Saturday, November 6, 2010

The Goods; Live Hard Sell Hard

I went into watching this movie with no expectations, and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is vulgar, not kid friendly at all but it had some laugh out loud moments. The plot is basically about a used car dealership that is almost going bankrupt so they call in a 'hired gun' Don Ready whose specialty is selling lots of cars in a big care sale blow out.
The whole cast is hilarious, and there is a cameo by Alan Thicke as a rival car salesman who is trying to buy the lot, so his son who is in a 'man band' called Big Ups which is hilarious. Pretty much this whole movie was great just watch it with low expectations and I believe you will be pleasantly surprised.
3 out of 5 starts

Monday, November 1, 2010

Paranormal Activity

So in the spirit of Halloween I decided to watch a horror movie while my husband slept. I looked through my Instant queue on Netflix and chose Paranormal Activity because I had heard how 'scary' the movie was. So I plunked down and watched it. Without spoiling too much I have to say this movie really was not scary other than for the last 5 minutes. The man in the movie does everything he possibly could, wrong. And I guess since I have a bit of an understanding and I admit I am not an expert, I just could not help but think the guy deserved whatever he got. The woman on the other hand I was a bit more sympathetic towards.... Everything that happened to her was because of her fiance boyfriend whatever..... I wished she had had more of a backbone though.... All in all though... Not really scary... Other than quite literally the last 5 minutes....
2/5 stars