Day 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1/2

So this summer, I want to see a movie a day. Here's what I saw so far.

06/02/07: Animal House

Never seen it before. I was underwhelmed. You see everyone wearing in college wearing those "College" T-shirts, and you got posters of Jim Belushi chugging Jack Daniels in every college dorm, and then you see this, and are like "...so that's it?" But then I watched the "look back" on the DVD, and it was prety interesting. Made me think that I should see it again, maybe it'll get better. On a side note, As I was watching the movie, there was this one guy in it, and I kept thinking "What the hell? Is that the Police chief from The Mask?!" Hell yes it's him, and he was also in Traffic.

Rating: Oh.

06/02/07: I also saw Knocked Up in theaters which everyone should go see right now.

Rating: Oh HELL yeah!

06/03/07: Witness.

So some Amish kid witnesses a murder and it's up to good cop Harrison Ford to protect him because the dude that killed the other dude knows that the kid saw him kill the other dude and now he wants to kill the kid and Harrison Ford too. Confused? It doesn't matter because Danny Glover is also in this.

Rating: Oh yeah.

06/04/07: Caddyshack.

It's our second Harold Ramis written movie in as many days. Now I'm wondering, why the hell didn't I see this years ago? Rodney Dangerfield is the best, we were re-watching his scenes right after the movie ended. Bill Murray's part was sort of funny too.

Rating: AWW HELL Yeah!

06/05/07: Westworld.

Yul Brynner as a killer robot cowboy is all I need to know that this movie will be good. Seriously, this movie is awesome. I saw most of it a long time ago and it's still great. We follow two guys who go on a vacation resort where everything is exactly like it was in the Old West. There are authentic bars and saloons, and the town is populated by robots and other tourists. But things take a turn for the worse as the robots start to actually harm people. This is similar to Jurassic Park, just substitute robots for dinosaurs. But that's no surprise since Westworld is written and directed by Michael Crichton.

Oh yeah, and James Brolin, the less stupid one of the two vacationers is also a future Traffic cast member. His decision to be in these two movies was significantly smarter than his decision to marry Barbara Streisand.

Rating: Oh hell yeah.

Bonus movie

06/06/07: The person in the next movie I saw was also a cast member of Traffic (I swear I didn't plan this out), just like that dude in Animal House: The bad guy from Blank Check (who is also cousins with George Clooney). So I got the Blank Check DVD used for $1.99 the other day, and then I noticed that it was all scratched up. Oops. It played mostly fine until the last scene where it basically went haywire and stopped altogether. But I've seen this movie so many times that it doesn't matter.

For those who haven't seen it, it's about this kid who wants money. George Clooney's cousin runs over the kid's bike by accident, and he starts to write a check to pay for the bike, but leaves before he can write the amount. The kid then writes in "one million dollars" and cashes it at the bank. He spends ridiculously, goes on adventures, develops a crush on a bank teller/FBI agent, befriends a limo driver and later finds that he doesn't need all this stuff to be happy. Aww.

What does this movie have that makes it so great?

George Clooney's cousin.
The dad from the Clueless TV series.
Tone Lōc. This guy is the best part of the movie. Wanna know why? Because he's the guy who did this.

All three of those guys are the villians. But that's not all! The main kid's dad is the asshole guy from Independence Day that gets fired by the President. In conclusion, this movie has everything, including a guy who could have been the next John Candy.

Rating: Oh yeah.


Conclusatory Remarks

So we've seen crazy parties, Amish people, killer robots, Rodney Dangerfield, and three movies with future Traffic cast members. And we aren't even done with the first week!