2 New and 1 Old

Well I had this whole long post about these movies that I want to talk about. And right before I posted it my internet went out for no reason except that it wanted to. And it has taken me all day to get it going again. Of course none of what I wrote was saved! So here I am at the beginning, all over again. As the title suggests I watched two new movies, well new to dvd, this weekend and then I went back a few years and watched an older one on Tuesday. Here I would like to insert a reminder. I have said that I enjoy reviewing movies that I love to hate. On that very note I have to say that a couple of the following movies are movies that are of this loving to hate nature. You have been warned.

The first movie I am going to talk about is "The Social Network." It is the story of Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of facebook. It starts out with said creator sitting and talking genius stuff to his girlfriend. Finally he says something that offends his girlfriend enough that she breaks up with him. Angry, drunk and alone he runs back to his dorm and begins blogging on his LJ, (which for those who are unaware, is Livejournal, a place where people go to blog and put up there online journal), about his now ex girlfriend. He says many mean things about her and in order to make himself feel better he will set up a site where people can compare one girl to another and rate who is the best looking. In order to get all the pictures he needs he must hack in to the various house sites and gather together all the pictures of the girls. After he and his friends finish writing the code and putting the website together they send it out and in a record amount of time they crash the Harvard server.

This causes the school to put him on academic probation and this also brings him to the attention of two of the most wealthy, uppity guys at Harvard, the Winklevoss brothers. They are rowers on the crew team, training for the olympics, and high members of the most prestigious club at Harvard, the Phoenix club. They have this idea to make a site like myspace only more exclusive and requiring a Harved email address. They are hoping that this will help get them laid more so then they already are. And they need they help of a genius like Mark Zuckerberg. It is through this that Mark gets the idea for The Facebook, as he calls it originally. This brings to him fame, fortune and one lawsuit after another. And it brings the world facebook.

The movie is written by Aaron Sorkin, which means if you know the show "The West Wing"", you know that it is brilliantly written. It is directed by David Fincher and stars Jesse Eisenberg with a touch of Justin Timberlake, as the guy who invented napster, thrown in for good measure. It's acted well and directed really well. It's a pretty good movie. There are some parts that are hard to follow because of all the computer speak that takes place. But it's a good movie I recommend it.

The second movie I watched over the weekend was something that I am almost embarressed to admit that I watched. However I did watch it with friends and spent most of the movie yelling at the TV. It was the remake of the horror film "Piranha." The movie begins with Richard Dryfuss sitting in a boat in the middle of the lake fishing. He catches a big fish drops his beer bottle in the lake, there is a big earthquake which in turn makes a whirlpool which makes Richard Dryfuss fall into the water where he is shortly devoured by many piranha. This sets the tone of the whole film. All it is, is death, blood, and random acts of nakedness.

The movie is truly awful. But in a way I kind of want to reccommend it. It's a sick, sick thing with really no redeeming qualities, although there is a part where a girl's face is ripped right off because her hair gets caught in the propeller of a speed boat. Highlight there. But really it's just bad. Apparently the director, who is very proud of his masterpiece, wanted to make a movie that went back to the good days of the campy, gory movies of yesteryear. And you know what? He really did that. 


The third movie that I want to talk about was made way back in the '90's. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock in one of her most touching roles to date. It is called "Demolition Man." The movie starts out in the future year of 1996 where all of LA is always on fire. Sylvester Stallone plays John Spartan an LAPD cop who is after Wesley Snipes' character Simon Phoenix. In the beginning there is Simon Phoenix, who has hostages, and John Spartan who has come to arrest Simon and free the hostages. However things go awry. The two fight, the building explodes and it turns out that the hostages were in there. John Spartan is put into cryo jail for many, many years for accidentally killing the innocent civillians. Simon Phoenix is also put into cryo jail for being a criminal. 

Fast forward to the year 2032 when life is literally rainbows, kittens and lots of happiness. Nothing ever really happens and all is greatness. Sandra Bullock plays Lenina Huxley a police officer totally obsessed with the 20th century. When Simon Phoenix escapes from his parole hearing he lays down a path of murder and mayham. The poice officers, who are not equipped for any form of violence, are a little out of their league. So with her knowledge of of the 20th century suggests that they awaken John Spartan. The man who originally caught Simon Phoenix. What follows is an epic film filled with non-stop ridiculous action and amazing one liners. This movie is truly great. In all its badness. This is another of the bad movies that are so ridiculous you just have to love it.

I highly reccommend this to anyone who truly loves non-stop epic ridiculousnes. And to entice you even more I leave you dear readers with these two gems. The Schwarzenegger Presidential library, remember this movie was made before he was Govenor even, and this "be well."