Monday, August 21, 2006

"'Date Movie' sucked," said Captain Obvious.

Yesterday, I watched the worst movie I've seen since the first half hour of Ultraviolet. The movie of which I speak is Date Movie. Just a day or two prior to that, I saw Scary Movie 4, and though I thought it sucked quite strenuously, compared to Date Movie, it was comedic brilliance on par with anything I saw in Talladega Nights.

"Yes, that's a no-brainer," you say. "Of course Date Movie was bad, you moron. What other possible expectation could you have had?" And you're right, my outwardly hostile theoretical blog reader, I did not expect it to be good. But it was the level of badness that was astonishing. Lazy, incompetent, unfunny, mysogenistic, nonsensical, and completely divorced from any identifiable reality, we were tempted to just shut the thing off 10 minutes in, but, like the 8-car pile-up on the freeway you watch happen from start to finish and then drive past, even if it means driving up on the shoulder past some obviously pretty badly hurt people, you can't look away. I think it's because Zucker makes these parody films in such a lackadaisacal way, these guys thought that seeming indifference was his secret for success. "Keep it loose," they must have thought. They kept it loose all right. So loose they didn't even have enough film for an entire hour. The running time of the film is only an hour and 13 minutes. About 20 of those minutes were absolutely cuttable, but they kept the extraneous footage in because without it, their end product wouldn't actually qualify as a feature film.

Anyway, I'd say avoid it, but I know I'm educating no one about this movie.

In other news, I got another office chair yesterday to replace one of the 3 I've broken in recent months. So far so good. This afternoon my wife and my sister and I drove up Georgia 400 to the biggest outlet mall I've ever been to. I wasn't expecting to enjoy myself much, figuring the whole deal would mostly be a collection of women's clothing stores I'd be playing cell phone Tetris in front of, but they did actually have a few decent stores, in particular two remaindered-book stores, one of which was closing down (probably to open up a second Big Dog store). So the books inside, already marked way the hell down, were also subject to a Store Closing Sale, which took another 40% off everything in the store. I got eight books, most of which were less than $3. One of the more interesting ones I got was a novel called The Prestige by Christopher Priest, which will be the basis for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie. Just a few pages in I can tell it won't be boring. Yay. Reading.

Anyway. It's thundering like a bitch outside so I'm going to post this up and shut my computer off. More tomorrow.

6 comments:

blankfist said...

Yes, that's a no-brainer. Of course Date Movie was bad, you moron. What other possible expectation could you have had?

There. Your theoretical, outwardly hostile blog reader is no longer 'theoretical' - he's me! Yeah, I watched that movie when the 'Unrated' version came out, thinking it may be worth a chuckle or two. It wasn't. Painfully boring. But, I didn't know it was only an hour and 13 minutes long. Felt longer somehow. If the Wayans aren't part of the '[insert genre] Movie' franchise, I don't think I will watch anymore, unless they make a 'Superhero Movie'.

BTW, I picked up Guitar Hero for PS2. This thing is awesome. It's the game that comes with a guitar peripheral you plug in and runs about 60 bucks or so for peripheral and game together. Heather and I have been rocking out like a couple of geeks on this thing, and she's so good she makes me look pathetic. I really am mediocre at that game, although I am busier than she is, so she's had more time to practice, but I digress. It's a lot of fun, and it really makes you feel like you're playing the lead for songs like 'Symphony of Destruction', 'Iron Man', and 'More Than a Feeling' to name a few of the songs on the roster. This game is worth dusting off the ol' PS2 for...

Anonymous said...

Yeah, but I heard Crane liked Popeye. What a complete and utter nerd.

blankfist said...

THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH POPEYE!

blankfist said...

dead blog.

Anonymous said...

It's not dead, Crane's just asleep. Seriously, it's 10:30 am eastern time. Somebody call him and see if I'm right. I bet I am...

blankfist said...

He's gotta be awake now!