and spend a night out.  They get a hotel room and go out to buy liquor for their night.  While at the store Cindy runs into her old boyfriend Bobby (Mike Vogel), which gets her all out of whack for the rest of the night.

Now flashback to years earlier.  Dean just got a job as a mover, and helped to move an elderly man into a retirement home.  That's where he meets Cindy, who is visiting her grandmother.  He is very upfront with her and gives her his company card because he feels as if it's love at first sight.  Cindy however has a boyfriend.  Or at least when they first met.  I may be picking this up wrong because I was half paying attention at the time.  But I'm pretty sure Bobby forgot to pull out during sex, which pissed Cindy off so she dumped him?

Back to the present.  Dean is trying to get his wife in the mood, but nothing seems to be working.  She is still in a funk from earlier.  And instead they end up getting drunk.

And past again (because I like this storyline better).  Almost a month has gone by and Dean has yet to hear from Cindy.  He decides to take a chance when he finds an old locket from the man he helped move.  He goes back to the nursing home but the man has died and Cindy is no where to be found.  But later on the bus, he runs into her and they end up talking the whole night as the wander around the city.  Eventually they end up sleeping together.  A few weeks later, she takes a pregnancy test.  Whoops.

Present.  After eating some food to help sober up they once again try to rekindle the flame.  But when Dean mentions he wants to have another baby, she starts to freak out and pulls on his hair.  When he gets angry and tells her to stop they get in a huge fight and she locks herself in the bathroom until Dean passes out.

Past.  She tells Dean she is pregnant and that it may not be his.  He goes with her to get an abortion but at the last minute she changes her mind.  Dean seems happy with the news and wants to give having a family with her a shot.  When Bobby finds out that Cindy is seeing someone else, he gets extremely jealous.  He finds out who Dean is and then goes and beats him up pretty badly.

Present.  Cindy gets called in to go to work and leaves Dean all alone.  When he wakes up he is confused on where she went.  He drinks the rest of the vodka they bought the night before and goes to her work.  After making a big scene their relationship is hanging in the air.

I thought the acting was great in this movie.  It seemed so natural and fluid which can be difficult when you're jumping through time the way this movie did.  One second their happy and in love and the next she seems repulsed by his touch, which if it was Ryan Gosling no woman would be (I don't care how bad his hair gets). I thought Cindy as a character was cowardly though so that got on my nerves a little bit.  And it did seem a little drawn.  But the movie did a great job showing the ups and downs of a relationship.

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DRm8hy7fu4

41. Kolya

Netflix keeps telling me how much I love foreign films so I figured I should start watching more.

Set in Prague in 1988, Louka (Zdenek Sverak) is a concert cellist.  He use to be part of the philharmonic after being blacklisted by the government because he has a brother that emigrated.  So now he is trying to make a living playing funerals.  Needless to say it doesn't pay the greatest, so he takes up other odd jobs as well.  He has sworn he would never get married because he was going to dedicate his life to music.  But that doesn't mean he can have a couple lady friends over ever now and then or whenever he gets the opportunity really.  He owes the groundskeeper at the graveyard a lot of money and the groundskeeper knows just the perfect way to get it.  He has an aunt who has a niece that is looking to become a Czech citizen.  She just needs to get married.  If he agrees to marry her then he will get a large sum of money.

Although he doesn't speak one word of Russian (which is what she is), he gets desperate and agrees to marry her.  But soon after the marriage she runs off to West Germany to be with her married boyfriend, leaving her five year old son Kolya (Andrei Chalimon) behind.  At first the boy stays with his grandmother, but after she has a stroke and dies, Kolya goes to stay with Louka.  Although Louka is a annoyed with his new roommate, he lets him stay in case the police question his fake marriage.  He soon begins to care for the boy, something he didn't think possible.  And even starts turning down woman and taking responsibility for Kolya.

