Over the last year I have had incredibly bad luck when choosing movies. My hubby and I go to the ‘video’ store every so often and get a couple of movies. Usually it’ll be one that we’ve heard of, or that one of us has seen. Then we (or I) will pick another one that looks interesting.
I guess the ones we’ve never heard of, we’ve never heard of it for a reason — they’re bad!
A few months ago I was in the mood for a disease outbreak type movie — good movies in this genre have included 12 Monkeys and 28 Days Later. I found one with Christopher Lambert (Highlander) in it, called Absolon. It was so lame! I can’t pinpoint exactly what it was about this movie that was bad, it was just not good. I think, in particular, the villain was bad, possibly due to scripting or acting.
A week ago I got a movie starring Katie Holmes called Abandon. The movie was very well done, well acted and easy to watch (decent cinematography). Unfortunately the story didn’t have any twists until the last five minutes, it somehow didn’t pull the viewers into the intrigue until the very end. So the end was really good but alas the first hour and a half was quite boring.
Last night we watched a movie that I have walked past many times in video stores… I should have kept walking! Its called Postmortem, starring Charlie Sheen. It had a fairly good story line with moderate intrigue, but the acting, script, cinematography were all terrible. They tried to use coloured light to portray emotion: blue-green for an emotionally cold scene or red for an intense, possibly angry scene. Mostly it just made the movie hard to watch. There was one scene in particular where Charlie was visiting a girl in a mental institution and there were “inmates” in the hallway all wearing yellow nightie type things and then the girl he wanted to question was in a room on a bed in a black nightie. Like the lights, very symbolic and very ineffective.
I need to find a decent movie to try to break this bad-movie-picking streak. However if I search out a good movie then I’m not just picking one that looks interesting and the problem isn’t necessarily solved.