Weekly DVD Drop: Chris Rock – Kill the Messenger

By Chuck

Best of the Week: Chris Rock – Kill the Messenger
Chris Rock never exactly fell off, but he did just have a seriously unremarkable bunch of years. The two films he directed and starred in, Head of State and I Think I Love My Wife, both sucked, and his last stand-up special, Never Scared, was decent at best — not what you come to expect from one of the greatest comics alive. Fortunately, those days are far behind us. Kill the Messenger, which aired on HBO back in September, is quite possibly the best stand-up Rock has ever done. Considering how long he’s been in the game and how hilarious his old material is, that’s really saying something. Chris brings it hard in this one, tackling everything from the usefulness of the word ‘f*ggot’ to when its okay for white people to say ‘n*gger’ to Sarah Palin. It’s Rock at his finest — not to be missed!

Worst of the Week: Repo! The Genetic Opera
This piece of crap is being marketed as an ‘Instant Cult Classic’, which is basically code for ‘Horrible on Purpose’. Judging by the plot, cast and look of the film, that’s probably a fair assessment. Genetic repossession in a dystopian future starring Paris Hilton? Obviously not supposed to be good. But just for the record, that doesn’t automatically disqualify it. What does disqualify it is the ‘Opera’ aspect, which is unbearable (think Rent meets Marilyn Manson meets a dying cat). Truly some of the worst songs ever written. Combine those with a horrible movie, purposeful or not, and you’ve got some of the most excruciating 98 minutes ever created.

Leftovers:

Max Payne
Hey, have you guys ever heard of this thing called ‘slow motion’? It’s crazy. You can slow down things that are happening on screen so that they literally take, like, forever to happen… Oh wait, what? Slowmo has been around since f*cking 1904? Then why the hell did we just shoot every single action scene in this entire movie in the slowest mo that we possibly could? What, did we think it was going to make it all ‘stylized’ it or something? Because wow, it sure as sh*t didn’t.

Saw V
The exact same as every other Saw movie. You decide if that’s a good thing.

Henry Poole is Here
This would easily be the worst movie of the week if anybody had ever heard of it before. Luke Wilson, whose career is officially on life support, plays Henry Poole, a guy who knows he is about to die from a disease or something. He buys a house to die in and starts drinking lots of vodka and eating ice cream for breakfast until his nosy neighbor swears she sees Jesus in a stain on the side of his house, and the movie turns from boring to horrible.

Spoiler Alert: Luke Wilson doesn’t die in the end. Really makes you wonder about Jesus and how he works in mysterious ways, doesn’t it? Spoiler Alert: No, it doesn’t.