Movie Monday:: Tucker and Dale Vs Evil

This movie is my new favorite horror comedy. Tucker and Dale Vs Evil is about two Rednecks from West Virginia who just purchased a vacation home in the woods. They go up to the cabin to fix it up and meet some college kids on their way up to go camping. The college kids have been watching way too many campy horror movies and automatically think that Tucker and Dale are some kind of evil killers. While running from these nice guys, they accidentally kill themselves one by one.

I rented this movie on Zune on Xbox360 and I had to watch it twice because I was laughing so hard the first time I watched it I didn't catch all the jokes until the second time around. I loved this movie because it is so refreshing. The premise of the movie has never really been done before; looking at it from the Rednecks' side. They probably do think people from the city are crazy. They left room for a sequel, I hope they make one. This movie is great for everyone; its funny, its not really gory, its got romance.... I'm going give something away if I keep going on about it, so just watch it already!!

The Greatest Game you've Never Heard of this Week!

Resonnance of Fate

XBOX360 and PS3

This is really a masterpiece from TriAce. Its an RPG but your team fights with guns instead of the traditional swords we are used to. The battle play is also a little different you chose a path for your character to run on and then you chose how charges you want your gun to be before you fire. You can unload one clip into an enemy or shoot as many times as you can before reaching the end of you path.

All the weapons in the game are completely customizable. As long as there is a spot for an attachment and room on the blue print, you can create it, no matter how impossible it would be for it to be real. Character weapons are handguns, machine guns, or grenades. All of the characters can duel wield, as long as you have the guns. The character levels up themselves through their weapon choice. Its kind of strange. Say one of your characters is level 7 handguns, level 8 machine guns and level 3 grenades. That characters level is 18, but if you give that characters grenades they are going to leevel up very quickly, because it is easier to level up lower levels (as we all know). All the character outfits in the game are also completely customizable. As time goes on you unlock new outfits to buy for your characters and they are all very stylish.

Best thing about this game is the game plus record. After you beat the game, it is not nearly over. You still have to unlock the rest of the map and take that elevator as low as it goes. This is an amazing game and shows how under rated Japanese games are to the American public. The graphics in this game are strickingly beautiful and there is a great steam punk element to it. I would love to talk about the story, but I would spoil it. The story is a great mystery and really makes you think about how people would survive when conditions on earth got to be unbearable. Really great RPG.

Game Spotlight: Indigo Prophecy

Indigo Prophecy PS2 and XBOX

Like the French guy says in the tutorial, this is not just a game it is an experience. The game play and controls are all predetremined. Its like you are following a movie, but it is done so well. You not only play as the killer, but you also play as the detective trying to catch him. You don't die by getting shot or something, you die because the stress becomes too much and you give up on life. This is a very deep game and everyone should play it.

The killer is Lucas, a seemingly ordinary man who works in a bank's IT department. One night while eating at a diner he is possesed by some sort of ancient demon and kills a man. From the moment you come back and realize what you have done you have the opportunity to try and cover up your crime as best you can. This will reduce your stress level for your character, which in this game is pretty much health. After you leave the restaurant you go back to your apartment and go to sleep. Thats when the game jumps to Carla, the dectective. You have to question all the witnesses and look for evidence. The game jumps back and forth like this the whole time. You are constantly finding out more about why this is happening to Lucas and the Ancient mystery that somehow involves them all.

This game is absolutely amazing and definitely one of my favorite games of all time. This game just maybe too deep for you I don't think you could handle it.

A New Direction

I have decided to take this blog in a new direction. Aside from watching a lot of unusual movies my husband and I love video games. He likes and is amazing at pretty much any game and he shows me all the great games to play. I have found that a lot of people who are reporting on video games are just talking about them because they are getting paid to do so. Some big game company pays G4 a whole lot of money and puts out a ton of advertisements and people buy it. What about all the other games that come out that are amazing and will keep us interested for hours and hours? Who is reporting on them? Well, me now.

I have a whole new schedule planned out for this blog. It will be like my own mini magazine for great games for real gamers. Monday, will be Movie Monday, where I will showcase a new interesting movie I have seen. Tuesday will be a game spotlight, featuring a game, old or new that you may not have heard of or played before, but is awesome. Wednesday will be special article day. I will choose different topics in video games to write about. Thursday is another game spotlight and Firday will be the Greatest Game You've Never Heard of This Week.

