Two Overdue Movies

I finally got around to watching two movies I've been putting off: Reno 911: Miami, and National Treasure (the first one [I know]).

I'm a big fan of the Reno 911! show. I was all over that goodness in the first season, and some of my friends said it was crap (then later they 'told me about it,' and deny the prior history), but came to realize its greatness. The movie, while amusing, lacked the punch of the TV show. I think it was because the film had to be dragged out to actual film length. The runtime from start to credits is about 73 minutes, plus some bloopers and whatnot. If they trimmed it down to 40 minutes it would have been perfect, but what can you do? One good thing did come from this film, though: boobies. It never hurts to have a former Playboy centerfold walking around topless for a 5 minute scene. More filmmakers should take that tip.

National Treasure... where to get started. Completely ridiculous and preposterous from start to finish. A few scenes are entertaining, but the overall implausibility just shatters any chance this movie had at decency. Plus the heroes use Google (and the villains use Yahoo!) for guidance on their frolicking. Terrible.

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Earlier tonight I was going to see the Reno: 911! movie at the dollar theater with a couple friends, because the show is hilarious, so naturally the movie would be too.

We get there, and since it had been raining, for some ungodly reason the showing was canceled. Against my better judgment, we went to see Stomp the Yard instead (not for serious entertainment, but for laughs).

With a 2.1 rating on IMDb, making it #33 on their bottom 100, this is easily the worst movie of the year so far. Not only does it fit into every mold for a movie plot, ever, but the fact that one of the 'teams' is the 'Pythons' and they do the exact same motion as Ben Stiller's team in Dodgeball is beyond hilarious.

Also, the fraternity that our main character joins is Theta Nu Theta, and the only reason it's called that is so at the end of the movie they can use the cheesy joke of their routine being TNT explosive. Get it?

I got dizzy watching half the scenes because the director has no idea how to operate a camera. It's pretty obvious that he just strapped a camera to a flopping trout gasping for water and used that footage to record the scenes, since there's more jump cuts than an Aronofsky film. Except, you know, Aronofsky is a decent director, and whoever did this is a notch above my oscillating fan.

This movie is like a mix between Bring It On and Drumline, except the former is an amazing(ly cheesy, yet awesome) movie, and the latter had a somewhat decent structure (though, being in a real drumline for seven year, it was terribly inaccurate, and just terrible, but that's for another post). So actually, it's nothing like either of those.

God, what a piece of shit.

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