A Little Entertainment Junk For Your Trunk
For those of us on a strict budget since gas prices have been skyrocketing, here’s a fun, personal way to watch the movies you want, when you want:
Creating your own home movie theater, complete with popcorn machine, home theater seating…and if you wanted to make a buck or two…charge people to come into your movie theater room to watch a movie. The best part, none of the screaming children that like to sneak into public movie theatres on the weekends and cause a ruckus.
“The Love Guru” opened on Friday to the kind of reviews usually reserved for movies starring Larry the Cable Guy, not to mention an embarrassing 4th-place finish. Perhaps no one sunk the knife deeper than A.O. Scott in “The New York Times” who called it, “an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.” Wonder if Myers turned and mugged for the camera after he read that one.
So this begs a few questions, the key one being…what the hell happened? Did Mike Myers suddenly become unfunny? Did our collective taste change? Is his new comic creation a little too familar (I’m going with this one)? Or is Justin Timberlake to blame?((1))
Oh let’s give Justin a break. He isn’t comletly hopeless when it comes to being in movies, but I know it’s hard to take him seriously after dancing around like a buffon in ‘NSync and all the diva-esque behavior when it comes to spilling about Jessica Biehl (come on, if I was banging her, I’d brag!) I don’t think Justin’s factor had much say in the movies bust, if anything…it helped with it’s success.
As for Mike Myers, after “Austin Powers” there’s really no way to top that.
What it might have something to do with is that fact that gas costs $4.00 a gallon and you need to take out a mortgage on your house to see a movie. One ticket alone is around $9.00, not to mention popcorn costs just as much and you can’t go to a movie and not get popcorn! Major oil companies must be taking fractional ownership over the movie buisness! Ah!
I got around to watching Quinten Tarentino’s “Planet Terror” since it premiered on the Starz channel and needless to say it was…weird.
Call me a feminist, but I will love any movie that starts off the first 20 minutes with a guy getting his balls cut off. Call me gruesome, but I wish I could do that to a few choice men in my past.
The rest of the movie for me looked like a bunch of zombies eating each other up and the victims die and come back to life as zombies themselves. Sound familiar? Sounds like a storyline from “Dawn of the Dead”
A positive that I did like the movie was the old fashioned look to it. The picture quality looked like right out of an old movie, which is something unique you don’t see everyday. And the blood splurting rampidly everywhere was pretty cool in a gruesome sort of way.
This movie was hard for my feeble mind to follow at times, and of course the whole “machine gun leg” scene was the highlight of the whole movie.
So it was interesting to watch the first time, but now that I’ve seen it, I wouldn’t watch it again.
![](http://www.whatthejorge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/loveguru.jpg "Mike Myers in \")
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