Mindless Dribble

The Shrine (2010)

Just a quick little review.

This is on Netflix, so you can check it out. Not bad, though it was in desperate need of subtitles.

I understand that having it set in a foreign country makes it more… horrifying… but…

Not having subtitles makes it seem more unnerving, like you are actually in the situation with the characters. But during the big showdown, the only person not speaking Polish was Aaron Ashmore. Even the main girl was spewing it forth.

Other than that, I thought it was pretty good. Not perfect, but a good try.

Fiser, OUT!

Chernobyl Diaries

Hey there, Blue Man here, and it’s time for another Blue Man’s Cinematic Adventures. I’m having some technical difficulties in that my computer decided to break in half… literally. So we’re going old school and you are just gonna have to read.

Please don’t post tl;dr… suck it up and deal.

Okay… Chernobyl Diaries… ehhh…

You know, I had hopes that it would be good. Actually I thought it would either come out one of two ways… either I would like it a lot and everyone would hate it like The Devil Inside, or I would hate it and everyone would love it. Well, I didn’t like it too much and from what I hear neither does anyone else.

The premise is good. Extreme tourism… Tell me you’ve never wanted to explore an abandoned building… cause you can’t. And Chernobyl is interesting because… well… it’s Chernobyl. Seriously, that is the best drawing point of the movie.

But… as Oren Peli can’t make a movie with a plot, you get great premise and no follow through.

Okay… fine… the Paranormal Activity movies are kinda growing on me, but they still are missing something… it might be pacing.

I don’t want to spoil anything, so I won’t, but all the scares are really predictable. Just know that when the soundtrack drops out something is gonna happen.

I really can’t say much more about it. It could’ve been good, but it just drops out in the third act.

Blue Man, OUT!

Dahmer (2002)

I don’t think there has even been a movie this hard for me to watch.

I think my main issue is that I was alive when the news broke. He was arrested in 1992 (I was 9), and it happened in my home state. The complete other side of the state, but still it’s the same state. 

So just to think that someone made a movie about Jeffery Dahmer is a bit unsettling to me.

But as my actor of the week is Jeremy Renner, I had to watch it.

Okay, I didn’t have to watch it, but I did. And now you’re gonna hear about it.

It was weird. It isn’t linear at all and the jumps back and forth in time are very jarring. 

But the weirdest thing overall is Renner’s performance is really good. Okay, so that’s not weird, but it is a bit unsettling. You read about the things that this man (Dahmer) did and you can’t help but imagine a soulless monster, but Renner makes him human and that is what is so unsettling.

So, it’s a weird one… it should with a seizure warning… but it was kinda worth the watch. 

I gotta go watch something light and fluffy now.

Fiser, OUT!

Please pardon the mess, but as you can see I am now just as awesome as Paul from LRR as I have 3 PS3s. However, the one on the coffee table will be going back as soon as I move all of my stuff from it to the white one.

I’m just gonna make sure the new one works first.