This weekend too was characterized by a lot of bad movies. For instance,
Silent Hill – Normally we really like movies based upon video games. What could be stupider? Here’s a possible answer: this movie. We had absolutely no clue what was going on. The movie started out dumb and generic (girl has nightmares suggesting underlying craziness; mom wants to be motherly and fix daughter; dad is distant and not so sure) and ends up stupid and exceptional (dad sleeps on the couch in broad daylight; mom and daughter sit in same room in chairs looking at couch, but dad isn’t there; dad wakes up, but he doesn’t see mom and daughter). Then the credits, finally, inform us that the movie was based upon a video game. We had no idea! Witches, religious fundamentalists, a vaguely lesbian motorcycle cop, and some weird thing with a triangle for a head. Garbage. I think it took us like five hours to get through this one.
V for Vendetta – This one also took like five hours to finish. I know the “blogosphere” was all ga-ga for it when it was in theaters. I didn’t get it. The best part was when “V” killed all those guys with his knives. The worst part was the rest of the movie. I’ll admit, however, that it was easily Natalie Portman’s best roll since The Phantom Menace. But that isn’t saying much, right? I hope Children of Men, another “blogosphere” darling, is better.
Brick – Film noire/ganster movie set in a high school. Joseph Gordon-Levitt sure has come a long way since “Third Rock from the Sun” (btw: never watched that show for obvious reasons!). They used lots of words I didn’t understand. I like his jump-punch attack; not bad. For a while I thought the other loner was the real bad guy. I was wrong. Likely the best movie we watched on the weekend.
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wow Craig that was the most negative review of movies I have seen in a while. Very funny stuff!! I agree with most of it, except V. V was not quite as horrible as you suggest here. It had some interesting but admittedly slightly ridiculous scenerios that I found kept my interest at least in part. Don’t you like the whole quasi-anarchism theme to it? V really makes a mockery of anarchist manipulation and authoritarianism. Actually the more I think about it, the more I fear you are right. It sucked.
Was it really anarchism? Seems to fall directly in the British tradition of the rich and powerful (but dispossessed) mocking the rich and powerful – Robin Hood, for instance. On the whole I thought the movie was a bit heavy-handed (but then it did come from the guys who assigned Baudrillard and Hume to Keanu “Hawaiian Breeze” Reeves).
Now that I think about it, I think Natalie Portman’s “Digital Short” on SNL was her best role in the two-thousands. “We love you Natalie.” “I want to fuck you too!”
like I said its “pseudo-anarchism”. Your description of the rich mocking the rich seems to fit the profile… sorry to all the anarchists that don’t fit the profile of the ones i know.
When Brick came out in the theatres they handed out little glossarys. I found it helpful and really enjoyed the movie. I thought V was fun, but not particularly interesting and in fact left feeling kind like “That’s not quite right…”
But anyhow – how about that Battlestar finale?! It really just is a civil war. Look who was leading the resistance!
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