The Comedians of Comedy, Reefer Madness, A Fistful of Dynamite, & Thirteen

The Comedians of Comedy is funny. All you need to know is that it has Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and Zach Gallifinakakisniksaks. Or whatever (it's Galifianakis, but I had to look that up). And Maria Bamford, but I don't entirely care for her comedy. Funny, but not as good as the other three. I was also a little disappointed at the lack of Galifianakis, and also a lack of actual standup. A little too focused on the guys getting naked and/or putting things down their pants. It was sometimes funny, but too often it just went over the top.

And speaking of over to the top, Reefer Madness is horrifically bad. But if I get jonesing from pot addiction like Dave O'Brien did, then maybe I should become a pot head. Or maybe I should just stick to watching terrible movies for their being terrible. Oh, and watch out for that demon jazz, and the way too old people playing teens.

A Fistful of Dynamite wasn't as good as Leone's earlier westerns. Damn shame too, but really, how many movies are as good as Once upon a Time in the West or The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? Very few. Rod Steiger is especially annoying. Eli Wallach would have been outstanding in the role. Coburn's good though, even if his accent is occasionally horrendous. The very political aspect of it (including a Mao quote at the beginning) got a little annoying. Seriously, Mao? In 1971? Wasn't he already ridiculous then?

Thirteen is just 100 minutes of parent scaring claptrap. Woo for a 13 year old writing it? Not really. Eh to it. It's technically skilled and there's some good acting, but there's also that complete and total sense of making a scary movie for parents, plus, I think there's a problem with a slightly jumpy narrative, and why was Evie so evil? Eh, although I do always like to hear Ivanka. Not sure about the ending either. That exploitation feel just makes me think that if there was any attempt to portray the children realistically, some of that, if not all of that, broke down to just have evil little kids doing dirty, dirty things. Dirty, dirty.