January Home Video Roundup
January sucked. You know exactly what I'm talking about.
D.E.B.S. (dir. Angela Robinson, wr. Angela Robinson) - One of my brothers wanted to rent this when I was back in L.A. over New Year's. I knew nothing about it other than I had heard from a couple people that it was really, really bad. We started watching, and it was actually kind of alright, fun in a completely brainless, wacky, popcorn-movie kind of way. Unfortunately, I fell asleep about 20 minutes in (loooooong day) and had to miss the rest. But, what I saw seemed cute and fun enough that I wanted to see the rest, so the video was netflixed as soon as I got back.
The rest of the movie was par for the course. Fun, kinda stupid-funny, but I've certainly seen worse. Come for the funky Charlie's Angels-style action bafoonery/teen lesbian coming-of-age romance mashup; stay to hear Devon Aoki doing the most comically bad French accent in recorded history (and doing so intentionally, one hopes).
Into the Blue (dir. John Stockwell, wr. Matt Johnson) - You've seen the trailer. Jessica Alba in a bikini. That's all we needed to know, right? Jessica Alba in a bikini. This is the Jessica-Alba-in-a-bikini movie. Hey, remember that movie with Jessica Alba in a bikini? Let's go rent that thing with Jessica Alba in a bikini. Oh yeah, that thing with Jessica Alba in a biniki.
Okay, I have to admit that I was never a fan. Never seen Dark Angel, never even wanted to. And she made some movie where she was a dancer or something? Gag. She had a reasonably good cameo in the first season of Entourage that made me like her a little. I found her surprisingly awesome in Sin City, but stopped liking her again after I saw Fantastic Four, which wasn't a bad movie, but I really can't buy Jessica Alba as anything other than some 14 year-old woman-child stripper, let alone as some nuclear physicist or whatever the hell she was supposed to be in that one. Ugh.
I don't really know what that tangent was about. Into the Blue actually turned out to be a really cool movie: a nice, tight, genuinely suspenseful 70s-style B-thriller that held my attention from beginning to end. Remember Cellular, a year or two back? It was like that.
Paul Walker - I haven't seen any of the Fast/Furious movies, but in the ones I have seen him in, he always seems to play, like, the straight-laced dude with a kooky brother (or brother-type) who drags him into some crazy scheme and seedy underworld. But, I still like him and keep watching his movies anyway. Still not quite sure why. His performances are all very Keanu-like. We'll wait and see if Paul has a Matrix in him, somewhere (possibly the forthcoming Running Scared, of which I am hearing interesting things).
And yes, Jessica Alba in a bikini. If you're into that sort of thing.
D.E.B.S. (dir. Angela Robinson, wr. Angela Robinson) - One of my brothers wanted to rent this when I was back in L.A. over New Year's. I knew nothing about it other than I had heard from a couple people that it was really, really bad. We started watching, and it was actually kind of alright, fun in a completely brainless, wacky, popcorn-movie kind of way. Unfortunately, I fell asleep about 20 minutes in (loooooong day) and had to miss the rest. But, what I saw seemed cute and fun enough that I wanted to see the rest, so the video was netflixed as soon as I got back.The rest of the movie was par for the course. Fun, kinda stupid-funny, but I've certainly seen worse. Come for the funky Charlie's Angels-style action bafoonery/teen lesbian coming-of-age romance mashup; stay to hear Devon Aoki doing the most comically bad French accent in recorded history (and doing so intentionally, one hopes).
Into the Blue (dir. John Stockwell, wr. Matt Johnson) - You've seen the trailer. Jessica Alba in a bikini. That's all we needed to know, right? Jessica Alba in a bikini. This is the Jessica-Alba-in-a-bikini movie. Hey, remember that movie with Jessica Alba in a bikini? Let's go rent that thing with Jessica Alba in a bikini. Oh yeah, that thing with Jessica Alba in a biniki.Okay, I have to admit that I was never a fan. Never seen Dark Angel, never even wanted to. And she made some movie where she was a dancer or something? Gag. She had a reasonably good cameo in the first season of Entourage that made me like her a little. I found her surprisingly awesome in Sin City, but stopped liking her again after I saw Fantastic Four, which wasn't a bad movie, but I really can't buy Jessica Alba as anything other than some 14 year-old woman-child stripper, let alone as some nuclear physicist or whatever the hell she was supposed to be in that one. Ugh.
I don't really know what that tangent was about. Into the Blue actually turned out to be a really cool movie: a nice, tight, genuinely suspenseful 70s-style B-thriller that held my attention from beginning to end. Remember Cellular, a year or two back? It was like that.
Paul Walker - I haven't seen any of the Fast/Furious movies, but in the ones I have seen him in, he always seems to play, like, the straight-laced dude with a kooky brother (or brother-type) who drags him into some crazy scheme and seedy underworld. But, I still like him and keep watching his movies anyway. Still not quite sure why. His performances are all very Keanu-like. We'll wait and see if Paul has a Matrix in him, somewhere (possibly the forthcoming Running Scared, of which I am hearing interesting things).
And yes, Jessica Alba in a bikini. If you're into that sort of thing.
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