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My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a review by RossRoy

Original Title: My Big Fat Greek Wedding Year: 2002 Country: United States Director: Joel Zwick Rating: G Length: 95 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo Subtitles: English, French, Greek, Spanish

What they say
Toula is 30. And unmarried. Which means as a nice Greek girl - she's a failure. All her cousins did the right thing - married Greek boys and made Greek babies. So everyone worries: what will become of Toula?

Then one day she sees the ultimate unattainable guy and realizes the only way her life will get better is if she gets away from her big, fat Greek family. Toula escapes from the family restaurant. She exchanges her seating hostess jacket for a college diploma, convinces her aunt to give her a new job, and trades in her coke-bottle glasses for contact lenses, just in time for "him" to walk back into her life.

Ian Miller is tall, handsome, but definitely not Greek. Their courtship is an Olympian culture clash. Can Ian handle Toula, her parents, her aunts, uncles, cousins and several centuries of Greek heritage? Will Toula discover the love she's been missing right in the heart of her big, fat family?

One thing is for sure, for better or worse, richer or poorer, with Ian's proposal, Toula is headed for her big, fat Greek wedding.

My Thoughts
So, what do we have here? Well, at its core, this movie is a fairly standard, run of the mill, love story: Girl meets boy, they fall in love, they marry. Nothing special here. What's interesting, is the clash of cultures. You've got the typical, overprotective, almost paranoid father. The very open-minded, understanding mother. And a big and loud typical greek family. Now, movie may be called "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", but the way I see it, you could exchange Greek for just about anything. The greek angle, is probably just what Nia Vardalos (Writer and leading lady) knew better, but the way the film is constructed, it is a look at how a different culture would react towards the first girl to marry a, in this case non-greek, boy, and all the lack of trust and oddities that ensues. And they are plenty in this movie, which is actually quite funny in its own right. I actually laughed out loud a few times.

You should give this movie a spin, it might surprise you. Even if you don't usually like love stories.



(From RossRoy's Random Viewings on April 15th, 2008)

Starship Troopers, a review by addicted2dvd

Starship Troopers
From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with shrieking, fire-spitting brain-sucking special effects creatures, acclaimed director PAUL VERHOVEN crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein's classic sci-fi adventure.
CASPER VAN DIEN, DINA MEYER, DENISE RICHARDS, JAKE BUSEY, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS, PATRICK MULDOON, and MICHAEL IRONSIDE star as the courageous soldiers who travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species.

My Thoughts:
I enjoyed this one... but I have seen better... though I will admit that it is beyond a little far fetched... but I think that is to be expected from anything set in the future. This is a movie that don't take itself too seriously though. It is almost like watching a live-action comic book. Which I guess is what makes it more of a fun watch then anything else.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Outer Space on December 27th, 2008)

The Flash Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

Guest Stars:
Paul Koslo as Johnny Ray Hix
Priscilla Pointer as Nora Allen
M. Emmet Walsh as Henry Allen
Mike Genovese as Lt. Warren Garfield
Richard Kuss as Pete Donello

My Thoughts:
This is a great episode... definitely one of my favorites. Barry's father finally shows some respect for what Barry does.

My Rating:

(From The Flash Marathon on April 11th, 2010)