Well, my mom decided to rent movies this weekend: Troy, Wicker Park, and The Alamo.
We watched the first two, and I'm looking forward to watching The Alamo (only because Jason Patric is in it).
Let me just warn you ahead of time that this post is mostly a harp on Wicker Park.
We watched Troy first, which was actually better than I expected (It's not that I thought it'd be bad, I'm just not big on tragedies or movies with long, drawn out battle sequences that are identical each time.). The storylines were wonderful, and it got to you emotionally--Not to mention Brad Pitt naked, but sex scenes aren't really my thing seeing as I'm 15.
What really got to me was Wicker Park. Rarely have I ever seen a movie that makes me want my two/three hours back. It came close to being as bad as Gerry (But I don't think anything will get that bad.).
The back of the movie listed it as a "thriller" and "noir." We had to look up noir, but that kinda described it, what with the sleazy, well, everything, and the music that annoyed me to no end. It really sounded like it was recorded from an old Nintendo game at points-- I expected Mario to show up at any moment.
It's just that the movie was so frustrating. I can take frustrating if I movie is good, but at any point of the movie from the first three minutes it got annoying. There wasn't anything in there BUT frustrating and annoying. It got tedious to watch, and boring when you'd watch a scene play out for way too long.
One of the few things I did like, though, was that Matthew Lillard had a part. His character brought a little bit of light to this movie full of depressing, creepy, and psychotic people.
Josh Hartnett only does the following: Miss his girlfriend, stalk people, and say short, one-word sentences such as, "Okay," "Bye," and "Hey."
Here's the plot in a nutshell: Matthew (Hartnett) stalks Lisa, Lisa is friends with Alex, who is stalking Matthew, and in turn stalking Lisa to keep her away from Matthew, who is being stalked by an old boyfriend who used to be stalking Lisa. Lisa was dating Matthew until Alex screwed it up because she was in love with him.
Since when do you fall in love with and go on a date with the guy that follows you and watches you all the time? Since when do you invite the guy caught breaking and entering in your house to spend the night and protect you? The lesson learned here is: Stalking is okay and everything will turn out well in the end.
Okay, I get that the sequence of events were supposed to add to the "mystery" of it all, but it got so confusing and annoying jumping from time to time with no warning. You didn't know where you were half the time!
Not one thing was happy about it, or scary, or frightening. I stuck around because I found myself desperately wanting to know how it turned out--And after it was all over, I wondered why I sat through all of these long scenes of this guy obsessing over a girl and doing creepy things all the time. He seemed even creepier than the girl taking the place of her friend. Grr!
Not a good experience, that movie was. Troy was almost three hours long and seemed shorter than sitting through this one.
So, what did you guys think of the movies (if you saw them)?
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
i couldn't agree more about wicker park. from the beginning of that movie, i had it in my mind that it was going to make me wish i'd rented something else. i was tired of watching hartnett by the first 10 minutes, and i didn't know that could happen. i too, kept watching just to get to the end, because of the back and forth. but in no way, was the movie thrilling or not even suspensful to me. many pieces of the movie were far-fetched. i can't buy that in this movie, one can manipulate events in several ppl's lives over 1 guy and stalk him, when she never had anything with him.
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So, what did you guys think of the movies (if you saw them)?