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Movie Reviews

Movie Review: This Is It (2009)

4.11.2009

This Is It is a special tribute to Michael Jackson, the undisputed King of Pop, which was originally intended to be screened for 2 weeks after its world premiere last week. However, the This Is It “show” has been extended by another two weeks in countries like South Africa to give everyone (like you) a chance to go out and see it.

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I can’t say I’m a die hard Michael Jackson fan. I’ve never seen him live, owned a Michael Jackson album, worn white socks with black shoes, “moonwalked” or grabbed my crotch intentionally in public. What I can say is that whatever your convictions about the man’s personal life, you cannot deny his immense talent, his star status and the profound effect he has had on the history of music as we know it, after watching This Is It.

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Movie Review: Trick ‘r Treat (2009)

28.10.2009

It’s Halloween again, which means you’ll either be scaring up a tacky fancy dress costume for a party or guarding your front door against a small militant wing of kids, who think they’re entitled to some of your hard-earned candy. I thought they were supposed to avoid strangers with candy!? Well, if it’s the one day of the year kids get to talk to strangers, then you get to watch a scary movie… wait for it… with the lights off.

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Muhuahuahua… *clears throat*. One option for the big night in is Trick ‘r Treat, a horror gem that seems to have slipped in under the door. “Trick or Treat” was a slogan for Halloween until it became a movie tradition even more synonymous with the creepy holiday than John Carpenter’s Halloween. That’s right, Trick ‘r Treat is an instant Halloween classic, which will no doubt receive an increase in reruns in the month of October each and every year.

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Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds (2009)

21.10.2009

Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Inglourious Basterds (yes, that’s how you spell it) is about to hit South African shores like D-Day this Friday. Brad Pitt appears to be the star and headlines a cast including: Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Julie Dreyfuss, Melanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger with a siff cameo from Mike Myers (think Fat Bastard, except English and much thinner).

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Inglourious Basterds marks a return to Tarantino’s heydays after the Grindhouse “accident” involving Deathproof, which was not quite up to scratch when contrasted with Rodriguez’s double billing, Planet Terror, and the likes of Tarantino’s previous efforts in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill: Vol.1. So what’s the man got up his sleeve this time?

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Movie Review: Jennifer’s Body (2009)

14.10.2009

Every now and then a movie comes along that blows our minds… Jennifer’s Body is not that movie. It blows alright… but not in a good way. The creators of Juno must have been high on Oscar fever (or cocaine) when they decided to make Jennifer’s Body. Imagine the setting in the creator’s board room or hot tub…

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Jim: Right girls, it’s all True Blood and Twilight right now, so let’s do a horror starring Hollywood’s new Angelina, Megan Fox, fresh off the Transformers runway…
Sally: And what about exploiting Amanda Seyfried, that cute spring chicken from Mamma Mia!?
Mel: Yes, she’ll do and I think we should recruit Karyn Kusama, who directed that Aeon Flux movie with Charlize Theron – she’s got the right sort of experience we’re looking for.
Summer: While we’re at it… let’s give Diablo Cody the script in exchange for the odd “cheese and fries” or “freaktarded” Juno comment.

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BIFF’S “QUESTION SONG”

13.10.2009

Now when I say “Biff” I’m not talking about Graeme Smith, but rather the guy from Back To The Future. The guy who used to pick on Michael J Fox’s character, Marty McFly.

His real name is Thomas F. Wilson and he played the character, Biff Tannen. I’ve arranged a visual clue for you:

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Biff Tannen – played by Thomas F. Wilson
Aah, yes – that’s the one!

So it’s nearly 15 years years since the Back to the Future “franchise” first graced the silver screen and, as you can imagine, Thomas F. Wilson hasn’t heard the end of it.

He’s musically inclined, old Biff, and isn’t shy to grab the guitar during his stand-up comedy evenings.

This one is a crowd favourite. It’s called “Biff’s Question Song” and deals with the constant annoying questions he has to deal with – MOSTLY to do with that movie.

