tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194951602012-02-06T09:46:52.981-05:00Mattnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-76700428097034712762012-02-05T20:57:00.000-05:002012-02-05T20:57:08.283-05:00

And in other, unrelated news, I got out of the house last week, before my trip to the doctor's office, to see Underworld: Awakening, my first visit to the movies of 2012. I'm bummed I missed the whole month of January, but the only thing that caught my attention all month was The Devil Inside. And it got such horrible reviews (I actually heard stories of audiences booing the movie as it ended),

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If you're a regular reader of this blog, or a friend (or even mild acquaintance) of mine, then you're probably wondering how I'm doing in regards to my broken heel. Well, I do have some good news for you. I saw my doctor a few days ago, and he's impressed enough with the way I'm healing that he told me I could lose my walker and crutches and start walking with a cane. I'm actually a little

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So I just now realized that I haven't posted anything all month. Not one single word all January. I'd feel more ashamed of myself, but the truth is that I just plain didn't have anything to talk about. The only really noteworthy thing that's happened all month is that the doctor I've been seeing about my busted-up foot told me three weeks ago that I could start putting weight on it again. This

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So roughly three weeks ago, I posted about my car accident and the fractured heel that resulted from it. And in that three weeks, updating people about my condition sadly hasn't even crossed my mind. But I just now decided that maybe I should give everybody - all zero of the people that read this blog - a little status report. As it stands right now, I'm not having surgery on my foot. The

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Though this is my own personal blog, I don't really give a lot of personal details here. Thoughts and opinions, sure, but very rarely do I go in depth about myself. It's just a matter of privacy, is all. I don't want to air all of my dirty laundry out there for God and everybody to see. But something happened to me a couple of weeks ago and I have to talk about it. If and when I go through these

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That headline pretty much sums up everything I'm thinking right now. My workplace has been playing Christmas music over the PA system for the last week, and a local radio station has already started their annual tradition of playing Christmas music 24/7 until New Year's. Can't we wait until Black Friday before we start with all the Christmas stuff? Hollywood's already started with the Christmas

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Ten years. That's how long I've been running the MSX. Through a number of name changes in the early days and a transition from a Tripod.com hosting service over to Blogger, the MSX has withstood a lot over the last decade. And as the blog has changed, I too have changed since that fateful day in a college dorm room in 2001. I'm still a total kook, but I like to think that I'm at least slightly

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I love Halloween. I love, love, love, love, love Halloween. I have since I was a kid. The fact that there's one day out of the entire year when I can openly embrace all of the spooky and macabre things I enjoy so much without people think I'm a weirdo makes me happier than a pig in slop. Honestly, if Thanksgiving and Christmas weren't so awesome, I'd demand that the Halloween season last all the

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Holy crap, it's October already. Well into October, even. And here I am, totally unprepared. I know Halloween's not for another few weeks, but I could at least start trying to get ready. But it just hit me that I completely forgot to blog about seeing the remake of Straw Dogs. I saw it two weeks ago and I'm just now getting around to writing my short little mini-review. Shame on me. But I'm here

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If you're wondering what that headline means, it means I simply couldn't come up with anything catchier. But I promise it'll make sense in context. Here in Kentucky, there's an annual horror and paranormal convention known as "The Scarefest." This year marks their fourth year of existence, and since I had so much fun last year, I had to do it again. This time around, it hit the place on Saturday

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It just hit me that I haven't posted one single solitary thing here this month. And I can't say I've really thought about doing so, either. The problem is that I don't really know why. A few years ago, I could have knocked out at least one post a week. Nowadays, I'm lucky to come up with one a month. I spend so much time writing for the S@TM blog and I can't cobble together a couple of words for

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So as I'm prone to do, I had something I could have posted about lats week and totally forgot about it until right now. Seems like I do that a lot. I keep saying I need to get better at that, but I've always been the kind of guy that, when I get into a routine, it's pretty hard for me to get out of it. Anyway, since we're here, I might as well get that post out now. I went to see the remake of

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Wow, four posts here within a week. I don't remember the last time that happened. Awesome. Anyway, I caught 30 Minutes or Less today. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting out of it, but I wanted to get out of the house and I figured the movie looked okay enough. Plus it was either that or the remake of Fright Night, and because I wanted to see Fright Night in 3D and the theater I was going to

