Taxi Driver (1976)

Everyone has been bugging me to see this movie for a long time. "It's a clasic!" They keep telling me. (they is the recommendations from netflix) so I happened to be in a Blockbuster checking out their going out of business sale and saw this movie at the bottom of the discount bin. I figured I had nothing to lose for 45 cents. I went home and pooped this one in the DVD player and I was whisked away to New York City.

This is a smile. You wont be doing
anything like that while
watching this movie

This movie centers around two characters, Belle Williams, who performs the titular role as the Taxi Driver, and Andy Washburn who detects things while undercover. They meet as the detective needs a taxi (and it's driver) to take him to the scene of some bank robbing crime he heard about. The bank robbers are hot babes!

Belle really wants to be a Nascar driver not a taxi driver and finally when the two solve the mystery of the robbed banks her dream comes true and she drives Nascar and the NYC banks are her sponsors. Happy ending?

These are the hot babes the film has.
Save time and just check out this image
and don't bother with the "film"

No! Because when I saw the credits were rolling I knew I ahd wasted my time with another so-called "classic". How could anyone think this movie was good??? I didn't see any of the "gritty" streets of NYC. In fact Netflix describes this movie to be "Violent, Dark, Gritty, Suspenseful" None of that stuff is true. Were they just trying to sucker some action fans into getting this poorly made comedy because they felt bad about ordering so many copies??? I don't know what the heck they were doing but now I'm mad!!!

Except for the babes who robbed the bank there was nothing in this movie that I would ever want to see again. Since when do women drive nascars and taxis? Did they do any research??? I just don't see the appeal and I'm going to write letters to those who placed this movie in their "top 10 movies you need to see" lists because i just don't agree! I give this my lowest possible score, ** two stars! Leave this one at the bottom of the discount bin.

Battle: Los Angeles - 2011

I don't know what they were thinking when they made this. First of all, it's apparently based off the Rage Against The Machine album of the same name, while also showing what Harvey Dent did before becoming DA of Gotham City. How confusing can it be? Here's an idea, stick with one thing to adapt into a film! That's it's first problem, it doesn't seem confident enough in simply adapting the Rage album into a film but also has to tie into the Dark Knight too just in case Rage fans won't fill all the theaters seats they'll get the Batman buffs in as well.

Speaking of Batman, if Harvey Dent was here, where was he? Was this supposed to be before even Batman Begins? They aren't too clear on anything. 

As far as how they did adapting the rap rock album into a feature, I'm not convinced they did anything but look at the album's title and scan maybe the CD artwork and track listing. Where did they get the aliens from? They didn't mind taking so many liberties with the source material, I think that maybe they ended up taking too many! Who the heck was in charge of this thing???

There were plenty of explosions in this film and that seems to go pretty well with the themes of war they were trying to portray so Good Job on that! There was also some soldiers who seemed well informed on what guns did because they shot them frequently. I was glad to see that. The aleins were like water balloons with weird metal flesh. I didn't really care for that. They were blowing up earth because they wanted to drink all our water. Is that they best the writers could think of? Was he trying to write the film real quick because he was really thirsty and suddenly this genious idea came to him??? PROBEBLY! 

At least there was one good part of
the movie

Because of it's poor adaptation from Rage Against The Machine album and it's weird insertion of Harvey Dent from the Batman universe (which is apparently the same universe this picture takes place in) i (and everyone else) felt let down and too confused. I would run to the boarder if i were the writer or director of this movie because I bet a lot of people will be looking to flip them off. I give this my lowest possible score, ** two stars