1. Mr. Woodcock - This movie has a great premise: Son comes home to find that his mom is dating his torturous junior high school teacher. There should be tons of laughs, but there really isn't besides the flashbacks of Billy Bob Thorton's character kicking the asses of Seann William Scott's character and other kids. It just wasn't funny and disappointing because it could have been hilarious. My recommendation is to avoid.
2. The Happening - M. Night Shymalan's newest flick, which is R-rated for violence, deals with an epidemic that causes people to kill themselves. I will spoil this movie because it sucked. It turns out that the plants and trees are releasing a pollen causing people to self-destruct. Whenever the wind blows, you know someone is going to kill...his or herself. Somehow though, it doesn't effect Mark Wahlberg and company and the explanation makes no sense ("if we are in small groups, we won't be effected"). In the end, the plants just stop killing people and movie over. To top it off, the acting is horrible. I like Mark Wahlberg, but this is the worst acting I have seen from him by far. My recommendation is: this is a Clint Baer approved movie...yes, that bad.
3. Role Models - Finally, a great movie. If you have seen a preview, you know the storyline. Two idiots get in trouble with the law and have to do community service. Seann William Scott redeems himself from Mr. Woodcock and plays a slightly smarter Stifler. Paul Rudd, Independence, MO, native, plays a guy who is stuck in a mid-life crisis and whose frustration leads both characters in front of a judge. The kids (McLovin' and a 9 year old black boy) are hilarious and everything just clicks in this movie. People who know me that one of my complaints about the Judd Apatow movies (Anchorman, Superbad, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) is that the movies start out funny and about 2/3 through turn serious and there are few to no laughs in the last 1/3. Role Models, like Step Brothers, does not have that problem. Even when Role Model comes to the usual "serious" moment, director David Wain (The State, Stella), manages to put in enough laughs to avoid the quicksand traps. My recommendation: fan "freakin" tastic. Go watch and laugh...and there is good nudity, which should keep the Baer brothers attention.
Update, Sunday at 9:17 p.m.: I forgot to mention a movie preview before Role Models. "The Unborn" looks like a freakin' scary movie, a lot more so than The Happening. I was impressed, intrigued and scared.
Update, Monday at 5:47 p.m: Role Models gets the Official Justin R. Meyer Seal of Approval.
4 comments:
I thought The Happening was an OK movie - on par with his last 3 "average flicks" The Happening, Lady in the Water and The Village. All varying degrees of average, but not Clint Baer terrible...
Role Models does look hilarious - glad to hear it didn't disappoint. I AM disappointed that it apparently didn't receive the official Justin Meyer Seal of Approval though (no mention in the post). Is it Seal-worthy?
Sorry for the oversight. You are absolutely right Martin. See, I read my posts and listen to the viewers.
So is a Clint Baer recomended movie a good thing or a bad thing....I thought his recomendation of Death Race was a wonderful one.
Its a bad thing for horror movies.
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