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I've been a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 since I was a kid. And though it's been off the air for twelve years, I'm happy knowing that it still lives on through RiffTrax. I'm not going to go into a big long spiel about what RiffTrax is or anything like that, but I will say that I've been wanting to see one of their theatrically-shown live shows for quite a while. And I got to see one

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And it just hit me: I had something to post about two weeks ago and totally forgot about it. In my post about Cowboys & Aliens, I promised to post something about the "big plans" I had. And being the neglectful blogger I am, I didn't type that first word about it until right now. Turns out those big plans saw me and a co-worker attending a taping of WWE's SmackDown TV show. The episode's already

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Look at me, the terrible blogger. The guy who can't blog about anything to save his life. One of these days, I'll have to take my own advice and fix that. But right now, let's just go back to my favorite standby, movies. Yesterday afternoon, I headed out to the local movie theater to check out a showing of Final Destination 5. As corny and contrived as the Final Destination movies are, I'm still

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You know what I get a kick out of? Movies whose titles are self-explanatory. Flicks like Freddy vs. Jason, Alien vs. Predator, and Snakes on a Plane pretty much tell you exactly what they are when you read the title. That's part of the reason why I was drawn to Cowboys & Aliens. My dad and I headed out to see Cowboys & Aliens this afternoon, and both of us enjoyed it quite a bit. It's a lot of

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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.)

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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

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Okay, I should apologize for that headline. It's cheesy and silly and I'm sorry. I just wanted to see if I could come up with a dumb quote to get myself in the commercials and on the DVD cover. (Do you think it'll work? I hope it'll work.) But as you probably guessed, I just this afternoon saw Super 8. I can't say I was as excited to see it as most people, since the trailers didn't really do

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I was just looking, and I still have posts from friggin' April on the front page of the blog. But like I've said in the past, I spend way too much time into working on the S@TM blog. This post will fix that, but still, I continue to be disappointed with how little I work with the MSX. But like I've said, I've been working on the S@TM blog an awful lot lately. And because it's been a while since

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A couple of years ago, Warner Bros. released their raunchy comedy The Hangover to box office success and critical acclaim. It deserved it too, because it was a great movie. So two years later, The Hangover: Part II has hit theaters. And I can tell you that it's just as crude, outrageous, and potentially offensive as its predecessor, if not more so. It's also absolutely hilarious. The movie has

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So not long writing after my previous post, my mom and I ventured out to see the newest chapter in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise.And at best, it's just okay. It's not a bad movie, but it's just more of the same. It's nothing fans of the series haven't seen before. The problem with On Stranger Tides is that it's forgettable. I don't remember much of it at all. It's like they found

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It's been a few days, but the news that "Macho Man" Randy Savage passed away still doesn't feel real. It feels like some kind of weird joke somebody's trying to pull. Whether it be his famous matches with Hulk Hogan and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat during the height of the WWF's popularity in the '80s, or his ubiquitous "snap into a Slim Jim!" commercials in the '90s, or his appearance as Bonesaw

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Wow, I really need to wipe the dust off this thing. It's been sitting here unused for forever. Seriously, only one post during the whole month of April? What's wrong with me? I thought I was better than that. But no, I had to go and pay more attention to the S@TM blog instead. Because it's apparently replaced the MSX as my favorite blog to write on. So yeah, a big "Fail" in my part. Shame on me.

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Hey, folks, I hope you're having a great April thus far. Mine's been going okay, save for UConn beating Kentucky in the Final Four. Work's been... well, tolerable at the least, which is about all I can say about it. So let's move on. Both yesterday and last Tuesday, I headed out to the movies to check out something new. Last week was Sucker Punch, a movie so utterly terrible that I had to

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You know, every time I post here, I'm reminded of how lazy I am when it comes to the MSX. I mention that because I meant to write this post last Friday and I completely forgot about it until right now. I know I complain about it all the time, but I really should start working to improve that. Anyway, I had a day off last Friday, and I headed out to see both Hall Pass and Paul. That was the plan,

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Wow, we're already this far into March and I haven't blogged once yet? I'm noth disappointed and not surprised. With so little blogging as I do here to begin with, I'm not sure why I continue to keep the MSX open. I say more on my Twitter feed than I do here. But I guess it's mostly due to having had it open so long that I can't see myself not having the MSX around in some fashion. No sense in

