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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 53: Horrible Bosses 2011 (3 STARS).

....well we've all had one of these but I've had worse in my time.



Nick hates his boss, mostly because he's expected to work from before sunrise to after sunset and his boss, Mr. Harken, calls him out for being a minute late and blackmails him so he can't quit. Dale hates his boss, Dr. Julia Harris, because she makes unwelcome sexual advances when he's about to get married. But Dale is on that pesky list of child offenders so he can't quit. Kurt actually likes his job and his boss, well, up until his boss dies and the boss's coked-out, psychopathic son takes over. But who would be crazy enough to quit their jobs in such poor economic times? Instead Nick, Dale and Kurt drunkenly and hypothetically discuss how to kill their bosses, and before they know it, they've hired a murder consultant to help them pull off the three deeds.

Wanted to see this for a while as I heard great things about it, while it's not as good as I thought it would be it's still worth a watch for two reasons
1. Jennifer Anniston has never really done anything for me but she has gotten beautiful with age and with her potty mouth (excellent filth) and outfits in this movie she is the best thing in the movie.
2. When one of the friends accidentally inhales a lot of Coke (the white version), his performance made me actually laugh out loud.

They plot against their awful bosses but things don't work out they way they think but it makes you smile when the idiots set out on the road to murder with little experience but a lot of heart, the bosses are horrible but not that horrible, good cameos, great performances and good outtakes at the end.



Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 52: Attack The Block 2011 (2 STARS)


A teen gang in South London, England defend their block against an alien invasion.

This movie is a reasonably low budget affair ($13,000,000 I believe) form the director Joe Cornish and with me it fails one of my main criteria for most movies in that I have to give a crap for somebody in the movie (and that can be the bad guy or bad aliens) but the opening scene of our heroes mugging at knife point one of the female leads left me slightly angry as I now didn't care if they lived or died (the scene of mugging is interrupted by an alien crash landing on a car so it could have gone further). This alien is given a kicking by the gang and displayed as a trophy until it's far larger mates arrive (really large and shaggy with massive teeth).
What follows is the gang and some other residents (drug dealers, drug buyers, kids etc...) fighting the invasion with the aid of Halloween fireworks, samurai swords, baseball bats etc...). The effects are not bad, the aliens are not bad, the story is a bit lame about the alien intentions, there is some humour and it's an exciting quick ride for an hour and a half. This to me is a story about redemption that doesn't work because I don't care whether they survive or not.

Nick Frost is wasted but good and some of the dialogue will need subtitles to anybody unfamiliar with the slang and street talk.