Dirty Martini Society

Back from a little digital vacay with a review of "Pineapple Express." First impression: complete and utter stoner movie. If you hate stoner humor in any way, shape, or form, then you will not find this movie funny in the least bit. That being said, the DMS crew and myself LOVED IT! After seeing the trailer a couple of months ago I knew that I would be in a theater opening night watching this movie. My main interest was across seeing Seth Rogen and James Franco on screen together after their Freak and Geeks days.

After suffering through sold out theaters using Fandango we were finally able to score tickets through some other website I hadn't heard about. We get to the theater and of course it's a complete madhouse. The DMS kids and I snag the last 5 seats together and settled down to witness the greatness. Awesome one-liners, a little bromance, and a plot that seemed as clueless as the actors managed to make a movie that I wouldn't mind owning. I didn't think the subplots were all that great, and could have been edited in my opinion. However, there was another great gem in the movie...

Rosie Perez

That is all

*Disclaimer: If you don't like Abba, the original play, or actors who weren't born to sing, then this isn't for you*

Otherwise I saw grab your besties and sing your heart out to Mamma Mia. Thanks to a dedicated DMS crew member we were able to get a private screening of the movie. From the very beginning to the credits there was never a dull movie as each scene was sprinkled with a little Abba, some hot guys, and amazing scenery. I refuse to spoil any of the scenes, so take my word for it and be a dancing queen of the theater for one evening.

Everyone knows that I'm a huge horror film buff, so when I heard about M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening" I knew I would be front and center for a decent thriller. What I got instead was a mild heart attack. With most recent thrillers the villain is usually a deranged butcher, a creature from another world, or someone you know. However, 10 minutes into this movie there were still no clues as to what was causing the chaos.



The rest of the movie seems like a warped psych study on mass societal hysteria combined with gruesome suicides that seemed to happen every second. I would get into the storyline of the main characters, but it would be pointless seeing as how the movie could have had the same disturbing effect without them. What happens when there are no answers, only mass suicides?

Originally, I wanted to wait til this movie came out on DVD, but couldn't pass up a late night showing with a couple of DMS members. Dark and Stormy cocktails in hand, we sat in a near empty AMC to catch Get Smart: The Movie. Though it is definitely not Oscar worthy, Get Smart offers enough funny moments and scenes with The Rock a.k.a Dwayne Johnson (Agent 23) that I was very content. Ann Hathaway pulls off a surprisingly sexy Agent 99, although her attraction to Agent 86 (Steve Carell) was a bit far fetched. Overall, it was an entertaining movie and you should certainly queue it up on your netflix when it hits DVD