I'm really excited about this new blog and I'm glad that I'm able to combine my two loves into prose. I hope everyone has as much fun reading the blog as I am having putting it together. Thanx!

K8

Jackass 3D

Jackass 3D. The Dickhouse boys are back and this time in 3D. We watched this in simulated 3D because for some reason they didnt release it in real3D except for in theaters which is a real shame. I would have paid the extra dollar to see it in real3D, it would have been great. Everyone is here and hilarious. Old Characters are back and the disgusting things they do just get more and more raunchy.

I just love to watch and see if Bam Margera will cry; he is so corny. His parents April and Phil, I guess getting tired of not being part of the gang, are in the entire movie this time. They are funny and all, but like why are they there? There is no reason other then he is a child, which I think is true. I just love all the other guys though, Johnny Knoxville is always great and he usually does the craziest stuff, but he looks like he is getting old in this one. He doesn't laugh as much as he used to after getting hurt. Steve-O, Wee Man, I forget everybody else's names but they are all great too. This movie is hilarious and would be enjoied by anyone who is immature and likes to see grown men put themselves in danger for no obvious reason. :-D!

Due Date

Due Date. Robert Downing Jr and Zach Galifinakus in a strange serious of events end up having to travel from Atlanta to Los Angeles in 3 days for Peter's (Downing) wife's scheduled c-section. Zach Galifinakus is really a good actor and I think this movie shows how he will not be type casted. His character is a sad, lonely man just looking for someone to spend time with for a little bit. His father has just died and he is in mouring, plus he is naturally really weird. He is carrying with him a dog, Sunny and his father's ashes and he is going to Hollywood (as he calls Los Angeles) to become an actor. So really the reason the movie is funny is because Ethan Tremblay (Galifinakus) is a crazy pot head in mourning.

Robert Downing, Jr is the straight man. He plays an architect who was just traveling on business bumps into Ethan Tremblay and switches bags with him and its all downhill for him from here. He has no wallet; no ID, no credit cards, no cash and Ethan has a rental car and offers him a ride. He reluctantly takes the offer, having no other choice. Through their many ups and downs they somehow make it through and arrive just in time of course. But thats all I'm giving away about this one (Its too new).

I loved this movie, I'm glad we bought it, its one of those movies you can watch over and over again. Both actors are great and its like a 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles' for our generation. Bottom line, its a must see.

The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle

The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, seen on Zune on Xbox LIVE. Its hard to say in few sentances what this film is about, but basically cookies. The movie begins with a man in his early 20s reading the bible by a body of water. The man sees a bottle floating along near him and jumps in the water to retrieve the bottle. He has to break the bottle to get the message out, and hurts his hand. The message reads, F*** You, and this sets the scene for this man's unfortunate life.



The man is unemployed and can only find a job working as a janitor in an office building.Every day the man is seen he seems to be following a different religion, Judism, Muslim, Catholic, Hindu, Atheist, etc. The office building in which he works is a consumer research firm for baked goods, specifically self warming cookies. Some of his coworkers like to eat the cookies they throw in the trash. One of the researchers sees this and sees a golden oppurtunity for a controlled research group. She purposely throws out the cookies, knowing the janitors will eat them. Hopefully she didn't know the cookies make the men who eat them pregnant with what they imagine to be a blue whale.



While pregnant, the men experiment many of the same symptoms women do when they are pregnant. Including mood swings, vivid dreams, hormone changes, and so on, Eventually, the religiously confused young man confronts the researcher who admits they had no idea this would happen, but he and all the other men who ate the cookies would 'give birth' to a semialive worm like creature that will die very soon after being born.



That's all I'm going to reveal from the film; lets take a deeper look into The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle. The young man's religious confusion, I believe is a symbol of the general confusion and hopelessness of the generation just getting out of college. Because of the economy, there are no jobs for anyone, much less unexperienced college students. He is trying to find himself and answers anywhere he can, and so turns to the world religions or lack thereof in some instances. What's more each of the religions the man follows coordinates with what will happen that day. For example, on the day he figures every thing out and gives birth to Little Dizzle he is atheist. Its almost as if the film is his religious journey and then end of the movie is his enlightenment.



