Sunday, January 27, 2008

The Breakfast Club

Rated: R
Directed By: John Hughs

This movie is a CLASSIC! Everyone has seen this movie, or at least heard of it. This starts out meeting five high school students with five differnt sterotypes. Andy Clark(played by Emilo Estevez) is your typical jock wrestler. Brian Johnson(played by Anthony Hall) is the geek in this film. Claire Standish(played by Molly Ringwald) she is the prep girl in school. Allison Reynolds(played by Ally Sheedy) shes that wierd girl that no one knows about, you know that one that sits in the back and makes a ceral sandwhich. And then theres John Bender(played by Judd Nelson) and hes the loser, stonner that is a dick to everyone and no one likes. In the end they end up spilling out thier life stories, moments in life they cant get over, or relationships with thier parents and becoming friends for the rest of thier lives, just in an eight hour detention. It makes you really think on how your life has gone, and your parents and maybe how your friends have had a bad relationship with one of thier parents.

Review: 4 1/2 out of 5
This movie always hits home for me. It makes me think about life in general.

Harold and Kumar: Go To White Castle

Rated: R
Directed By: Danny Leiner

Many people have seen this movie, but there may be something you might not have thought about in this movie. Harold Lee(played by John Cho), and his friend Kumar Patel(played by Kal Penn) have a crazy night after getting high and craving some white castle. They go through crazy things such as riding a cheetah, getting thier car stolen by Niel Patrick Harris, and getting arrested all to go get to white castle. Throughout the movie the two friends get mocked and ridiculed by differnt white people on thier way to white castle. Does this at all make you wonder if this movie was a struggle for burgers or a struggle to become accpted?

Review: 4 out of 5 stars.
Myself, I love this movie, it's just one of those you can sit down and always have a good time with.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

American History X

Rated: R
Directed By: Tony Kaye

American History X is a great movie with many differnt ethics. It starts with a young boy named Danny Vinyard(played by Edward Furlong) and his older brother Derek(played by Edward Norton). Derek is a leader of a white supremacists group and goes to jail for killing a black man. During the course of the movie it show Dereks experiances in jail when he becomes friends with a black man, and how Danny is slowly following in his footsteps. I'm not the type to ruin an ending of a movie so if you want to find out what happens your going to have to watch it. But girls, you might want to grab a tissue box.

Review: 5 out of 5
This movie deserves a 5 because it is a very interesting and sad story, and has very big names acting wise. Has language and violence, but what movie doesnt these days.

This shows how racism is still around even since many of the past influences that have died out(such as the kkk, and the nazies). Racism is an intollerance towards other ethnic groups. The only reason someone is rasist to me is because they are scared of new things, new faces, and there is no reason to kll another human being for the color of thier skin.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Boondock Saints

Rated: R
Directed by: Troy Duffy

If you have not seen this movie, it is a classic! Boondock Saints takes place in South Boston. There are two brothers named Connor MacManus(played by Sean Patrick Flannery), and Murphy MacManus(played by Norman Reedus). These two work at a meat paking plant, untill one night they have a bar fight with two Russian mob bosses. The next day the Russians arrive at thier home to kill them, but them themselves get killed. The brothers then relize that they have a new job, to kill every evil scum that live in the area. Thier friend Rocco(played by David Della Roc) quits the mob he works for and teams with the Macmanus brothers and gives them the names of people to kill within the old mob. Meanwhile, an FBI agent named Paul Smeker(played by Willem Dafoe) is tracking each murder these two have and ends up teaming with them because he believes in what they do. I don't want to tell who comes in at the end, if you want to find out your going to have to see it yourself.

Review: 4 1/2 out of 5
Question: Do you believe that what the MacMantus Brothers are doing is right or wrong?