Movie Review: Good Neighbor

Good morning, good afternoon or good evening...whenever it is you are reading this.  I am back with a movie review, this time I'm watching the thriller The Good Neighbor.  "A pair of mischievous high school kids create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor. While keeping his every reaction under surveillance, they see much more than they bargained for." It stars James Caan, Logan Miller, Keir Gilchrist

• So they are going to just mess with this old man across the street?
• This guy is creepy....both of them....messing with an old man!  They both have really bad hair too!
• No ego in the long hair kids family, he got it all!
• How are they going to install all this in old mans house?  Break in?  
• They have been watching him?  Yeah these kids are messed up!
• What is with the weird creepy rap music?
• Long hair kids name is Ethan?  He looks like an Ethan
• The Haunting Project?  WHAT A HORRIBLE NAME!
• Nose Ring chick is right, it is basically scare tactics
• Did the old man rape Ethan?
• Oh its THAT GUY!  He is going to fuck these kids up!  James Caan is not a man to be fucked with kids!
• James Caan even hates the cops!  These kids are screwed!
• Caan didn't move for those 30 seconds?  Weird
• God I want to slap this Ethan kid
• Whats the problem?  The dog just mad a mess!  Yeah...that is James Caan being James Caan
• They are giving this old man flashbacks.  They are evil kids!
• Yeah, he just chopped the fucking door up, experiment over!
• Oh the joys of divorce families
• That wasn't psychotic, it was pissed off, big difference Ethan
• Doesn't the mom hear any of this?  Shouldn't she step in?  Its like superhero stuff when they talk about their identities in public and no one hears.  Looking at you CW shows!
• I smell another flash back coming
• These kids are horrible
• What is in the basement?
• They are going to break his windows?
• So this guy is a wizard, he sleeps with his eyes open
• Ah, its the Ski School/Always Sunny Ski episode party guy
• So the gun is missing, I think it is Sean that kills everyone personally
• A false police report?
• Ah old man putting on his shoes to answer the door
• Oh shit...he is going to kill that dog now kids!  IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT!
• what about the old and Ethans daddy?
• The old man saved his mom from abuse, which of course makes him a bad guy in the kids eye
• Wow he put a hidden camera in his best friends room
• They pushed him to suicide!
• There is a pretty easy route out here if Ethan was thinking straight
• Mindy Sterling just showed up?  What a strange cast
• Why is this movie of all movies making me tear up?

As of 1/11/2017 it has a 6.3 over on IMDB and I think it is a little better than this.  I say it is a 7/10. The acting is well done minus a few moments from the youngsters.  However it wasn't enough to make the dislike the flick.

I can't complain too much about the flick to be completely honest.  I felt it was drug out just a bit and a few unneeded scenes but you can say that about just about any flick.

I think anyone will enjoy this flick so I suggest going out and watching it!

Bottom 100 review: #94 I Accues my Parents

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  I'm back with another Bottom 100 movie review.  This time it is the 1944 flick I Accuse my Parents.   "Young man goes to work for gangsters to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend."  As of 12/31/16 this has a rating of 2.4 on IMDB.  It stars Robert Lowell, Mary Beth Hughes and John Miljan.  Lets go find out why a flick about a guy working for the mob has the this title!  I'm going to try something different and put a time stamp down for when I think of my always brilliant witty comments and where to find the flick if you can.  This flick is currently on Amazon Prime boys and girl.  So power up our lord of shopping and get ready to accuse our parents!

• 00:00:00      Running time of this if flick is One hour and seven minutes, nice!
• 00:00:00      Ugg black and white sucks unless it is the Stooges!
• 00:00:38      There is something nice about old movies musical scores isn't there
• 00:02:16      Ah there we go, it is one of the first lines
• 00:03:32      Wow he looks the same in school as he does now!
• 00:04:29      Is this one of those dangers of drink flicks? 
• 00:04:58      Wait...10 bucks was a lot of money back then wasn't it?  Hell it is now if you ask me!
• 00:06:30      Wow...this family is quite the family unit!
• 00:08:40      I agree with the dad, that hat is pretty funny!
• 00:10:12      Of course she showed up drunk
• 00:11:16      That boss guy seems very interested in Jimmy being a "Good boy" if you get my drift!
• 00:12:20      Are you interested in shoes?  No I came to the shoe store to get some burger for dinner you dumb bunny!
• 00:14:00      Yeah that manager is creepy!  Also how old is Jimmy?  High school was 30's back in the day?
• 00:16:12      Sure does talk about his mom and dad a lot!
• 00:21:50      What lip-syncing?  
• 00:23:30      Why did the chef come out?  Just to smile?  Is he part of the number?  The 40's were so confusing!
• 00:25:10      Was that lady wearing a fez?  OH MY GOD IT WAS #11!
• 00:28:16      Wait....did they suddenly change locations?
• 00:43:00      Sorry there hasn't be much to say.  Just basic old school 40's movie mobster stuff
• 00:51:00      Those are the most unlikely cops I've seen even for the 40's.  Pretty shade characters indeed
• 00:58:00      Should be more people like this cook in the world, we'd be a better world actually
• 01:00:00      This Jimmy kid just attracts the weird "bosses".  I take back what I said about the cook.  He is as creepy as the shoe store owner!
• 01:05:30      Well this isn't a bad movie at all; just old
• 01:07:30      Uggg, it is about being a neglectful parent!

