Return of the Living Dead part II
I'm not usually a fan of horror comedy movies. To be more specific, I'm not usually a fan of zombie movies that try to be comedies. Shawn of the Dead is one exception to that rule, and the original Return of the Living Dead is another. What usually happens is that they try too hard to be funny, and either end up too hokey or don't do the horror element very well. Shawn of the Dead and Return of the Living dead put the immediacy of the horror first, and add the comedy bits on top with the realistic character portrayals, and that's what make them good movies. Thankfully, Return of the Living Dead II continues building on top of the foundation that the first film in the series started.
The Room
Everyone has heard the saying, "you don't know what you've got until it's gone." Well sometimes you can say "you don't know what you've got until you see an article about it on ABC News!" Such was the case a few months ago when the guys here at IB came across The Room. We watched, knowing it was a BAD movie. But I don't think we were quite prepared at the time to appreciate just how bad it is. So after seeing that in a few short months this movie (which is 6 years old) has developed a cult following and is now being called "the Citizen Kane of bad movies", we just had to sit down and watch it again. We now bring to you the brilliant misery that is Tommy Wiseau's lifelong dream, his baby, his masterpiece... we bring you The Room!
Trailer Tuesdays: The Room
This week, we'll take a look at the 2003 "drama", The Room.
So from looking at this trailer, we can probably count on the following things:
- A dark haired Fabio looking dude is having problems with his girl.
- She doesn't love him and is cheating on him with his best friend
- Things are going to quickly spiral out of control...
- ...Aaaand, somehow it's a comedy?
Well folks, this looks like it's something that we're going to have to see to believe. Let's compare these notes after we unveil our review of "The Room" in the upcoming weeks.
Dead Heat
There's Riggs and Murtaugh, Tango and Cash, even Turner and Hooch, but now you can add Bigelow and Mortis to the long list of cop movie buddies - only this time in the action/comedy/horror genre. In Dead Heat, Detectives Roger Mortis (Treat Williams) and Doug Begelow (Joe Piscopo) get called to the scene of a jewelry store robbery in progress, where they find a couple of thugs that can take a lickin' and keep on tickin'. These guys are soaking up bullets but they don't seem to be adversely effected by being pumped full of lead. After Mortis gets the bright idea to just take them down with a cop car, they find some startling information about these crooks once the coroner get's a chance to examine them. They've been to the morgue before, and not just for a sight seeing tour - they were admitted as stiffs just a short time earlier and were given the full service treatment, autopsy and all. So, if these guys are dead... how were they able to attempt a jewelry store robbery?
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