The film was a little slow at times, but that Kolya was too cute.  And pair him up with a grumpy old womanizer, brilliant.  At times it didn't seem like the two really liked each other and I wasn't sure if Kolya was just shy or hated him but towards the end of the movie they really started to click, which I guess is the point.  I was just really annoyed with the mother.  Who does that to their son for a married man?  Ugh.

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DRm8hy7fu4

40. The Mighty

I've seen bits and pieces on TV but never saw the whole movie until today.

Maxwell Kane (Elden Henson) feels that he doesn't have a brain.  He has been held back in the 7th grade and is pretty big for his size already.  He lives with his Grim (Harry Dean Stanton) and Gram (Gena Rowlands) because his mother died when he was young and his father is in jail for murder.  When he meets his next door neighbor and reading tutor, Kevin (Kieran Culkin), his life changes.  Kevin has Morquio's syndrome and requires the use of crutches to walk.  Although he may not be the most physically intimidating, his way with words give him the confidence and courage to stand up to his bullies.

Kevin pays Max to go to the Riverfest with him because his mom won't go alone.  And it's there that their friendship is solidified.  When Kevin can't see the fireworks going off, Max picks him up without asking and puts him on top of this shoulders.  Then when the bullies arrive, Kevin directs Max on what direction to run and therefore avoids danger.  Once their friends they go on many quests and journeys.  However the doctor says Kevin doesn't have much longer.  His organs are growing, but his bones have stopped.

When Max's father gets out of jail the attitude around his house is a little tense.  One night, Max thinks he sees something in his room.  He gets up to investigate and his father grabs him and covers his mouth.  He takes him away in the night.  Now it's up to Kevin to use his superior brain to save Max.

Obviously, this movie is going to be a tearjerker.  Cripes.  Just like Simon Birch (or as my coworker refers to it "Little Idiot Boy") and My Girl you know from the beginning that its going to be a struggle to get through this movie with dry eyes.  The chemistry between the two kids clicked instantly and you really believed that Elden was the gentle giant and Kieran was a smartass.  To think that both of their next movies would be She's All That.

Rating: ****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55NnLGNeZ-k

39. Swinging with the Finkels

After nine years together, things have gotten a little stale for Alvin (Martin Freeman) and Ellie (Mandy Moore).  Wanting to save their marriage together, they begin to seek advice from some of their other friends.    They try role playing, or making things more intimate, or even adventurous activities with a cucumber, but nothing seems to work.  When it's mention that "If they aren't getting it at home, they are going to get it somewhere else", Ellie decides that maybe they should try swinging.  That way everything is out in the open and there isn't any cheating or lying.  Alvin seems a little hesitant but with some prodding from his friends decides to give it a try.

They place an ad online and after interviewing a number of interesting couples, they finally settle on one.  But before anything can happen Alvin learns that his best friend Peter (Jonathan Silverman) had an affair and possibly has an STD now.  When Peter's wife Janet (Melissa George) finds out she keeps him out of the house.  Seeing what sleeping with another person can do, Ellie seems to get nervous about the situation.  Meanwhile when Alvin asked Peter why he did it, Peter said that they too were going through a dry spell but didn't try anything to fix it.

When they meet up with the other couple, things seem a bit awkward.  But they manage to spend the night with them.  In the morning, everything seems different and what they hoped would bring them together actually did the opposite.  Alvin goes and stays with Peter in his new apartment while the couple takes some time apart from each other to figure things out.

I'm sorry, but I don't think the idea of swinging would ever help a relationship.  If you need to sleep with someone else in order to feel attractive to your spouse again, then maybe you should just get a divorce.  Don't over complicate the situation.  Anyway, the movie had it's moments that were cute but it just seemed like weird casting to begin with.  Why pair Mandy Moore and Martin Freeman together?  Plus it seems like Mandy Moore has trouble with chemistry in a lot of her movies.  But Martin Freeman?  Adorable as usual.

