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Spill.com

  • Jul. 8th, 2008 at 1:16 PM
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Also, just to share the love: for movie reviews, I love Spill.com. [info]theferrett describes the site as being "a bunch of movie-loving friends bitching about the big summer movies, who all sound pretty much like my friends dissecting the film at the after-movie Denny's crash." The guys at Spill.com are pretty funny--check out their Love Guru review (which for some reason isn't on YouTube).

Also, I love how they speak my language. Their rating system, from greatest to crappiest film:
- Better than sex!
- Full price!!
- Matinee!
- Rental
- Some ole bulls**t!

Anyway, here's a sample movie review from them that IS embeddable. It's for Wall-E.



Edit #1: Sorry, just had to include one more. This review is for Hancock (which, btw, was awesome).



Edit #2: Just wanted to add a little more commentary. I think what I like best about it is that there's a certain kind of sensibility about the reviews that doesn't fall into pretentiousness. Each reviewer frequently makes solid talking points with their critiques while also admitting their own biases and personality quirks--one person is a comics fanboy, another integrates sex into his reviews, etc. And the humor is kind of what grounds the reviews, oddly enough, because it reiterates that their opinions are really just opinions and not self-proclaimed "facts" about why a movie is good or bad. That, and the fact that there are usually 2-4 people reviewing the films simultaneously gives you multiple perspectives and opinions.

But mostly they're just funny. :P

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(Anonymous) wrote:
Jul. 9th, 2008 06:18 am (UTC)
hahaha oh wow
2 things:

1. Hancock was awesome... for the first hour and then it totally sucked for 20 minutes. Then it was cool for a single minute. Then it sucked again.

What killed me is I can never get that time back. If only I had just turned it off after an hour I wouldve loved it unconditionally.

2. You have an urban dictionary entry.... Amazing. Possibly annoying, but amusing all the same ;)

Anon
[info]ilubmoney wrote:
Jul. 9th, 2008 03:09 pm (UTC)
Re: hahaha oh wow
While I agree that the twist in the second half really ruined the pacing of the movie (among other things), I still think the first half of Hancock was good enough to say that the movie's awesome and worth the viewing.

Now we're just waiting for Dark Knight... XD
[info]lehah wrote:
Jul. 9th, 2008 09:26 pm (UTC)
I normally hate internet humor reviews on anything - but those are pretty damn good.
[info]ilubmoney wrote:
Jul. 9th, 2008 09:49 pm (UTC)
What do you like about it? :)
[info]lehah wrote:
Jul. 9th, 2008 11:30 pm (UTC)
I find stuff like Penny Arcade and the ilk about as funny as Schindler's List. People that would be making picking lint out of a sock machine 60 years ago are now trying to be funny through the internet. And its not because they're talented - its because anyone can get on the internet.

These guys are just a bunch of people who talk like everyone else, avoiding the awful Joss Whedon / Tarintino speech patterns people now write in.