I watched The Covenant. if it weren't for the pretty, i wouldn't have made it all the way through.
Taylor Kitsch can call me. seriously.
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I watched The Covenant. if it weren't for the pretty, i wouldn't have made it all the way through.
Taylor Kitsch can call me. seriously.
The trailers make it look amazingly cool, but apparently it is not.
the dialogue is cheesy, the acting is mediocre and the plot is pointless.
plus, it's always raining. i guess that was supposed to make it creepy. or something. it's even more ridiculous when it's constantly raining and the main character is driving a convertible with the top down for pretty much the whole movie.
Taylor in his skivvies though? hum. in. a.
We got a sitter & went to see Children of Men tonight. I'm still a bit blown away to actually write anything cogent about it.
The trailers make it look amazingly cool, but apparently it is not.
They did? They must have played different trailers than the ones I saw,which made it look like a DavidDeCoteau movie with a vastly bigger SFX and soundtrack budget.
So I finally saw Raising Arizona.
Er.
Yeah.
Much like A Life Less Ordinary, I find that that movie is gold when Holly Hunter is on screen and very questionable when she's not.
I'm sorry, how can you not love a chase scene involving stolen Huggies and a random old man in a pickup truck telling Nicolas Cage, "Son, you got a panty on your head." while the hilbilly soundtrack wails and a pack of suburban dogs invades a household --?
I despair of you people.
What Nutty said. Though Holly Hunter does intersect that scene at several points. Son of a bitch.
It never occured to me that My Name is Earl has quite a bit of the ambience of Raising Arizona, with very little explicitly in common. No wonder I like them both.