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While I had a day off from work, I figured I'd brave the bad weather and check out Nicolas Cage's new movie, Drive Angry. I think I might have been one of the only people to have seen it because the movie bombed. But that isn't important right now, because it's an awesome movie. Screw all those negative reviews; Drive Angry is a badass flick. Okay, it's not a great movie. But it's a hell of a

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It just hit me that I've only posted here once this month. That's unacceptable. I can do better than that. So for now, this post is going to make up for lost time and cover all the blog-worthy stuff I just plain didn't write about this month. A few weeks back, my dad and I headed out to see Jason Statham's latest flick, The Mechanic. I still have yet to see the Charles Bronson flick that this

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I usually spend my free time doing the same ol' things. Either I'm sitting around the house doing nothing, going to see a movie, or writing for my other blog. But this past Monday I did something a wee bit different: I went on a road trip. One of my co-workers was going to drive up to Columbus, Ohio to see his favorite band, Hawthorne Heights, in concert and invited me to come along. Now being

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It's rare that I get a Friday off from work. A lot of times, it isn't really that big a deal. I mean, I don't have anyone that I regularly hang out with outside of work hours, and there's never anything going on in this neck of the woods. But today was a little bit different. Today I was off from work and actually had something to do: go see The Green Hornet. I didn't expect a lot from it, since

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I said in my previous post that 2011 was treating me pretty well thus far. The reason why that is: I got to see my first Rocky Horror screening of the year last night. And I don't know how, but I even roped my dad into going with me. I was fully expecting to have fun just based on seeing how my dad would react. But the "shadowcast" made the entire show totally worth the money. It turns out that

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Hey, everybody, welcome back to the MSX. I hope you're having a great 2011 so far. Me, I can't complain. But I'll get into the details of why I can't complain later. Right now, we're here to celebrate the MSX's annual tradition, the "Sutton at the Movies" Achievement Awards, where I run down the best and worst of the movies I saw this year. Keep in mind that I usually don't end up seeing "Oscar

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So Christmas has come and gone, and the new year is upon us. I hope everyone had a great holiday season (I know I did), and I also hope that all of you readers have a safe and happy 2011. To celebrate the upcoming conclusion of 2010, my dad and I headed out to see Joel and Ethan Coen's remake of True Grit this afternoon. And as you can probably guess, the movie was pretty darn cool. But that

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Holy crap, Christmas is just a few short days away. I've been staring at the calendar for a while now and I still can't believe it. The year was trucking along pretty quick as it was, but it seems like there was maybe three hours between Thanksgiving and right now. The last several weeks have been a real blur. Now Christmas is this coming weekend, and even though I've already gotten all my

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I'm pretty much the most neglectful blogger there is. Once again, I had stuff to actually post about for a change, and I put it off for a week out of sheer laziness. What the heck is wrong with me? Anyway, last weekend saw me take in my fourth midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yes, four. It probably would have been five if I'd gone to both Halloween shows instead of just one,

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It's been a few weeks since I've had the chance to go out to the movies, so I figured I'd use a little free time I had today to go check out something new. November's been kind of a slow month for movies I'm actually interested in, with only Due Date and Unstoppable being the only ones that have caught my eye so far. So I ended up picking Due Date today, and I can tell you that I dug it a lot.

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While I've been trying to come up with more content for the MSX, I've actually been cranking out a ton of stuff over at the S@TM blog. Since I last made mention of new reviews, I've posted eight new ones. Eight. I've actually posted five of them in as many days. I think that may be a new record for me. The reviews in question. Paranormal Activity 2 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Tank Girl The

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Being a geek, I've always been enamored with the idea of conventions, where like-minded individuals will convene upon a location in celebration of a particular theme or genre. The most famous is the annual San Diego ComicCon, but there's conventions everywhere, dedicated not just to comics but things like Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, World of Warcraft, video games in general, and horror

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So yeah, today is the MSX's ninth anniversary. I say it every year, but I'm still in awe that I've had this silly little thing open in some form or another for nearly a decade. Today actually kinda snuck up on me, and I didn't have anything prepared to say. When I opened the MSX over on Tripod.com in 2001, I never thought I'd still be doing something with the blog nine years later. But here I am

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Not long after my previous post, I headed out to see Saw 3D. Why they couldn't just call it Saw VII, I have no idea. Just because it's 3D doesn't mean it has to be part of the title. If you're gonna introduce "3D" into the title of a movie franchise, wouldn't be easier to do so in the third one? I could spend all day arguing about the intricacies of movie titles with "3D" as part of them, but

