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"Some more of my terribly far behind reviews...Fired Up is surprisingly funny for a PG-13 comedy. Two girl crazy football players decide to go to cheer camp instead of missing out on two weeks of action. The jokes come fast and are witty enough to avoid the R rating, but definitely push the PG-13 line. I had a lot of fun with this. Favorite bit: One kid: "Dude, she's like 30." Other kid: "That's how I like them - ancient and regretful."Adventureland is so good. It's like an 80's movie a la Pretty in Pink. Sadly, the ads pushed it as another Superbad and I think people are going to miss out on this. It is funny. I laughed out loud several times. I immediately fell in love with the soundtrack and the general mood of this film. A college graduate, home for the summer, can only land a job at a local amusement park where he falls in love and gets into all sorts of shenanigans. If it's still playing in your town, go see it. If not, rent it as soon as possible.Another film pitched as just ... "
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"2008 was not the banner year that ‘07 turned out to be, but there were still plenty of movies worth watching. Sometimes end-of-year lists look like straight Oscar predictions, with little deviance from critic to critic, not so this year. Some of our favorite stuff was not playing in a theatre near you, some of it was. For the record, our complete lists are after the jump. But first! Wholphin 7 is out now! The geniuses over at McSweeny’s have once again curated a delightful collection of rare and unseen short films. We share our thoughts about a few favorites. One film we both loved, Glory at Sea, is available for free here. (Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store or to our
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"My enjoyment of Be Kind Rewind was probably hampered by the fact that I watched it on an airplane. But even giving it the benefit of the doubt I have to say it was not very good. At least I didn’t quite get what Michael Gondry was going for with it. I get the story - two local characters try to save a neighborhood video store when one of them somehow becomes magnetic and accidentally erases all the tapes by shooting their own versions of the movies and renting them to an unsuspecting clientele. But it’s the execution that gets in the way of my enjoyment. Black is mostly just annoying as the cause of the problems and Mos Def tries to be charming as the one who takes charage of the store’s revitalization but he’s just not that good an actor. Plus, there’s this whole thing where occassionally the screen fills with static like Black’s magnetism is effecting the camera that’s shooting the movie and that wound up just bugging me the more often it happened. I have no problem with breaking ... "
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"Some critics are slamming director Michel Gondry’s sweet new slipstream comedy Be Kind Rewind for being excessively heartfelt and overly sentimental. I caught the film this weekend and was quickly wooed by its oddball humor, charming story about a neighborhood full of cuddly wackos, and warm message about the power of community spirit. Those hoping for a thematic sister film to Gondry’s 2004 drama Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (written by Charlie Kaufman) might be disappointed. Rewind wears its heart on its quirky sleeve, and it leaves little room for existential angst or scenes of heartbreak. Still, fans of Gondry’s narrow sense of humor and visionary music video work should find a "
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"Well...I just don't know what to think. It's a quaint film, but not quaint enough. It's farcial and silly, but again, not enough. It's clever, but...well, you get the picture. We saw this on a Sunday, and just picked it because it was the soonest we could get into a film. Only once I sat down did I realize it was a Michel Gondry film, and I figured with Jack Black's brand of humor, it was going to be a laugh out loud riot. That wasn't the case. The film just seemed kind of muddled and I felt myself wriggling around in my chair hoping the film was going somewhere. I don't think it did. But the journey was fun. Sort of. "
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"The first time I saw the trailer for Be Kind Rewind I got super excited. My first reaction to it was, yes a movie with an awesome story that will inspire many a person's creativity, hopefully. My second reaction was YES A NEW MICHEL GONDRY FILM! I have been a fan of Michel Gondry ever since I first saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep. Be Kind Rewind has that DIY look that you would expect from a Gondry film. At times the camera seams to be on Jack Black just hoping that he does something crazy like in the scene where Jerry and Mike give their newly "sweded" rendition of Ghostbusters to Mia Farrow's character, the camera seams to be on Jack Black for a very long time, but in other parts of the film we get just the right amount of jack black. Mos Def's character is well done as well, he is a different character one that he doesn't play often he is more of a nervous guy then the calm cool guys that Mos usually plays. Mich ... "
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"Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind may have failed to make much of an impact at the box office, but as Liz Shannon Miller reports at NewTeeVee, it did touch off a serious wave of low-budget remake making on the web. Of the three “Sweded” mini-masterpieces she considers, by favorite is the above take on An Inconvenient Truth. Watch it, and join the fight to keep polar bears from taking our jobs. Related: this plus The Pleasure of Being Robbed makes two recent works to employ use of a fake polar bear. I just have to find one more fake polar bear in popular culture, and I can pitch a trend piece to the New York Times!
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"Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind may have failed to make much of an impact at the box office, but as Liz Shannon Miller reports at NewTeeVee, it did touch off a serious wave of low-budget remake making on the web. Of the three “Sweded” mini-masterpieces she considers, by favorite is the above take on An Inconvenient Truth. Watch it, and join the fight to keep polar bears from taking our jobs. Related: this plus The Pleasure of Being Robbed makes two recent works to employ use of a fake polar bear. I just have to find one more fake polar bear in popular culture, and I can pitch a trend piece to the New York Times!
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"Michel Gondry's new film Be Kind Rewind, stars Mos Def as Mike, a young clerk working in an old videotape rental store, owned by Mr. Fletcher, played by Danny Glover and Jack Black stars as Jerry, Mos Def's character's clumsy best friend. When an accident causes Jerry to become magnetized, he accidently erases all the videotapes in Mr. Fletcher's store. To save the business, both Mike and Jerry decide to re-create all of the videos on their own. With the help of a dry cleaning worker, played by Melonie Diaz, they instantly become a sinsation within their neighborhood. The movie is funny. The scenes in which Mos Def and Jack Black recreate the films are hilarious. I just believe that this film should have been filmed a few years ago when videotapes were still popular. It just seemed out of place that there could be a store that only rents videotapes. The casting was altogther not that bad. As mentioned previously, Danny Glover stars as the store's owner ... "
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"First, I love Michel Gondry...He makes amazing movies and both Eternal Sunshine and Science of sleep, are on my top five favorite films list.Be Kind Rewind has a simple plot. And to me, thats the point. In so many ways, Be Kind is the exact kind of movie that Mike and Jerry would want to remake. It's simple, its silly, and it follows a basic story format...introduction of characters, conflict, resolution.What I I love about it, is that Michel has the unique ability to work so well within the realm of that simplicity...he can take funny characters, a silly situation and spin it around his imagination to pull out a whole magical world.He stretches beyond the story and into the core of creativity..the imagination. He says, within the frame..."make whatever you want, from nothing" and that message, especially in the days of hollywood where movies like "juno" win "best" screenplay...its great to see a director take what hollywood could fuck up and just ... "
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