End of Summer Movie Review

End of Summer Movie Review

The Bone Pile

Ah, what did they do to one of my
favorite movies? This movie sucked.
The only thing I’ll give credit for is the
guy who played the Oompa Loompas.
He was everywhere and he was great.
But where was the plot? There should
be a conflict in the movie. That’s what
a story is, the main character (Charlie)
facing a conflict. His conflict lasted all
of 10 seconds and he came through
like a pro. There was no fizzy lifting
drink, so don’t think it was that. I’ll let
you waste your time and money
renting it to find out. I hear it was

Wedding Crashers - Greatness. Loved it. It was a
such a relief after some of the crappy comedies that
we’ve been bombarded with over the last couple
years. This is one of the first movies (that the Coen
brothers didn’t make) that I have found funny in a
while. I won’t get into this one, because I'm sure a lot
of people reading this have seen it. And if you haven’
t, I don’t want to spoil it. I just enjoyed it and can’t
wait for it to come out on video.

like Meet the Parents, but instead of a Jewish guy
coming to a Gentile home, it’s a white guy entering a
black home. The whole time I watched the movie, I felt
like I was watching a remake of a remake of a rerun. I
think there was one part I laughed at, but that’s it. I
wouldn't give anyone the suggestion to waste an hour
and a half on this one.

one setting. If it’s a plane being
hijacked, I feel like I’m stuck on the
plane and I get antsy with the movie.
If it’s a bank, same thing. I felt like
Pacino was holding ME hostage in
Dog Day Afternoon. But Willlis’
Hostage is more of a psychological
thriller with many different scenarios
going on. It’s not just what’s
happening at one house, which is

some spoiler info in this one) This
one got good reviews. It has
DeNiro, Dakota Fanning, Famke
Janssen, and Elizabeth Shue.
T-BONE’s verdict: crapville.
Cheesy, predictable, cheesy,
unbelievable, cheesy. Did I
mention cheesy? I am starting to
hate suspense movies. Every
suspense writer these days thinks

and it shows. Before you start, this movie was
recommended by my boss, because he and I are
HUGE wrestling fans. This movie has Ed Asner as
a wrestling promoter. The best part is that it
features some older wrestlers who were closer to
their prime back then. Off the top of my head, the
movie had Verne Gagne, Dusty Rhodes, Dick
Murdoch, Billy Graham, Pedro Morales, and even
Vince MacMahon, Sr. Take the movie for what it
is, but if you like old wrestling, before they
admitted that the stories are scripted, this is a
good movie.

different director (Allison Anders, Alexandre
Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin
Tarantino). Ted has an interesting night to
say the least. If you decide to watch this, you’
ll probably think I’m crazy after watching the
first room, but it gets better. The rooms
called “The Misbehavers” and “The Man from
Hollywood” make the movie worth it. I loved
the movie, although other people I know didn’
t. It’s all in your taste of movies, but I’d
recommend at least giving it a shot,
especially if you are a Tim Roth fan.

as an actor. The way he drives
Richard Dreyfuss, playing
psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin, totally
insane is hilarious. I watched this
one with Kitty, because her
psychology teacher gave an
assignment to watch a movie from a
list and record 20 items appearing in

one week and decided to watch this one. This
one gets better every time I see it. “Carol the
waitress. Simon the fag.” I love how he just
generalizes everyone because that’s how he
sees people. In his world, Carol was his waitress
and Simon wasn’t his neighbor, but the gay guy in
his life. This is a great movie for quotes, but it’s a
good story as well. Everyone should see this

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest -
I told you I had a Nicholson kick. I think
this is one of his better movies. It’s also
good to see Danny Devito and
Christopher Lloyd at the early points in
their careers. Nurse Ratched, played
by Louise Fletcher, is also one of the
greatest villains of all time. I hated her

John Joseph Nicholson (born
April 22, 1937) is a highly successful,
iconic American method actor. He is
best known to his friends as Pickles for
portraying antagonistic, cynical,
neurotic and aggressive characters.
He received Kennedy Center Honors
in 2001, and has been nominated for
an Academy Award a dozen times,
winning three of them. He has also
won seven Golden Globe Awards.

He was born in New York, New York,
although until 1974 he had thought
his place of birth was his hometown,
Neptune Township, New Jersey. A
journalist's research uncovered what
apparently had happened: the
woman he had always thought of as
his mother was actually his
grandmother, who had arranged to
raise him as her own child. She did
this because he was actually the
illegitimate offspring of her daughter,
a woman whom Nicholson thought
was his older sister. For this reason
(and despite contradictorily being
pro-choice) he is personally
anti-abortion saying, "I'm very contra
my constituency in terms of abortion
because I'm positively against it. I
don't have the right to any other view.
My only emotion is gratitude, literally,
for my life."

