Showing posts with label Jemaine Clement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jemaine Clement. Show all posts

Friday, August 23, 2013

Gentlemen Broncos

Young Benjamin, an aspiring sci-fi writer, lives with Stiffler's his mother, a designer for women's night gowns, in small Utah. While on a trip to a science fiction fest he makes friends with Tabatha and Lonnie, the latter a self taught "film maker" with over 80 films (mostly trailers) under his belt.

During the event, Benjamin attends a workshop held by his idol Dr. Ronald Chevalier. During the workshop a contest is announced. People can turn in their own writing and one of the books will be published in a limited run. Benjamin hands in his work "Yeast Lord. The Bronco Years", which never makes his way back to him.

Back home, Lonnie and Tabatha set about to make a film out of Yest Lord, starring Lonnie himself and Benjamin's new friend for hire ("guardian angel"), Dusty. At the same time, Chevalier reads and likes Yeast Lord so much that he decides to steal it and publish it under his own name (with slight changes to mask the story).

The publication of the book coincides with the promotion for the film and Benjamin and Lonnie get accused of having stolen the story, rather than the other way around. Usually timid Benjamin confronts Chevalier during a book signing, which lands him in jail. Fortunately, his mother had all the books he has written since he was seven printed out and bound for his birthday, enabling him to prove that he wrote the story way before Chevalier did.

Hilariously ridiculous with a cast of laughably dorky characters (Dusty is my favorite).

6/10

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Men in Black 3

Will Smith saves the world. Like he does.

Boris the Animal escapes from a maximum security prison on the moon where he spent the last 40 years courtesy of young Agent K. After he escapes he gets a time travel device to go back to 1969 to do away with K before he shoots off one of his arms and locks him up.

After he kills K in the past, Agent J feels uncomfortable and appears to be the only one in the agency to know K ever existed - apart from Agent O who knew him back in the day and realizes what has happened. J goes off to the past to restore order and save K's life.

This is the story.

Unfortunately, there is not much of Tommy Lee Jones in this one, you know, having been eradicated and all. His younger self is played by Josh Brolin (not a bad choice). The big bad guy is played by a barely recognizable Jemaine Clement and the modern day Agent O is Emma Thompson.

Not a bad cast and a somewhat entertaining film, although the MiB films do lose some of of their initial shine and humor.

6/10