The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders took place at the Northcott ranch near Wineville in Riverside. After the murders Wineville changed its name to Mira Loma.
Christine Collins and son lived at 210 Avenue 23 Los Angeles, CA. which is now either a condo or apartment units facing the 5 FWY and is 50 miles from Mira Loma, where the murders took place. 50 miles in 1928 is long damn drive.
Changeling folklore definition = an ugly, stupid, or strange child left by fairies in place of a pretty, charming child.
THE PLOT The movie follows Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) , a single mother, whose son was kidnapped and murdered in the Wineville Chicken Coop murders. Christine leaves her son home alone while she goes to work. When she returns home, her son is missing. She calls the LAPD who were non responsive. Months later LAPD produces a boy that looks similar and to her son . She pleads with the police to continue to look for her son because the one they gave her is not hers and they put her in the mental hospital. Eventually a preacher (John Malkovich) bails her out and helps her sue the LAPD, fire the chief and captain and save some of the wrongfully incarcerated ladies from the mental hospital and witness the execution of the man that killed her son.
TO THE POINT Oddly engaging. This movie is based on a true story but with a happier ending. I read about it online when the police made it public. I did not know the back story but this movie fills in all the gaps with fiction and that's what makes it entertaining.
THE PLOT Young nurse (Mena Suvari) runs over a transient (Stephen Rea) who gets stuck in the windshield of her car. She drives all the way home and into her garage without anybody noticing. She doesn't want to loose her job or go to jail so she just leaves him there hoping he bleeds to death so she can have her boyfriend go dump the body. But the dude never dies, in fact he somehow manages to wiggle himself out and fight back.
THE REAL WORLD
This is Chante Mallard, the crazy lady that the move is based on. Click on the picture to read the real story from Court TV.
TO THE POINT I love those Coen brothers. They film the weirdest shit. It's funny and sad at the same time.
THE PLOT Chad (Brad Pitt) and friends find a CD full of what appears to be top secret CIA info and so they decide to sell it to the CIA agent it belongs to. Turns out, the CIA ageny was a low level agent and had no sensitive info and so he does not give a damn but he is annoyed at the blackmail attempt and trespassing and so he becomes violent. Meanwhile the CIA agents wife's lover just happens to be sleeping with one of Chads friend, Linda (Frances McDormand), who is pushing for the blackmail so she could get her liposuction. In the end almost everybody either dies or goes loony, if not already, and Linda gets what she wants.
SCREEN CAPTURES
"I'm sorry I'm calling at such an hour but I thought you might be worried about the security of your shit."
They seem to get it but I still don't. How the hell is that chair with a dildo suppose to be used ?
TO THE POINT I was skeptical because I dislike chihuahuas but it was surprisingly pretty good. Good story and well filmed. The only gripe I have is that it seem to cast many breeds except my favorite, the Chow chow.
THE PLOT Pampered Beverly Hills Chihuaha, Chloe (Drew Barrymore), is taken to Mexico by babysitter, Rachel (Piper Perabo), and gets kidnapped by underground dog fighting villains. A German Shepherd, Delgado (Andy Garcia), helps her escape and tries to sneak her back into the U.S..Meanwhile the villains let loose El Diablo (Edward James Olmos) to hunt them down. Eventually the babysitter and the Landscaper rescue her. And The villains are captured thanks to Delgado.
TO THE POINT Disappointing. Although there were some very cool scenes, the story overall sucked. It says its based on a true story but I Googled it and it appears to be fiction. It's more like a rip off of the movie Vacancy but with little changes here and there.
WHAT I REALLY DISLIKED All the bad decisions the main characters made
leaving each other alone when danger is lurking... just stick together dammit!
OK the car was vandalized but it still ran. I would have stayed in the car, put the petal to the metal and ran over the bad guys but I would not leave my car, I'm more dangerous in it.
When the girl left the house the bad guys lost track of her and then she decides to go back inside the house... stupid. I would stay out there till the sun came up for a chance to get them mofos.
The shot gun scene was stupid too, I mean c'mon he was like 10 feet away, he could have waited and looked at the guy before shooting.
I REALLY LIKED The soundtrack includes Joanna Newsom. I've been listening to her a lot, specially the dance remixes :)
The cool Remix
The Original Song
Other song in movie
SCREEN CAPTURES
Really cool scene where bad guys shows himself in the background to us but still hidden from the main character.