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I know I don't post as much as I used to, but I couldn't let October 31st go by without saying a little something about the first chapter in what I call "The Awesome Holiday Trilogy." It would be wrong of me not to. I enjoy Halloween so much, I can barely put it into words. I've never gone all out with costumes or decorations or things like that. I don't think I've worn a Halloween costume since

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Wow. I keep saying it, but I really should post here more often. I've been putting off doing so in my quest to actually find something to talk about. But I figure any content is better than no content, so I might as well talk about the reviews I've been posting over at my movie blog. I've had three new reviews over the last week and a half, the movies being Barb Wire, Highlander, and the

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I'm ashamed of myself. I really am. I actually have something to talk about for a change, and I've been sitting on it for over a week. I could have whipped up a post the day after it happened, but no, I just had to be lazy. I'm a terrible blogger. Terrible. But anyway, what happened was I saw another midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show last weekend. I had just as much fun as I did

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Once again, I'm being lazy and not coming up with more original content for the MSX. I keep saying I need to work on that, but sooner or later, I'm gonna have to either stick to my word or just shut up. Until I actually do stick to my word, I'll have to direct you over to the "Sutton at the Movies" blog. I've had both today and yesterday off from work, so I've used the time to knock out two brand

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Okay, so I've been a bit lazy when it comes to doing stuff with this particular blog. I've never really posted anything worthwhile in the first place, but now I'm feeling like I barely even post here at all. I mean, as I write this, there's still posts from July on the blog's front page. What's up with that?I guess it's just because I never have anything worth talking about. There's nothing about

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Nearly a week ago, I posted that I'd seen The Last Exorcism and was working on a full review of it. I'm a bit slow in following up on this, but this past Monday, said review was posted over at the usual location. So just click here to skip over to the new review and enjoy!

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I've always been open about my love of movies and going to movie theaters. But there's always been one moviegoing experience that I'd never got to partake in, that being attending a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I love Rocky Horror, and the DVD has proudly been a part of my collection for ten years. But seeing the real Rocky Horror, the one populated by the loons in

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-54786443666115278882010-08-29T11:48:00.003-04:002010-08-29T12:10:53.467-04:00

You wouldn't believe just how busy the last seven days have been for yours truly. My job has cut my hours something fierce lately, leaving me with lots of free time to do fun stuff, primarily movie watching.On Monday, I headed out to see Piranha 3D, which was a heck of a lot of fun. Of course, it isn't a "good" movie per se. But it's an utterly shameless parade of blood, naked women, and outright

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-63710632722707856272010-08-18T20:23:00.002-04:002010-08-18T20:53:47.574-04:00

You devoted followers of the MSX have probably figured out by now that I love movies, and that I love going to movie theaters. But it's been nearly a month since I've been to one, and that had to change. So today I made the decision to head out and see the new action flick The Expendables. Or as some friends of mine like to call it, "Testosterone: The Motion Picture."To sum it up in a few words,

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I became a fan of the horror genre when I was a kid, around the age of ten or eleven. And thanks to a combination of the neighborhood video store and TV shows like MonsterVision and USA Up All Night at the time, I was introduced to - and am still a fan of - the Friday the 13th franchise.The reason I bring this up is because 2010 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the original Friday the 13th

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You know, when I started my job back in March, I thought it would really cut back on the amount of time I'd have to work on the "Sutton At The Movies" blog. But you know what? It hasn't had a tremendous effect at all. In fact, I knocked out three reviews on Wednesday and Thursday alone. Wednesday saw me post No Holds Barred and Ready To Rumble, and yesterday saw Terminator Salvation. So be a dear

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-91956942869056156012010-07-24T21:40:00.002-04:002010-07-24T21:55:34.712-04:00

Hey folks, welcome back to the MSX. I've actually had a post I've been meaning to do for about a week now, but I've been putting it off out of sheer laziness. Forgive me.But what I wanted to talk about was seeing Predators. I'd been looking forward to it since it was first announced, since I'm a fan of the Predator franchise. Yeah, so Predator 2 was mediocre and the Alien vs. Predator movies are

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-88514890954438693412010-07-13T19:04:00.003-04:002010-07-13T19:11:15.650-04:00

