The Truman Show

Jim Carey is an arrogant dork. He was funny once, but now he’s just so damn full of himself that I can’t even stand to see him. This was supposed to be his big breakthrough role or something, but I just thought it was dumb. It just didn’t get past my suspension of disbelief filter. The plot of this movie would never EVER happen!!! NEVER! I had a hard time taking anything in it seriously since I just couldn’t get past that simple fact.

 

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

Some people sigh when they’re very sad, and others sigh when they’re very satisfied. But as I sit here in my one room apartment, typing by candlelight and hiding from the baseball team that would surely like to see me dead, I’m sighing because I just don’t know what to say. Violet, Klaus and Sonny were exactly as I had pictured them, so were their adventures, and general look and feel of their world. But, the movie was missing a certain coherence, a word which here means, something to tie all the bits together. It was a great movie to watch, but difficult to appreciate as a complete film. The problem is the books are just too short, and too dijointed – it’s difficult to adapt them into one story. What this movie needed was a whole new story, but that would have betrayed the whole point of the books in the first place. So, I sigh, because the movie didn’t have a chance in that regard. But, I did like it purely for the asthetic value.

 

Me, Myself and Irene

The first half-hour of this movie had real promise, and there were some funny little bits scattered throughout… but, there was no glue to hold the mess together. That’s what the story was – a complete mess. A lot of this movie made absolutely no sense whatsoever, instead it relied on stuff like “a guy with a chicken stuck up his ass” for entertainment. Yes sir, millions of years of evolution, 5000 years of civilization, and it’s produced this.

 

How the Grinch Stole Christmas – 2000

The thing which made the original Grinch so appealing was that everything was in verse. This movie threw all that out the window, and the result was something just completely stupid and unwatchable. Earth to hollywood – if you’re going to do a movie adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book – make everything rhyme. It’s not that hard… Yes, it will take a little bit of effort, but that’s why we’re paying you millions of dollars.