Mad-City Wedge

I also watched this movie the other night. What can I say other than Will Ferrell hit another one out of the park. I’ll admit I’m not a huge Nascar fan. I typically only watch the very end of a race if I watch any part of a race at all. I’m a big fan of the classic movie (in my opinion) Days of Thunder. Rubbing is racing!

Warning, there are some spoilers below, but nothing major…

Anyways, I saw the previews. It looked good. I wasn’t disappointed. They cast everyone perfectly in the movie. His buddy, his wife, his manager, his owner, his kids, his arch nemesis, everyone. The kids have a lot of good lines, both when they are little terrors and latter on in the movie.

I’ve also heard that Nascar helped out with the movie and even offered some suggestions to make it even more over the top. I’ve heard one of their suggestions was to break to commercial in the middle of a crash. They did. It was hilarious. Gotta wonder how much Applebee’s paid for it though, throwing a commercial into the middle of the movie.

The racing scenes, although ridiculous, are well done. I’d try to put some lines in here, but there are so many, one can’t even remember them all.

Now the movie does follow what I call the Tom Cruise plot… Raw, gets better, gets girl, gets really good, crashes and burns, looses girl, has revelation, becomes good again, gets girl back. Cruise has made millions making movies (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Cocktail, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguir, etc) with this formula. Too bad he stopped making them (see my rants about the MI movies).

In closing, this is a movie I’m going to try and see again in the theatre (yes, I enjoyed it that much) and will be purchasing the moment it comes out on DVD.

Watched Descent (a movie) earlier tonight. Didn’t know anything going in other than the one sentence blurb on the theatre’s website. Basically, I watched it in order to kill time until Talladega Nights started. But back to this movie…

Basically, it stars no one you’ve likely ever heard of. And after watching, I know for a fact that I have no plans to do any spelunking of any unexplored caves ever. I leave that to others. Caves that have been well explored and host lots of tourists, I’ll still go through, but nothing unexplored. There is just way too many things to go wrong. I’ll get my adrenaline rushes elsewhere. This is much like after watching Open Water, I have no plans to go diving in Open Water in a large group. I don’t trust people’s abilities to count everyone that gets back on the boat and, although I’m a pretty good swimmer, I have no desire to swim out in the middle of the ocean.

Back to the movie again… For a horror type movie, it was actually pretty good. Nothing that makes you go wow, but there were definitely some spots that sent a chill through my body, and the first one lingered for a while.

About all I’ll say about the plot is 6 women drop into an unexplored cave and things go bad from there. A highlight… one women literally gets a blood bath.

Like I said, if you want to see a decent horror movie, this is probably worth going to. You could also probably wait till Halloween and rent it then as well.

On a side note, it looks like they are making a sequel to Open Water.