It’s funny. Trust me. Especially for Generation X who lived Back To The Future.


Very cool.

[thanks michael]



  

Movie Review: The Ugly Truth (2009)

7.10.2009

Ah The Ugly Truth… women fall head over heels and men fall for women that wear nothing but heels. The whole intergalactic “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” game of cat-and-mouse has been discussed at length and there just doesn’t seem to be a light (or even a candle-lit dinner) at the end of the tunnel of love.

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Well, that’s what we thought until we watched What Women Want, a “documentary” with Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson as he discovered he had the gift to understand the fairer sex after waxing his legs.  The Ugly Truth exposes the flip side of the coin and girls you’re not going to like it. Prince Charming is dead, long live King Leonadis… or in this case Mike -played by Gerard “THIS IS SPAR-TA” Butler.

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Movie Review: The Boat That Rocked (2009)

30.09.2009

Austin Powers and Dr. Evil are the same person, Mike Myers. No, not the psychotic serial killer from Halloween that just won’t die, the guy from Wayne’s World… Wayne. (GET ON WITH IT!) Yes… quite, well The Boat That Rocked is British – you may think it’s American, but it’s not – it hasn’t even been released there yet!

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Other than that, it’s exactly like GOOOOOOD MORRRRRNING VIETNAMMM, but with 7 extra DJs, a boat shaped like a ship, ’60s fashion, gorgeous women, more narcotics, soap-on-a-rope, no imminent threat of war and big black round things called ‘records’. In fact, it’s so much like Good Morning, Vietnam that they called it Good Morning England… get this, in France.

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Movie Review: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

23.09.2009

Remember how our parentals tried to force-feed us as children… “Here comes the aeroplane”, “If you eat the crust you’ll get a deep voice” and “Don’t make me come down there!”.  Okay, maybe the last one was only for special occasions, but that’s what watching The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is like, except instead of “taking” an aeroplane, it’s a train.

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“Open up wide – on the count of three 1… 2… 2 1/2… 3… swallow, that’s good.” The script doesn’t patronize audiences, it’s just got the same “been there – done that” feel you get when you bite into your second Weet-Bix biscuit. Sure, it’s healthy on the outside with Denzel, John and Tony plumping up the cast, but at the end of the day, it’s just another dry, tasteless brick that saps milk and lacks any form of sugar-coating (at least The Italian Job had Charlize!).

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MEGAN FOX IS “AS DUMB AS A ROCK” AND “CLASSLESS”

Really?

22.09.2009

Megan Fox has punished herself by referring to her Transformers director as a Napoleon and Hitler type. But there’s no surprise there, we’ve always known that Megas doesn’t pack a full one. The big result here was an open letter from director Michael Bay’s crew who got deep into it.

 

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Megan Fox
The way I remember her

 

Yu, yu, yu! Check it out:

 

“This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.

Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.

Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses’ life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. She was famous! She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina. You see, Angelia is a professional.

We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We’ve spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.

We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work. One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sour pants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.

Megan has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such – the grump of the set?

When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it’s very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) easily another 45 minutes in the chair!

So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitler”. We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let’s get some facts straight.

[read the rest here]

 

Well, I can tell you right now that I am not surprised. Not for one second was I under the impression that Megan Fox was a genius. I knew that she was smoking hot and that she could cut diamonds with her blue eyes, but I would never make the mistake of asking her to quote pi to the twentieth decimal.

It’s entertaining – but it’s no revelation. That’s what I’m looking for. Revelations.

Like if you had to tell me “And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.” – now THAT would be a Revelation. Chapter 4, verse 6, to be exact.

Aaah…

[polishes nails, stares into the distance..]

 

[thanks nico]



  

Movie Review: Observe and Report (2009)

16.09.2009

The thin line between love and hate isn’t as thin as we once thought… and it’s blue, thanks to middling mall cop movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop with Kevin James and more recently Observe and Report with Seth Rogen.

