Killer Joe

Killer Joe William Friedkins 2011 film based on the play by Tracy Lett's is exactly what the movie poster advertised." A totally twisted deep-fried Texas redneck trailer park murder story." None of the characters betrayed by an amazing ensemble cast are rocket surgeons. Lead protagonist Chris Smith, played by Emile Hirsch is an idiot, just like Hirsch's character in Into The Wild, if Hirsch is not careful he'll get typecast as a dolt, much like his costar in Killer Joe Thomas Haden Church, who always seems to play an idiot. Matthew McConaughey who sometimes plays idiots, plays the title character Joe, a dirty Dallas detective/hired killer. Joe gets mixed up with this white trash family and its  pulp noir murder plot. Joe's character falls between Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth from Lynch's Blue Velvet, or Harvey Keitel's Bad Lieut. character. Gina Gershon plays Churches wife to perfection though she seems a bit pretty to be married to such a loser. Juno Temple daughter of punk filmmaker Julien Temple( plays the daughter of Church's and,  and sister of Chris)  becomes the retainer for the murder that Joe was hired to commit, because no one in the family has any money. Juno plays Dotty the mentally challenged, sleepwalking virgin. Killer Joe is a pretty good thriller, Friedkin's second collaboration with Letts, they worked on Bug together too. I certainly appreciate the non-Hollywood ending. Temple and Gershon are nude throughout most of the film. And there's a pretty sick scene involving fellatio of a chicken leg, that was really intense.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

OK after weeks of having my Internet in disrepair and several vacations...I'm Back...Sorry about that...The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first in Stieg Larsons Millennium Trilogy to hit the silver screen...Directed by Niels Arden Opley The girl is a Swedish thriller witch pits heroin Lisbeth Salander (Nomi Repace) against an inbreed family of Swiss blue bloods...Dragon Tattoo is not for the faint hearted and has to graphic rapes...Lisbeth is not a girl to fuck with though She gets her revenge and its awesome... All in all the film is entertaining...Don't watch it with your parents...

Invictus

Since this month is the football World Cup in the nation of South Africa...I thought it would be appropriate to watch Clint Eastwoods inspiring film Invictus...Based on the true story of South Africas 1995 world cup rugby champions...Clint tells how one of the most important political figures of our generation Nelson Mendella inspired and untied his nation...Matt Damon losses the weight he gained to play the Mark Whitacre in The Informant and packed on the muscle to play captain of the rugby team Francois Pienaar...I believe when asked who he'd like to see play him on film Mendella thought Morgan Freeman could pull it off... Mendella got his wish and Freeman channels the great leader...Even though I still don't understand the sport of rugby Eastwood made a really great uplifting film...It's nice to see a film about South Africa with out it ending on a sad note...

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Gamer

Gamer is another one of those sci/fi thrillers in witch a death row inmate can win their freedom if he or she completes a suicidal mission for the entertainment of the public...This time the game is a P.O.V. 3rd person shooter type video game where the prisoner is controlled by another gamer...Gerard Butler plays our hero Kable he is the most successful warrior on Slayers with only 3 more missions to win his freedom...Michael C. Hall of Dexter fame plays an all out villain in Gamer he's the inventor of Slayer and Society which is an interactive simm universe... Much like The Simms game Society is a bawdy place where you can create an alter ego, but in this movie they are actually controlling real people/actors...Kables wife is one of these actors and of course shes suffering at the hands of an obese pervert who puts her in tasteless situations...Will Kable win his Freedom and safe his wife and daughter??? I thought Gamer was fun for what it was...Running man meets Rollerball meets Deathrace...There isn't anything new to see here but I had fun seeing it...I blame Society see in that universe there's lots of sexy topless babes... Who's going to be the first to make a porno parody based on the Simms games...Who ever it is should get there art direction inspiration from Gamers Society
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Tideland

A.O. Scott critic for the New York Times while guest appearing on Ebert And Ropper called Tideland "...Creepy,Exploitative, And Self-Indulgent..."...That's according to the Wikipedia...Terry Gilliams film is creepy, exploitative, and whats so wrong about self-indulgence....The disclaimer on the DVD by Gilliam which is featured below sets up the films uncomfortable parts ...So its Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Alice in Wonderland thank you Terry...Based on the unread novel by Mitch Cullin... Tideland is disturbing in the David Lynch kind of way...Jodelle Ferland is the young heroin who has to deal with the drug of the same name...Her mom played by Jennifer Tilly channeling Courtney Love dies of an O.D....Her dad Played by Jeff Bridges... In this film the Dude does not abide he just dies...Janet McTeer is frighting ...Brendan Flecther witch is the second reference to this blog in this review...Is awesome as Dickens...The best since DiCaprio in Gilbert Grape...

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Daybreakers

The vampire myth has become sort of a soap opera lately with your True Blood and Twilight Saga...Don't blame Anne Rice there is room in the mythos for these romantic bawdy adventures...The Spierig Brother's Daybreakers is a welcome departure from these humans in love with vampire tales...Staring Ethan Hawke as a vampire hematologist who is searching for a human blood substitute...It seems the world is running out of humans and therefore human blood...Sam Neill plays the corporate vampire bad guy who is farming the blood of what little humans are left... When the vampires are starving they turn from stylish night dwellers to large walking hairless vampire bats that will feed on other vampires which causes mutations...Hawkes vampire Edward runs into a band of surviving humans lead by Audrey (Claudia Karven) and Elvis (Willem Devoe)...They hold the key to human survival they seem to have a cure for the vampire virus... If only they can stay alive...Daybreakers is a cool night stalker tale with few errors...One glaring mistake though why rescue a band of humans at night when you have tactical advantages during the day???

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