The Mummy:Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Friday, February 27, 2009
TO THE POINT I actually liked part 1 and 2 and I was looking forward to this movie because bad ass Jet Li is in it, but I was let down. This movie was bad, bad acting, bad plot, bad everything.
THE PLOT Rick and Evelyn O'Connell (Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello) are retired. Their Son, All grown up now, finds Chinese mummy's. Chinese military bring these Mummies to life and so the O'Connells to the rescue.
TO THE POINT I had to check this out after watching Death Proof. The story seems very deep and complex about a guy who just wants to go home. The visual is simple, haul ass on a 1970 Dodge Challenger and out-run all cops.
THE PLOT Kowalski (Barry Newman ) is a car delivery driver and his latest job is to drive a 1970 Challenger from Denver to San Francisco, his home. For no apparent reason he refuses to pull over for the cops and so a state wide car chase begins in Denver and then in Nevada and finally gets stopped in California. Nobody knows much about Kowalski but we do get some flash backs of his past, all portray him as an outstanding citizen,former cop, former vet, former pro race car driver and former pro motorcycle driver. The Chase ends in California and so does Kowalski.
SCREEN CAPTURES
Kowalski (Barry Newman )
From IMDB Trivia The car featured in the film is a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, with a 440 cubic-inch V-8, and not a 426 Hemi V-8 (as is often believed). Five white Challengers loaned from the Chrysler Corporation were used during the filming and not all were white, they had to be painted.
According to directory commentary, this naked motorcycle riding hippie chick got a mean sunburn and burned her Vagina...Ouch.
TO THE POINT This is probably a better book than a movie.... this movie sucked, I was expecting more suspense and action.
MOVIE FACTS
Paralegals make $11 an hour
POTUS 111 = Code for threat to the president. btw POTUS stands for president of the United States.
MQ9 Reaper = unmanned aerial vehicle in use in Iraq since July 2008
Lesson learned: If a computer tries to take over the world we should beat all electronic gadgets with a baseball bat so that it cant reach or hurt us.
THE PLOT Some government super computer, Ariia, Kills Shia Labeoufs twin brother after it went psycho and tried to activate operation guillotine, which is basically to kill all humans. Luckily Shia's brother put a voice and retina scan lock so that the computer could not proceed but the computer apparently has unlimited resources (processing and memory resources) and it hashes out a plan and succeeds at finding and conning the twin, Shia, to visit and break the lock . Fortunately Rosario Dawson is on the job and she puts Ariia out of commission by beating the crap out of it.
SCREEN CAPTURES
This is the beast with a thousand eyes, Ariia = Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst
Yeah right. Face identification thru a mirror ? It may not be impossible but it is still not scary or thrilling, so what if the computer knows where you are. Soon after the MQ9 Reaper is activated and the movie gets a little more interesting for like 2 min.
I still don't get it, why is getting killed by a one of these electric towers so scary? its freaky if it actually happens but for a computer to actually and accurately kill you with it?... that's just silly.
THE PLOT The least unlikely, a Panda (Jack Black) , is chosen to be the Dragon Warrior, which is like the best warrior in the world. Everybody thinks its a mistake even Panda because he doesn't know a lick of Kung Fu. But then some evil bad ass Tiger, Tai Lung , escapes prison and heads toward town to claim the title of Dragon Warrior. And so Panda trains, in a very unorthodox manner, so much that even his master believes he does not have a chance against Tai Lung . But Panda comes thru and shows of his Dragon warrior skills.
TO THE POINT Hard to watch because of all the stupid things the main character does which set up all the drama. But if she didn't act so stupid then maybe she would have avoided all the drama but then there would be no movie.
THE PLOT Married couple Roy and Jessie (Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer) take a trip to China to help out with church project then decide to tour Europe via the train... now that's fine and all but these dummies head toward Russia...and then they make friends with drug smugglers...and then Jessie kills one of the drug smugglers after he tries to get frisky with her ... and then she finds out she is carrying drugs that the smuggler had slipped into her luggage and she now can't get rid of them because someone is always around on the train... all those crazy events land them in the hands of train hijacking police impostors eager to torture tourists that smuggle drugs but these impostor are drug dealers themselves looking for the drug and money stolen by the smugglers Roy and Jessie befriended at the beginning of the movie.
SCREEN CAPTURE
Roy and Jessie
Beijing to Moscow in 7 days.
Jessie and the drug smuggler
The Drugs
Roy and Jessie manage to escape for a final face down with the bad guys on the hijacked train.
