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November 28, 2004

Colorful, Suicide Club, The Hidden and Tapeheads

I realized I should start using Eric’s money system for ranking movies. He actually took it from one of his friends, but I can’t remember the name of his friend, so fuck it.

Colorful

Nick lent this to me.

It’s a silly anime about… panties. That’s it. It’s just a bunch of vignettes (16 on the disc, with about 90 minutes of total runtime) of guys getting hot ‘n bothered seeing girls panties. It has some just hilarious moments, and it speaks to the male condition, but we had to watch it in three bursts, because it’s just a bit way too stupid and repetitive. Pretty amusing overall though.

$2.00

Suicide Club

Nick also lent me this, for which I am deeply in his debt. It’s a truly excellent horror/thriller flick. The plot was interesting, with predictability only in the “horror” moments (“are they really going to do that!”) The theme was thought-provoking and it had a lot of truly creepy stuff. Very good, definitely recommended to horror fans and thriller fans who like buckets of blood. I wonder if it inspired Suicide Girls

$4.50

The Hidden

The Hidden is a B-grade sci-fi starring Kyle MacLaughlin. It gets points for being just awesomely weird, but it was fairly predictable. It opens with some just excellent special effects, but they only revisit them briefly in the end. Definitely an interesting twist on the alien invasion theme.

$1.50

Tapeheads

Don’t bother. This is definitely the worst movie John Cusack has had anything to do with. Odd that Tim Robbins is also in it. It had a few entertaining moments, but a lot of crap to wade through to get there, and the crap wasn’t even marginally entertaining.

$0.50

Posted by FusionGyro at November 28, 2004 11:34 PM

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So explain to me the $$ after each review. I remember that’s how much money you would pay to see that movie; Beckstead used that method in his reviews. How does that reviewing method work?

Posted by: Nikki at November 29, 2004 09:33 PM

Well, Eric has a graduated scale: this much for renting movies, this much for new releases, this much for seeing it in the dollar theater, this much for seeing it at the actual theater, this much for buying it at Walmart, this much for buying it as the Criterion Collection DVD masterpiece.

I think I’m going to do it entirely subjectively: how much was the entertainment worth to me, monetarily? I’ll compute it by looking into my navel.

Posted by: Daniel [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 30, 2004 01:05 AM

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