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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Chabert Watch! Tart (2001)

I don't make the posters, I just post them



Watched:  05/05/2025
Format:  Amazon
Viewing:  First
Director/ Writer:  Christina Wayne


Watching Tart (2001) feels very much like when you're a middle-class kid with middle-class experiences and you get stuck in a conversation with someone your age who has no idea that they're upper-class.  You mostly sit there in polite silence as they have no idea that every sentence coming out of their mouth is dripping with privilege, classism, and unearned self-pity because Mumsie and Daddy left them behind and went to St. Bart's for two weeks, during which time they were left with a stack of money, a huge house and just the butler and maid, and it was so unfair and they better get to go to (insert place middle class kids never heard of) next year!

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Chabert Watch! Dirty Deeds (2005)

greetings ladies and gentlemen - I'll be your unnecessarily smug dope of a lead for the evening



Watched:  05/04/2025
Format:  Legitimately obtained video
Viewing:  First
Director:  David Kendall


I can't think of a movie where I've heard the soundtrack doing more heavy lifting than this weirdly soggy flick from the 90's/00's-era of dude-centric teen comedies that maybe peaked with American Pie.  But I wasn't a teen then, and I didn't watch most of these flicks.  

What's oddest about Dirty Deeds (2005) is that it *should* have been as straightforward as one could be.  It has a boilerplate plot of a guy who has to complete a punchlist of tasks in an academy/ academic setting - and he's a wildcard!  What should be a wacky, charming series of shenanigans with a dollop of heart is, instead, a clutch of unfunny incidents, some of which are straight concerning.  

But, yeah,