Bosco’s Word: Chernobyl Diaries
In a horror film, setting and atmosphere is 90% of what can make a great horror film. The other 10% is made up of a combination of a well-written script and good scares. It’s often easy to have one or the other, but combining both and making the film seem natural is a feat on its own. So, for the sake of this review, if we’re going to go by this rational, I guess I could say that Chernobyl Diaries is about 92% of a movie, with the other 8% off somewhere on the cutting room floor, never to be seen again.
Bosco’s Word: The Pill
Romantic comedies haven’t exactly been what one could call “honest” or “original” as of late. Formula is what sells, therefore formula is what audiences are given. While not a romantic comedy by any means, films like The Hangover: Part II are just proof that audiences will pay for the same movie twice as long as it’s dressed up in a slightly different way. One of the most hilariously truthful sayings in history is, “You can polish a turd but at the end of the day it’s still just a piece of shit.”
Bosco’s Word: Kevin Smith: Burn In Hell
In Kevin Smith: Burn In Hell, the man himself talks about how so many directors make films and then essentially go into hiding afterwards for fear of severe criticism. Kevin Smith, on the other hand, does the exact opposite. In addition to his multiple shows on his SModcast Network, he does extensive Q&A tours across the nation. During these Q&A tours he allows audience members to approach a microphone and ask him whatever they’d like, his responses usually going out on as many as eight tangents before he concludes his answer.
Bosco’s News: “GI Joe: Retaliation” Moves to 2013 and “Ted” Takes Its June Spot
In one of the more surprising stories this week, it’s being reported that the much anticipated sequel to 2009′s GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra is being pushed back a whole nine months to March 29th of next year so 3D can be added. In other words, they’re moving it back a few months so they can make more money with a spring release. In fact, Paramount Execs are so upfront about said money-making, that one of them released a statement saying, “We’re going to do a conscientious 3D job because we’ve seen how it can better box office internationally.” I rest my case.
Bosco’s Word: Sound of My Voice
Film has never had a consistent rule when it comes to time travel. For some, all time travel takes is 75 miles per hour and a Dolorian. For others, it is a very complicated and exhausting process that may leave one dead or near death if not managed correctly. My point is, nobody’s defined the rules of time travel because as far as we know time travel doesn’t exist. So how does one gauge what can be regarded as “realistic time travel”? Maybe it is as simple as bing-bang-boom in the Dolorian. Or maybe it’s as exhausting as movie scientists sometimes claim it to be. Regardless, if I had to choose the method in which I thought was most realistic, I’d choose the representation in Sound of My Voice.
Bosco’s Word: Bernie
In 2003, Jack Black and Richard Linklater paired up for School of Rock, a fantastic film that worked perfectly with Black’s talents to create a thoroughly enjoyable film for the whole family. Now, in 2012, they’re pairing up again for Bernie, a darkly comedic docudrama about a good man that does a bad thing.
Bernie Tierde is the nicest guy in town. Practically funding and co-operating almost every project in town, Bernie is the go-to guy for just about anything. With a job as Assistant Funeral Director at Leggett’s Funeral Homes, Bernie works to decorate the bodies before their departure from above ground to six feet under. Everybody in the town loves him. Even the people who don’t know him love him. He can sing, he can work, he can cook, he can clean, and he can get things done.
Bosco’s Word: Turn Me On, Dammit!
Teenage sexuality is a topic that’s almost completely avoided in film. It’s difficult to make an honest film about teenage sexuality without being labeled as a pedophile or pervert by critics who fail to remember their own childhood. Harmony Korine’s screenplay for the 1995 film Kids is one of the most honest scripts in all of Hollywood, yet when the film was released, it was almost black-listed as child pornography by conservatives and close-minded writers who saw none of the value or truth in a film as important as that.