TO THE POINT Long and boring movie about nothing. OK it's about something but the point is its so long you forget why the heck you're still watching. I continued to watch not for the story but for the actors, they did a fine job.
THE PLOT It's like a peek into this dysfunctional family's life's which is really not that interesting but they tried really hard to be. The main premise of the movie is that Brother and Sister, Jon ( Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) need to put their Father in a nursing home. Jon gets him a home near his apartment but Wendy is not happy with the facility but she can't do any better. OK so that problem was resolved. Now for the rest of the movie they just yap away, we find out Wendy is a big ol lying, over dramatizing, hypocrite and that Jon is some sort very busy literary professor with love problems. In the end the father dies and nothing else is resolved.
TO THE POINT This was cool. That Zoe chick is bad ass. I'm not a fan of Quentin Tarantino very wordy dialogue but I am a fan of the soundtrack, plot twists, the cool looks he gives his characters and cool stuff he has them do in all his movies.
COOL STUFF
Soundtrack - which you can find a complete list of in IMDB
Stunt driver killer and his bad ass car, both of them.
characters that play the same character in other movies- the sheriff and his son number 1
Ships Mast - to lay on hood of a car holding on to belts strapped to doors while car is speeding.
THE PLOT Basically its a bunch of chicks talking about 80% of the time to catch you of guard in the last 10 min with a bad ass bumper car chase finale.
SCREEN CAPTURES
Playing Ships Mast
Mustang with Kill Bill, Bruce Lee jump suit colors.
TO THE POINT I liked the characters and soundtrack. It has a very subtle message that villains are not villains at all, but just people with different interests. For example
Lee Carter is introduced as a bully and troublemaker but after friending Will we see an opposite view.
Lee Carters Brother, shown as the abusive big brother but he actually comes through for his brother in the end.
And the Frenchy, all the English kids envy and admire him cus hes the coolest kid they know and so they did as he said, but in the end on the way back home to france we see that he's actually a loser back home becuase all the french kids make fun of him.
THE PLOT Religious kid, Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) with wild imagination meets school bully, Lee Carter (Will Poulter) and become friends . Will sees a pirated version of Rambo and creates an imaginary story about him being the son of Rambo looking to rescue Rambo from a scare crow, and they decide to film it so they can submit to a film festival. while filming, other kids want to be part of the production and will becomes popular, meanwhile Lee Carter shy's away from popularity he'd rather go it alone. The friendship is broken because Will would rather make movie with new friends but then Will gets in a accident and all his new friends skip out .Lee carter comes back and saves Wills Life and the friendship is back on.
THE PLOT Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and loyal sidekick Everett (Viggo Mortensen) are hired to clean up the town of Appaloosa after Mr. Bragg (Jeremy Irons) kills the sheriff and his helping hands terrorize the town shops and saloons. Virgil Falls in love with Allison French (Renée Zellweger) and wants to settle down . Mr Bragg is arrested and sentenced to death but he hires goons to take Allison hostage so they can exchange her for him. The hostage thing worked and Mr Bragg runs off with the goons and Allison. Virgil and Everett hunt them down and discover Allison had joined them. She apologized and explained herself and Virgil accepted her as she is. When the town pacifies Virgil and Everett usually move on to the next troubled town but Virgil decides to settle down with Allison. Everett don't very much likes how Allison is cheating behind Virgils back and he can't convince Virgil to move on, so he kills her lover and rides off into the sunset hoping he helped Virgil live happily ever after with Allison.
TO THE POINT This is one of those WTF movies.... and it has nothing to do with maids.
THE PLOT Young innocent 17 year old Inga (June 1970 Penthouse Pet Christina Lindberg) visits big sister (Monica Ekman) in a big city in Sweden. Big Sister lives with boyfriend and is very sexually active. They show little sister around town and then set her up with a blind date. The blind date turns into date rape ...but not really. After the rape Inga turns into a nymphomaniac and wants it all the time from this rapist. She goes out with him every night and even sneaks out for some booty call. Meanwhile the Older sister's boyfriend catches on to this promiscuous and ends up tapping that ass too but he gets caught in the act. That's it... after the boyfriend gets caught Inga goes back home where she again acts all innocent and the movie ends.
WHERE THEY WENT WRONG
It was dubbed. It sounded stupid. I didn't even get the option to hear it in sweedish and have English subtitles.
The soundtrack was terrible. The whole movie had the same soft porno song... even dancing to it at the disco.
Whats the message when you put in a rape scene and then have the victim fall in love with the rapist?
