Showing posts with label Jeffrey Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeffrey Jones. Show all posts

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Beetlejuice (1988)


































  A young couple dies in a ridiculous accident and return to their home as ghost. They find out that their house is sold to a new family and they do everything they can to get rid of them. In the end, they call for the help of a "bio-exorcist" but they forgot to think about the consequences...
  The second actual film of Tim Burton is an entertaining horror/black comedy with tons of enthusiastic innuendos about the after life and what follows. Burton presents his own humorous version of after-life matters and compares the organizing of the issues of the dead with those of a public service. Some interesting stop-motion techniques were used here and so, the film gets a more comic-y side to it. If your sense of humor isn't dark and twisted you may not enjoy this as much. In any other case, dig in!
  Michael Keaton of course steals the show as the demonic possession-er that aims to help the dead spook the living. Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are actually entertaining as the newly-dead goofy couple who just don't seem to adapt to the dead lifestyle so good. Winona Ryder is a classic addition since this is a Burton and Glenn Shadix, Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones drop in to give their little weird piece of black comedy!
Must watch this : on a random rainy November weekday when you are exhausted from work. Order some cheap Chinese food and enjoy this one half asleep half unconscious!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/
Honey,we forgot to pout dead flour in the mix.
I had a card but my dead dog ate it!
Oh,shit. My leggings are ripped.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Ed Wood (1994)


































  The story of Ed Wood and how he got from a wannabe director, editor, scriptwriter , etc to the worst director of all times. The story explains how he got his first break, his relationship with Bela Lugosi and Vampira, his strange vice to wear women's clothes and how he finally came to make his best worst film.
  Tim Burton decides to take a huge risk and direct the biography (or as close as it can get) of the most notorious filmmaker in the history of world cinema. The movie has a great pace and progress, filled with comedy and weirdness and with enough drama to make you feel melancholic. Interesting narration through the first anxious steps of cinema, an inside view in the problems of film making and funding and a personality that was just too poor for his times and profession.A great film about vanity and how life should be to make your own visions true and not others'.
  Johnny Depp in yet another one of his strange roles and he really does it well. He doesn't try to reenact as Ed Wood himself but he tries to portray the strangeness of his personality in his own way. Sarah Jessica Parker is his first wife and in this film she says the best line of her career. Martin Landau is incredible as horror legend Bela Lugosi while Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones and Bill Murray fill the rest of the seats.
Must watch this : on a cool night after a big dinner at a Mexican restaurant and a couple of Margaritas. Let the story of Ed Wood inspire you into starting your life all over again and making it your own this time and do so with that chillout mothermother as a soundtrack!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/
So, we gonna get stoned or what?
I will let you have my wife for a night if you produce my movie! She's gonna leave me anyway!
I sense bullshit in the air!