Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in one of my all-time favorite films, the 1969 cult classic “Easy Rider,” died on Saturday at his home in Venice, California, from complications of prostate cancer. He was 74 years old.

WANT TO SEE

I just saw previews on another dvd. Bad timing considering the recent killer whale killing?

I have been anticipating this DVD release ever since the movie came out, because I didn’t see it in the theatre. The boy in the movie really seems to be a brat and an annoying little kid named Max that bites people. I don’t like him. He’s like 11 years old, way old enough to know better.. but whatever. The movie was visually great, and the characters were good…I guess there just wasn’t much to follow — it’s just a story. I usually don’t like to try interpreting a movie, but I guess the message was that Max learned a lesson from the Wild Things, and was able to take that lesson with him back to the real world and hopefully correct his behavior?

All in all, a pretty good movie.

I rate this movie 7/10

It’s sad, but I’m actually surprised he didn’t die years ago. Drugs are bad. He should have been on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.

Liked Olyphant since Go and Deadwood, and expected this movie to be better than it was.

I only give this movie a 3/10 rating.

A roller derby movie. A movie about hot chicks rollerskating and hitting eachother. This movie is the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore. Starring Ellen Page, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Stern, and Marcia Gay Harden.

Juliette lewis is crazy hot. Always has been. Same with Drew Barrymore.

The movie is actually very good, I was surprised.

I rate this movie 8/10

I’d also like to find out if I’m right about a similarity between a scene in this movie, and another scene in Stand By Me. at about the 54-55 minute mark of Whip It, Ellen Page and her boyfriend are standing at the edge of a lake. To me, it looked like the same lake that appears in the movie Stand By Me where the boys find the dead body. I saw this because I’ve seen Stand By Me probably 100 times, it’s one of my favorite films ever. I could be wrong about the lake being the same, but I’d like to find out if I’m right just to satisfy my own curiosity.

This movie is NOT really  a comedy, even though Patton Oswalt is in it. Although there are humorous scenes, it is mostly a dark, tense drama. Written and directed by Robert Siegel, this movie is about a big sports fan obsessed with the New York Giants. Also in the movie is Kevin Corrigan and Michael Rappaport, both who usually bring the quality. LOL @ starting the movie off with Patton calling in to a Jim Rome type of show…I am familiar. This is shaping up to be a good movie.

I rate this movie 7.5 out of 10

I went to see Shutter Island tonight. It was good. I won’t spoil it for you. The movie had some good twists…I somewhat predicted it, but not entirely. I enjoyed the movie and am glad I went.

I rate this movie 6/10

Starring David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver. I have no idea what it is about, bu I’m about to watch it now. Ok…it’s about a TV show pilot that never got off the ground. The movie starts by saying x% of all TV series produced never see the light of day, and this movie is about one of those shows.

On a sidenote, and speaking of Duchovny, I’ve been told that Californication is a good show, I need to get the past seasons from Netflix because I’ve never watched the show at all.

I think I will start rating movies on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best.

I give this movie a 4/10 rating.

Another interesting documentary by Werner Herzog. It’s basically the story of a dude named Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer that built a teardrop-shaped airship and wants to fly it over the forest canopies of Guyana. There are some good segments about Kaieteur Falls, in Guyana, where supposedly nobody knows what is behind the waterfall because nobody has explored it, and legend among the natives is that it is full of treasure. Werner Herzog had a cameraman drop down to film behind the falls, but their footage won’t be shown.

One of the most interesting people in the film is local miner named Marc Anthony Yhap, who is searching for his family that migrated to Spain. Marc Anthony seems like an awesome person, I hope he has found his family.

Say whatever you want about Fox News, but I love the Red Eye comedy show that comes on at 3am in my timezone. They just had a dude on there who is awesome because he’s a expert on the history of candybars. Back in the 1920s they had a candy bar with vegetables covered in chocolate. It sucked and was not a success. The candy bar expert said the wrapper boasted the claim “does not promote constipation.”

This is a movie I’ve been looking forward to seeing. I’m putting it in the dvd player now. Zombies + Woody Harrelson = WIN. Oh man the gay dude from The Amazing Race (Mike White) also has a scene, sitting on a toilet before the 2:30 mark.

Twinkies are definitley worth fighting zombies for. The double tap rule should apply to all situations in life when someone is trying to kill you and eat your brains.

“You don’t know who Willie Nelson is? WILLIE NELSON?”

On a sidenote, I found out they filmed the amusement park scene in Valdosta, Georgia…I’m guessing it was at Wild Adventures, which isn’t very far from where I live.

****SPOILERS AHEAD*****

HOLY $H!5 BILL MURRAY IS ZOMBIE!!!!

Ok maybe he’s not. But Eddie Van Halen?

Fat people will be the first to die when zombies take over, because they’re easiest to catch.