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tKycPLM0po

38. Extract

Joel (Jason Bateman) is the owner of an extract company, and he is tired of his boring humdrum life.  His wife, Suzie (Kristen Wiig) hasn't slept with him in months, and the workers are starting to get on his nerves.  He can't wait for the day he gets an offer to sell.

Right when that offer does come in, there is an accident at the factory, and his most loyal worker Step (Clifton Collins Jr.) loses his balls.  Well, I guess just one ball because they were able to attach the other one.  When conartist Cindy (Mila Kunis) reads about the accident in the paper, she comes up with a scheme to get millions of the company.  She seduces Step and convinces him to sue the company.  But in order to get close to Step she first gets a job at the factory.  She flirts with Joel in order to sneak Step's personal information out of his office.

Joel, who is suddenly drawn to the fact that someone wants to sleep with him, confides in his best friend Dean (Ben Affleck).  Dean gives him a tranquilizer to calm him down, and while he is high they come up with a plan to hire a gigalo to sleep with Suzie so that Joel can sleep with Cindy without feeling guilty.  In the morning, when he realizes what he has done tries to stop it but it's too late.  Suzie has already slept with the gigalo.  But now that she has, she feels so guilty that she is trying desperately to get Joel interested in her again.  But he is too upset, and distracted with the law suit that is keeping him from selling the company.

Ahhh at times, this movie just seemed like a cluster fuck with everything going on.  And considering the names attached you would think it would be a funny movie.  But it fell flat.  Like any comedy it maybe had a couple of ha ha moments but there was just something missing.  Or maybe the timing was off.  Or the writing was too over the top.  I'm not quite sure, I just know it wasn't my favorite.

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEV7KoThshg

37. The Human Experience

I was a little hesitant to watch this movie, and since I have watched it now I just feel like a giant piece of shit.

The Human Experience is a documentary following two brothers as they question the meaning of life.  In order to find some clarity on the question, they go and visit/live with some of humanity's less favorable.  First they take a week in New York City and live like homeless people.  They sleep in boxes with a homeless community, beg for money and food, and even visit a soup kitchen.  They go around talking to some of the other homeless people to try and get their thoughts on life.  What keeps the motivated to wake up and live another day.

After a week with the homeless, the travel to Peru with a group of surfers that travel around the world looking for waves and also volunteer services.  That's where they meet The Lost Children of Peru.  A children's hospital/orphanage for underprivileged children in desperate need of hospital care.  Some of the children have been abandoned because of their conditions others have been abused to the point of deformity.   But yet, all the children seem happy that they have found a place where they can receive the attention they need and can be safe.

After that the brothers team up with two of their friends to travel to Ghana.  First they meet with people dieing from AIDS.  One is a mother, one a young man, and one is a child who was born with it.  They talk about being hopeful that medicine will come and save them.  Or just being grateful for every day they get.  Afterwards, they travel to a Leper colony and speak with them about their thoughts and feelings.

Like I said before, this movie just made me feel like a piece of shit that isn't doing anything with my life (eventhough they seemed to preach that everyone makes a difference no matter how great or small) but that didn't make me feel any better.  I wish someone would just give money to me to travel around the world, helping people, then I would totally do it but unfortunately I am not made with money.  In fact, if you saw my paycheck you would probably want to give me money.  Anyways, back to the movie.  Aside from the homeless section, I enjoyed the movie.  I wasn't a huge fan of the main guy they followed though.  He kept talking about how people can't understand what he has been through, but it took him almost the entire film to actually talk about what he had been through.  Sure he might have said a sentence or two along the way, but its hard to really feel for someone when they are closed off.

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctyX5ItSQEI

36. Timecrimes

I feel like I should watch this movie again just for continuity sake.

