Ramblings of an Anonymous Coward

Flick and Flack

over the past several months i have watched quite a number of movies ranging from ones that were excellent to some that simply sucked. the last five that i watched were "good fences", "terminator 3: rise of the machines", "tomb raider 2: cradle of life", "maid in manhattan", and "ps: your cat is dead".

good fences -- bad movie. you'd think with whoppie goldberg, it might make you laugh a few times. if not with her, at least at her. i don't recall hearing about this movie being in the theatre and i can see why. it flat out sucked. the plot had promise, but that's all it had.

terminator 3: rise of the machines was a typical terminator movie. start of with a few naked people, have them kick some ass to get clothes, make cars and building blow up, and make an ending that leaves room for the possibility of a sequel. you think california elected arnold to be governor because it was thought he was a good leader? NO. it was to push out the release date of the next movie -- terminator 4: downfall of a government. with that said, it was a good flick. i like watching shit blow up from time to time and this met that need quite nicely. it's not like i rented it for the plot!

angelina jolle in tomb raider 2 -- cradle of life was another movie with clear and simple expectations. pretty woman, tight clothes, kicks butt. check, check, and check. add in a little bit of a plot and stir. lenny kravitz, you lucky dog!

maid in manhattan was frankly much better than i expected. yeah, it was a chick flick, but so what. guys can like chick flicks sometimes can't we? anyway, i wasn't sure i should watch it, but used that old tom cruise line from risky business and said "what the fuck" and am glad i did. my biggest disappointment was that i really thought jennifer lopez was better looking than that. really. don't get me wrong, she is attractive, but for some reason i had it in my head that she was a real hottie. i think that not being the case made the movie all that much more believable, so kudos to the casting department.

and most recently, ps: your cat is dead hit the home screen. you hear the title, read the video's dust cover and think, hey, this could be pretty funny. it stars steve guttenberg as a depressed fellow that has his apartment robbed several times and on the third robbery he catches the burgler on new year's eve which is also the night his girlfriend leaves him and his lifelong friend (cat) tennessee dies. after knocking the thief out, he ties him up on the kitchen island with ties, extension cords, and anything rope-like. the fellow eventually comes to and they spend time torturing each other and unfortunately the audience with their banter. sigh! another movie that has a promising plot turns out to be anti-funny. it had a few moments which made me hope it would turn into something decent, but it never managed to get there. all i could think was -- ps: your movie sucked.

up next is adam sandler's eight crazy nights. i have flip-flopped a few times on whether i wanted to see it or not. a woman in the video store said it was filled with "bathroom humor" and that she didn't think highly of the movie. it's an adam sandler movie, what the hell was she expecting? so given her recommendation, i'm watching it and feel much better that it will break the current string of bad comedy rentals. wish me luck.

Posted by ac at November 23, 2003 04:37 PM