Scrooged Movie Review

Director: Richard Donner

Writer(s): Mitch Glazer & Michael O'Donoghue

Starring: Bill Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, John Forsythe, Karen Allen



"Scrooged" is the perfect answer to how to properly do a re telling of a classic story and have it become its very own classic at the same time. Bill Murray (Ghostbusters, Stripes, & Lost in Translation) stars as television executive Frank Cross. Frank has all the same tendencies towards Christmas as does Scrooge from the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol".

Murray find himself starring along side Bobcat Goldthwait (Police Academy ), John Forsythe (Dynasty), and Karen Allen (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) in this wonderful adult themed Christ movie.

Every single year at this time I manage to sneak this movie in to my holiday season viewing and this year is no exception. It was just this morning in fact that "Scrooged" was playing on the television and I turned it on and as always enjoyed every single minute of it. I know that there is many things that are outrageous and over the top with the movie, but it those things that make it fun and worth all the while to turn on each and every Christmas season.

The tagline for the movie read "Bill Murray is back among the ghosts. Only this time, it's three against one." in reference to his previous work in "Ghostbusters" which had been a hit for Murray four years prior to the release of "Scrooged".

Bill Murray has always been a delight to watch when it comes to movies and with this movie there is no doubt that he is at his best. I am anxiously awaiting Murray's return to the big screen taking on the supernatural in the not too distant future, but in the meantime I will never hesitate to sit down with a good old rum and egg nog to watch Bill and the ghosts in "Scrooged"

If for any reason you have been living under a rock and have never managed to see this movie then there is no better time like the present to head down to your local video store and rent it. If you do not want to leave your house though please feel free to discover the world of online video rentals that are now available these days. Most major movie distributors and rental companies now offer you online access to their movie libraries and offer you the convenience of watching classics such as this without ever leaving your home. That being said you do not have any excuse not to see this movie during the holiday season.

My Rating:90%

Paranormal Activity Movie Review

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Director: Oren Peli
Writer : Oren Peli

Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat.



I just want to say right from the start of this review that I know many of you out there loved this movie for what ever reason and hate me if you must but this movie was horribly disappointing in so many ways. When I originally became aware of this movie it had not even been released in small select theaters yet and already my interest had been peaked. I then saw the quick rise in popularity of this low budget film and anxiously anticipated the release of it in a Saskatoon theater.

After such a long wait and reading rave reviews for this movie, including the solid 85% rating it received on movie review website Rotten Tomatoes I was ready to go and witness what should have been a marvel in film making. I then proceed to the theater to see this movie and found myself highly unimpressed. I know it would be easy to say that I hyped the movie up way too much for myself only to be let down but in this case I feel the movie in general let me down.

I can say that I was impressed by one or two scenes in the movie and that did include the final segment of the movie itself, but the problem is that the movie drags on for so long otherwise. The film generally finds itself repeating itself frequently, same daily conversation, same old effects that I am most certain were more creative when they were used in the movie Poltergeist (1982).

There is one thing I do find rather interesting about this movie though and that is how the people behind it managed to turn a $15,000 movie into a multi-million dollar phenomenon. I figure that the majority of the $15,000 was spent on an internet marketing campaign, and if this is the case then my hat is off to the film makers here for their hard work in getting their movie out to the masses.

I will not recommend this movie to people at all, you will either find yourself liking it because everyone else said they did or else you find yourself bored out of your skull for 98% of the entire movie. This is definitely not a ground breaking by any means, and in no way is it really all that scary, a few cheap scares here and there will not save this movie from a negative review from yours truly.

My Rating: 25%