FYI: the food products in the supermarket scene is all fake, its photos printed on paper inside the freezer.

Meh.. I don’t really have high expectations for horror movies, but sometimes give them a try. So far there is stereotypical negative comments about southerners. Anyway, 20 mins into the movie, it’s about a young girl turning a swampy river into blood. “You gonna be OK if i leave you alone for awhile?” LOL… as usual, the dumbasses split up from eachother after entering the swamp. Typical horror movie. I bet their walky-talkies quit working before the movie is over…and how long will the black guy stay alive?

It’s raining frogs. And flies. I see this is gonna be about the Biblical plagues or something…yes, i rarely read a movies description before i put it in the dvd player.. well, i read them when i add them to my online queue, but i dont remember what the movies are about by the time i get them in the mail. I keep a few hundred movies in my queue.

Anyway, the movie wasnt terrible. And I’m posting this from my awesome kickass new Motorola Droid phone, kicking ass.

Seriously, WTF, no wonder all the Blockbuster stores are closing. Yes, I realize most people just get movies by mail these days, I do too, but sometimes I feel like watching a movie NOW. Whatever, but I stopped into two of my nearby Blockbuster stores, to see if they a copy of True Romance, because I had some extra time, no Netflix movies, and haven’t watched True Romance in several years. Well, neither of the Blockbuster stores stock it. They have plenty of other older titles, but not True Romance.

I’ll say it again, WTF? This is a Quinton Tarantino movie starring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, James Gandolfini, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Michael Rappaport, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Kevin Corrigan, and Bronson Pinchot (friggin BALKI BARTOKOMOUS from Perfect Strangers) .

Look at that list of stars, and tell me why the hell Blockbuster wouldn’t make a point of keeping that movie in stock, other than Tom Sizemore.

I just got a movie in the mail called The Education of Charlie Banks. When I saw that Fred Durst was the director of the movie, I was skeptical, but I have to admit, it was a damn good movie, and Fred did a great job of making the film. Here is what NETFLIX says about the movie:

Years after Charlie (Jesse Eisenberg) fingers Mick (Jason Ritter) for a brutal assault, Mick shows up at Charlie’s university and insinuates himself into college life. As Mick audits classes, sleeps with Charlie’s dream girl and ponders how his life might have been different, Charlie anxiously wonders whether Mick knows he ratted him out. Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst’s directorial debut, this powerful drama co-stars Chris Marquette.

RIP Farrah, age 62. Her spokesman, Paul Bloch, says Fawcett died Thursday morning in a Santa Monica hospital.

Purely by coincidence, I watched two movies about crooked cops this week. I rented Righteous Kill (Robert DeNiro & Al Pacino) just because it had DeNiro & Pacino in it. I thought it was a pretty damn good movie too. I actually didn’t see the twist coming.

Pride and Glory (Edward Norton & Colin Farrell) wasn’t a bad movie either, but was more straightforward and predictable.

Note: Do not piss off cops.

Night Of The White Pants. For some reason, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

From Netflix:

Thrown out of his mansion by his soon-to-be ex-trophy wife, Barbara (Janine Turner), Dallas businessman Max Hagan (Tom Wilkinson) forges an unlikely connection with punk rocker Raff (Nick Stahl), the boyfriend of his workaholic daughter, Beth (Selma Blair). Joining Raff for a wild night on the town, Max abandons his thoroughly dysfunctional life and gets in touch with his inner punk in this rollicking comedy from writer-director Amy Talkington.

Terrible, terrible news. Zooey Deschanel is gonna marry some dude. According to TVGuide,  she’s hooking up with Death Cab for Cutie front man Ben Gibbard.

Unfortunately although she’s in the shower, the scene isn’t revealing, but you get to enjoy her singing. The clip is from the movie Elf, in which she was awesome as always.

Even Dwarfs Started Small is possibly the strangest and most frightening movie in the history of forever. I interpreted the 1970 film as being about a village full of of deranged, hoodlum German midgets. It reminds me of a nightmare. Not for the faint of heart, yet oddly humorous? The star of the film was undoubtedly Helmut Döring, a dwarf who is literally only like 2’5″ tall or something like that.

However, I couldn’t stop watching. The movie is another weird story from the mind of Werner Herzog. The movie is in German language with English subtitles. I think the midgets were actually being held in an institution that is ran by dwarfs, and captive dwarfs go on a rebellion causing pure havoc inside and outside. They even kill a pig that has nursing babies. Warning: They really kill a damn pig.

The dwarfs seek to destroy anything that has beauty. They “water” flowers in pots with gasoline, and light them on fire. They break windows and do various other things much weirder.

After you watch the movie (I should say *If* you watch the movie), I recommend watching the feature length commentary as well, and let Werner Herzog explain the film in his own words.