This does NOT belong in the bottom 100.  Is it a good film?  Not by todays standards but you can say the same thing about a lot of "classics".  This is not a classic by any stretch of the imagination but it isn't bad.  I give it a 5/10.  It was an okay film but boring by our standards.  The acting was very 40's and 50's and not any action because of the time.

The story is not a bad one actually.  The idea of a guy giving his story in court to defend himself.  I actually wouldn't mind seeing a remake of this film with decent actors and a some decent action and you have a slightly better flick.  

I wouldn't recommend going out and watching this flick but there are worst ways to kill 70 minutes especially if you're stuck at work!

Movie Review: Atari: Game Over

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this blog.  I'm back with yet another movie review.  This time I'm checking out the documentary Atari:  Game over.  As of 12/28/16 it has a 6.7.  "A crew digs up all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s."

I might have done this review before, but I don't think I finished the flick the last time I started watching it.  The idea of this flick is that the Atari game ET was the worst game in history.  So bad that Atari buried ONE MILLION games in the desert in New Mexico.  However the flick goes more in depth into Atari itself.  You also hear from a few famous people who showed up at the dig and the developer himself.

This flick does not sound like it would very exciting but it is interesting.  The story behind the meteoric rise of Atari and then their equally brilliant fall is quite interesting.  They only scrap the surface of this but what they do talk about is very interesting.

I also find the attitude of the developor of the game, Howard Scott Warshaw, to be interesting.  It is a mix of I can do anything and what have I done.  You can tell that at one point he thought he was the smartest man alive.  Smug isn't quite a strong enough word for how he came off.  

There isn't a lot to say about this flick.  It is the basic one sided story about the dig for these games with some history sprinkled in.  At a short running time I feel that they could have added some more of the Atari history.  

Overall a decent flick but not quite everything I wanted.  I still give it a 7/10 for the fact that it did resolve an old urban legend.  With a running time of around 70 minutes there are worse things to waste your time on!

Bottom 100 #52: Track of the Moon Beast

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever you happen across this entry.  Today I'm checking out number 52 (as of 12/25/16) on the Bottom 100 with a 2.1.  Time to watch Track of the Moon Beast.  "A young man is transformed into a hideous "moon beast" due to a meteor fragment lodged in his body."  It stars Chase Cordell, Leigh Drake and Gregorio Sala.  Time to go track a moon beast.

• Wait?  Amazon Prime has commercials?  Oh only for their own shows...that makes sense.  It is like how after anything Netflix suggested an Original
• Our portion of the solar system?  That is a weird way of saying it
• Why would they interrupt a moon collision?  Did they really do that back in the day?  Hell we can't even get anyone to care about space travel now!
• slowest motorcycle EVER!  Almost slower than the car in the opening shot of Birdemic!
• Why did he take his shirt off?  Isn't he afraid of sunburn?
• Well that was a random yell.  Pretty sure I'd be getting on that slow motorcycle and getting the flock out of there!  
• Wait...he didn't really react that much
• Yep random blonde....and suddenly a news report insert!

• This guy isn't that bad of a reporter
• 80 minutes is a good running time for these type of flicks, bad ones!
• Nice, already getting her out in the dark.  Half a day and going to get her on the back of his slowest motorcycle
• Even better now that a storm is rolling in!
• So far, 15 minutes in, this is moving quickly story line wise!  
• OH SHIT THAT GUY GOT HIT WITH METEOR!  Oh I guess not, never mind
• He is working with Native Americans and then just throws paper towel on the ground?  That makes Native Americans cries I hear.

• You forgot you were going out of town?
• His place already?  Less than 24 hours of meeting?  
• He is complaining about his parents being divorced?  He is like 30 or something
• She is scared of that lizard?  Good grief how cheesy.  Then she is afraid of "us".  UGGG
• Wait...is Kathy played by Judith Light from Who's the Boss?
• This band isn't that bad
• Paul has spent a lot of this movie without a shirt on....wait are they staying in the same room already?  How much time has passed?
• Wait... that was a dress not a nightgown
• I think Johnny Longbow is trying to move in on Paul's girl
• And he is shirtless again!
• I love pre-1980 movie soundtracks!
• That is a lot of blood, don't think I'd open the door if it was me Stella
• This flick isn't that bad thus far.  Basically just a 70's flick.  Thus far not a bottom 100 worthy flick
• How did the bed get made?  Did he make it before he went out moon beasting it up?
• Nice chin strap chin strap!