Hector (Karra Elejalde) and his wife Clara (Candela Fernadez) just moved into a country home.  While they are still renovating and getting everything set up, Hector thinks he sees something in the woods.  When Clara leaves to go to the store to get food for dinner, he further investigates and sees a young woman taking off her top.  Curious he gets up off his ass to figure out what exactly is going on.  When he finds her in the woods, she seems to be sleeping naked.  He creeps towards her to make sure she isn't dead and when he gets close enough to see her breathing he gets stabbed in the arm by a pair of scissors.

He takes off into the woods, away from his attacker.  But when he looks through his binoculars to make she he isn't followed, he sees a man with pink bandages covering his face looking back at him.  He takes off running once again and finds himself at a science lab.  He breaks into it and finds a walkie talkie.  He asks if anyone is on the other end and when he hears a voice he tells the voice that someone is trying to kill him.  The voice on the other end asks if he is being chased by a man in pink bandages.  It turns out the man followed him to the science lab.  The voice tells him to head to the silo at the top of the hill because it is much safer there.

He gets to the silo just in time and the man there tells him to hide in the capsule in the middle of the room.  Reluctantly he gets in and capsule shuts.  When it reopens, it is daylight and the man seems shocked to see him.  Dazed and confused, Hector finds out that he traveled back in time and its earlier that day.  Like the rules of Back to the Future, Hector #2 has to make sure he doesn't run into Hector #1.  But he gets impatient sitting around so he steals one of the cars and leaves the science lab.  On his drive he sees the young woman from earlier now riding her bike.  He slams on the breaks confused if this is really happening.   But then gets rear ended and ends up crashing into a tree.  His face is badly injured so he takes off his bandage from earlier and wraps it around his head.  Immediately it turns pink.  He realizes now that he was chasing himself.  He goes along to stage the whole scene again to make sure he still gets to the time machine so his fate isn't altered drastically and he dies.

In doing so, he sees a different side to his story from earlier.  And after chasing Hector #1 to the science lab he hears a female scream.  It's coming from the directing of his house.  He goes to his house to make sure everything is okay with the young girl from earlier.  She obviously is deathly afraid of him and runs away from him.  He chases after her all the way to the roof and after a little mishap the young girl falls off the roof and dies.  When Hector #2 looks over the edge, he doesn't see the young girl, but his wife Clara.  Now he is set to go back in time once again to fix this tragic mistake.

Like I said, I feel like I should watch again just to make sure everything is in order because time travelling can get a bit confusing.  But I thought they did a really good job telling this simple story from all different point of views and time lines.  It was easy to follow and you knew what was going on.  I love a good time travel movie.

Rating: ****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrzI3lVzQnM

Halfway Done!

If I seem like I am on track, then let me warn you that this week is going to be hell and I am leaving town on the weekend.  So I'll be lucky if I watch 3 movies.  An updated preference list of what I've seen so far:

1.  Life of Pi
2.  Children of Heaven
3.  Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
4.  Henry Jesus Christ
5.  Bliss
6.  Goon
7.  The Inbetweeners Movie
8.  The Way
9.  L'Auberge Espagnole
10.  The Awakening
11.  Fatal Attraction
12.  Bully
13.  Soapdish
14.  African Queen
15.  V/H/S
16.  His Girl Friday
17.  Elizabethtown
18.  Sleepwalk With Me
19.  Somewhere Between
20.  Weekend at Bernie's
21.  Super High Me
22.  Atlantis: The Lost Empire
23.  What to Expect When You're Expecting
24.  Quen Pena Tu Vida
25.  The Rescuers
26.  A Little Help
27.  General Education
28.  Nobody Walks
29.  I Hate Valentine's Day
30.  Kissing Cousins
31.  Fever Pitch
32.  Strickly Background
33.  Killer Klowns From Outer Space
34.  Grave Encounters 2
35.  Funny Games

And we can't forget the updated categories list:

Witty Romantic Foreign Dramas
Critically Acclaimed Emotional Documentaries
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According to Netflix I really love Foreign films.

35. Funny Games

This whole movie just annoyed me.

