The Spin Movie Review #2: Arthur (Original)

I never myself a fan of romantic comedies (even after laughing until I cried at Hitch), but when my mom and older brother stole the TV and started to down hour after hour of Being Human, my father decided to treat me to one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time through way of Netflix, partly because he wanted me to see it, partly because he wanted an excuse to see it again, and partly because the remake just came out/

Arthur is the story of a lonely, drunk, Millionaire played by Dudley Moore, who is being forced to marry this up-tight woman in order to keep his riches. Around this time, as he's dealing with the issue of not really loving her by way of alcohol and one liners, he soon falls hard for this nobody, working class woman, played by Liza Minnelli, and has to face this deleama: Either walk head first into a marriage he doesn't want, just to keep his money, or lose his money for true love, and no prize for guessing what hppens at the end.

This movie is not original by any stretch of the imagination, and the plot is lose, creating a feeling of "That was funny, but what happened?" at the end. It's only an hour and a half (or something) but it felt much shorter, considering it's lack of consistent pacing.

One of the things that makes it hard for me to review movies is that I have a really hard time separating good acting from so-so acting. Sure, I can tell that the Joker in The Dark Knight was fantastic, and that that one scene from The Happening ("What? No!" You all know the part) was Bull, but everything else is kind of a mishmash of "Meh" I'm am glad to say though, with out a doubt in my mind, that the cast of Arthur did a fabulous job, bring life to the tragic and hopelessly funny life of the man-child that is Arthur Bach.

And yet, it almost brings me pain to watch it, no matter how funny some lines can be, because I realize that all I;m doing is laughing at a poor pathetic drunk, with no life, no real family, and no real love (Save for the end).

Sigh...

All in all, Arthur is a fabulous movie with superb acting, brilliant jokes, if not a sense of long after its over.

Arthur: 8.3 out of 10.0

Gyasi's summer classic movie marathon!

First, I want to apologize: I haven't been posting as frequently as I'd like (or at all) but I've come with news of shame and redemption: I'm going to have a summer classic movie marathon! See, my summer has 83 days in it, and my plan is to see 80 films in that time, all ranging in genre and verve.

You all will be shocked at the amount of classics I haven't seen.

Hope that you guys will stick with me, even if I fail, and especially after the train wreck that was my review of Saw.


Also, watch out for more reviews to come before the summer!

Summer Movie List:

1.       Casablanca

2.       2001 a space odyssey

3.       Nosferatu

4.       Godzilla (Original)

5.       King  Kong (Original)

6.       Alien

7.       Robocop

8.       Citizen Cane

9.       Silence of the lambs

10.   The fly

11.   Terminator

12.   Godfather 1

13.   Bamboozled

14.   Gone with the wind

15.   Forest Gump

16.   Titanic

17.   Airplane

18.   Ben hur

19.   Jaws

20.   Invisible man (original)

21.   Psycho

22.   Animal house

23.   Doctor No (James bond)

24.   On her majesty’s secret service (James bond)

25.   Moonraker (James bond)

26.   The world is not enough (James bond)

27.   Matrix

28.   Dead poet society

29.   Lord of the rings

30.   Stand by me

31.   Saving private Ryan

32.   Blade runner

33.   Solent green

34.   Breakfast club

35.   Escape from New York

36.   Do the right thing

37.   Platoon

38.   Who framed roger rabbit?

39.   The blues brothers

40.   Vacation

41.   Ferris buler’s day off

42.   Die hard

43.   Risky business

44.   Bambi

45.   Exorcist

46.   Dawn of the dead

47.   Scarface

48.   Dirty harry (original)

49.   Dr. Strangelove

50.   Day the earth stood still (original)

51.   Lawrence of Arabia

52.   Sound of music

53.   Night of the living dead

54.   Army of darkness

55.   Mary Poppins

56.   Imitation of life

57.   Ocean’s eleven (Original)

58.   Rashumon

59.   The Maltese Falcon

60.   M.A.S.H.

61.   One flew over the coco’s nest

62.   Friday the 13^th (original)

63.   Nightmare on elm street (original)

64.   All quiet on the western front

65.   The birds

66.   Fantasia

67.   The good, the bad, and the ugly

68.   Close encounters of the third kind

69.   Everything is illuminated

70.   Schindeler’s list

71.   Malcolm X

72.   Caddy shack

73.   Enter the dragon

74.   Crouching tiger hidden dragon

75.   Memento

76.   Oh brother where art thou?

77.   Planet of the apes

78.   Life of Brian

79.   12 angry men

80.   Good night and good luck