Dawn of the Filler: Genesis

Not quite a filler post, but since not much is really going on in terms of life, here we go.

First off: Movie reviews!
I've been on a cheesy cop movie kick lately (you should see my Netflix queue), and I just want to share with you all some of the movies I've been watching.



WOLF COP:

Hot Fuzz 2: Bad Hair Day

This was a "Hey, let's kill an hour or tow and annoy my friends while I'm at it" type movie. Its (fairly transparent but entertaining nonetheless) plot centered around a podunk little town that was having its annual Drink-N-Shoot festival soon. The town itself had become corrupt and rife with crime, mostly owing to the mayor (who's totally a villain) and the sheriff (Totally a bad guy as well) (spoilers btw). Our hero is a very deadbeat cop who doesn't really take his job seriously. But then one day while investigating some reports of hooligans in the woods sent to him by his friend, the local conspiracy nut (totally a baddie), he gets kidnapped by a cult and turned into a werewolf.

The rest of the film follows logically from there. He turns into an alcohol-fueled super werewolf and goes and cleans up the town in a drunken haze. At least now he has two excuses for not remembering his nights. There's also a car makeover montage in which he breaks into a body shop and pimps out his cop car. He then proceeds to blow up a meth lab in it. Fun stuff.

All in all, I'll give it an 8.5/10 on the Totally Radical Movie That You Should Totally See (tm) scale. Pretty good and it got enough of a following to get a sequel. Kind of. It's in the works.

KUNG FURY:
Also a kickstarter movie, Kung Fury is only 30 minutes long and totally on YouTube. Go watch it.

I had so much trouble trying to choose a picture for this one. They're all so good!!

It's so over-the-top that it actually comes all the way back around and becomes tame again. And then decides "Nah, screw this" and goes right on back to over-the-top. It's...

I'm honestly having a hard time trying to put this movie into words. It's like the 80's and a whole shit ton of crack had a baby, then set it on a dinosaur (a laser raptor to be precise) and then sent it off riding into the sunset while explosions go off in the background. This is probably the most glorious WTF 30 minutes of movie I've had in a long time. It centers around Kung Fury, a cop who's just doing his job by going back in time and killing Hitler. There are also quite a few very bad puns. Oh god they're so glorious (there's no such thing as a bad pun). The music is fantastic as well. This is just an all-around A+ movie and don't go into it without a whole bunch of alcohol. Or watch it without the booze. It's plenty entertaining either way.

Rating: 11/10 on the Totally Radical Movie That You Should Totally See (tm) scale. Would watch five more times.

ROBOCOP:
The new one, not the old one.

Here to shoot up entire drug cartels with the power of plot shielding.

This one was... interesting. It brought up quite a few good points: you can't trust opinionated news, you can't trust people who have a lot of power, and you can't trust your software to be completely human-proof. But that's just what I'm seeing from my perspective. I'm sure it has a whole lot to do with privacy and drones and stuff, but yeah. Anyway, it had some nice action sequences, but was a fairly unremarkable movie. I should probably watch the older robocop again to see what all changed and stuff, but yeah. Other than the fact that he's a cyborg, it's a fairly straightforward cop movie.

Rating: 7/10 on the Totally Radical Movie That You Should Totally See (tm) scale. Okay Movie.