Nicholson started his career as an
actor, writer, and producer, working
for and with Roger Corman. This
included his screen debut in The Cry
Baby Killer (1958), where he played a
juvenile delinquent who panics after
shooting two other teenagers, and
Little Shop of Horrors, in which he
had a small role as a masochistic
dental patient.

His work with Peter Fonda and Dennis
Hopper on the LSD-fueled The Trip
led to his real break. That film led to
a small supporting role in Easy Rider
(1969), for which he received his first
Oscar nomination. A Best Actor
nomination came the following year
for his persona-defining role in Five
Easy Pieces (1970), which includes
his famous chicken salad dialogue
about getting what you want.

Other early movies he is known for
include Hal Ashby's The Last Detail
(1973), Roman Polanski's Chinatown
(1974), Milos Forman's One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for
which he received his first Oscar, and
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
Nicholson won an Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actor for his role
in Terms of Endearment (1983).

The 1989 Batman, where Nicholson
played the supervillain The Joker,
was an international smash hit, and a
lucrative percentage deal earned
Nicholson about $50 million [1].

For his role as hotheaded Col. Nathan
R. Jessup in A Few Good Men (1992),
a dark movie about a murder in a US
Marine Corps unit, he received yet
another nomination by the Academy.
This film contains Nicholson's "You
can't handle the truth!" scene, which
has since become widely known and
imitated.

Not all of Nicholson's performances
are praised; his take on the U.S.
President in Mars Attacks (1996) was
widely criticized for being
over-the-top and unfunny. Nicholson
would go on to win his next Oscar for
his role as the neurotic lead in the
romance As Good As It Gets (1997).

The September 11, 2001 attacks led
Nicholson to focus on comedies. In
About Schmidt (2002), Nicholson
portrayed a retired Omaha, Nebraska
insurance man who questions his own
life and the death of his wife shortly
afterward. The deeply emotional,
slow film stands in sharp contrast to
many of his previous roles. In the
comedy Anger Management, he
plays an aggressive therapist
alongside Adam Sandler. His most
recent film is the 2003 Something's
Gotta Give.

Nicholson is also a well-known and
highly visible fan of the NBA's Los
Angeles Lakers; he has courtside
seats, and attends whenever his
schedule allows. When he is at a
televised Lakers game, he is
invariably sought out for celebrity
camera shots during one or more
breaks in the game.

Nicholson is said to have called Fidel
Castro a "genius" while visiting Cuba,
according to former Cuban
intelligence officer Delfin Fernandez,
who also revealed that during his visit
his room was bugged with both video
and audio recording devices.

Dave Matthews (born January 9,
1967 in Johannesburg, South Africa)
is the vocalist and guitarist from Dave
Matthews Band.

At the age of two, Matthews and his
family immigrated to Westchester
County, New York, where his father, a
physicist, went to work for IBM. Then,
in the early 1970s, he moved to
Cambridge, England before returning
to New York—where his father died in
1977. The family moved back to
South Africa in 1980, where Matthews
went to a few different schools.

The key move for Dave Matthews was
when he relocated in 1986 to
Charlottesville, Virginia, where his
parents had lived before he was born.
Though he also logged time back in
South Africa and in Amsterdam, it was
in Charlottesville where Matthews,
who took piano lessons as a child
before picking up the guitar at age
nine, became part of the local music
community. His first professional
musical performance was at a modern
dance performance by the Miki Liszt
Dance Company, singing "Sensitive
Feelings," composed by John D'earth
and Dawn Thompson. It was in 1990
that he hatched the idea to form his
own band.

After writing his first few songs,
including "The Song that Jane Likes"
and "Recently", Matthews who had
originally envisioned someone else
singing his songs, began to consider
starting his own band. Matthews
formed The Dave Matthews Band in
early 1991 with Boyd Tinsley, Leroi
Moore, Carter Beauford, and Stefan
Lessard while he was working as a
bartender at Miller's in Charlottesville.
The band's first performance was on
May 11th 1991, at a private rooftop
party, held by Lydia Condor at the
South Street Warehouse in downtown
Charlottesville.

The musician is one of the principals
of ATO Records, a music label which
he helped found in 2000. Matthews
released a solo album in late 2003,
Some Devil, which went platinum; its
single, "Gravedigger," won a Grammy
Award in 2004.

Dave Matthews has also acted in two
movies. Matthews played Will
Coleman in the 2003 adaptation of
the novel Where the Red Fern Grows.
He also portrayed the character Otis
in the 2005 film Because of Winn-
Dixie, also based on a novel of the
same name.

Matthews and his wife, Ashley Harper,
have twin daughters born in 2001,
Stella and Grace, and split their time
between Seattle, Washington and
Charlottesville.