Georg (Ulrich Muhe), Anna (Susanne Lothar), and their son go to their secluded lake house.  On the way their they stop outside their friend's house and see him outside.  They ask him a few questions and he gives long pauses before his awkward answers but they suspect nothing of it and continue on their way.  When they get to their house they start to unpack when  arrives Peter (Frank Giering).  He says he is from their neighbors house and was wondering if they could get a few eggs.  Anna gives them to him but he accidentally drops then, then when she goes to give him more he knocks their mobile phone into the sink rendering it useless.

When Peter's friend Paul (Arno Frisch).  That's when the two start playing mind games with Anna.  When she tries to throw them out of the house she refuses.  Thankfully Georg comes back inside to see what all the fuse is about and when Paul becomes rude, Georg slaps him.  Wrong move to make because this just starts a whole other type a game that starts with the breaking of Georg's kneecap.  The family is stunned and it seems like whenever they try to escape it just makes things worse.

I'm not really sure what annoyed me the most in this movie.  The fact that Peter and Paul just seemed to play mind games with them the whole time and didn't seem that threatening.  The main weapon for a majority of the movie was a golf club and they seem to let Anna just walk around to get medicine and what not.  Why wouldn't she try and grab some sort of weapon earlier?  Then there was the fact that Paul was probably about 100 lbs he was so skinny.  And wearing this incredibly short white shorts.  Why would they even wear white in the first place if they planned on hurting/killing people.  Then there were random times when they would break the forth wall.  Please DO NOT wink at me.  Or maybe it was the random scene that didn't go according to plan so they just rewound and did the whole scene over again. WHAT?!  The movie seemed to be on a good pace at first, but then slowed waaaaaaaaaaaaay down.  To the point where I was wondering if it was just a still image with sound over it because nothing was moving.  Don't get me wrong, I am usually a fan of long takes, but this was almost unbearable.  There were times I felt it could have been a lot more suspenseful or maybe even have a few jumps in it but there was really none of that.  The movie had an American remake and I almost wonder if that might be better.  I would usually say no but seeing on how much I didn't like this movie, I might actually like the US one.  It was impressive how little they actually showed when it comes to scary movies.  There wasn't a lot of gore and surprisingly no nudity (except maybe a see through bra at one point).  But overall I didn't enjoy this movie.  Maybe I was just expecting to much of it.  Especially when I saw Ulrich Muhe was in it.

Rating: *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzpzpe_8gHQ

34. Bliss

I thought this movie was going to be a real downer but thankfully it wasn't that bad.  However, I am pretty dumb when it comes to Turkey's culture, so please don't judge me too hard on this.  Also I'm probably going to give away the ending.  Sorry.

In a rural village in Turkey, Meryem (Ozgu Namal) is rapped.  When she won't say the name of the man who did it to her, she is sentenced to death for her sin.  Her stepmother, who has never liked her, gives her a rope and tells her to hang herself to restore honor to the family.  However, she doesn't give her stepmother the satisfaction of watching her commit suicide.  When the soldiers start to hear the village people (not the bad) gossiping about Meryem, the leader of the town decides to get her out of the village and kill her.  He assigns his own son, Cemal (Murat Han), who just returned home from the Army, to take her to Istanbul and make sure she doesn't come back alive.

Cemal and Meryem take a train to Istanbul and Cemal plans to throw her off the train.  However when he sees how innocent he looks when she is sleeping he looses his courage.  They go to Cemal's disowned brother to seek advice on the matter.  His brother tries to tell him that their village culture doesn't make any sense in today's society and he doesn't need to do this.  But Cemal doesn't listen.  He takes Meryem to a bridge, points a gun at her, and tells her to jump so her blood is not on her hands.  She tells him to tell her father she did nothing wrong and not to worry because she will be joining her mother in heaven.  She blindfolds herself and is about to jump, when at the last moment Cemal pulls her back.  He realizes that he cannot let this young girl die.

