Daydreamer's Film Talk

It's been a whole month since I've seen this film, but there's things about it I just have to write down.  Insidious : Chapter 2 is the 2013 sequel to 2010's popular horror film Insidious, both directed by James Wan and written by his longtime collaborator Leigh Whannell, who not only wrote and made the first Saw film with Wan, but also starred in Saw opposite Cary Elwes and and stars in these films as Specs. The main cast is Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbra Hershey, Ty Simpkins, And Lin Shaye all reprising their roles from the first film.  The premise of the sequel unfortunately cannot be told without spoiling the first film, but it's one of the points I want to bring up. The new film begins right where the last film left off, when Renai finds Elise dead and suspects Josh, who had been in the room with her before. But when he shows up, he convinces her that he has no idea who killed her and they decide to stay at his mother's house for awhile. This is where t...

Well, I haven't posted since August, and in that time I've come to a few decisions on what I want to do. Whoever's reading this, this IS what I want to do: write. It's the only thing I can say for certain that I'm good at. Of course there's always room for improvement but that's what life's about, at least in my opinion. I've decided that I'll start reviewing all films that I watch in the theaters and films I watch at home and then get the urge to vent on what I thought about them, old and new. For certain, my next one will be on Insidious : Chapter 2, since I have immediate plans on watching it tomorrow. Stay tuned. 

This review's being written two days after  what I consider one of the best days of my life. Going to the movies for me is always a special day (unless the movie is crap) but on Thursday night, it was a special event that I was attending.  I won't talk a lot about the films, as they've all been thoroughly reviewed by others, including the new film The World's End. It's already been released before, just not in the U.S. When I refer to the Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy, it refers to the three film collaborations of actors Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and writer/director Edgar Wright, who've all worked together since their 1999 cult show Spaced.  The first film, Shaun of the Dead, was released in 2004 and can only be described without going into detail as a romantic comedy with zombies, which is the tagline. When this film came out, I was too young to watch it, but I was aware of it and thought of it as one of those films that makes fun of scary movies. After watching...

As I'm writing this on the bus ride home, I feel content. With all the crap released this past few weeks in theaters, I couldn't find a good excuse to go see a movie. Then again, it's hard to top the last thing I saw, which was the terrifying and entertaining horror film The Conjuring. Then Kick-Ass 2 came out.  The sequel to 2010's Kick-Ass, it did not disappoint me. The story kicks off with Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass natrrating how a new batch of superheroes have emerged, inspired by his heroics. He's retired, but he's quickly bored by this and decides to join the new superhero group known as Justice Forever, led by ex-mafia enforcer Colonel Stars and Stripes. Meanwhile, Mindy Macready/Hit Girl is trying to live a normal life after promising her guardian, a police officer who knew her father, that she'll give up crime fighting, which proves difficult when Chris D'Amico amerges as the new super villain The Motherfucker (no, seriously, that's his name.) ...

As per someone's request, my next review will be on The Lord of The Rings Trilogy. I'll admit, because its been done so many times before and the films themselves are long, I was skeptical, but I will do my best. I'll also quickly review the first Hobbit film and my expectations for the upcoming installment.

I'm nearing the end of my three part review of The Mighty Boosh. Now all I have to do is review the third and final season and leave my final thoughts on the show as a whole. If only it were that easy. The final season of The Mighty Boosh didn't air until two years after the second one because the show itself was on tour for most of that time. As with season 2, the setting has changed again, but not as drastically. The flat is no longer the beginning of episodes and the series instead center on Howard and Vince running a second hand shop called the Nabootique for their friend and owner Naboo. I read in another person's review that Fielding and Barrett said in interviews that they wanted to take Howard and Vince to their extremes. Taking that into account, I felt this was a bad move as Howard is more of a Debbie Downer when things go wrong for him and the always flamboyant Vince is even more self absorbed to the point that he cares more about a colorful cape than helping ...

My last post was about the first season of The Mighty Boosh. As the title suggests, I'm going to review as best as I can the second season of the show and all the while acknowledging the changes the show goes through. To start off, Howard and Vince are no longer zookeepers and the setting is completely changed from the Zooniverse to an apartment (or flat) which is owned by the shaman Naboo and also inhabited by Bollo, who is now Naboo's animal spirit. Since Howard and Vince are no longer zookeepers, they're essentially retconned as two friends in a band trying to make it big. Their wardrobe is also more colorful and outlandish, or at least Vince's are: The big issue I had the most was continuity, mainly because there is little to no continuity on the show. Bollo died in the first season but is brought back and events that happened in each episode are never mentioned again. Other than that, the second season in my opinion is the best of the whole series in visuals a...

I know I said in my introduction that I would review films, but I think T.V. shows can be just as thought provoking and sometimes better than most films. Ironically, the show I want to review can probably be argue as neither of those things, although it's a hell of a lot of fun to watch. As the title says that show is The Mighty Boosh, a surreal comedy from the U.K. The first time I laid eyes ever on this show was during a commercial for it on Adult Swim, which was playing it at the time. I never stood up to watch it because it aired at 1 a.m. and I like to usually sleep during that time, also I was only 14 and   had strict bed rules. I didn't come across it again until recently when I was looking up another British comedian on YouTube. The suggested section showed clips of the show and I was instantly hooked. As I do with most new things I like, I looked up everything on it and made it my mission to know everything there is to know about it. Just from the logo you can te...

I'll start out by saying how I love films. Whenever I buy them, it amazes my family how picky I am with the versions I want. I could save money buying the cheap movie only version, but what if that wasn't what the director wanted audiences to see? In comes in the "Director's Cut" and all those featurettes and documentaries that explain the painful process that goes into making either a story that makes people think or an adventure that people use to escape reality. What I wish to accomplish in this blog is to give my opinions on films to people who can understand me. Recommendations of films for me to review are welcomed as I can find ways of watching anything suggested. I hope to start a review on a film soon as a can, while also mentioning that I'm preoccupied with other things, blogs won't be daily. Daydreamer6698