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The film has generated some mixed responses with one rendition of this movie poster’s subtitle stating: “Observe and report this fat, creepy mall cop, who rapes a chick, isn’t funny and has no redeeming qualities. Oh, and tons of cocks.” Sounds like they’re going for something a little bit different to Pineapple Express and Knocked Up, doesn’t it?

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WIKUS VAN DE MERWE MIGHT PLAY “HOWLING MAD” MURDOCK IN A-TEAM MOVIE

I love it when a plan comes together!

16.09.2009

I am still ASTOUNDED when I ask people if they’ve watched District 9 and they reply in the negative. “Is it good?” they ask. Is it good? IS IT GOOD? Heh….umm did you miss the fact that it’s virtually 100% South African and it’s one of the best selling movies on the planet at the moment? Did you miss the fact that virtually EVERYONE is giving it close to ten out of ten and the fact that EVERYONE is talking about it? And I’m not talking about the likes of Bazza Ronge – I’m talking about real voices – like Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair magazines. How long are you going to let this go on? Don’t you feel like a tit every time someone asks if you’ve seen it and you say no? God, how emboerboer! Don’t you want to learn about prawns?

 

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Sharlto Copley
Plays Wikus van de Merwe in District 9

 

So anyway, you can carry on living in that revolting little bubble of yours, but, for the rest of you (those of us who have seen the ALL-SOUTH-AFRICAN global hit movie, District 9), you’ll be interested to note that Sharlto Copley (the guy that played Wikus van de Merwe in the movie, alongside 2oceansvibe friend Vanessa Haywood) has been offered the role of Howling Mad Murdock in the big screen adaptation of the greatest TV show of your life, The A-Team!

No, I would never make something like that up.

 

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The A-Team
(clockwise from left)
Faceman, Murdock, “B.A.” Baracus
and Hannibal Smith (R.I.P.)

 

Check this out (Empire):

 

With District 9 tearing up the US box office, there’s been a flood of speculation about the next step for its star, the insanely naturally-talented first-time actor Sharlto Copley, who played the lovable hero, Wikus van der Merwe. But we have to confess that we didn’t see this one coming: according to Blackfilm.com, Copley has been approached to play Howling Mad Murdock in Joe Carnahan’s The A-Team.

Apparently, the deal is only at the offer stage, but while Copley might have slight concern at being typecast as a goofball, we’d be amazed if he didn’t take the role of the team’s borderline insane pilot, thus filling out a cast that already includes Liam Neeson as Col. Hannibal Smith, Bradley Cooper as Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson as B.A. Baracus.

When Empire spoke to Copley recently, he confessed to being uncertain about his next step. And while we feel that he has true leading man material – check out that jawline! – it might not be such a bad thing for him to play fourth banana in a big-budget movie, and therefore reduce the pressure on him to knock it out of the park second time round.

Also, let’s face it, it’s pretty damn good casting. Copley is a naturally funny, and hugely confident, guy, and has enough quirk about him to make him a worthy successor to Dwight Schultz, who originated the role on the TV show.

[read more here]

 

Well that’s all pretty interesting, but I think we just need to get to the point of all of this – it’s just an excuse to watch the opening credits of The A-Team TV series which we all, as kids, wanted inside us. I still have a copy inside me.

 

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CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO

 

All I’m saying is, “In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. They promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.”

See what I did there?

 

[thanks paul]



  

SETH DISCUSSES PRAWNS WITH VANESSA HAYWOOD ON SET AT ELLE MAGAZINE COVER SHOOT

The hot star of international hit, District 9

14.09.2009

You should be well aware by now of Vanessa Haywood, the smoking hot leading actress in the globally critically acclaimed, District 9.

Seth caught up with Vanessa at her ELLE Magazine cover shoot in Cape Town today.

Wait for video to load and check it out:

 

 

*Slow connections should wait for the box to appear, then pause to load up content before playing.

 

Aah yes, Prawns, prawns everywhere, and not a drop to drink!