They get help from one of Cemal's army buddies and take a temporary job and housing on a fish farm.  That's where they met Irfan (Talat Bulut), an old professor sailing on a boat.  When Cemal's services are no longer needed at the fish farm and they have to leave, Irfan offers them a job working on his boat.  Everything seems to be going fine at first and Irfan thinks that Cemal and Meryem are married.  When he finds out that this isn't so he gets very upset at Cemal, saying he wanted to get away from all the lies and deceit in his everyday life.  After an apology, Irfan says that they can stay on the boat and all seems to be going fine again, until Irfan's wife shows up.  She gives him divorce papers and when leaving plants the idea in Cemal's head that something is going on between Irfan and Meryem.  Cemal, feeling jealous, threatens Irfan and later gets drunk that night.

When Cemal wakes up, he finds himself all alone on the boat.  His mind starts going to the worst possible idea, when actually Irfan is just teaching Meryem about fishing and sailing.  When they return Cemal has a freak out.  He slaps Meryem across the face for being a whore and then starts to strangle Irfan with a rope, saying he wasn't a pimp and he wasn't going to allow him to do anything to Meryem.  Meryem, who found a gun on the boat earlier in the movie, fires it into the air.  She explains that nothing is going on between them and then points the gun at herself, not sure why Cemal even let her live.  Cemal takes the gun away from her and she calms down.  Later while she is fast asleep, Irfan explains that he thinks of Meryem as a daughter and they have a nice laugh about the whole strangling incident.

This whole time, Cemal's father sent a group of men after Cemal.  He told them to kill the girl but bring Cemal back alive so that he can punish him himself.  The next day when Cemal and Irfan are working off the boat, Irfan confesses that he is in love with Meryem.  But while they are working the men catch up to Meryem and kidnap her.  Cemal sees them driving away and takes off after them with Irfan.  When the men and Meryem arrive on the surface she struggles and manages to get away.  She takes off into the field with one man right behind her.  It starts to bring back flashes of what happened to her before.  Cemal and Irfan knock out the men and manage to save her just in time, but her flash backs cause her to say the rapists name out loud for the first time.

Okay, so I didn't give away the whole ending because there is a little bit more to it, but that's pretty much the whole movie and for that I am sorry.  It just was one of the those movies that made me wish I knew more about the culture.  I found myself looking things up during the movie to try and understand it better.  Now don't get me wrong I got the gist off it, but it's just hard to think people still think that way.  The movie was shot really well.  With drastic color changes throughout the movie.  I may be thinking to much on it because I'm not sure if the color represented Meryem's growth as an individual or if it was more the journey of getting away from the bleak village that was so void of color it might as well have been black and white.  There were some editing choices I didn't really care for though.  Mainly unnecessary fade all the way to black and fade back in moments.  I'm assuming this wasn't a made for TV movie.  But there my pretentious film watcher is gone.

Rating: ****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnEMhcaLTuM

33. Killer Klowns from Outer Space

It's been awhile since I did a live blog about anything because lately I've been watching movies and then blogging about them all at once.  So I didn't have time.  That is until today.  The selection?  Killer Klowns from Outer Space.  I heard it was wild so hopefully some good comments can come about it so let's get started.

1 min:
Judging by the soundtrack and "evil" laughter, I can tell this is going to be a horrible 80's movie.  And I can't wait.  Let the ridiculousness begin!  Oh my god.  There is a Killer Klowns theme song?!?! I want to download it now.

2 min:
Why is the Dean from Animal House in this?  Is he going to put anyone on double secret probation.  Maybe some Klowns spelled with a K.  He is a cop so it just might happen.

3 min:
"We'll give you a stick and you give it a lick"  Oh boy these clowns sure know how to sell ice cream.  Can I add that to my #outtacontext?