I just don't understand how all the guys catch on that she promiscuity. I guess that's why I'm not a ladies man.
TO THE POINT Light and fun. Crazy Old people movie.
THE PLOT In a small fictional Irish town of Tullymore ( actually filmed in Cregneash ) two fun old geezers (Ian Bannen and David Kelly) are obsessed with winning the lottery. They find out somebody in town has won. The town only has a population of 52 people and so they try to figure out who the winner is so they can befriend him and hopefully get some winnings themselves. Unfortunately the winner, Ned Devine, is found dead from the shock of winning and he had signed the lottery ticket so it could not be claimed by anyone but Ned. The two old geezers figure the money should not go to waste and hash out a plan to impersonate Ned Devine and claim the winnings. They needed the towns help to help prove Ned was still alive. All but one agreed to go along with the plan. A crazy old lady refused to participate unless her share was a million pounds. She was on her way to turn them in to the authorities for fraud when she had an unfortunate accident.
JUST FOR FUN The winning lotto numbers were : 19 - 40 - 4 -7 - 25 -29
TO THE POINT Cool look and decent actors but that camera work sucked. I don't like action hiding behind shaky, fast panning camera work.
THE PLOT Jensen (Jason Statham) gets framed for killing his wife by the evil warden Hennessey (Joan Allen) at a private prison. The prison generates lots of revenue through on demand feeds of a game called death race in which prisoners are given armored cars loaded with weapons to race around a track on Terminal island, whoever wins 5 times goes free and so they kill over wining each race. Jensen was framed because he is a good driver and would be good for the ratings but he figures out who framed him and gets his revenge.
SCREEN CAPTURES
The evil warden, Joan Allen.
The sexy navigator, Natalie Martinez. She's also a convict. They pick out the sexiest inmates to up the ratings.
Mustang V8 Fastback V8 Roush 5.4 liter with a Ford Racing Supercharger at 850 horsepower and 700 lbs of torque with sequential multi-port fuel injection. Bullet proof glass and suicidal doors.
The Racers:
Frankenstein drives the Mustang
Pachengo, Looks like he is driving an old Lincoln
Nascar dude, I'm not sure what that is, looks like a Jaguar grill though.
TO THE POINT Lots of special effects fun. It was a good movie that left a lot of unanswered questions which is good and bad. Good because it did not feel dumb down but bad because they are a little difficult to decipher.
UNANSWERED
They say they were made in pairs, who the hell made them?
So every time they are together someone tries to off Hancock, so why does she throw a fridge at him? what is she so mad about.
Why is she more powerful?
Why does Hancock draw eagles and an Adult holding a hand of a child?
THE PLOT Lonely super human Hancock (Will Smith) finds his opposite sex match who is also super human (Charlize Theron) but when they get together they become regular humans and that's a problem because Hancock has made many enemies that are out to kill him.
SCREE CAPTURES
This was funny, Hancock actually stuck somebody's head up another persons ass.
THE PLOT A Military project opens up a window into another dimension which allows big blood hungry monsters to roam free in the cover of mist in a small town. The story is told thru the point of view of a local artist (Thomas Jane) who gets stuck in a grocery store with other locals. As days go by everyone in the store becomes more and more restless and crazy... Katrina super dome crazy. and so half dozen decide to take their chances with the monsters then die waiting.
TO THE POINT It starred the Hoff so I had to check it out. It's what you expect from straight to DVD flick, bunch of over actors with a not so great story line.
THE PLOT So David Hasselhoff is some kind of bad ass Anaconda hunter. He kills the snakes and then sells its parts on the black market. Meanwhile at some laboratory, an anaconda is being genetically enhanced so that it could be used to cure some rich old mans sickness but the darn snake gets spooked and breaks through its enclosure, escapes the lab and starts eating everything in sight. So the rich guy calls all the snake hunters including the Hoff and the hunt begins. The fun part of the movie is how only the lady (Crystal Allen) the laboratory security specialist is the only one that survives while everybody else gets swallowed, decapitated, or shanked by the snake.
SCREEN CAPTURES
The DVD Cover
The Shanking
The decapitation
In this scene Amanda (Crystal Allen) tries to re-create the famous Predator scene where Arnold Schwarzenegger covers himself with mud and becomes invisible to the Alien.
And in this seen it looks like a rip off the movie Alien where Sigourney Weaver facing off the Alien.
I really liked that they showed the snake a lot. Unfortunately that's the only think I liked about this film.
