‘Drag Me to Hell’ Download and Reviews
“Drag Me to Hell” Movie Details
Drag Me to Hell tagline: Christine Brown has a good job, a great boyfriend, and a bright future. But in three days, she’s going to hell.
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| Directors: Sam Raimi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 out of 42,987 votes |
“Drag Me to Hell” Movie Review
“Drag Me to Hell” Plot Summary
A loan officer ordered to evict an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse, which turns her life into a living hell. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.
Good? Yes. Epic? No.
A bank employee is forced to make a tough decision — denying an old woman an extension on her home loan. While this may have helped her career, it jeopardized her life. The old woman, a gypsy, puts a horrible curse on the woman, where an evil spirit (a lamia) will drag her soul to hell in four days
Many of us were waiting for Sam Raimi’s return to horror (aside from his production work for Ghost House), and here it is. For me, personally, it was an experience that was both welcoming and disheartening. any of Raimi’s old tricks are back, but some of his new tricks are present too, much to my chagrin
A good friend informed me that the first fifteen minutes of the film are ‘epic’, a word that is not to be used lightly. In this, I strongly disagree. While some of the later scenes were very intense and quite fun (the parking lot scene, for example), the first fifteen minutes were largely a waste of film. The introduction with the Mexican family serves only a minimal plot purpose, and we are treated to a bit too much bank employee exposition
What are the old tricks and new tricks I refer to? Let me lay it out for you. The old tricks include: the return of the Delta 88, some great camera shots (again in the parking lot scene), a demonic dance, a possessed goat, and a very subtle cameo by Ted Raimi that you’ll miss if you don’t recognize Ted’s voice. Sadly, Bruce Campbell was not available for the film to make a cameo. The new tricks? Computer generated animation. I have expressed my disapproval of CG in countless reviews, but it’s even more sad from Raimi, who is known for his camera techniques and stop-motion work. Sure, this isn’t low budget, but animated fire doesn’t scare me
Overall, while I didn’t find the film to be groundbreaking, it is well worth a view. Raimi includes plenty of his splatter effects (blood, drool, and other bodily fluids) and generally gives us a good ghost story, particularly for working in the PG-13 framework (which is a mistake). The end is also satisfying. Compare this to Stuart Gordon’s ‘Stuck’ and it seems that Raimi has the more lasting impact on horror
As of this writing, the film is in the cheap seats, so by the time you read this, it will likely be out on video. Be sure to rent this. The film likely didn’t make as much in theaters as expected, especially with the overbearing media campaign (which was enough to turn me — a Raimi fan — off). Let’s help them recoup their losses on the video sales. No doubt the special features will make this well worth it.
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‘School for Scoundrels’ Download and Reviews
“School for Scoundrels” Movie Details
School for Scoundrels tagline: Too nice? Too honest? Too *you*? Help is on the way.
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| IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 out of 14,536 votes |
“School for Scoundrels” Movie Review
“School for Scoundrels” Plot Summary
A young guy short on luck, enrolls in a class to build confidence to help win over the girl of his dreams, which becomes complicated when his teacher has the same agenda. add synopsis
Fun to watch
There was a decent but not outstanding British comedy (1960) by the same name as this film, starring that great comic actor Alastair Sim, who also was wonderful as Scrooge in 1951’s Christmas Carol. It was based loosely (the books resemble self-improvement manuals) on Stephen Potter’s well-worth reading ‘One Upmanship’ and ‘Lifemanship’ books. Those hilarious best-selling books provide the reader with a guide as to how to use guile to get even with someone you identify as worthy of getting even with, or as Potter put it, ‘creative intimidation.’ To some extent the 2006 ‘School for Scoundrels’ could also be said to be based on those Potter books. While the original books and the 1960 film envisioned a small private college that taught the art of being one-up (if you are not one up, you’re one down), the 2006 version is a single self-improvement course taught secretly by a masterful rogue (Billy Bob Thornton) who calls himself Dr. P, to a group of low self-esteem ‘losers.’ His course resembles extreme confidence building sink or swim exercises more than one-upmanship. But he also goes one-on-one to put down the best of his students. It is explained that Dr. P is very competitive and shoots down anyone who might approach his level of skill. When facially challenged Roger (Jon Heder) unexpectedly is standing out as the best of his class, a one-upmanship contest between the master and the student gets underway
This is a fun film to watch; not at all sophomoric and not leaning on the slapstick approach. In addition to the two leads, the rest of the cast includes, among others, well known comic Sarah Silverman and comic actor Ben Stiller. Stiller is about as good as he gets (he is usually in films that are not my taste in comedy, although I recently saw him in something I really enjoyed.) On the other hand, the lines given to Sarah Silverman just make her character brassy rather than funny and are not up to the caliber of her stand-up comedy that she writes for herself.
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