My Week In Movies - Fore!

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Who's Your Caddy? (2007) Why do I feel the need to watch such dumb movies? Basically, this is an "urban" remake of Caddyshack without the gopher puppet...or any of the other really funny parts. One of those hip-hop guys wants to join a snooty South Carolina golf and polo club, but the snooty (and racist) president of the club doesn't want that to happen. Oh, the lenghts a rich white guy will go to just to keep a black guy out of his country club! The first half hour was silly and kind of funny but when the film moves into the second half it's just coasting on situations and characters we've seen a thousand times. Except for the souped up golf cart featured in the poster... it has spinning rims, folks! Can you imagine the laughs the guys in the art department had putting together a funny golf cart?!


Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun (1997) I saw this IMAX film at the Maryland Science Center ten years ago and decided to rent the DVD to see what an IMAX film would be like in my newly christened home theatre. I remember being a bit disappointed in the film when I originally saw it and the DVD reminded me why. The title, poster, and DVD box suggest a look into roller coaster and other such rides. After six or seven minutes of roller coasters the movie focuses on motion simulator rides. Basically the point of this movie was to give museums, science centers and other IMAX equipped venues the opportunity to run a slightly more commercial program than the usual travel and nature docs IMAX offered. There are several extended clips of the movies used in simulator rides across the country. Most of the Back to the Future ride from Universal Studios is shown and the entire ride of an attraction in Vegas' Luxor resort is shown. Unless your TV is at least 50", there's little point of watching this film at home. Nowadays there's an IMAX screen at many neighborhood theatres which regularly offer blockbuster Hollywood movies in the giant screen experience, making Thrill Ride an outdated gimmick and product of it's time.