the-dead-dude Reviews

Copper Mountain (1983 TV Movie)

You'll love this if you love Ronnie Hawkins!

[1/10 · 21 November 2005]

Wow, what a horrible movie. After watching this, I still wasn't too sure what it was supposed to be about. From what I understood, it looks like the two main characters were supposed to be Bobby Todd and Jackson Reach, played by Jim Carrey and Alan Thicke. Now, these two guys go to some Club Med ski resort. Bobby's there to try and pick up girls, and Alan's there to become the Ski Champion of some contest. So that's basically what the movie's about. Bobby has this problem where he does funny impersonations every time he tries to talk with a girl. The bad part about the film is that they did a bad job of filming Jim Carreys impersonations, and on top of that, they really weren't even that funny.

Now, you noticed I said you're gonna love this if you love that Ronnie Hawkin guy. That's because there are about four full song's in this short 60 minute film. A typical song lasts five minutes, right? So you got 20 minutes of solid music there. I guess the only real plus to this is that this is how it would be if this wasn't a movie and you were at the real event taking place.

Overall, I'd say to stay away from this movie. I think the only reason anyone today even consider's seeing this movie is because Jim Carrey is in it. I know that's why I watched it, even though everyone said to stay away from it. You have to remember, this movie co-stars Carrey and Thicke, so the screen time's split between them, and don't forget all the music that there is. I think you really only get to see Carrey for about 15 minutes total in this film.

7 Seconds (2005 Video)

This was just OK

[6/10 · 29 June 2005]

This movie was just alright. I wouldn't consider it a 'must see' movie at all. There were several things that were wrong with this movie. First off, it takes place in Bucharest, Romania. That just doesn't sound like an interesting place for a movie to take place, unless it involves Vampires of some sort. I really don't know anything about Romania though, but it's always neat to see what other cities look like in movies. The movie did have a decent plot, or at least I thought it did. I did find some of the characters cheesy, but that's to be expected in an action flick. I didn't like how you kind of knew what was going to happen next. Some things did surprise me, actually, just two did. At the beginning you feel like you know what's going on, then towards the middle everything starts to get kind of confusing and you have to figure out everything. That's always fun when movies make you think. Not like you were thinking deep thoughts or anything though.

As far as Wesley Snipes goes, it's not that I don't like his movies, I've just only seen two others besides 7 Seconds. Demolition Man and Murder at 1600. Now in 7 Seconds, for me, you could have replaced Wesley Snipes with someone else, and I probably would have had the same thoughts about this movie. It's just that I probably wouldn't have watched it is Snipes wasn't in it.

Overall, I say watch it if you want to see stuff blow up, shot up, kicked up, have a bit of a mystery in there, and a few corny jokes. I do remember laughing at one or two of them. But I wouldn't rate this up there with my favorite movies at all. In fact, I doubt that I'll ever watch this one again.