Day: Mar 16, 2020

Dirty Grandpa (2016)

i have to give spoilers before i start this review……..Please don’t watch this unless you have like vulgar comedy movies

there in times comes movies that just change your view point and leave a everlasting effect on you that upon watching fills you with the emotion that i could only describe as nauseating, and that is best way i summarise this movie. i don’t know what went wrong and how it went wrong, it had a simple enough plot not great but simple, had a great caste….ok maybe great enough cast.

now let me be clear its not a film for people who have issues with vulgar comedy movies, the title itself is a reference to it. it has its fair share of moments that might really end up funny, even though the joke itself is cheap and i come clean i had my share of laughter in too. but it still soo much cringe into it that just doesn’t gel with me.

let me tell you the plot of the movie straight from IMDB – Right before his wedding, an uptight guy is tricked into driving his grandfather, a lecherous former Army Lieutenant Colonel, to Florida for Spring Break. just by this much you might have guessed its a story of how the guy (Zac Efron) learns to be less uptight and how the grandpa (Robert De Niro) plays a role in it, and you sir are 100% correct it the genre plot that adds on to the vulgar joke and langue to spice up this trope.

now i might be harsh on this movie and i agree i went in it with a bit of bias towards how the story would play as in my head and it did yet didn’t feel satisfactory or maybe the cringe just got up to me. and as i thought more on it it came to me the fact why i didn’t like this movie that much its lack of a convincing ideals, as easily it changes its internal theme and message to suit the narrative reach a happy ending for all the characters which by the end has a definite feeling of forced.

i would usual stop peopple from watching it but if my rant made you curious watch it and be the judge yourself…..i would love to have new insight into this film from different pair of eyes.

69 movies down…………..431 to go.

see you soon

goodbye

The Other Guys (2010)

the story is about the unlikely heroes the ones you never expect to be up to the task….the underdogs

when Chris Danson and P. K. Highsmith two of the policemen, considered the best by the of the New York Police force (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson) end up dead due to their own stupidity in a simple pursuit. they police force now has to pick up the slack, this is where our unlikely heroes emerge, Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) who wanted quite life thus joined the accounting side of the police force, and this partner Terry (Mark Wahlberg) who is a fan of the crime fighting style of Chris Danson and P. K. Highsmith, and is always agitated by the inactivity of his patner. they end up finding clues that lead them to a case where money from the NYPD pension fund id gonna be transferred out to the hands of the opposing side, they act to stop them even when the whole force doesn’t believe and respect them.

now this is a silly movie but just silly enough that it doesn’t bore you, doesnt overly still to a serious tone rather goes out of its way to have meta commentary and joke , which i would say could be tone downed but end result was alright. this movie having will and mark in it was bound to have the duos random interaction scene that just builds up to become chucklish. in this film it was the school of tuna hunting the lion pride conversation.

i have to say one of the best parts of the story to me was the cameos of The Rock and Nick fury in the movie, their characters and then eventual downfall all were just funny and not overused to spoil the movie and derail its simple undertone meta-commentary on how action movies showcase such story lines and sequences. like the scene where upon being nearly being blasted due to a bomb the characters end up complaining about how scene sin movies are unrealistic in their portrayal of protagonist moving away from blast with no effect.

i would recommend this to people who have an affinity to the buddy cop action comedy genre, as it has all those aspects to enjoy that make this genre beloved.

68 movies down…………..432 to go.

see you soon

goodbye