Tonight's cinematic death match pits late 1990's marathon " Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil " featuring John Cusak and Kevin Spacey being whipped by director Clint Eastwood , versus one of the many recent flicks starring Gerard Butler . " RocknRolla " The winner will be decided using The Big Ragu 10 Star System as always . LETS GET IT ON !!!!
Round # 1
The five crucial stars , if you want a 10 star rating then you must earn these 5 essential stars.
Midnight earned a star for surpassing the minimum run time of 120 minutes , while RocknRolla fell 5 minutes short. Both movies had an entertaining plot worthy of a star. The epic betrayal went to RocknRolla only on account of pretty Bob tricking Gerard Butler in to gay slow dancing. it's a weak star I know , but there wasn't much to award here. Neither movie produced full frontal nudity or a remarkable explosion.
So after round # 1 the score is deadlocked at 2 -2 . On to round # 2 , the bonus full stars.
Awesome side boob , gratuitous sex , killer special effects , and crazy fight scenes were absent from both movies. RocknRolla however did manage to provide some good comedy and against my better judgement I gave it a star .
The score after 2 rounds is 3 - 2 in favor of RocknRolla. On to the half stars.
Again , fabulous death scenes , awesome sound tracts , epic drug benders , and soon to be historic one liners were not achieved by either show. RocknRolla most certainly has drugs , and both have decent statements , but none were even close to EPIC as I see it .
After round # 3 the score remains 3 - 2 in favor of RocknRolla.
Last round , the 1/4 stars. See the ranking system here .
Much to my extreme disappointment not one 1/4 star was awarded to either movie. The actresses were pretty but not HOT , there were no aliens of any kind , like wise there were no natural disasters , there may have been some political incorrectness in RocknRolla but London-ese jokes are so far below my head I didn't catch them.
Which brings me to the most disappointing thing of all . I did not find even one awesome porn stash or fabulous mullet in either show . Is that even possible ? Four plus hours of cinematicness didn't provide even one of those two things . Really ?
At any rate the final score looks like this ...................
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil = 2 stars = Mildly amused.....by something
RocknRolla = 3 stars = Mildly amused ....by something
The winner is ......RocknRolla ! by a 3 - 2 score.
Despite the low scores I would like to make it known that I enjoyed both movies. I can't believe that they both scored so poorly. But what can I say ? It's not like I created the scale , and judged both movies by it .
Oh wait .......I did.
Well nuts to me .
your movie death match continues to thrill me to my core. even though these two movies dont rank particularly high on my list I fully enjoy the breakdown....ps, is there ultimatly a goal of how many movies you would like to see graded? I do think that mile stones should be left for the heavy hitters. (your 99th and 100th movies should be classics!)
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