What an adventure "Adventureland" was!

So... in the most recent past I've seen the Fast and the Furious, which was oh so fast and oh so furiously disappointing (JK... I mean for serious?.. who was expecting an oscar-calibre movie out of it?), and Adventureland.

The fast and the furious doesn't need much more mention other than it was an okay racer-action flick with a mindless plot, hot babes, and some beautiful cars...

Now the movie that was surprisingly, awkwardly, awesome: Adventureland! It was juno-esque in its combination of funny and dramatic, and it surprised me by being a movie that I actually enjoyed...

Basically, the movie revolves around a college grad whose plans to go to Europe fall through and is forced to spend his summer working at "Adventureland," a shitty amusement park in Pittsburgh. This awkward college graduate finds himself falling in love with "the cool girl," who brings her own spew of drama to the mix. The movie's character's are all awkward and comedic, and, somehow, they end up hitting a very dramatic home-run, despite most of them being so "off".


Oh, and did I mention it takes place in the 80s... Seriously bad clothes, bad dancing, bad hair-styles, and bad music... Which is the combination for supremely entertaining! I say that "Adventureland" is a go-go!

The Haunting in Connecticut

This movie was deliciously creepy (yea, deliciously... as in, if it were a food I would eat it!)

Basically it's a ghost story, akin to the Amityville horror: Family moves into house. House creeps the fuck out of family. Family gets its sanity fondled by ghosts. So on and so forth... I won't give too much away.

A trend with horror movies is that they lack a certain originality that most movies *don't have either*, so if you're one of those nit-picking "movie critics" that believes that a movie can't be good if it's not 100% fresh, than this isn't your movie. But if you like creepy ghost movies that will get you to jump more than once, see this movie.

Note: This movie didn't have any trailers/previews before it started, so I'm not even sure what kind of horror movies I can expect to come in the near future.... what a downer!

Last House on the Left

What a movie that was....

It starts off a bit slow (actually the movie moves at a weird speed, and it definitely felt a lot different than most of the movies already out there)

The storyline was nothing out of this world: Girl goes with family to the middle of nowhere, girl meets boy in the middle of nowhere, girl finds out boy's family is psychotic, boy's family tortures girl, and so forth....

What sets this movie apart is the shock-value... It includes things as tame as a rape scene (okay, not so tame), to as gross as watching someone stitch the skin on a guy's nose with a freakin' thread and needle (un-anesthetized), and watching someone's hand get majorly farked up by garbage disposal in a sink...

the ending was fitting of the movie, and I recommend anyone remotely interested in slasher flicks, horror flicks, or anything in that genre to see this movie...

Numero Uno

In my attempt to stay current with technology I figured I should start a blog. Ideally, I would like to update somewhat frequently on things involving, but not limited to, my current musical tastes (which change often), my opinions on certain movies (with a certain preference to horror :P), and random things I encounter as a college student in Boston.

I guess I'll start with a short review of the movie Push. I saw it a few days ago so it's not as fresh in my mind as it should be for a review, but bear with me.

I'm not gonna do much of a synopsis.. Overall I thought the movie was decent. First off, it had psychics, which is pretty cool... and so the effects were pretty cool. Next, Dakota Fanning gets drunk... 'nuff said? lastly... well there's not so much more going for the movie, but if you're looking for something brainless this might be it... although I thought it dragged on a bit due to its poor choice in music (at least in my opinion), so the pacing of the movie could have been a tad bit better.

Now, onto better things. I'm really, really looking forward to the Last House on the Left. As with most horror movies I look forward to, it takes a lot to disappoint me, and I love the creative use of music in the trailer. One of my favorite movies, High Tension, made it to my top because of a single car chase scene with the Muse song "New Born"... so I really think that Music is an important aspect of horror films, and I might possibly write on that subject in a later blog.

-MATEO