The Poop for June

Ta-Da!
Batman Begins is a huge triumph!
Chappelle's Show Season 2 on DVD bitch!
Spur's win the NBA Finals
My new gas grilland cooking out almost every day!


The Bungus
The Cleveland Indians are still way out of first
The air conditioning at work has been broken for over 3 weeks and it is HOT!

S.W.A.T. (2003)

This is a fun action movie that should not be overlooked. Samuel L. Jackson plays Hondo the leader of an outcast S.W.A.T. unit who is being set up to fail. The movie builds to an exciting finale involving an international prisoner who is being moved to a more secure prison and an effort to break him out of custody. If you sre in the mood for a starghtforward shootem-up picture then this one should leave you smiling. 3 of 3 for S.W.A.T.

Batman Begins (2005)

This was my favorite superhero movie yet! The movie is wonderfully paced and very well written. It is a bit darker than previous movies in the franchise and the story shows far more depth. We get a ton of back story on Bruce Wayne and what motivates and drives him to become the caped crusader. Christian Bale is fantastic as Batman and they do a great job showing the importance of his relationship with James Gordon, one of his few allies in the fight against the corruption that has overtaken Gotham City. The costume and effects are knock your socks-off good and the ending was immensely satisfying. I love the new Batmobile which is a high tech tank. This is a must see. I am turning on the Bat-signal and giving this one 5 of 5.

Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

Boring! This "thriller" stars Dennis Quaid and Giovanni Ribisi. The movies excitement is over within the first 20 minutes as the airplane carrying a bunch of recently fired oil rig workers crash lands in the middle of the Gobi Desert. The remainder of the movie is spent with characters bickering back and forth about what to do and who is in charge. Ribisi plays Elliot, a plane designer and far and away the most interesting of the characters who faces off with Quaid shortly after the crash. There is a plot twist close to the end that is not enough to save the movie from the monotony that you sit through for the majority of the film. The movie also picks up right at the finale and ends on an up note right after some dark events. This transition didn't seem quite smooth enough. Flight of the Phoenix crashes with 2 of 5.

Team America: World Police (2004)

Holy crap is this a wild ride. Definitely not for kids, The South Park creators have set their sites on Hollywood with precision accuracy. Team America is a police force that operates worldwide fighting terrorism and doing more damage than good as they go and wind up in a showdown with the Film Actors Guild or F.A.G.'s. The movie is really played as a straightforward action movie with a incredible amount of vulgarity and sexually related dialogue. The sex scene must be seen to be believed! The inspirational speech given by the protagonist (that he gets from a drunk in a bar) is a classic moment.
Offensive and in remarkably bad taste this gets 4 of 5.

The Poop for May

Ta-Da!
Enterprise is now on DVD!
Tribe has a 5-4 road trip
Batman Begins release moves up to 6/15/05
Land of the Dead release moved from October up to June


The Bungus
Enterprise ends Friday 5/13/05
Kellen Winslow wrecked his bike and probably won't play this season (TE for the Browns)

Fallen (1998)

This movie was a huge dissapointment. It was well acted by Denzel Washington and has a story that keeps you interested up to the very end. So what blew it for me? Well halfway through the movie they show you something that lets you know how it will end. When it happened I thought "there is no way they will end the movie this way. It would just be stupid!" Guess how it ended. Yep. Stupid. The acting and story earn this stinker 2 of 5.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (2005)

If you haven't already read the book, drop what you are doing, grab a Dr. Pepper and go buy this book. After reading it go see the movie. Gee Whiz was this a lot of fun. It captured the off the wall wackiness of the novel very well and the characters really came alive. Many of the funniest parts of the book were the explanations of various places and cultures, and thankfully they are shown through the movie as animations in the "hitchhiker's guide" book with accompanying narrations. They were nicely inserted into the movie without detracting from the main story-line. There are loads of really cool effects in the movie so there is plenty of visual and comedic excitement throughout. If you are a wacky, zany funnster then this movie is a must see. Of course the book is better and funnier but this is still a great way to spend a couple hours. This one found its way to 4 of 5.

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002)

Holy crap! What a stinker. This piece of bungus is not for everybody. It is a terribly written, horrendously acted movie that has special effects that are just as bad. The saving grace for this schlock is the vast plethora of great bad lines. Its claim to fame is THE LINE which is infamous among fans of movie lines. Watch this at your own risk. After several self inflicted gunshot wounds I gave this 2 of 5.

Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

This film was a pleasant surprise! It is the story of two illegal immigrants working in a London hotel. Nigerian immigrant Okwe is a former doctor who works the front desk and finds a human heart in a toilet on a call to room 510. The mystery evolves from there with several plot twists and revelations that I won't give away. It is well acted and directed but got a bit slow at times. The story and characters is interesting enough to us through those bits and the ending was satisfying for this thriller. Exceeding my expectations this dirty piece of work get 3 of 5.