180. Fired Up
181. The 41 Year Old Virgin...
182. Thirst (2008)
Fired Up comes to us from director Will Gluck.
It tells the story of Nick and Shawn, two high school football players. They've been tearing through the female population of their school. They're headed off to Texas for football camp when they hear of a cheerleading camp that's taking place at the same time. Figuring that it'll be an easy way to access more girls, they decide to ditch the football camp and go to cheer camp instead.
Since first seeing it, this has quickly become one of my favorite comedies of the past few years. The story isn't particularly original but there are enough laughs to make you forget that you're not seeing anything new. The cast is great and they really help to make this one better than anyone could expect. Erich Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto are the leads. Support comes from Sarah Roemer, Danneel Harris, Margo Harshman, Molly Sims and John Michael Higgins.
The laughs are plentiful and the girls are easy on the eyes. Not much more you can ask for. I recommend this one.
The 41 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It is a serious look into the economic crisis we're currently in. Naaaaaah, it's a parody of the Judd Apatow flicks. Der.
41 year old virgin Andy is desperate to lose his virginity. With the help of his roommates and friends, will he succeed?
This movie has been verbally slaughtered pretty much everywhere. Reviewers are ripping it to shreds. That won't be the case here. Don't get me wrong, this really isn't a good movie. However, it had enough laughs to keep me entertained the entire way through. Rather than just haphazardly throw together random pieces of movies, this one actually tries to assemble those pieces into a story. In those terms, the filmmakers here did a much better job than the folks behind Epic Movie and the like. While the movie moves along pretty fast and can't quite capture everything from the originals, it does a good job with what it does touch on. The cast here is pretty good with MadTV's Bryan Callen is solid as Andy. Noureen deWolf and Mircea Monroe are both extremely easy on the eyes. And Steven Sims resembles Jonah Hill so much that it's ridiculous.
If you're a fan of spoofs or the Apatow movies, this one's worth a rental.
Thirst is the 2008 movie from director Jeffery Lando.
Tyson is a fashion photographer who is going to do a shoot out in the desert. Initially, the plan is to shoot in Death Valley but he decides that a lesser known location called Devil's Children would be better suited for his shoot. He and the model along with a married couple head out for the shoot. Unfortunately for them, they get to learn firsthand of the dangers of going to a remote location.
Many have referred to this as Open Water in the desert. It is a fairly accurate statement. However, where I liked Open Water, I didn't care all that much for this one. This one doesn't bring about that same sense of drama that Open Water did. My ability to suspend disbelief here was severely tested as I couldn't bring myself to believe that anyone would be as stupid as the characters here were. Who heads out to a remote section of the fucking desert without letting anyone know? Or without a cooler full of water?
The story here was nothing special. Another man versus the elements tale. The characters were all pretty unlikable and I actually found myself rooting against them. Lacey Chabert was the big name here. Of the cast, she was most tolerable. Also, whomever worked the microphone here did a terrible job as voice levels fluctuated big time. There were times where I could heard the actor and then there were many occasions where I couldn't hear them at all and had to rely on the captioning.
Overall, Thirst is not worth watching. It's pretty bad.
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