Good evening, kiddos! The Cap'n is taking a break from packing to share some brief thoughts and then drop another pair of videos for your viewing enjoyment.
Lately I've noticed that people have been complaining this is the WORST summer for movies that they can remember. Now I can't argue with much of that, since one after the other mediocre to garbage films have been passing for entertainment all summer, but I'd also like to point out that I did recommend you all look in the direction of MacGruber and Get Him to the Greek and very few people took the Cap'n up on that. Instead you went to see Prince of Persia, Robin Hood, Sex and the City 2, Splice, and Shrek Forever After. I'm guessing some people even went to see The A-Team, Eclipse, and Jonah Hex, so it's no wonder you're complaining. Do you really think that Predators is going to turn the tide? Really?
While I wasn't in love with Iron Man 2 or Toy Story 3, neither of them are as bad as I've been hearing out of folks, so I'm not sure if it's just a matter of being underwhelmed by the summer in general. The good news is that you don't have to keep wandering out to theatres every week and watching whatever they put in front of you; stay home and watch something else. There are at least a dozen very good to great movies that just hit DVD and Blu-Ray in the last six months that most people haven't checked out.
Don't believe me? Let's go to the list:
The Road, The Book of Eli, Sherlock Holmes, 44 Inch Chest, Daybreakers, Black Dynamite, A Single Man, Ponyo, The Informant!, Broken Embraces, Crazy Heart, The Crazies (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Shutter Island, The Messenger, The Last Station, The White Ribbon, and (some folks would argue) Hot Tub Time Machine.
That's to get you started, and that doesn't include back catalog titles worth your time. So if you're fed up with being served subpar cinema, don't watch it. Stay in and watch something worth your time. And now I'm stepping off of my soapbox to return you to video fun.
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Our first video has been around for a while, but it played during Summerfest and I felt like putting it back here. You've seen The Shining as a comedy, so what other genre benders are out there?
Our second video for the day is The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time. There's a smidgen of language, so hang out:
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