Wow. Roarke deserved every award and accolade he got for this role. Not only did you love the guy and hate the guy, but he was in such amazing shape. The performance was undeniably one of the best I have seen in a long time. His interactions with anyone that wasn’t a wrestler were sad and you felt for him because it seemed obvious that the character had no true idea how to have a relationship.
Amazingly great performance, the ending was a surprise, but yet not. I guess it was just not the ending I wanted, though I knew it was coming.
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A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
We watched this film come together on Project Greenlight years ago and coulnd’t find it on cable until recently.
This film was actually pretty fun. The body count was high. The director started taking out cast members about 5 minutes into the film. A lot of the people in the film are people you recognize now including Eric Danes from Grey’s Anatomy.
The filming of the monsters was tight, always leaving you wanting to see more. Great effects for the budget, lots of fluids, crap loads of fluids. That had to be one of the wettest sets. The clean up between shots must have been grueling.
Fun. Silly. Suspenseful. There was actually no predicting who would go next. Loved the title cards identifying everyone and their life expectancy. Judah Friedlander is hilarious in his part while he goes through his transformation and decompostion. Nice kill of Jason Mewes.
And there are more in the series. Wonder if we can find them on cable (uncut) anytime soon. I am curious to see what happens in the follow ups.
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Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters.
I used to follow the Darwin Awards like Ed (a local news guy) follows cars driving into buildings. The situations people would put themselves in were amazing. Keeping many of them out of the gene pool was a good idea.
Investigating insurance claims through the premise that some people do things so stupid that they deserve no cash for their claim is sort of funny. And this film was sort of funny.
Actually, the funniest thing about this film was the amount of people you recognize from Hollywood who agreed to be in the film as people doing stupid Darwin Award type things.
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A forensic detective (Fiennes) and an insurance claims investigator (Ryder) trek to investigate potential Darwin Award winners. From darwinawards.com: “The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.”
Pizza – a dysfunctional girl meets a boy that won’t grow up. They spend a night driving around, delivering pizzas, and learning a lot about themselves and each other. Seems they both have better insight into other people than they do about themselves.
KaraEthel made me have horrid flash backs to high school. I may have been odd, but never that shunned. And I know so many of the Matt character that he is almost nothing more than a parody of my friend Heidi’s boyfriend from high school (yep, Brian, you. Did you ever grow up or are you still driving around in the ‘cool car’ torturing others and smoking and drinking anything that could be smoked or drank? You were always a wanker and I can’t imagine you are any different now. How old were you when you finally graduated anyway?)
A nice film. One of those talky 2 person films where sometimes more people come in and out, but the focus is on them. It wanted to be more “My Dinner with Andre’” than it was, and I sort of wish it had been.
The actress that played KaraEthel moved quite gracefully between wanting to be a woman and still being a girl that fought with her brother and wanting to please her mother and be accepted by people.
Worth the watch.
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A long night’s journey into day. On the eve of her 18th birthday, talkative and rotund Cara is invited to accompany a pizza delivery guy, Matt, on his rounds. It’s a night of firsts for her – first job, first beer, first cigarette, first dance. How will she handle it? And, what about Matt – good-looking, single, unattached, and 30, why would he want to include Cara? She’s intrusive and vulnerable; he’s under-employed and protective. Is there life after pizza?
This movie shows best how an attractive person can be made to look completely frightening by gaining 60 pounds. That is what Jared Leto (by most accounts an attactive man) is rumored to have gained to play Mark David Chapman, the killer of John Lennon. To me, this weight gain was the most shocking part of the film.
The film made Mark David Chapman look like someone that was so unbelievably out of touch and mentally ill that there is no way he would have been allow to fly by himself on a plane in the current conditions at airports. He seemed to spiral between severely autistic, mentally retarded and schizophrenic. Not a great film. An ok film. First film of the weekend in which someone dies.
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A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.
Small movie about a small town ‘thief’ in New Hampshire that thinks he is much more threatening than he is. I hate it when films advertise someone as being a second lead in a film and they show up in about 4 scenes. I understand the want of a producer to associate a ‘name’ with his film, but listing Michael Rappaport as one of the leads was, at best, mis-leading. This film was ok. Nothing spectacular. I think the stand out may have been the kid that was the narrator. I would have liked to have seen more of him.
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Lackluster criminals look to pull a job in the Granite State.
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25 years ago five suburban kids stumbled on a murder in their sleepy hometown and led police to the killer. Two years later The Cassidy Kids Mysteries, a Saturday morning TV show based on their story, made its premiere. This is the reunion story.
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Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man (Campbell), his crush (Hannigan), his parents (Coolidge, Willard), and her father (Griffin).