And while I've been trying to come up with more material that doesn't involve the latest movie I've seen, I've posted more material that involves the latest movie I've seen. Yeah. I'm a big ol' lame covered in lame-flavored syrup, aren't I?This is the part where I'll point you in the direction of the S@TM blog, where I reviewed Monster this past Sunday. Sadly, it's not the Monster with Charlize

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-91504500919616189962010-07-13T14:54:00.002-04:002010-07-13T15:07:46.760-04:00

You know, I'd been looking for something other than movies to talk about here at the MSX. I was just having a hard time figuring out just what it would actually be. But after last night, I've got at least one post worth of new material.I've said more than once in the past that I'm a fan of professional wrestling, so when it was announced that Lexington would be hosting a live broadcast of WWE's

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-64734820512426110462010-07-06T17:06:00.002-04:002010-07-06T17:11:53.712-04:00

I'm not sure Walmart should let me have any days off in the future, because all I do on those days off is review bad movies. I have all the proof of that I need in my latest post over at "S@TM", an obscure horror movie titled Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. I am not kidding, that is the movie's actual title.I think I need to find some new hobbies, because if I watch any more movies like Death Bed,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-17936998212421986092010-07-03T06:41:00.002-04:002010-07-03T06:57:18.436-04:00

Hey, folks, what's up? It completely slipped my mind until right now, but I wanted to let you, my faithful MSX readers, know about the new review I posted over at the S@TM blog. The movie in question is Frank Miller's The Spirit, a dumb yet oddly charming comic book adaptation that flopped something huge when it was released back on Christmas Day 2008.So click that link and read the review, and

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I don't know how I manage to find the time to do so, but I've knocked out a new review over at the S@TM blog. With today seeing the release of the third Twilight movie, Eclipse, I figured I'd go ahead and post my review of the franchise's second entry, New Moon. So go check it out, won't you?Check out the review, I mean, not Eclipse. Screw Eclipse. (Though knowing some of the Twihards, they would

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-80781281413308814512010-06-23T15:21:00.002-04:002010-06-23T15:33:23.470-04:00

Though you might not know it from the box office numbers, Toy Story 3 wasn't the only new movie released last Friday. There was also the latest comic book adaptation, Jonah Hex. Considering that it got a lot of bad reviews and opened up against Toy Story 3, its rather miserable opening weekend wasn't surprising.But because I'm a sucker that has to see all of the Marvel and DC movies, I went and

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So... how's things? I hope you're doing swell. Here, everything is peachy. Can't complain. Work's been going relatively well, even if today was kinda boring.Before I headed off to work this afternoon, though, I managed to find enough time to post my review of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. I probably should have written it three years ago, but better late than never, I guess. So if you

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-83674838388355359232010-06-18T22:15:00.002-04:002010-06-18T22:44:29.023-04:00

Want to know something that's awesome? I'll tell you: Toy Story 3.My mom and I had both been wanting to see Pixar's latest animated adventure, and since I had today off, we headed out to see it. And as with the first two Toy Story movies (and most of Pixar's other movies, really), Toy Story 3 is awesome.I absolutely loved Toy Story 3, no two ways about it. It's a fantastic flick that is most

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-80199124059852758622010-06-18T12:44:00.003-04:002010-06-18T12:48:35.315-04:00

So do you remember that whole "Resident Evil 5 war journal" thing I was talking about? Yeah, forget I ever said anything about that. I actually beat the game this past Tuesday, and the fact that I'm just now blogging about it really show how interested I was in keeping track of my progress here. I guess I shouldn't have brought it up at all if I wasn't going to actually go through with it.But

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With today being my day off from work, I decided to make the most of it by heading out to see the new A-Team movie. I must admit that I never really got into the TV show; no particular reason, I just never watched it enough to call myself a fan. But the trailers and commercials were enough to sell me on the movie. It looked like something I wanted to see. And I'm glad I did see it, because the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-25739474146815156902010-06-07T17:43:00.000-04:002010-06-07T16:45:43.189-04:00

Another day, another post about Resident Evil. This time around, I actually just finished a new review of the CG-animated movie Resident Evil: Degeneration over at "Sutton at the Movies." I'd been aiming to review it for some time, but just now got around to it.So click the link and get to reading, okay? Alright.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-1540811756978856722010-06-06T12:01:00.002-04:002010-06-06T12:13:34.767-04:00

