Want to see a kid have the fear of God put into him? Go to Blockbuster and have the clerk tell you that if you don’t bring in that video game you rented, you owe Blockbuster $60 for the game. But you get to keep it.
Wanted to rent The Devil’s Rejects, sequel to House of 1000 Corpses (only one of the cooler horror films I’ve seen in awhile), but they were out. So why not purchase a few films while I’m there? I rarely rent movies anymore because it’s just as expensive as buying previously viewed ones.
Picked up The Machinist and Sin City. The Machinist has Christian Bale (aka the American Psycho, aka the dude behind the Batsuit with the big gruff voice) who is a favourite actor of mine. Eric and I sat down to watch the movie on a cloudy Sunday afternoon where we proceeded to get freaked out from the movie soundtrack. It didn’t help when a picture fell down behind us (which was leaning on top of the couch) and scared the bejeezus out of us.
Anyhow, the movie is excellent. For a long, long time, I didn’t know where the movie was going. But once again, one of those movies that pulls you in throughout the entire 2 hours and then the big payoff is the ending where you go “NO WAY! I can’t believe they did that!”.
5 stars, 2 thumbs, whatever you want to use to measure a success. Go see this flick.
2 replies on “Review: The Machinist”
Have you ever watched the show Video on Trial on Muchmusic? Very funny show.
Basically they take a line up or 5 music videos, and 5 or six comeidans/musicians/writers/whoever to critique and burn the videos. It’s good, they say exactly what you are thinking, like: “geez, Eminem, making fun of Michael Jackson is so eighties”.
Anyway, at the end of each video/burn session, they say what they give the video: two thumbs up or whatever.
In last night’s case, one video got two Paris Hilton Goat Tit’s Up.
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ewww I still prefer the star rating system