Freddy vs. Jason

Who:  Amber
What:  Freddy vs. Jason
Where:  @ home off cable
Why:  The 3rd movie in my horror movie marathon

This movie was cheese ball city - but if you are a fan of either Freddy Krugar (Nightmare on Elm Street) and/or Jason Voorhes (Friday the 13th), then you must see this movie!

The movie starts out with Freddy's back story.  They even show clips from his old movies!  Basically, the kids on Elm Street have forgotten all about him, so he's lost all his power.  His plan is to have Jason start killing people in Elm Street, then everybody will think he's back ... start to remember him, and *wham* his power will be resorted!  Then he can get rid of Jason, and continue killing kids himself.

Of course, the first to go are the slutty teens and the underage drinkers.

There is a quality back story with our main girl (somebody I've never seen before), her doctor father who works in a mental hospital and her boyfriend from 4 years ago who disappeared, who was actually in the mental hospital (although she didn't know that).

The kids and a young cop realize what is going on, and devise a plan to bring Freddy out of their dreams and into real life so Jason can get rid of him.  Let the serial killer showdown begin!

Who will win?!?  I'll never tell ... although the new Friday the 13th movie came out last weekend, so maybe that gives it away a little bit.

Grandma's Boy

Who:  Amber & Jonathan
What:  Grandma's Boy
Where:  @ home on cable
Why:  Nick Swardson is in it

(Back story - Jonathan and I saw comedian Nick Swardson in concert about a month ago)

This movie was really funny!  I remember seeing previews and thinking "LAME!"  But it was really good.  I would see it again.  It's a "Happy Madison" movie, so you'll see all the usual suspects from all of Adam Sandler's movies

The main guy (crap - I already forgot his name!) lives with a buddy.  They both enjoy smoking pot.  Of course they get evicted.  Main guy (I'm going to call him Bob) ends up crashing with his grandma and her 2 old lady roommates.  His grandma is really, really cool!  She cooks for him all the time.  He helps out by doing chores.

Bob is a video game tester.  He works at a cool office and plays video games all day long.  So even though he's a pot smoking guy living with his grandma, he's still a responsible guy.  He's bragging around to work that his 3 women roommates are running him raged with orgies and porn all the time.  In reality, the 3 old ladys have worn him out with basic chores.

I'm finding this movie hard to write about.  What I've just written sounds in credibly lame.  

But, just trust me, this movie is FUNNY!  Kevin Nealon as the video game boss is great.  Skinny guy from Dodgeball is the video game genius - he's great.  Nick Swardson as the kind-of nerd/kind-of cool guy (who lives with his "roommates" or "parents") steals the whole movie!  Search for this movie on your DVR!

Grindhouse - Planet Terror

Who:  Amber & Jonathan
What:  Grindhouse - Planet Terror
Where:  @ home - free HBO weekend
Why:  I've been dying to see it!

Let's just say, I can see why Grindhouse didn't make any money at the box office.  This sucker is long!  I only watched the first movie, and I was tired.  I don't think I could've handled seeing both movies at the same time.

Planet Terror is the movie with the girl with the machine gun for a leg.  I know you know what I'm talking about!

It was actually a pretty cool movie.  There is a crazy radiation leak, and it turns pretty much everybody into a zombie.  There are a handful of people who are immune (for some reason), and they go around killing zombies.  The zombies can be killed (I think), if you blow them away with a powerful gun.  Luckily everybody seems to have an incredibly powerful gun.

When I say killing zombies, I mean blowing them apart.  I think I saw more blood in this movie than at a blood bank.  Who knew a gunshot to the chest made you explode?

Did I mention there was a chick with a machine gun for a leg?

Grindhouse was supposed to be a throw back to stupid 70's horror movies.  So sometimes the screen is kind-of fuzzy, you see film real lines, and during a sex scene (w/ machine gun leg chick), the 'film reel' actually melts.

This movie ends, I think, at Tulum in Mexico.  It's where Jonathan and I visited during our last Disney Cruise.  If it's not Tulum, it looks just like it.

If you have FOREVER to kill, then check out Grindhouse.  If you only have 1.5 hours to kill, then check out Planet Terror.  It's worth it just to see what happens to Quinten Terrintino's wang.  Ouch!  Seriously ...

The Big Lebowski

Who:  Amber & Jonathan
What:  The Big Lebowski
Where:   @ home - free Starz weekend
Why:  Jonathan picked it

I've heard so much about this movie, but I've never seen it.  I wasn't impressed.  Maybe I just don't get these 'weird' movies.  Or maybe it's a Coen Brother's thing that I don't get.  Either way, this isn't my kind of movie.  But don't listen to me - this seems to be a cult classic!

"Dude" Lebowski is a slacker.  The movie opens with 2 guys breaking into his house and demanding the money!  One guy dunks him in his toilet (gross!) and another guy pees on his rug.  Then the bad guys realize that this isn't the Mr. Lebowski they are looking for.  They want a millionaire Lebowski, and "Dude" is a total slacker!

Dude is annoyed by his stained rug.  He goes to the millionaire Lebowski's house to ask for a new rug, since it was kind-of his fault that his was peed on.

One thing leads to another and Dude and his moronic friend (a hilarious, potty mouth John Goodman) are in the middle of a random drop.  It's botched, and everybody wants to know where the money is.  There are 3 different groups of people after the money.  In addition, Leboowski bowls a lot!  That's basically the plot of the movie.

Make a special note of the GIANORMOUS cell phone that Lebowski has.