As I said previously, I picked up Resident Evil 5 last weekend. I've been playing it when I can, a half hour here, and hour there. What I've found about it is that it's basically Resident Evil 4 with the action elements turned up by something like 1000 percent. It's crazy how much action is in this game. You know there's a ton of it when you fight your way through a swarm of psychos trying to

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-86870471702500169942010-06-01T14:23:00.002-04:002010-06-01T14:37:49.378-04:00

Hey, everybody, what's up? I hope you guys had a great Memorial Day and are enjoying the month of July thus far. I can't complain, personally.This past Sunday was a rough day, however, thanks to me getting caught up in some really frustrating bullcrap at work. If Sunday was Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, then I was Glass Joe. Even thinking about it drains all the energy from me. So instead of going into

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-47272933131107620192010-05-26T21:06:00.003-04:002010-05-26T21:32:13.097-04:00

Okay, so I haven't really been doing much blogging lately. It's just that I haven't really been in the mood for it. That, and I haven't had much to say, anyway. There's not a lot going on at work for me to talk about, and I've been spending my off-days just sitting around the house doing nothing. I guess I could just come up with a theme and run with it, but that'll have to be later.Why later?

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-14143167297629301692010-05-17T23:51:00.002-04:002010-05-18T00:16:06.576-04:00

I do stupid things when I have too much free time.So I had today off from work, and do you want to know how I spent it? Writing a review of Hobgoblins, a tremendously awful Gremlins ripoff from 1988. It's a movie so bad, so tremendously awful, that I can barely comprehend its existence. So go click the link, and please, whatever you do, take my word for it. Please do not rent this movie to see

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Unless you've been living in a cave for the last few weeks, you've no doubt seen all the advertising for the recently-released Iron Man 2. I'd really been looking forward to it, so much so that I immediately went to see it after I left work on Friday afternoon... then I saw it again yesterday afternoon with my dad. Yeah.I know I usually do a usual quick post after I see a movie, going over what I

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-72005710000701263032010-05-03T16:29:00.003-04:002010-05-03T18:33:27.699-04:00

Hey, how ya doin'?Me, I'm doing okay. Work's been fine, with all the good days and bad days you'd expect. But I can't complain... too much.But the truth is I don't really have a whole lot to go into about it as of this moment. There just hasn't been much going on that's been worth me talking about. It's only been a month, though, so things could change sometime.Anyway, since my usual routine here

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-32892869606840797382010-04-29T12:14:00.000-04:002010-04-29T12:14:00.292-04:00

I really should be getting ready for work right now, but I just had to share the new review I just posted over at "Sutton at the Movies." This trip into my DVD vault takes us to 1951, with the movie Superman and the Mole Men. Yes, you read that title right. It was more or less a theatrically-screened pilot for the Adventures of Superman TV show that aired back in the '50s, and I figured, "What

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-45083794639501281502010-04-20T14:12:00.002-04:002010-04-20T14:12:00.238-04:00

If you were here on Sunday, then you saw me post my quick thoughts on the recently-released Kick-Ass. At the end of that post, I wrote that I wanted to write a full review for the S@TM blog.So guess what? I totally have a new review up! And it's a review of Kick-Ass! So feel free to go click that link and read it, and maybe share it with your friends too. What could that hurt, huh?

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Today was what feels like a rare day off from work for me, so I celebrated by heading out to see Kick-Ass. And in a couple of words, it was awesome. I'm going to look like a total dork for admitting this, but I thought it was so great that I actually sat and watched it twice in a row. Kick-Ass is that kind of movie.If you have even the smallest bit of interest in the movie, go see it. While it

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-39834745562781233162010-04-14T22:41:00.002-04:002010-04-14T22:51:45.308-04:00

I've been working my butt off at Walmart over the last three weeks, but I've still been managing to find the time to tend to "Sutton At The Movies" when I can. It seems I've actually been working a bit harder on them, considering that I've knocked out one a week since the beginning of February.And believe it or not, the streak continues with my latest review. Continuing my bad movie marathon,

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Believe it or not, I haven't been to a movie theater since February, when I saw The Crazies. I just had to fix that. So tonight, while I had a day off from work, headed out with my folks to see the remake of Clash of the Titans. I wasn't really interested in seeing it, to be totally honest with you, but I needed some kind of break and a movie was the way to do it.I'll admit that I've never

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-71622004853724352622010-04-05T23:43:00.002-04:002010-04-05T23:43:00.994-04:00

