Redbox is a great way to see movies on the cheap, especially when you get their email and text coupons for BOGOs and half off. However, the two movies I grabbed last night to surprise The Man were not worth the $2 I paid.
First fail was Looper. Sigh, I know I was tired but I could barely follow it enough to tell you what it's about. A mobster in the future uses time travel to get rid of the people he wants to get rid of, using loopers in the past to kill and dispose of the body. When this mobster decides to get rid of the looper, he sends that looper, who is now 30 years older, back 30 years to be killed by himself. Um, yeah, that's the best I can do, and I sat through almost the whole thing. Not sure when I fell asleep but I'm sure that whatever I missed wouldn't have helped much to make it less convoluted. It was just.... weird. (For the record, this was a specific request by The Man; I hadn't even heard about it before he asked, but he really asks for so little that when he does I try to fulfill it if possible.)
Sigh, this is the one that makes me sad. Oz The Great and Powerful should have been great. The cast is good, the story wonderful, and with all of today's technology the special effects could be amazing. I wanted it to be great, I really did. I was looking forward to it since I picked it up. It was awful. Two stars at most. A really long black and white sequence at the beginning, boxed in to a very small screen, annoyed the crap out of me. Once he gets to Oz, the screen spreads and it becomes color, but the acting is lame, the CGI over the top (and not in a good way), and they butchered the story. Sad, sad, sad.
So if you are looking for a movie to watch tonight, please don't waste your time on either of these. Watch Weekend at Bernie's or Mallrats and laugh your butt off at the bad acting and silly premise. At least it was supposed to be bad.
I couldn't agree more. Kase picked up Looper a few months back, and I despised it. I was looking forward to seeing Oz as soon as I saw the first preview, but I was so highly disappointed in it. The original far exceeded this one and without all of the CGI! Too bad because it could've been an awesome movie.
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Lexan
7/20/2013 10:26:52 am
We need to have a movie night sometime soon; I'm perfecting my maple bacon caramel popcorn!
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