Category: movie mini-reviews

Delivery Man (2013) Meh. Vince Vaughan in a dramedy. Didn’t buy the whole premise of his parenting 600 kids through sperm donation (I don’t think they’ll even take that many, for one thing) but how could you care about them individually? It’s just too big a bite to chew, like when 1 million people die in India, you can’t care because it’s too many people. If he fathered 12, ok. Above 100 no. Anyway, fair movie, not really funny but Vince is fun to watch so I give it a Score:2.
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Ah, the ’90s, when I spent literally thousands of dollars on DVDS. I love movies, I enjoyed the extras like commentary (one of the main things I miss about DVDs vs. digital files. I liked the packaging on some of them, the artwork was interesting (sometimes). I had 2 300 DVD carousels slaved together and I could watch movie after movie and probably watched all of them at least 3-4 times and some dozens of times. I bought a lot of movies I saw on cable in the early ’90s and ’80s classics as well. The only bitch was you could watch very few in a row because they would default to the menu and stop. But I learned a lot from the commentaries, about films and acting and directing and cinematography.

Then some DVDs started skipping. Some stopped working altogether, stuck on the menu. Soon many of them were unwatchable. By the early ’00s my players had both quit working and a lot of the DVDs, usually my fav ones, were useless. This was after I’d spent hundreds (not thousands, at least) on VHS. This was also after I’d spent thousands on vinyl over the years and probably as much on CDs, all of which became obsolete. So the upshot is I don’t feel like I owe the giant companies shit. They killed the goose that laid the golden egg time after time, the artists and actors and directors are insufferable smug leftists who insult the audience, the bosses are worse.

So from the time it became feasible to actuall download movies I did so and burnt them onto discs. However, discs sometimes (often) didn’t work the first pass, or deteriorated by the time I got around to watching them. THen disk space got really cheap so I started keeping movies I thought worth watching more than once.

So I watch a lot of movies, all eras, all genres. I save the ones I like enough to save. My take on these movies is here for you, all over this site. You’re welcome. It’s all free.

Employee of the Month (2006) Not a ’90s but one I watched this week, Dax Sheppard (who seems to be in every movie I see lately, that ever happen to you? You completely don’t know an actor, then you see him everywhere?) is a criminal gone good to get the girl… no wait he’s a ne’er do well employee who gives fuck all about his job until it’s time to get the girl. That was the other movie. Formulaic as hell but not totally annoying, you always wish they’d take one of these movies over the top and give it some twists but it’s like 10000 other ‘work’ movies where everyone fucks around all the time and never actually works. Score:3
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This week it’s OLDIES! Older movies that aren’t quite hip or cool. I’ve always liked movies and tv shows a few years after they were au courant because they don’t suffer from the lastest trends and catchphrases, they seem anachronistic. 80’s movies are hilarious, but at the time they were insufferable and smug. Now I like ’em. Anyway, here’s some old shit I was digging through, all 7 of them worth watching.
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New and used DVD mini-reviews

This week docweasel.com brings you some reviews of new and old DVDs to add (or not) to your collection. Once again presented with the highly prejudiced, biased and not necessarily consistant movie sensibilities combining Roger Ebert and Mr. Cranky.
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This week docweasel.com movie reviewer Peach reviews some movies she’s rented, bought, pirated off the net and gone to see in the theater.

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BUY City of Lost Children on Amazon

This is some stuff from outside the Hollywood machine with sensibilities and aethetics much different than your average cranked out formula Hollywood crap. Some of this is foreign crap. But a lot of it is great too. Check these out if you get the chance.
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This week docweasel.com brings you movies with supernatural, spiritual, religious and otherworldly themes.
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Ok, here’s what I’ve bought from the used DVD store, bargain bins and in the case of newer movies, BestBuy (or Pirate Bay), in the last 2 months. If you are looking for some suggestions on stuff to buy, you have a pretty full collection and can’t think of any or you see some of these all the time but don’t know anything about them, this is a semi-useful guide. Be aware its based on my personal preferences and biases, which are largely illogical. Without further ado, here’s my latest purchases:
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More tiny, superficial, opinionated, subjective and biased reviews. At least they don’t take long to read.
The first 2 are a couple classic video projects by some video pioneers and great musicians.

Elephant Parts (1981)
Got it for a dollar and well worth it. This was the video millions bought their first VCR to watch back in the hazy days of 1980, the first feature length video album, created by, written and starring Mike Nesmith, the former Monkee and inventer of the concept of MTV and a video pioneer extraordinaire. The effects are dated, the skits’ humor and production highschoolish, and the songs are goofy but it has a certain charm and is well worth a dollar. I don’t want to over sell it.
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This month’s DVD purchases reviewed briefly. Some good, some bad and some ugly from the used DVD repository- one man’s schlockfest is another man’s classic Z-movie. Some classics and some cult classics (movies only a few obsessed geeks watch hundreds of times.)
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