"Zane knew himself to be a headstrong young idiot with delusions of artistry and literacy." - Piers Anthony (On A Pale Horse)

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Sean Bean has an unfortunate name

Just Like Heaven
How annoying is it when a movie that, by all rights, should both suck AND blow ends up being humorous and delightful.
That said... Hey, look - It's Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder! Hey everybody, Jon Heder's in this movie! Look at that... it's Jon Heder! ...and so on...
This movie suffers from a wonky timeline. They say it happens over 3 months and that he is in the apartment for 1 month... (SPOILER WARNING) am I supposed to believe that he pulled the roof together in, roughly, a week?
Be on the lookout for the horrible Reese-double in the bed during the escape (I love it when film critics make movies sound more absurd that they are but making a comment but trying to avoid giving anything away.)

Corpse Bride
All you Nightmare Before Christmas fans are going to hate me for this, but...
This movie is plotless, what little plot there is is unexplained (why did she turn into butterflies and go to heaven... I thought this movie functioned on the premise that 'dead is dead'), and they spent too much time making certain things look gorgeous and leaving other things unattended. It's great that her veil flaps gently in the breeze... did you notice that everyone else is doing the herky-jerky all over the screen?

Venom
*note to self*
Hollywood is buying every Voodoo/Hoodoo script they can find...
Pound out some shitty little horror flick with Voodoo at it's core.
*ideas*
- guy bitten by Voodoo snakes kills all the teenagers in town
- Jobu tells Pedro Cerrano that, in order to hit a curveball, he must sacrifice a player from each opposing team
- remake The Serpent and the Rainbow

Flightplan
Jodie Foster must have really liked making Panic Room.
I can see why... this was a solid suspense flick. Schwentke did a good job of playing both sides against the middle.

The Constant Gardener
Clearly an adaptation of a lengthy novel.
While I enjoyed the movie, once the plot was being explained for the second time (the retelling of events with certain things omitted makes for good drama but, if you told me his side already, don't weave it back into her side later), I tuned the story out and watched the camera. My God this movie had a lot of 'B' roll! Not only are there establishing shots... there are establishing montages.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining... I'm just saying that one explanation of the events and, hell, two establishing shots per location would have brought this movie in at under two-and-a-half hours.

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