I haven't seen this movie in about 15 years or so. Summer School (1986) is set in the summer of 1986, at a California beach high school.
Watching it again 22 years later, I realized how politically incorrect it is.
Teacher bribes students, underage drinking, young hot blonde girl sexually coming on to teacher, and probably a heck load of others that I can't recall at this very moment.
It's hard to believe, but I've probably watched Summer School more times than any other movie.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Night Train
Truly a great surprise. Very disturbing movie. I didn't expect too much out of this flick, until about the midway 45 minute-is mark. The first act almost turned me off because i thought i was watching a straight to dvd movie.
Look, it's a low budget flick. It spent all it's money on Danny Glover and the extremely hot Leelee whats her name sobiesky. But what they got left was a great script, and ah umm, eh a great story too?
You get the gist. Very messed up plot. No way in hell you would like this if you couldn't understand English.
Mainly, throughout the movie, I kept asking myself if I've learned something from this.
This is where i need to shut up because I almost wish I knew nothing about the movie prior to watching it so there you go.
Look, it's a low budget flick. It spent all it's money on Danny Glover and the extremely hot Leelee whats her name sobiesky. But what they got left was a great script, and ah umm, eh a great story too?
You get the gist. Very messed up plot. No way in hell you would like this if you couldn't understand English.
Mainly, throughout the movie, I kept asking myself if I've learned something from this.
This is where i need to shut up because I almost wish I knew nothing about the movie prior to watching it so there you go.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
What I would change about the NBA
Season's too long. They got to cut it to 62. Has a nice symmetry about it. This way, you can also start the play-offs in early April, basically right after the Final Four.
I'd also change the play-off format. It's too long and repetitive. You only need to go 7 game series in the the big time conference or nba finals. That's it.
But rather then scale back to 5 game series in round 1 and 2, I would do something even more drastic than that.
Cut the number of teams to 6 per conference.
And then what I would do with the odd number of teams is to do a round robin tournament (not even sure if that's the correct term for what I'm talking about). Each of the six remaining teams would play each other once at the home site of the conference winner. Kinda like the Olympic round 1 style. Or have two neutral sites, hosted by the 1 or 2s of the conference. Nope, just one site would be better, easier access to teams. Play this over one and a half week. Basically, one game every other 2 days. A total of 5 games per team. Or the number 1 seed would have a guaranteed victory 1, meaning they only play a total of 4 games (As in they would have a hell of a chance of making it in outside of a major upsets in their 4 games).
The top four teams to emerge would then go to 7 game series to determine the eventual winner.
I'd also change the play-off format. It's too long and repetitive. You only need to go 7 game series in the the big time conference or nba finals. That's it.
But rather then scale back to 5 game series in round 1 and 2, I would do something even more drastic than that.
Cut the number of teams to 6 per conference.
And then what I would do with the odd number of teams is to do a round robin tournament (not even sure if that's the correct term for what I'm talking about). Each of the six remaining teams would play each other once at the home site of the conference winner. Kinda like the Olympic round 1 style. Or have two neutral sites, hosted by the 1 or 2s of the conference. Nope, just one site would be better, easier access to teams. Play this over one and a half week. Basically, one game every other 2 days. A total of 5 games per team. Or the number 1 seed would have a guaranteed victory 1, meaning they only play a total of 4 games (As in they would have a hell of a chance of making it in outside of a major upsets in their 4 games).
The top four teams to emerge would then go to 7 game series to determine the eventual winner.
Friday, January 9, 2009
City of Embers
I plan to go ahead to reading the book version of City of Embers. After watching the movie version, I made up my mind already that the book is probably bazonkas.
The movie was pretty amazing. Basically, you have to pretend to be 9 years old again, unless you are already in that 7 - 11 range ( count yourself lucky ). The movie plays it very safe. No real bad surprises. Actually, that felt refreshing. Most fantasy movies have such convoluted plots around evil bad demon alpha type male that magically show up in the middle of no where stories. I hate those.
The movie was pretty amazing. Basically, you have to pretend to be 9 years old again, unless you are already in that 7 - 11 range ( count yourself lucky ). The movie plays it very safe. No real bad surprises. Actually, that felt refreshing. Most fantasy movies have such convoluted plots around evil bad demon alpha type male that magically show up in the middle of no where stories. I hate those.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Rick Rosner flick
Just watched his entire youtube video / film by Errol Morris.
Not a bad watch. I kept thinking that this man really needed Stuyvesant High School. I don't mean literally, as in going to Stuy as a 26 year old, which is all sorts of creepy.
I don't feel too badly for Rosner for losing the Millionaire thing, because quite frankly I don't even know the guy.
His appearance on Millionaire was really old looking, while during his interviews + makeup, he looked relatively young as in age 35ish.
High School has a weird allure, but seriously, this man needs some help. Going to high school and posing as an 18 year old is not cool. Why would he want to sit through all those classes again and again?
Not a bad watch. I kept thinking that this man really needed Stuyvesant High School. I don't mean literally, as in going to Stuy as a 26 year old, which is all sorts of creepy.
I don't feel too badly for Rosner for losing the Millionaire thing, because quite frankly I don't even know the guy.
His appearance on Millionaire was really old looking, while during his interviews + makeup, he looked relatively young as in age 35ish.
High School has a weird allure, but seriously, this man needs some help. Going to high school and posing as an 18 year old is not cool. Why would he want to sit through all those classes again and again?
Monday, January 5, 2009
peur(s) du noir
Wow, whata movie. Translated in English as Fears of the Dark, it's an old french animation from 2007 that's starting to get limited release in the US.
Think comic book inspired animation, mixed with dark themes. Some of the movie veers off into twisted and LSD inspired states of mind, but for the most part, the plots are sensible.
I highly recommend it to people who love animation, is into intellectual, off the cuff, left field stuff.
Think comic book inspired animation, mixed with dark themes. Some of the movie veers off into twisted and LSD inspired states of mind, but for the most part, the plots are sensible.
I highly recommend it to people who love animation, is into intellectual, off the cuff, left field stuff.
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