Never Not A Nerd

As long as it’s posted before the Academy Awards air it’s totally fine, right?

A couple weeks ago I sat down with a couple trusted fellow movie lovers and we discussed what we loved from 2012.

The audio may sound a little like we’re at a beach, but just imagine that while you’re listening to it and you should be fine.

Check it out below. You can also feel free to tell us how much we suck for the picks we made in the comments, if you so choose.

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Don’t let the trailer/promo posters fool you, Olga Kurylenko is not one of the Seven Psychopaths. She’s barely in the movie at all. I just thought I’d get that out of the way for the thousands of Olga Kurylenko fan club members that read this review. Even though your muse/obsession doesn’t have a big role you should still see this.
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There have been quite a few well done time travel movies. From Terminator to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to Primer. Looper has now joined that club. It’s a rather smart action movie where the plot hinges on time travel. Putting it somewhere in between Terminator and Primer.
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As a fan of its star, I went into Trouble with the Curve biased: I appreciate the majority of Clint Eastwood’s roles, and this is no different. Much like Shia Lebouf in Lawless, I was apprehensive about Justin Timberlake’s presence in this film, but in both cases, I was dead wrong and I think they were both well cast. The story is fairly straight forward, and despite taking place in the world of baseball, the real heart of the film centers on a father and daughter reconnecting. The performances are solid, the plot hits on all cylinders, and John Goodman is always a welcome presence. There is a twist toward the end that is much darker than I anticipated the film going, but it adds credibility to Clint’s character and his motivations. A definite recommend, but nothing will be lost if you wait to DVD, or the no doubt constant airings this film will have on TBS in a couple years.

The last Judge Dredd movie was a mess. Most of us that saw it probably blocked a lot of it out of our minds. If you did see it, do you even remember Diane Lane being in it? You probably just remember Rob Schneider as a terrible sidekick and Sylvester Stallone grumbling “I am the LAAWR!” Stallone wasn’t a very good Judge Dredd, and that movie was terrible.

Now, 17 years later, we have a Dredd movie starring 2000 A.D. comic (where Dredd comes from) fan Karl Urban(Star Trek) that was written by Alex Garland (28 Days Later / Sunshine).

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The idea of a talking stuffed bear is a bit of a creepy concept. It’s still not as creepy as a regular Furby toy. Have you ever seen one of those things? It looks like if you got it wet it’d turn into a gremlin. And if you don’t interact with it for a while it says “play with me”.
Anyway, Ted is a movie where a little boy named John wishes for his Teddy Bear to be able to talk so they can be best friends. His wish comes true, and the stuffed bear comes to life. After 27 years of being best friends John is now 35, works in a car rental office, and smokes pot with his Teddy bear regularly.
His girlfriend, Lori, has had enough of John’s lack of ambition, so she gives him the ultimatum: her or the bear. Is this a romantic comedy hidden under crude dialogue? Or a buddy comedy brought to life by crude dialogue, and a wish?

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As part of our B-movie week last week we spent a little less than 2 hours of our ever so valuable time to watch the SyFy original Piranhaconda. Check the review out below.
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Last week on The Never Not a Nerd Show was our B-Movie week. The first movie we talked about was the recently released Piranha 3DD. This thing actually got a theatrical release in some places, in 3D! Check out the review below.

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Tuesday we reviewed the highly anticipated film Prometheus. It was directed by Ridley Scott and is a prequel to one of his two classic sci-fi films, Alien. Does it live up to the original? Or would we have been better off being kept in the dark on the xenomorph’s origin?

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This is the third movie and it follows three agents?! Well, two, there’s three main heroes because of time travel.
Agents Jay and Kay are still partners. They’re still investigating alien disturbances together when one of the worst to have ever come to Earth, Boris the Animal (just Boris), escapes from Lunarmax prison and returns to Earth to kill Kay. Using a time travel device built by one of the prisons other inmates Boris returns to 1969 to kill Kay before he takes Boris’ arm and puts him in prison. It’s up to Jay to go back in time to stop Boris from killing Kay and save Earth from invasion.

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