tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7030012.post114167948493298371..comments2024-03-26T08:21:13.804-04:00Comments on bunchojunk: The Insane Clown Posse's Bowling BallsGuy Hutchinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225310027801357310noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7030012.post-1142445537381060652006-03-15T12:58:00.000-05:002006-03-15T12:58:00.000-05:00I think I saw the Dudley Boys perform a 3D on the ...I think I saw the Dudley Boys perform a 3D on the ICP in WWE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7030012.post-1141828699467914002006-03-08T09:38:00.000-05:002006-03-08T09:38:00.000-05:00The Coen brothers are up there with my very favori...The Coen brothers are up there with my very favorite filmmakers (Scorsese, Kubrick, Carpenter). I am very fond of their work. Throughout their irreverent career, they have explored different subjects and themes. Their best stories evolve from kidnapping schemes in films like "Raising Arizona " and "Fargo", one of my very favorites. I thought that film was fervently free. I was so ever wrong. It's as if the Coen Brothers have celebrated their complete breakthrough success (Academy Award winners), and now are willing to do whatever they please. I say this in a good way: this film captures bowling's underbelly, where even the pro stars sometimes have to supplement their income the old-fashioned way: by taking it directly from obviously weaker bowlers who somehow manage to be convinced to risk their money. Just as poker games are often won with guns, bowling for money has hazards all its own, something I learned even as a junior bowler hustling games after the league on Saturday.<BR/><BR/>A serious case of baggage mix-up gets the plot going for this flick. I laughed more than I expected to; at points the writing and acting are almost hilarious, there are also several scenes which had me sending kind thoughts to the director who provides comedy points through swift cuts and twists of the camera. On the downside there is too much sloppiness in the writing as the film progresses. Roy E. Munson is such a loser that acting like a total loser is actually called "being Munsoned." Fast forward to 1996, and Roy stumbles across an Amish bowler named Ishmael Boorg (Randy Quaid), the most talented bowler he's ever come across. He offers to coach Ishmael for a $1 million tournament in Reno, Nevada that can save his family farm, but Ishmael is conflicted (the deepest emotion of the film) because he has strayed from the Amish country. Ishmael's brother is the requisite family member sent to bring the stray relative back home, and Vanessa Angel is extra-hot as the love interest for almost every guy in the film.<BR/><BR/>Basically a b-movie, the film's artistic style is mostly unremarkable and the casting is flawed -- Kristy Swanson and Andy Comeau both seem inadequate as the young couple who lack seriousness in their approach to the wicked situations they are faced with, and the same can be said for some of the smaller roles. This film so meandering, so wonderfully novel, that I found myself missing the many other sporadic jokes as I was heaving from laughter. The film is basically about mistaken identity, eccentric characters, and a soiled rug. This film extols the bowler, the allies, even the pins. We experience an actual bowling ball POV, this film has nihilists, feminists, millionares, paedophiles, drugged out hippies, underachieving students, incompetent criminals, pornographers and 'Nam veterans. This movie is open to anything , anything... Some people are turned off by absurd looniness, because it's so grandiosely different. Yet who couldn't chuckle, if not explode, when a bowler dressed in a tight purple suit licks a bowling ball's finger hole, and the camera pans down to reveal his name as Jesus! I will disclose no more, but urgently recommend you to traverse to your nearest video abode and rent this true escapists' feature. Abandon all solemn inhibitons, though! One can not keep a straight face whilst watching.<BR/><BR/>If you think this is a parody of bowling, the joke may be on you. Hang around enough lanes, in certain places, and you just might see these guys or something very close to them. Just be careful if they look drunk and want to play for money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7030012.post-1141821888895018992006-03-08T07:44:00.000-05:002006-03-08T07:44:00.000-05:00Theme parks and Imax do offer better 3D than regul...Theme parks and Imax do offer better 3D than regular theaters, but soon you may be able to see great 3D in theaters.<BR/><BR/>I saw Chicken Little in 3D at a regular (non-Imax) theater and it was fantastic.Guy Hutchinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13225310027801357310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7030012.post-1141789687359758942006-03-07T22:48:00.000-05:002006-03-07T22:48:00.000-05:00Apart from theme parks, I've never seen a 3D movie...Apart from theme parks, I've never seen a 3D movie. <BR/><BR/>I lead a sad life.cravipathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00199426582699168392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7030012.post-1141767994181109942006-03-07T16:46:00.000-05:002006-03-07T16:46:00.000-05:00Freddy's Dead! That was awesome with the 3D ending...Freddy's Dead! That was awesome with the 3D ending.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I loved the I Love the 80s 3D (glasses available at Best Buy)<BR/><BR/>I also saw Married With Children 3D (glasses at 7-11.)<BR/>They also ran a Nerds film 3D, but sadly I missed it.Guy Hutchinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13225310027801357310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7030012.post-1141767738824837142006-03-07T16:42:00.000-05:002006-03-07T16:42:00.000-05:00Love da flick. Did ya catch the cables pulling the...Love da flick. Did ya catch the cables pulling the girls head up when Shaggy cuts it? Wicked funny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7030012.post-1141764350543676742006-03-07T15:45:00.000-05:002006-03-07T15:45:00.000-05:00I saw Creature from the black lagoon in 3-d. I als...I saw Creature from the black lagoon in 3-d. I also saw some crappy 1950's man in an apesuit film that was shown around here several times(Baltimore area)on a local channel. You had to go to Burger King to get your 3-d glasses. This was in 82 or 83. I had the glasses on, but don't remember too many impresseive 3-d effects in this movie.Metal Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18400759786407810475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7030012.post-1141747711922543132006-03-07T11:08:00.000-05:002006-03-07T11:08:00.000-05:00Let's take a poll. Name some 3D films you remember...Let's take a poll. Name some 3D films you remember seeing. I love 3D, so I see ANYTHING I can get in 3D. Some of them included:<BR/><BR/>Spy Kids 3D<BR/>Sharkboy and Lava Girl<BR/>Polar Express<BR/>Creature from the Black Lagoon<BR/>The Mask (not the Jim Carrey one... or the Cher one)<BR/>of course in theme parks they have tons of 3D, but my favorite is Muppet Vision 3D<BR/><BR/>I also saw a 3D Spongebob film in Paramount's Kings Dominion that dealt with Spongebob chasing after a pickle... I think.Guy Hutchinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13225310027801357310noreply@blogger.com