Posts tagged Jay Baruchel
“This Is the End” Weird and Ridiculous
Jun 22nd
Posted by Dan Culberson in Hotshots Movie Reviews
“Weird and Ridiculous”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
This Is the End doesn’t have anything to do with the opening words to a famous song by The Doors, unless you change the reference to how they got their name from “the doors of perception” to “the gates of Hell.”
No, this movie is a comic look at what a group of famous Hollywood actors might do if the predictions in the Book of Revelation came true.
All of the actors play themselves, and the movie opens with Seth Rogen meeting his friend and fellow actor Jay Baruchel at the airport, who is coming into Los Angeles to spend the weekend with Seth.
Seth tells Jay, “Here’s to the best weekend you’ve ever had in your life!”
Little do they know or realize that it is going to be the last weekend of their lives.
Jay doesn’t live in Los Angeles on purpose, because he doesn’t like the lifestyle there, but Seth convinces him to go to a housewarming party at the new house belonging to James Franco, which James designed himself to be like a fortress, and for the sake of the movie, it is a good thing he did.
The party is wild and raucous, the partygoers are all actors you will recognize and some you won’t, but during the party something weird and strange and terrifying happens outside in Los Angeles, which causes everyone to leave except for Franco, Seth, Jay, Jonah Hill, and Craig Robinson, and they are so frightened that they all sleep together to feel safe.
The next morning they wake up to find Danny McBride in the kitchen making breakfast, which is strange, because Danny wasn’t even invited to the party.
They discuss whether this might be the Apocalypse, realize that they don’t have much food or any water, but they do have drugs, as you might have expected if you have seen any of the movies that these actors have made together.
Emma Watson breaks into the house and tells them that it is obvious that a zombie invasion is happening, but she leaves with all the remaining food when she overhears the guys discussing what is not going to happen with one girl in the house with six guys.
This Is the End is just a weird and ridiculous home movie on a Hollywood budget with famous actors.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
This is the End – Movie Trailer
Jun 17th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
The comedy This Is The End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.
“Tropic Thunder” Movie Disguised as Another Movie
Sep 4th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
Movie Disguised as Another Movie
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
TROPIC THUNDER is an R-rated comedy that is a spoof of war movies, of Hollywood actors, and of Hollywood itself, but the best thing in it is a famous actor spoofing himself that you might not even recognize.
And, no, I am not talking about Robert Downey, Jr.
Nor am I talking about Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Nick Nolte, or Matthew McConaughey, who also appear in the movie.
The story is about the modern-day making of a Vietnam war movie, and it is one of those disastrous efforts in which everything that can go wrong does go wrong, and then even more goes wrong on top of that. In fact, after just five days of shooting in Southeast Asia, the project is already one month behind schedule.
The studio wants to shut down the production, but the director comes up with a novel plan to save time and money. He sets the five main actors down in the middle of the jungle, tells them that they have to reach a certain destination on a map, explosions will go off around them, hidden cameras will record the action, and the scene won’t be over until they reach their final destination.
Unfortunately, something goes horribly wrong right at the start and the production shuts down, but the actors don’t know that and keep following the plan.
One of them is Kirk Lazarus, an Australian five-time Oscar winner who is the epitome of method acting. He is playing a Black sergeant, has undergone a skin treatment that actually turned his skin dark, and he stays in character, he says, until he does the DVD commentary for the movie.
In fact, he says, “I’m the dude playing the dude, disguised as another dude.”
So, the movie becomes a one-joke movie: lost in the jungle without a clue.
But the actors fight among themselves, one gets separated from the rest, and it becomes a two-joke movie.
Then they encounter a drug gang whom they mistake for actors playing enemy soldiers, and it becomes a three-joke movie.
Finally, back in Hollywood the foul-mouthed head of the studio is ranting and raving, the lead actor’s agent is trying to negotiate perks for his client, and it becomes a four-joke movie.
TROPIC THUNDER is best described as a movie playing the movie, disguised as another movie.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”