Little Dizzle, even though he is not alive, is very important symolically through the film. What science defines as alive is something which can metabolism , is made of cells which contain DNA, and can reproduce. By those qualifications, Little Dizzle is not alive, but he is alive through these men who are carrying him. He incites in these men an understanding for what their female counterparts have to go through during childbirth. He also makes the men think about their own life and in what direction they are headed toward. Although he is not scientifically alive, Little Dizzle exists in the hearts of the men he touched and as long as they remember him he will never die.

Dogtooth

Dogtooth, Greek with English subtitles. Seen on Zune on Xbox Live. This film is about a family who have been extremely isolated by their parents. No one in the family have names, but there is Father, Mother, Eldest, Boy, and Youngest. No one comes off the property except for the Father and no one comes on to the property except Christina, the young woman the Father pays to have sex weekly with his son. These teenagers are so sheltered they have different meanings for words that their parents just make up. They have to listen to homemade tapes of vocabulary words. They receive stickers for good behavior and the child with the most stickers at the end of the day gets to pick an activity in the evening for the family to partake in. The boy picked videos, homemade videos of themselves playing in the yard. They believe they have a brother on the other side of the fence who they feed and talk to. The father told them their bodies are not strong enough to leave the house until the dogtooth falls out; which is never.
One day Christina gets fed up with unfulfilling sex and cons the Eldest girl to perform oral sex in exchange for a headband. The next week, video tapes of “Rocky” and “Jaws” is what the eldest is bribed with. From now on she calls herself Bruce. She explains she believes a name is to the youngest sister, who now also wants a name. The parents have made the teens believe that airplanes fall out of the sky as toy airplanes. The eldest gets to the airplane first and claims it. The next day the brother is seen playing with the airplane. The eldest sees this and confronts him. He fights her so she goes to the kitchen and cuts him with a butcher's knife. She takes the airplane and throws it over the fence. The father gets the toy for the boy, but since they believe they cannot walk on the pavement unless you are in the car, he has to get into the car and drive about a foot and pick up the car. Eventually the parents figure out what is going on and find the video tapes. The father tapes one of the VHS' to his hand and hits the eldest in the head. Bruce goes to the bathroom with a five pound weight and hits herself until she knocks out the dogtooth. She then hides in the trunk of the car and is not found.
There is more that happens in the film if you can believe it, but I just wanted to summarize as best I could without confusing the timeline of events. I thought this movie was sick and crazy, but new. I have never seen anything like it before and it really keeps you wondering. What were these parents thinking? How was this going to work when their dogtooth never falls out? Would this be considered child endangerment? The film is trying to show how much of an influence parents are on their kids and. I guess, how any one can have children, even crazy psycho people. The mother didn't even go outside the grounds. Its crazy, a horror movie in my eyes.

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

"The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" is a documentary about a family of self proclaimed hillbillies in Boone County, West Virginia. This family has not left Boone County, ever. The father, was shot in the face as he was starting to become famous for tap dancing. The mother raised at least 23 of her own children, natural and adopted, but the number of kids may be more around 34. Many of the children have died over the years including an accidental suicide, two shootings and a car wreck.

Bertie Mae, the mother, is 84 years old and at the start of the film the family gathers to celebrate. The documentary focuses on four of the children and their children. All this family does is drugs, have babies, and get arrested. The only ones that don't do drugs are Bertie Mae and the ones who are too young. They do anything and everything they can; pain killers, anxiety pills, cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana. 

The documentary crew follows the Whites around for a year and just see what happen. I personally thought the movie was a sad example of a family of criminals. None of them work, they all do drugs and steal and sell drugs and bad things happen to them. The only one of them who works is the one who didn't stay in Boone County and he is still a pot head. It makes me wonder about drugs and the theory about addictiveness in personality. There are two explanations for this, one they grew up around drugs and thought the behavior was normal and just followed suit or that doing drugs is just inherent in some people. The film was disturbing because I couldn't believe people like this actually existed. It was like something out of a Rob Zombie movie. It just made me never want to visit West Virginia. :)

Premier

I have decided to write a blog about the movies that my husband Sean and I watch every night. I like to write and I've seen enough movies that I think its about time for me to be a critic, but theres more that I want to do with this blog than to just critique. I am going to delve deeper into the film and what the real message may be. My idea is that maybe I can get people to think outside of the box and see things in a different light. The movies that will be included in this blog will come from different decades and really depends what we are in the mood for. :)

As much as I wanted to publish a blog for today, as I finished typing a blog about "The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle" SOMEHOW it got erased. So now I'm disheartened and will start tomorrow.