We had good fun on set. If you’re following 2oceansvibe on Twitter, you would have seen some of the behind-the-scenes super sexy shots I took this morning of Vanessa!

I must just say how awesome Vanessa was. She’s 100% natural and completely unaffected by her fame and connection to this international blockbuster, District 9. If you get the chance to meet her, do it – she’s super cool.



  

ON SET WITH DISTRICT 9 STAR, VANESSA HAYWOOD

Elle Magazine cover shoot

14.09.2009

Everyone’s trying to keep it a secret, but it’s pretty difficult to hide the fact that Vanessa Haywood, the star of the biggest movie in the world at the moment, District 9, is in Cape Town. Why is she in Cape Town? Oh…just to quietly shoot the cover of SA Elle Magazine! Now we’re talking!

Those of you following 2oceansvibe on Twitter will know that I popped into the studio this morning to check out the vibe and tell Vanessa (smoking hot) my latest prawn joke.

She hosed herself. Obviously

 

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Vanessa Hawyood gets lost in the moment
On set for the Elle Magazine cover shoot

 

Turns out Vanessa is mates with a few 2oceansvibe characters, including The Barndog (well done for Saturday, buddy) and The Hooker!

Nice vibe – I like it.

We also got a hilarious video clip with Seth and Vanessa which you are going to LOVE!

Look out for that around lunch time today.



  

Movie Review: UP (2009)

9.09.2009

UP is possibly the shortest name for a film since X, but we’re not talking about Spike Lee’s film on Malcolm X, the first X-Men movie, the X-Files or even the similarity of illiterate people’s signatures.

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We’re talking about UP, Pixar’s latest Best Animated Film Oscar in the wake of “WAAAALLLLL-E” (pretty irritating after a while). If you’ve ever thought you could fly without smoke or mirrors, you should watch this movie.

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Movie Review: Public Enemies (2009)

2.09.2009

Public Enemy was one of the films that cemented Jimmy Cagney in the old Hollywood. No, they didn’t erect a statue and he didn’t get dropped off at the docks. It was his extraordinary career performance as Tom Powers that gave rise to the gangster picture and set Cagney up as the ultimate tough guy. This is what Public Enemies is missing… a true powerhouse performance that delivers substance, backbone and gangster grit beyond the rattle of a Tommy Gun (sorry Johnny).

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The story follows legendary gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd (I know) as they evade a 1930s crime wave in a similar fashion to Bonnie & Clyde. While Public Enemies features competent, action-packed entertainment, a fine cast, an intriguing true story and top-notch production values, it shouldn’t be ranked in the same league as American Gangster, Public Enemy or Heat.

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Movie Review: Crank 2: High Voltage (2009)

26.08.2009

Right, so you saw Crank and enjoyed it… well done. To say Crank had a lot of heart is an understatement. The public display of affection, the pulsating action, the heart-stopping moments and the heartbeat bass were incredible and Jason Statham wasn’t too bad either.

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The original had the action reflex of a kung-fu squirrel on Red Bull and the comic agility of a David Spade stand-up routine in a maximum security prison. It was no-punches-pulled Statham with the ultimate high-octane, adrenaline-pumping action movie plot, but that was way back in 2006…

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Movie Review: District 9 (2009)

19.08.2009

Watching District 9 was a new film experience, which could only be described as Hotel Rwanda, Fido and Lars and the Real Girl… in a blender. In retrospect, it’s all of that and more. Neill Blomkamp burst onto the movie scene in 2005 with Alive in Joburg, a fascinating Sci-Fi/Documentary short film about aliens in Johannesburg… what, you didn’t hear about it? Don’t worry, it wasn’t a hostile threat – didn’t even make the news.

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The 6-minute short film caught the eye of Peter Jackson, who instantly recognised the young director’s talents, signing him on for the video game to screen adaptation of Halo. However, it was the adaptation of Alive in Joburg that would cement the director into the international circuit, with the real Lord of the Rings as producer in District 9.

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