• Wow that is kind of racist music for suddenly having Native Americans on the screen
• And shirtless yet again!  Is he like Randy from Trailer Park Boys and allergic to shirts?
• And like that it went from okay to bad with just that one brief scene!

• Yeah it is a dinosaur you morons!
• Cranial X-Ray?  Really?
• For the record he is without a shirt again
• Yes the meteor shower scared the lizard
• Don't usually disgust the results with patients?  Really?  
• Not even doctors talk like that!
• Wait...there is a cell in the hospital or did I miss them moving him?
• That is the worst transformation scene EVER!

• Once again shirtless, they really saved on his wardrobe
• I was wrong, even with this running time this is long.  A few too many scenes that don't advance anything
• Did Longbow just randomly walk into their conference?
• Why does he want to kill himself?  He is turning into a moon monster!
• I'll ask again, what is the time frame of this flick?
• Can you call someone slowly?  Is that like dialing slowly?
• What is wrong with her?  What is going on?  This flick has gone off the rails!
• Oh her foot is caught, still off the rails
• That transformation was a little better but the monster still looks like something from the 40's
• Can they even see it?  If so why didn't they go help her when she was screaming for help?
• Worst cops EVER!
• PAUL IS NOT PAUL ANYMORE!
• I thought her ankle was hurt
• Awesome death effect

This is a screen shot of the monster dying

Thankfully that was done.  I was wrong about how bad this movie was.  It very quickly went to 70's hokey to bad movie bad!  I give it a 2/10 only because it wasn't that awful make me want to shot myself bad like some other bottom 100 flicks.  

The acting wasn't horrible but you could tell they weren't even 'C' level actors.  The story wasn't bad but I think there was a Scooby Doo like this with a moon beast.

Overall I can not give you a reason to watch this flick. 

Until next time...abyssina!

Bottom 100 #48: Eegah

Because it is Christmas I'm back with another Bottom 100 review, this time it is the flick Eegah which can be watched by clicking on the link!   From 1962:  "Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage."  I'm hoping we see Pauly Shore somewhere in this flick!  (10 points to those who get the reference).  It stars Arch Hall Jr. (Arch Hall Sr. is the director...hmm), Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel.   But enough talk lets go watch...Eegah

• I always feel bad that these 60's flicks are on the list, they probably weren't considered bad back in the day of the drive in double feature
• Lives up at the club?  What does that mean?
• Women fainted much easier back in the 60's
• Why is there goat sound...oh the cave man is just carrying one
• Damn, that caveman is huge!  Oh it is the guy with a nail in his head from Happy Gilmore!

• Oh yes, referencing the bible
• So far this isn't horrible at all
• Tom has some nice hair, it is very Doctor Whoish

• Any movie with a pith helmet is okay with me!  I do own one myself for the record!
• Why the shot of the pilot taking his gasses off and on?  Weird
• Wow that is some "dune buggy"
• Yes 1960's movie music!
• I know you're dad is waiting to be picked up and all but watch me show off!
• Of course they are suddenly stuck...but they get out?  Why have the scene?  A tension builder?
• fainted again?
• He is sniffing the girl?  That is weird
• Roxy's dad has a decent voice, could've done some decent voice acting work I think
• I've got to say Eegah is quite the artist
• Yeah, he is going to try to get with Roxy!
• IMDB Trivia:  After filming was completed it was discovered that the sound recordist had actually failed to record the bulk of the sound. This explains why so much of the film is (badly) dubbed with the sound added in post-production.  That explains it, I thought it was just the bad version online I was watching
• Two aspirin, calm down there dad!
• Gave him a shave?  Yeah...that's weird for a "dad and daughter"
• That is a lot of shaving cream!

• What continuity error? Shaving cream always comes back...wait she is putting MORE on?  And it is gone again
• She only took him outside the entrance like two feet?  That was her big plan?
• Yeah work the body kid, work the body!
• Poor kidnapping giant, he just wanted someone to love him!
• Yeah, I'll tell you when I've had enough...baby
• Even at 90 minutes this flick is a little long in the tooth
• Strange relationship between "Father and Daughter" I'm telling you
• He found the house rather easily I think
• Wait...now he understands how glass works?  He didn't moments ago
• When does the rampage start?
• Oh wait...that isn't their house, its the club...but doesn't Roxy live there?
• Wow that rich dude totally no sold the giant
• He doesn't have a horrible voice actually
• Yeah this has seriously gotten long in the tooth

This wasn't a horrible move at all, just a little long.  Probably would have cut 10 or 15 minutes out.  I realize that would have made it a 75 minute flick but I think it would have worked better.  

Overall I give it a 3/10.  Not horribly horrible but the length knocked it down a notch.  Not a bottom 100 flick however.  I blame MST3K because they did an episode on it!  Until next time....abyssinia!