Some time ago, I noted that I thought having a job would have some sort of drastic effect on "Sutton At The Movies." Less time to write would mean fewer reviews, right?But it's just a matter of finding the time when I can. And over the last week, I did manage to find a little time to continue my bad movie marathon. The newest movie up to bat is an obscure South African sci-fi movie called Space

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-53281176099271508102010-04-03T21:48:00.002-04:002010-04-03T21:57:40.902-04:00

Today marks the end of my first full week as an employee of Walmart. I'm tired, my feet and knees are sore, and I occasionally find myself getting more frustrated than I should in certain situations. But you know what? I think I'm doing okay.The one real negative about it is that I got assigned to stocking the candy aisles, instead of working in sporting goods like I thought I would. And with

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Things are going about as well as could be expected around here. As for the new job, we'll have to wait and see about that. I spent Thursday and Friday sitting in front of a computer in the personnel office, reading about company policies and safety procedures and all that other stuff. It practically bored me to tears, but then I've never been the type of person to enjoy that sort of thing. I'm

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-7757055423282676252010-03-24T13:33:00.005-04:002010-03-24T14:03:24.825-04:00

When I finally got my drivers license a year and a half ago, it was a huge step forward for me. Granted, it's a step I should have taken in 1998, but at least I got it done. And now, I'm on the verge of taking another really big step in life. In less than 24 hours, I'm starting orientation on my first real job. Yes, I'm finally gainfully employed, and I'm pretty darn proud of myself.The job in

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I've resumed my bad movie marathon, and in doing so, I just may have started peeling away the bottom of the barrel to see what's actually underneath said barrel. The reason I say this is because I've just posted my newest review. Called one of the worst movies of all time, and the subject of the documentary Best Worst Movie, the new review in question is my take on Troll 2.Yes, the same Troll 2

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One week ago today, Corey Haim sadly died at his home in Burbank. He'd essentially been something of a "has-been" for the last decade or two, but as a lover of '80s pop culture, he'll always be cool in my eyes.To mourn his death and celebrate his life, I decided to extend the intermission on my bad-movie marathon and review my favorite of Haim's movies, The Lost Boys. So go click that link and

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After The Room, I had to take a break from all the bad movies. I needed to review something good, a movie that could serve as a palate cleanser. Thus, I'll point you in the direction of my newest review: Sherlock Holmes.But this is just a brief reprieve from my bad movie marathon. Netflix is sending me another movie that I'm absolutely dreading. I'm going to keep it a surprise until I get it

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-71638807043158337552010-03-06T23:29:00.000-05:002010-03-06T23:29:00.538-05:00

When I decided to review a series of bad movies for the S@TM blog, I thought I'd built up a tolerance strong enough to keep my sanity intact.I was wrong.I thought I'd seen bad when I reviewed Showgirls. I thought I'd seen bad when I reviewed Howard the Duck. I thought I'd seen bad when I reviewed Manos: The Hands of Fate. But even Manos pales in comparison to the unrelenting terror of The

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-50368174968186316842010-02-26T22:13:00.003-05:002010-02-27T00:33:53.077-05:00

Another weekend, another trip to a movie theater. I fear this blog is becoming somewhat predictable. Maybe I should go make some friends or something so I don't run the risk of sounding like a broken record.So anyway, I headed out earlier tonight to see the remake of The Crazies. (It was either that or Cop Out, and The Crazies won the coin flip.) I went into it without having seen George Romero's

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-42259858257280917542010-02-22T22:13:00.002-05:002010-02-22T22:25:07.271-05:00

When I said that I was using writing to alleviate my boredom, I meant it. And when I said I had some bad movies lined up on Netflix, I meant that too. So thanks to my masochism, I ended up reviewing one of the most famous bad movies of all time: Showgirls.I'm a little ashamed to admit I've actually seen Showgirls, let alone admit that I wrote a 2000-word review of it and posted it online. Then

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-61661569942670970342010-02-16T17:46:00.003-05:002010-02-22T21:52:14.652-05:00

Things have been a lot more boring than usual around here lately, mostly due to all the snow we've been getting. It's only about for or five inches, maybe six, so we haven't quite hit the blizzard territory yet. But it's enough to make me think twice about leaving the house.Unfortunately, that leaves me with not a whole lot to do. It sucks, but it'll happen. I've been keeping busy, though, by

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-65899512444590525912010-02-13T20:28:00.002-05:002010-02-13T20:49:42.065-05:00

