Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

Obviously I am not endorsing running around shooting people but a friend sent me this and I thought it looks like a hilarious movie.

(Of course this also has to be a disclaimer because this is the world we live in - where people do an internet search about you before they hire you, date you, let their kids stand in line at the bank behind you - so officially note that I am not telling anyone to imitate anything in this movie, or endorsing this behavior in any fashion. Thanks, world, for being a place where I actually have to write this dislaimer.)

Yes please! This looks like a dog movie that won't make me want to throw myself off a bridge.

Tonight's episode (which isn't even over yet, but I couldn't wait) is making fun of how FUCKING HORRIBLE the High School Musical movies are.

The 4 main characters don't understand the popularity of HSM while everyone else in their school thinks it's awesome. Cartman tried to kill himself because he felt he no longer "belonged in this world". He failed though because he tried to asphyxiate himself in the garage with his mom's car but she has a hybrid.

This show is awesome.

This movie very very very very much needs to not exist.

This movie was actually kind of awesome. I knew a bit about the storyline but not a lot. It's actually kind of a great one. If you don't know, it's no spoiler to tell you that Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Johnny Depp), was formerly known as Benjamin Barker and that some creepy corrupt judge destroys his family by falsely imprisoning him so he can try to seduce his wife. The Barkers also have a young daughter at the time.

The movie begins with him coming back to London after something like 15 years locked up on the false charges.

Johnny Depp does a really good job with the singing. I've of course never heard him sing before so you always have to be a little nervous - sometimes actors think they can just magically sing when they actually can't. But I think the score of this movie is also notoriously difficult and he does great.

I love Helena Bonham Carter as well, she's so nutty looking when she wants to be and is perfect in her role I think. I even liked the guy who plays the kid in love with Sweeney Todd's daughter, he has a really sweet singing voice and I like the song he sings to her.

The music and story are great and it has pretty much the perfect ending. If you're a fan of musicals at all and/or particularly of Sweeney Todd, I highly recommend the movie.

Wow, I really wanted to like this movie way more than I did. There were redeeming qualities, but the end was very weak and a lot of stuff went unexplained.

Sounds like they would have done better to keep the book's original ending (warning, there are spoilers if you want to read the entire article, so only do it if you've already seen it or you don't plan to/don't care).

The book's original ending is SUCH a better explanation for the title, and a better, more interesting twist instead of the weird God twist they put in the movie.

And... (one spoiler below)

Why do they always have to kill the dog? SIGH.

I just read this quote from Katherine Heigl about "Knocked Up":

It was a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. ... Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.

and it made me sad. We just rewatched this movie over the weekend with Heather, who hadn't seen it before and I think it's really funny and sweet.

I don't think it paints the women as shrews - I think the women in the movie are somewhat intolerant of crazily immature behavior like farting in each other's faces for instance, but I hardly think that makes them shrews.

Also, I really think in general people do too much "interpreting" of movies - apparently even the actors in them. It's just a story about a few people. It doesn't have to represent all of humanity. If the guys in the movie are goofy, it doesn't mean all guys are goofy. I don't really think the guys in this movie are supposed to represent the average American guy either - the group of friends living in a trashy house supposedly working on an internet startup for years, smoking pot constantly, etc. I don't know any guys like this myself. That doesn't mean they don't exist.

I just think it's a silly comment and it made me sad because I like that movie a lot and I think it got too much flack for dumb reasons. (Another of which is supposedly that it has a strong pro-life message... why, because the woman who gets pregnant doesn't have an abortion? Is every pregnant woman who has a baby now anti-choice?) Come on people. For Pete's sake, it's just a funny movie. Enjoy it.

Hey, Coen brothers, we get it. Life is random. Everything is pointless. You never see what's coming next. The hero doesn't always win. The bad guy doesn't always get caught.

WE GET IT ALREADY.

Jesus Christ, do yourself a favor and DO NOT see this movie. No matter what lies the critics are telling you. Seriously. Unless you like being bored, annoyed, and disappointed. In which case, hurry up and get a ticket!

Spoilers below if you care.

First of all, this is one of those movies with, like, no soundtrack. Not just that they don't play a lot of music, there are no effects, no background noise. It's just silent. I felt like if I breathed too loud I would disturb everyone else.

Second, this is a pretty heavy-handed approach to the anti-movie movie. The hero dies almost randomly and anticlimactically, and off-camera. The bad guy gets to kill everyone with no consequence. I don't even think it's clear who gets the money. And Tommy Lee Jones doesn't get to deliver any Texas-style justice.

Things happen that make no sense like a tiny Texas town gets all shot to hell including a hotel clerk gets murdered and then the town seems to have no reaction, including the hotel is open for business the very next day.

For some reason that I can't understand, the hero shoots a shotgun at an interior door behind which the bad guy is standing, and the bad guy doesn't get injured. I'm pretty sure shotguns are one of those things that blow holes through things like paper-thin interior doors. At least this is what I learned from other movies. Oh, I see. It's anti-movie again.

Worst of all, the entire sequence of unfortunate events is set into motion by the hero doing something so monumentally stupid that I can't believe anyone who has enough of a brain in their head to do things like put their boots on and drive a truck would actually do it.

A tip for all you would-be thieves of drug money: there's really no reason to go back to the site of a shoot-out in the middle of the night to bring water to a guy you saw there bleeding to death 15 hours ago who is surely dead by now. Keep that in mind. If you do, it probably won't end well for you.

Also, even really badass bad guys need some kind of professional medical help to recover from being shot in the thigh and also from a compound fracture when their radius is jutting out of their forearm.

Seriously, can someone explain that to me? Why is it such a phenomenon? And now there's a stage show. High School Musical: The Musical?

Thank God I don't have a 9 year old daughter I'd have to lose all respect for if she liked this crapola.

We saw this movie last weekend and I really loved it. Here's a review from Pajiba.

It's really funny in parts, really sweet in parts, and while some of it stretches believability a little bit, it's overall definitely a good movie. Yes, the director is the same as for The 40-year-old Virgin, so if you liked that I'm pretty sure you'll like this as well.