4 min:
The ice cream men are apparently trying to impress their "plus size" dates by going to the make out spot and parking.  But they aren't those kind of girls.  They are just the kind of girls to hang out in an ice cream truck because they were promised all the Popsicles they can suck.

6 min:
"Don't you want to finish our champagne?" "Take it with us" yeah haven't you heard of road drinks?  Anyways a couple out at make out spot saw a strange comment land just over the hill and decide to go and find it.  An old hick also saw it and thinking it was Halley's comet also went looking for it.  But just found a circus tent, which got him really excited because he's never seen a circus before.  Just one problem.  He can't find the ticket window.  Meanwhile the Klowns kidnap his dog.  Now why would you kidnap an innocent dog?  And why doesn't he try just picking up the tent and walking in, especially after he learns his dog is missing.

9 min:
Never mind he tries tearing apart the tent by grabbing the wire that clearly looks like an electrical wire and gets shocked.  Then killed by a... you guessed it... Killer Klown from Outer Space.

11 min:
Well, I can tell now that the Dean is still Mr. No Fun.

13 min:
Oh boy looks like someone is afraid of clowns.  The girl in the couple sees the tent and thinks its weird and doesn't want to go any closer.  But obviously the guy is going to drag into her impending death.

15 min:
Is he a killer klown.  How does he know the password to get through their door.  Anyways it took them this long to realize it was not a circus tent at all.  But they can't seem to figure out what it is.  Except the girl seems to know that the shooting star from earlier has something to do with what they are in at the moment.

16 min:
Ha.  They go through another door and instead of being inside a meat locker they find themselves surrounded by cotton candy hanging from meat hooks.  The guy is still looking for a reasonable explanation and when they investigate the cotton candy they find a dead body inside.  Gotta keep em sweet right?

18 min:
Oh no.  Watch out!  He has a popcorn gun.  Those things can do real damage.  Maybe it will turn them into plants and then goblins will come and eat them.

19 min:
Jesus Christ.  I feel my mind melting.  They manage to get out of the tent but one of the clowns makes a balloon animal dog that follows their popcorn flavored scent.  Luckily they make it to the car in time and run over the clowns.  But I don't think these clowns or should I say Klowns will die that easily.  Maybe poison their cotton candy?  These Klowns are pissed and are now going to invade the local town that's only 5 miles away.

21 min:
Play it cool Klown.  Just keep strutting down the street like nothing is wrong.  Make friends with an animatronic gorilla.  Keep cool.

23 min:
"Killer Klowns from Outer Space.  Shit" Thank you Dean for clarifying everything.

25 min:
Just walking home in the middle of night.  Gonna stop and watch this creepy ass puppet show.  Nothing strange about that.  I will say one thing though.  The Klown has a pretty epic laugh.

26 min:
I'm not exactly sure what this Klown is looking for in the drug store but he sure is making a mess.  Clean up on isle 3-7!

27 min:
What am I watching.  Some dumb blonde opens in the door wearing a nightie and there's a clown holding pizza.  She doesn't even questions it.  Hmm pizza.  She seems excited until 4 more clowns come and wrap her in cotton candy.

29 min:
Are they looking for popcorn?  I still have no idea what they are looking for.  Silly string maybe?  They seem to be having fun with shaving cream.

30 min:
Okay plot update.  The couple goes to the police to talk to the young officer who use to date the girl - name is Debbie.  The cop still wants to date Debbie but when he hears their crazy tale of cotton candy bodies he doesn't believe them for a second.  He drops Debbie off and makes the guy show him where the tent was. When they get there the tent is gone and the cop arrests the new boyfriend.  Meanwhile the clowns continue to candify people.

32 min:
A biker gets angry the clown won't let him ride his little motorcycle.  So he stomps all over it.  The clown gets angry and puts on his gloves, eventually he "knocks his block off".

35 min:
The cop drives to the make out point where all the cars are deserted and covered in cotton candy.  Maybe now he will start to believe their crazy story.  Or just get hungry and grab a snack.

