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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Brilliant ending to the Jersey saga.
This movie is the quintessential inside comedy. Basic plot outline: Jay and Silent Bob, the lovable (ummm, well, that's debatable) stoner duo from the ViewAskew productions series (encompassing Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and now JASBSB. I really recommend you watch them in chronological order.) find out there is a movie being made about the comic book characters "Bluntman & Chronic", which are based on Our Heroes themselves. They get to see an Internet comment board about movies and read all the people bitch and moan about the upcoming movie and the "stupid brainless characters" in much the same style as some of the reviews here (oh the irony). Feeling personally insulted, they decide to go to Hollywood to stop the movie from being made. Hilarity and vast amounts of movie references ensue. What makes this film so brilliant are all the cameo appearances of previous ViewAskew characters and the vast amounts of inside jokes, combined with the situations Jay and Silent Bob are facing. We finally learn how the mysterious "Susanne" from the Mallrats ending credits fits into the whole plot, for instance. All in all, this movie is the perfect wrap-up to the Jay & Silent Bob series. I can definitely say that I'm going to miss these guys.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Give people a Stanley Kubrick classic, and everyone will shout "boring".
Reading through the previous reviews I got quite sad at how many people basically just seemed to say "Ugh. Where's the dialogue? Where's the action? Where are the nifty giant explosions?" To all those people I can only say: Sorry, this kind of movie wasn't made for you. It stems from a time when people were more patient, when they could enjoy the wonderful atmosphere and ponder the philosophical meaning. Because those two things are what made this movie one of the all-time greats. Go and watch Rambo again, that seems to be your style. Bleah.
Erkan & Stefan (2000)
Very funny, if you like the style.
If you live in or near Munich, you have probably already noticed the kind of teenagers that dye their hair jet black, hang around train stations and talk German with a pseudo-Turkish accent (regardless of where they come from). Erkan and Stefan are just like those kids, minus the hair dye. They use the same pathetic teenie slang, always want to appear as hard as possible and are basically idiots. All in all, they're a very accurate representation of the stereotype. The movie is about these two getting involved with the BND and CIA and even out- (or should I say under-?) witting them in their particular idiom. I can recommend this to everyone who has seen, and maybe made fun of, the kind of kids described above. It's truly hilarious. To those who don't like really "dumb" (as in "you don't need a brain to laugh at this") movies and those who had their sense of humour surgically removed, hands off this. You'd be wasting your time.