I mentioned in my last post that I was looking forward to the release of The Wolfman, and I was in good enough fortune to head out and see it early this afternoon. And since I usually try to discuss movies here after I've seen them, let's get into my opinion of it.The thing is that I thought the movie was thoroughly mediocre. It wasn't a terrible movie, but I didn't think it was all that great,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-60070577645869523382010-02-11T22:50:00.002-05:002010-02-11T23:43:24.931-05:00

Sometimes, no matter how much you try to avoid something, you end up doing it anyway. I bring this up because I finally gave in and saw Avatar this afternoon. I just had to see what all the fuss was about. And while I could have just downloaded it or waited for the DVD, I had to see it theatrically and in 3D.I haven't really had much interest at all in Avatar over the last two months or so. I

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-28186623116803404412010-02-09T18:37:00.002-05:002010-02-09T18:37:00.330-05:00

I've been doing some job hunting lately, and if my hunt is successful, I may not have as much time to write to for "Sutton At The Movies" like I usually do. I know I only crank out two or three reviews a month, sometimes as much as five if I write fast enough. But if and when I acquire gainful employment, the reviews may start coming fewer and farther between.But until then, I'm going to keep

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-80510127435353263692010-02-02T19:53:00.005-05:002010-02-03T00:43:02.657-05:00

The month of January is usually pretty slow when it comes to movie releases, and the last four weeks were no exception. There were actually only two movies released last month that I was even remotely interested in. I've already seen Daybreakers, which left only The Book of Eli.So guess what I did this afternoon? Yeah, I saw the movie. Am I that obvious?You're probably expecting me to give my

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-22431939891822445492010-01-31T13:58:00.002-05:002010-01-31T14:19:55.549-05:00

You know the phrase "curiosity killed the cat?" I think I might be part feline because a little bit of me died inside a few hours ago.I say that because a local TV channel decided to show Troll 2 late last night. I've heard over and over that it's supposed to be one of the worst movies ever made, but I'd never actually seen it before. And because I chose to be a masochist and pretty darn stupid

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-63240562825705294322010-01-23T15:37:00.002-05:002010-01-23T15:37:00.233-05:00

I don't have a very exciting existence. That's probably why I never have a whole lot to talk about here. Things can get boring awfully quickly, so I spend quite a bit of time writing.The sad part about it is that I'm not creative enough to write short stories or the movie script I wanted to do a few years back or anything like that. Instead, I write movie reviews.But you knew that, right? I mean,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-76429575183205131832010-01-21T16:27:00.004-05:002010-01-21T17:21:42.216-05:00

Coming up with original content for this blog is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I guess my problem is that I just haven't come up with anything meaningful to say. Here's hoping that I'll be able to come up with something soon, because this is the MSX's milestone 900th post. Yeah, no kidding, this is number 900. We're a hundred posts away from a thousand. It's weird thinking that I've

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I know I said in my last post that I wanted to do more than just movie-related posts, but I've got another movie post. But I have a new review up at S@TM and I just had to share it. The review in question covers Dead End Drive-In, an Australian movie from the '80s that I stumbled upon one day and figured I'd give a shot. So won't you give the review a shot?

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I've been thinking about it lately, and it really seems like I've been neglecting the MSX over the last couple of months. I get the feeling like all I really do with it are post about how I saw a movie that day, or posting a link to the newest post at the "Sutton at the Movies" blog, something I could easily use Twitter for. I don't know how or why it's gotten that way, but I can't say that I

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-73013639447765838502010-01-01T15:57:00.002-05:002010-01-01T16:06:29.743-05:00

The New Year's train has rolled out of the station, and there's no turning back now. 2010 is officially underway, so let's break it in with a new review over at "Sutton at the Movies."But what movie do I review? After a month of Christmas movies, I need something different. Oh, I know! How about a horror movie? How about a classic one, at that? I want Night of the Living Dead!Wait, what do you

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19495160.post-86495213077619840692010-01-01T13:47:00.004-05:002010-01-31T14:28:25.486-05:00

I hope you're all having a great new year so far. Me, I'm doing as well as could be expected.But as you can tell by the headline for this post, we're not here to discuss the changing calendar. Instead, it's time for the annual "Sutton At The Movies" Achievement Awards. For you newbies, this ceremony has become a time-honored tradition for this blog. It's where I take the time to run down the best

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