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Our son has had the perfect storm of discomfort hit him in the last few days: Hardcore teething coupled with no poo for a few days, too. The gums are white and slightly swolen. We think he’s going to show a few at the same time. Who knows. Glad I don’t remember getting teeth for the first time. I must have been thinking “WTF is going on with my mouth!?? There’s this stuff coming up and out of my softies! MOOOOOM!”
So last night we determined that we would probably be spending a fare amount of time at our house, rather than at friends’ this weekend, and we rented 2 movies, 1 for Andrea and 1 for me.
First up was Andrea’s: “Smart People.”
I did not want to see this film so I played a game in my office while she watched. I could hear some of the dialogue and music over my game, and realized that this was the film that Nuno Bettencourt scored, and I had wanted to see it after all. Plus Dennis Quaid has a great beard. But by the time I realized it, the film was too far along so I kept playing.
Then tonight after I finished cleaning the house I plopped down and watched it, and I would like a refund for those 2 hours please. It was quirky in a way that wasn’t amusing or entertaining or even insightful. It was void of purpose, a point, and good acting. The music was OK, but very predictable. Good thing Nuno got the band back together because I don’t think films are his thing. Dennis Quaid did have a rock’n beard, but that was about it as far as good stuff. I can’t say enough bad things about this film. It was truly awful.
After my game last night it was my turn to watch the movie I had originally rented for myself, “Jumpers.” Like “300,” this movie was a 2 hour commercial for a film yet made. It had no soul, and I didn’t care about the characters at all. It, too, was predictable from the very start. I thought it would be weird to see Darth Vader and Black Jedi back together again, but it actually wasn’t. I did like the world this film created, and I’d like to have that power at times, but there was absolutely zero chemistry between characters. I stuck around to watch the making-of thing afterwards, and apparently the stretched out this story to be told over 3 films. Problem is, the other two have not bee made, and when this film was being made they didn’t know for sure that the other 2 would even happen. Thus, the crap movie. This, too, was awful.
Am I just getting older and cranky, or do movies really suck this bad these days? I can’t recall the last good new movie I saw. Everything that looks great in a preview turns out to suck.
