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timepiececlock) wrote2003-09-28 09:50 pm
timepiececlock) wrote2003-09-28 09:50 pm
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You've Got Mail vs. Sleepless in Seattle, and also there's a mini-review of Final Destination 2.
My parents are watching You've Got Mail in the other room. The only memorable part of that movie was the Starbucks rant and the line "Quelle nightmare." Why did I find this such a difficult film to bond with? Everytime I watch it I find myself comparing it to Sleepless In Seattle, and I can't help but love the latter all that much more. YGM seems... shallower. Meaner. Not as funny, and not as poignant. Also, it stretched the lines of believability to me. Which is strange, because Sleepless in Seattle is full of unbelievable things, including falling in love with someone frm a radio show, and love at first site, and cosmic coincidence... but for some reason YGM just seemed more un...un... un-something. It was an "un" film. Yeah. Let's leave it at that.
Maybe it was because I could imagine being great friends with the woman from Sleepless, but the woman from YGM would annoy the beans out of me after a week.
I watched Final Destination 2 a couple of days ago. By some strange twist, this was actually better than Final Destination (which isn't hard, because FD1 was an awful film with only one good line in the whole two hours), having a better, more elaborate opening event, for one. Basically one of my nightmares of driving: giant logs start rolling off a logging truck and careening down the highway into cars. It also had more itneresting, bloodier deaths, and a slightly improved plot. Nevertheless, it still sucked mostly, and they still failed to reach the potential that the original idea of the horror film (people die in seemingly horrible accidents, but it's all for a reason) suggested. However, having the girl from the first film survive was good, and all the scenes of her in the mental hospital were particularly strong. Overall, I'd say skip it and rent Teh Two Towers again. Or only watch the extras on the DVD, where the explain how they orchestrated all the horrible and gorey deaths. That was interesting.
Maybe it was because I could imagine being great friends with the woman from Sleepless, but the woman from YGM would annoy the beans out of me after a week.
I watched Final Destination 2 a couple of days ago. By some strange twist, this was actually better than Final Destination (which isn't hard, because FD1 was an awful film with only one good line in the whole two hours), having a better, more elaborate opening event, for one. Basically one of my nightmares of driving: giant logs start rolling off a logging truck and careening down the highway into cars. It also had more itneresting, bloodier deaths, and a slightly improved plot. Nevertheless, it still sucked mostly, and they still failed to reach the potential that the original idea of the horror film (people die in seemingly horrible accidents, but it's all for a reason) suggested. However, having the girl from the first film survive was good, and all the scenes of her in the mental hospital were particularly strong. Overall, I'd say skip it and rent Teh Two Towers again. Or only watch the extras on the DVD, where the explain how they orchestrated all the horrible and gorey deaths. That was interesting.