37 min:
There's nothing funnier than a gun magazine.  At least according to the Dean.

38 mins:
Some guy just got ran off the road by a clown on an imaginary car?  I'm not really sure how that works.  Meanwhile Debbie decides to take a shower to get ride of that popcorn smell I guess.  But the popcorn is moving.  It's alive!!!

42 min:
I'm surprised no one in this town is afraid of clowns.  Do you know how many friends I have that are terrified of them.  But all these people love them.  That is until they die.

44 min:
What!?!  How did that clowns shadow puppets eat a whole group of people?  Must be that alien clown technology.  At least we're halfway through the movie.  So dumb.

47 min:
"There are clowns killing people" "what do you want us to do about it we need to sell ice cream" "Look we have to save Debbie I have a feeling something bad is going to happen to her" "Does she have roommates" "Yeah 2 roommates" "2 roommates" "2 beautiful roommates with big boobs" "Do they like ice cream?".  Can I meet the writer of this and just ask how he managed to actually get this made?

49 min:
The Dean just got squirted in the face by a flower from a clown and it didn't melt his face off.  What you getting at clown?

54 min:
Oh boy.  The clowns made the Dean and dummy so they can communicate with people.  Kind of like the aliens in Independence Day.  But not really.

55 min:
If you were beginning to wonder how you would kill one of these killer klowns, I just found out the answer.  You shoot at their red noses.  Maybe that's where their brains are because they don't seem that bright.

57 min:
Man this movie is dumb.  The clowns are having a death parade to collect all their cotton candy bodies.  Ughhh when will it end.

60 min:
If you were wondering what happened to Debbie, the popcorn turned into killer klown heads (yup just heads) that tried attacking her.  But she was able to fend them off with her hairspray.  I don't know why but these clowns really want to take Debbie alive.  They trap her in a giant balloon and take her away.  Maybe they are hoping to make half breeds or something.  Anyways Mike (the boyfriend) and the ex boyfriend cop both see her being taken away by the clowns and follow them.

62 min:
"I don't know where they went" as they drive toward a giant circus tent in the middle of an amusement park. What a bunch of dummies.

63 min:
Man this movie is using every clown cliche there is.  Cotton candy.  Popcorn.  Red noses.  Pies.  Clown cars.  Small bikes.  Spraying flowers. Seriously how did this movie get made?

68 min:
Can't do shit without your ball... pit.  The two dumby ice cream men fall into a ball pit and when they manage to get ahold of their surroundings they see two girl clowns watching them.  "Are you Debbie's roommates".  God this is dumb.

71 min:
Why are they watching this clown eat the cotton candy... or more like suck it dry.  Why don't they just kill him.  They are so weird in this movie.  If my town was being invaded by killer clowns and I knew how to stop them, I wouldn't sit back and watch them eat.  That's just gross.

73 min:
Too bad these clowns can't seem to run in their clown shoes.  Then they might actually pose a threat.

75 min:
Ugh! Another door!  Kill me.

77 min:
Dummy ice cream boys to the rescue.  Since their ice cream is clown theme and has a speaker.  They convince the clowns that they are the great Jo-Jo and they have to listen to them.  That is until the real clown leader shows up.

79 min:
I can't believe I am watching this sober.  It would be sooo much better if I was drinking.

81 min:
The cop sacrifices himself so the couple can escape and when the police show up to help the tent/spaceship takes off back into outer space.  Or is about to before the cop pops the head clowns nose.  The tent explodes into fireworks and the only thing that makes it out is a clown car that contains the cop.  How this is possible beats me.  But how is any of this movie possible.  Now Debbie just has to choose if she is going to be a one man woman or if the three can live happily together in a polyamorous relationship.  Well actually they didn't really mention what was going to happen to the threesome but that might make a more interesting movie than this one.  Thank god it was only 80 some minutes.

Rating: *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYtBkR3pGVQ