Category: Movies

For this movie review of “Norbit,” The Dude on the Right doesn’t have much to say except he did like the neighbor dog, and Eddie Murphy’s portrayal of Mr. Wong.

The Dude on the Right saw a couple of movies over the weekend. He felt “Epic Movie” had pretty much no potential, but felt “Smokin’ Aces” had a lot of potential, until it changed direction from a movie about a bunch of over-the-top assassins to an FBI mob want-a-be movie.

For this movie review of “Pan’s Labyrinth,” The Dude on the Right was amazed he liked a movie with subtitles as much as he liked this one. Don’t bring the youngin’s, even though there is a fairy tale story, because the rest of the movie deals with reality, and as usual, is sucks.

For this movie review of “Alpha Dog,” The Dude on the Right feels bad for Zack. Sure, he gets kidnapped, but Zack seems to be having the best couple of days ever for a fifteen-year-old. Then he ends up dead. The Dude, thinks the movie, though, is very good, and Justin Timberlake is great in his role.

For this movie review of “Dreamgirls,” The Dude on the Right liked most of the movie, but thought the musical part got in the way at times. Jennifer Hudson was great as Effie, especially her rendition of “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going,” and Eddie Murphy finally got back to a great role. Just remember while you’re watching it that “Dreamgirls” is a musical.

The Dude on the Right finally got to see “Rocky Balboa,” but his trailers didn’t include the new “Transformers” trailer. The Dude, though, loved the movie, thought Stallone got the finale right, but missed a little bit of the grittiness of the first “Rocky” some 30 years ago. The Dude on the Right suggests, though, that you see this one if you are a fan.

The Dude on the Right saw Apocalypto and thought the brutality was realistic (and great), liked the love story, and his buddy, Stu Gotz, says that no woman should ever complain about childbirth unless she has to do it while drowning and trying to save her other son. Stu & The Dude’s animated review of “Apocalypto” is coming soon. The Dude on the Right also saw “Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny,” and seeing it made him long for his college days.
The Dude on the Right also realized he can’t really blame “The Holidays” for not getting things done, but you’ll have to check out his “Myspace” blog for that.

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The Dude on the Right
With Turkey Day being this coming Thursday, this is always a weird week to
actually try to accomplish anything as planned.  Most people either take
off the entire week, realizing nothing substantial will get accomplished, or go
to work because they have to only to worry most of the time about how this
Thanksgiving will turn out and if there will be any fights.  Me, my Turkey
Day week of trying to accomplish things but not sticking with my game-plan has
already started.

First off, this weekend, I actually had four movies I wanted
to see.  "Casino Royale," "Shut Up & Sing," "Happy Feet," and "Let’s Go to
Prison" were all on my list.  I even had the schedule planned.  I
would see the first showing of "Casino Royale" on Saturday, followed immediately
by "Happy Feet" and I would still be able to catch the end of the Ohio
State/Michigan football game.  Then there was a 10AM showing of "Let’s Go
to Prison" on Sunday morning, which would have worked perfectly to see the
Chicago Bears game, and I could go and see "Shut Up & Sing" after the Bears’
defeat of the New York Jets.  I also figured I could fit in cleaning my
bathroom and maybe even some exercising during the weekend.  And, oh yea, I
was going out Saturday night to top it all off.

Then I remembered I should
probably get the brakes on my car looked at, and my self-diagnosed OCD kicked in
at getting all of our IMDB
links fixed so I could re-design our

Movie Theater review archives (the re-design hasn’t happened as of this blog
typing).

With my plans now in flux, I go and see "Casino
Royale" on Saturday, just as planned.  Skipping "Happy Feet" I head to
the place I’ve always gone to when having my brakes looked at, only to find they
changed their hours on Saturday, closing at 1PM.  So I head to the local
Midas, only they are already filled for the day.  So much for my brakes. 
Those plans screwed, I went home to watch Ohio State beat Michigan, while
feverishly updated our IMDB links because I was heading out Saturday evening.

Then of course I stayed out too late.

Yup, oversleeping on Sunday morning blew
"Let’s Go to Prison" out of the movie viewing schedule, the Bears did beat the
Jets, but by that time I could see "Shut Up & Sing" or continue with my OCDing
of our IMDB links, especially since I was so close to being finished, so I opted
for my OCDing.

So, lets’ see.  This weekend I wanted to see four movies
and I saw one.  I wanted to clean my bathroom but at least I did do 
laundry. I wanted to exercise, but sadly only my fingers and mouse hand got any
exercise.  At least I did get all of our IMDB links finished, if only I
could catch up on some of my TV viewing right now instead of typing this blog
and watching the Dallas Cowboys play the Indianapolis Colts.

So much for
getting anything I really want to get done during Turkey Day week so far, and I
haven’t even brought up when I might get some time to set up my Christmas
display.

That’s it for this one!  I’m The Dude on the Right!!  L8R!!!

For this movie review of “Casino Royale,” The Dude on the Right was surprised to find that he really liked a James Bond film without any totally wacky gadgets. He liked Daniel Craig in the role of James, wishes his accountant looked like Eva Green, but just thought most of the scenes dragged on just a little too long.

For this movie review of “Stranger than Fiction,” The Dude on the Right is getting tired of male nudity. That’s not saying anything bad about “Stranger than Fiction” because he did like the movie and doesn’t want to give the ending away – he thought it was pretty cool. He is just looking for some new female boob-age, but might have to wait until “Apocalypto,” but then it will probably be National Geographic boobs. In any case, The Dude says to go and see “Stranger than Fiction,” but for the funny and not for boobs.