Because "Killer Employees" Isn't As Good A Title

Excuse me while I wipe some of the dust off this blog. It's kind of sad that I'll write more than one post here kicking myself for never using this thing, and then only post once or twice a month. I guess it's where I never really have much to talk about, and because I end up throwing most of my free time into writing for my movie review blog. (You really should read that blog, by the way.)

Regardless, I figure I might as well dust off the MSX and talk a little about Horrible Bosses. I caught the flick yesterday while I had some free time, and I really enjoyed it. I don't really know what I was expecting out of it, outside of hoping it would be a fun diversion for a few hours on my day off. But the movie's a lot of fun. The laughs aren't one after another, but there's enough of them there to make me feel like I totally got my money's worth.

The weirdest thing about it was that Jennifer Aniston of all people was in the movie. I guess I've gotten used to her doing nothing but the same crappy romantic comedy over and over since Friends ended, but seeing her here as a dentist who sexually harasses someone who works for her to the point of practically raping him was a little off-putting at first. But she's actually really funny in the role, just like everybody else in the cast. All of the actors in the movie bring their A-game, which is great considering a movie like Horrible Bosses lives and dies by its cast.

So would I recommend Horrible Bosses? Yeah, I sure would. It's an entertaining time, for sure. So go check it out if you enjoy the occasional R-rated comedy. I'm gonna give it three and a half stars on the usual scale, and say that it'd make a great matinee showing on a boring afternoon. Check it out.

A House Full Of Weird

In other news that's unrelated to Independence Day, last night I got the chance to go to a midnight movie that wasn't Rocky Horror for the first time in a long time. (And no, the midnight screenings of summer blockbusters don't count.) The movie in question was House, a 1977 haunted house movie from Japan. When I hear that title, I immediately think of either the awesome '80s movie with William Katt and George Wendt or Hugh Laurie's drug-addicted doctor. But nope, this House has nothing to do with those Houses.

I'd actually never heard of this movie until I saw the poster for it outside the Kentucky Theater last week. So I looked up the trailer on YouTube, and it looked way too friggin' weird. But I figured I'd give it a shot anyway, and yeah, I was right. It is weird. It's nonsensical, bizarre, and generally does not abide by any sort of standard storytelling rules. This is quite literally the most surreal movie I have ever seen in my entire life.

I can't even begin to properly describe this movie, mainly because I'm still not sure what I saw. House had to have been made by a filmmaker who either exists on a completely separate plane of existence from normal humans like me, or has taken so many drugs that it would scare even Raoul Duke. I'm not sure I can even assign it a star rating like I usually do, because I think it's beyond that sort of thing. The movie is just there. I'm not sure what I saw and I'm not sure whether or not I liked it, but I can tell you this: I've seen absolutely nothing like it before.

And I doubt I ever will again.

Happy Fourth of July!