In Bubba Ho-tep, Elvis (yes, the real one) lives in a rest home, mostly resigned to stay in bed and let life pass him by. That is until he sees something creepy and notices that more seniors than usual are dying at the home. Fortunately, he’s not the only one who notices that something is [...]
This must be telling: I actually turned down an afternoon at the movies, seeing something I really wanted to see (King Kong) and instead chose the comfort of my couch and a movie from Netflix…. Nothing fancy, just a nice screen, a decent sound system, some big chairs and plenty of curtains to block out the light.
The most frustrating thing for me as a movie viewer, is when I greatly anticipate a film and it fails. Not that I over-anticipate, but it’s more the fact that they could have been GREAT movies, and instead of being just average, fall short becoming not average movies, but terrible ones.
Shore is considered by many other comedians to be a lucky, no-talent hack who simply got by because his mother Mitzi owns one of the most influential comedy clubs in LA, the Comedy Store.
Screwing around mostly, reading and trying to figure out a good way to not become complacent with my lot in life…. come to think of it, it’s sort of like the characters in I Heart Huckabees – all are suffering and exisential crisis and don’t know what to make of their lives or their place in society.
Human beings are creatures of habit.