Wake Up, Ron Burguny is a very funny… “sequel” to Anchorman. It’s made up of deleted and alternate scenes from the original with new narration. It uses a subplot about a gang, The Alarm Clock, that was removed from the original. If you thought the original was okay, then you might not think this is that great, but if you really liked the original, you’ll like this. It might not be as good, but it’s definitely really funny, and it’s cool to see the alternate versions! Very happy.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (damn, what a name!) was a really cool movie. It takes place in the 1930s. Sky Captain, or Joe, and Polly, a newspaper reporter, travel around the world to determine the reason for recent robot attacks. I think the tone of the movie is great. The 1930s New York City is very cool… the planes from the era… it even reminded me of some of the old time radio shows. Mixed in with things from the era are futuristic things of course. There are many types of robots in use, but they’re industrial and mechanical looking, as was common in older ideas of robots rather than the more modern “smooth” look. The airships in the movie are fantastic in my opinion, and I’ve always had a fascination with such things (I still dream about the gardens from Final Fantasy VIII from time to time). There’s a British-controlled aerial Mobile Landing Strip that’s pretty cool. There are also amphibious planes, which are planes and submarines. Sky Captain also has a lot of references to other movies. I’m sure I missed a great deal of them. The graphics are superb. I’ve heard people complain about the amount of CG, but I thought it was great. The plot wasn’t great, but the whole movie had a sort of corny feel to it because the movie had an old-fashioned tone. This made the plot fitting. Anyways, I think a lot of people will hate this movie so don’t take my word for it. I just thought it was pretty cool.

Garden State was a brilliant film. Zach Braff, J.D. from Scrubs, is writer, director, and star of the film. Zach Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a man who returns home after nine years for his mother’s funeral. Largeman has been on very powerful antidepressants since a young age and for the first time, has stopped taking them. With the medications, he was numb to most emotions. Now, for the first time in his adult life, he’s living life as himself. The film is of him finding himself and finding his love.
Parts of the movie were kind of sappy, but I like these types of romances. The script was very good, there were many great scenes, and the camera angle choices were superb. The music chosen was excellent, and I’ve been listening to the soundtrack for a few days now.
Zach Braff did very well with as writing and directing debut, and I look forward to seeing more of his work.

I saw the last 3/4 of a retarded movie called The Specials on TV today. The Specials is a group of superheroes who are more concerned with themselves and money than saving people. A lot of internal drama occurs, the group breaks apart, and each of the members has to figure out what he or she wants to do now. It’s very funny but in a bit of a dry way. I don’t think I’d ever pay good money for it, but I’d like to get a copy of it. If you ever see it on TV, try it out.

Two stoners, one a Korean investment banker and the other an Indian (like… from India…) med-student, crave White Castle and attempt to get there. But they have a hell of a lot of trouble. Yet another stupid comedy, and a very funny one at that. I think this was much better than Anchorman. They meet a man named “Freak Show,” almost score with a few different women, ride a cheetah, and do a lot of other crazy shit. The movie also plays on many, many racial stereotypes. A great movie.
Of course, no one else will see the greatest part of the movie. During a medical scene, Herbert leaned so far forward that I thought he was going to leap into the next row. It was amazing. I know he wants to be a doctor but… fuck… it’s Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.”
Oh, and Kumar kept making me think of Dev.
Definitely worth ticket price.

This “stupid comedy,” similar to Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and Napoleon Dynamite, was very funny. I laughed very hard throughout the film. I usually don’t like Will Ferrell very much, but he played Ron Burgundy, an arrogant, man’s man, anchorman, very well. Veronica Corningstone, played by Christina Applegate, takes his job and becomes the first female news anchor in the United States. Jack Black, Ben Stiller, and Vince Vaughn all make uncredited appearances in the movie. I enjoy all of them, and the movie’s really great. There’s superhero spoofs, a great fantasy world interpretation of the emotions during sex, and the news team even breaks into song. And who doesn’t want to see five different news team battle it out in the streets of San Diego?

This movie was really lame. Now, it started off alright. I like storylines build upon the Nazis doing something stupid. In this movie, Nazis are trying to bring forth demons. I think the reason why I like when they’re used is because they’re just… really, really bad. I mean, we’ve had other enemies, but none like them. So when you mix something fictional in (summoning demons, fiddling with time travel, what have you), it makes for a great fictional enemy. Anyways, the movie goes downhill from there. There’s this secret government agency that uses ‘mosters’ like Hellboy to fight bad monsters. And of course, the guy who doesn’t like Hellboy gets saved by him and changes his opinion. And there’s a love story that isn’t very touching. It was all pretty predictable. Yeah, you really shouldn’t see this.

This movie looked like complete crap to me, but because a large group of my friends thought it was good, I trusted them and watched it. I wasn’t dissapointed. Mind you, it’s now some mind-blowing, incredible, really-makes-you-think movie. It’s a really funny movie in the stupid movie sort of way. It’s about a teen named Napoleon Dynamite whose whole family are trashy rednecks, basically. Napoleon’s a complete loser. His friend Pedro is less of a loser (but still a loser) and wants to become school president. There’s also a loser chick in there, too, lol. Napoleon’s brother Kip is an Internet loser. “Napoleon, don’t be jealous that I’ve been chatting online with babes all day.” Later, Kip basically becomes black. The funny thing is while Napoleon is being a complete loser, some of his actions/comments are right on. He really reminded me of Carberry throughout the movie. Gonzales said that he thought Napoleon wasn’t just the stereotypical nerd, he was a realistic one. And we all know Gonzales sees a lot of nerds going through CAMS.

Good movies are rare it seems, but this is definitely one. I suppose I should have listened to Jennifer earlier.
Donnie Darko is a movie about time travel, mental illness, religion, the end of the world, and many other things. At least, I think it is. I’m not really sure.
Donnie is a disturbed teenager. He has a visions or a large, evil bunny who informs him of the destruction of the Universe and tries to get him to stop it and to do many antisocial things.
There’s not a lot more I can say without giving the story away. I did read parts of the official website before watching the movie, and I don’t feel that it hurt the movie watching experience. This is primarily because the site makes no sense without first watching the movie. However, it’s not like the movie will make much sense either. I’ve seen the movie a few times now. I haven’t seen the DVD extras nor the rerelease. The official site helps add to the experience and is a very nice site from a web design point of view.