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Short Takes With Cyrus: "Outsourced", "Soundtrack For a Revolution", "Suck" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street"
This is the movie that the largely poorly reviewed TV series that came out this season was based on. Good news though: the movie is apparently pretty funny. It's a fish-out-of-water culture shock film where Todd (Josh Hamilton) gets sent to India to train his own replacement, and ends up falling in love. It won stacks of awards at various and sundry film festivals so you probably shouldn't paint it with the same brush as the reportedly bad television version.
--CLICK HERE TO BUY Outsourced - Deluxe Edition
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION (DVD)
This 2009 documentary is about the history of the civil rights movement that, it would seem oddly, chooses contemporary musicians to express the ideas present at the time. These are the actual protest songs popular at that point in history by the African-Americans involved in the movement, interpreted through these modern day musicians. Although with some skepticism, I have to respectfully acknowledge that the film scored highly among critics and audiences and was put on the shortlist by the Academy for Best Documentary Feature.
--CLICK HERE TO BUY Soundtrack for a Revolution
I have no idea how writer/director/star Rob Stefaniuk has such a large archive of rock stars to pull from for his weird little Vampire-Musical-Comedy "Suck" about a rock band that gets popular when they're turned into vampires, but I'd think that genre description alone would be enough to send 'name' stars running for the hills. Much to my surprise, as low-budget and silly as this is, actually manages to be pretty entertaining, especially with its hidden iconic rock images scattered throughout the film. Musicians who show up here in small parts include Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Moby, Henry Rollins, Alex Lifeson, Dimitri Coats, and Carol Pope, as well as actors Dave Foley, Jessica Paré, and Malcolm McDowell.
--CLICK HERE TO BUY Suck [Blu-ray]
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (Blu-Ray/DVD)
My compatriots inform me that I was largely the only one who kinda liked this 2010 Samuel Bayer directed remake of Wes Craven's horror classic. Jackie Earle Haley here slips on Robert Englund's old iconic clawed glove and he tries to add new dimensions and character to Freddy Krueger, but it seemed all anyone could notice was that it was, in fact, NOT like the original. Certainly this will never supplant Craven's original film, the teens it it are barely one-dimension cardboard cut-outs, and it suffers from massive over-dependence on CG, as so many of these Platinum Dunes remakes tend to, but it's still better than most of the sequels to the original film. Take that, fanboys.
--CLICK HERE TO BUY A Nightmare on Elm Street [Blu-ray]
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Comment by Chris james on October 14, 2010 at 5:48pm -
The remake wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good either, They fucked with alot of things. Jackie was good but they fucked up with the make up on the face. The characters sucked and couldn't believe how lame the kills were. The kills in 1 million dollar original were way better than the bullshit here. And the story made no sense how all the students would just forget that they were onced raped in a boiler room.............bad movie >=(
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Comment by Hero on October 14, 2010 at 4:32pm
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Agree with you on Elm Street Cyrus, not as bad as everyone says it is, and first off I'll say I haven't seen the original yet so that might have to do with my liking of the film but I thought some of the visuals they had going on were good, Jackie Earle Haley was convincing and in general it was ballsier than other horror films I've seen ( not much honestly )
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Comment by Palmer on October 14, 2010 at 12:47pm -
I actually really wanted them to be more different in the "Elm Street" remake then they were, because let's face it; while the Craven film is a classic, it's very out-dated, and a modern take that reinterprets the idea with a modern story and modern technology would have been great. But no...they simply added in, "Hey! He's not just a murderer! He's a rapist too!"...as if that was enough to justify how unchanged and bland everything else was.
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Comment by Don Panini on October 13, 2010 at 11:09pm -
While Haley's performance stood out, it stood out it a flat and lackluster world. So it came across as a gimmick, more than anything else.
I mean down to the very last shot of the movie, everything was flat, lackluster and boring.
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Comment by Matt W. on October 13, 2010 at 6:06pm -
I think "Suck" was a pretty apt title.
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Comment by NotTheWhosTommy on October 13, 2010 at 5:25pm -
Actually, the reason I hate that Nighmtare on Elm Street movie is that it does... nothing. Nothin new, nothin exciting, just nothin. I'll give it this, though; it's not as bad as Freddy's Dead. None of them are as bad as Freddy's Dead.
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