Let’s Look At Five Random Movies: Number FIVE!

Back around Sunday, I got the bright idea of pulling five random movies off the shelf with my eyes averted, with the aim to spend the week reviewing them. So far we've had some classics, some best picture nominees and winners, the third Matrix movie and yes, the hair sprayed vampires of The Lost Boys. Now we're headed to the south of France. What a week, eh?

You know what's missing in a lot of modern movies, smartly put together setup. OH BOY THIS IS GONNA BE A LOTTA CRAP BRO WHAT KINDA FIRST SENTENCE IS THAT? These days, in order to ensnare the audience, the first half an hour of the movie is either a giant wad of exposition hitting you like a tidal wave of words or they say $#@#! it and run you through a montage of info like they wrote it on the side of a series of buses that they run past you at 189 miles an hour. Also Bryan Cranston in a high powered toupee and ten minutes later a zippered body bag. ARE YOU KNOCKING GODZILLA, BRO, COS THAT #$#@#! RULES, BRO. What I'm saying is that dipping into today's movie was like sinking into a pleasantly warm bath NOW YOU'RE TALKING BATHING BRO WHAT THE HECK BRO with a really good book before the crazy doo doo started hitting the comedy fan. It was very old fashioned, very grown up and yes, I fell asleep.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels gets very very funny....eventually AM I SUPPOSED TO SIT THROUGH BORING PARTS, BRO? THAT'S WHAT I HAVE A FAST FORWARD BUTTON ON MY REMOTE BUDDY Listen, Mister, I hate the fast foward button just like I dislike people who skip pages in a book WHAT'S A BOOK, BRO Oh my God, really?

Steve Martin is The Jackyl, an obnoxious American con man working his across the south of France. Michael Caine plays a very large feline with slick backed fur and a pencil thin mustache who always looks like he just ate the largest bird in the pet store. Martin's fine, but it's Caine who rules the roost. He's so smooth and in control that when things go teats up and the double and triple crossing starts, it's a bloody treat watching Michael Caine inhabit his snobtastic character fully. The movie is very smart, quite funny, the locations are swank and gorgeous, and the two leads have so much fun they make this one for the fave comedy top ten lists.

And, also, I fell asleep again.

WHAT'S WITH YOU BRO!?! I do morning radio and get up at 2 in the morning, man. MORNING RADIO? THAT STILL A THING, BRO?

Bottom line is, this is a fun sophisticated old fashioned box of movie chocolates and, as long as you know you're not in for a Luc Besson or Brett Ratner or Michael Bay edit and explosion fest, you'll be well served by checking out Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which, by the way, was directed by Miss Piggy. WHAT THE HECK BRO A PIG DIRECTED THIS? Actually it was Frank Oz, the voice of Ms. Piggy, who directed the movie. I was trying to be clever. YEAH, WELL, DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE, BRO. You are right there, my man. Absolutely right. *sigh*

P.S: if you missed the last segment, covering The Lost Boys, find that HERE!