Ryan McNeil
Sometimes it’s kinda fun to go see something you usually wouldn’t. I mean, the reason most movies I write about get favourable reviews is because almost all the time I’m choosing what I go to see…and, well, I’m picky.
Then there’s nights like last night. A magical evening where one Bruisey von Whippit asked me if I wanted to come with her to see cameron Diaz’s new film, THE BOX. For free.
I figured, “Free movie – why not?”. Well dear friends, I found out why not because the film is horrendously bad!!!. I’m not even all that pissed about wasting two hours of my life, because it was actually laughably bad! It sure as hell didn’t entertain me, but at least it amused me with the batshit methods it tried employing to mess with my head.
I’ll be writing about it soon, so please check back in a day or two. In the meantime, allow me to point you in the direction of some people far more intuitive than everyone who had any involvement with THE BOX.
Something a little different for this week’s round of E-T. I’ve picked up more and more blogs that I follow, so I thought this week I’d feature entries from blogs I just started following. Sort of Hatter’s All-Rookie Team.
So for you BOX-loathing fulfillment, I give you…
Evil Dead Junkie over at Things That Don’t Suck says that THE 4TH KIND is the worst movie of the year (I say it can’t be as putrid as THE BOX).
Film Geek from Final Cut has an interesting method of helping herself fall asleep (In the future I will laugh myself to sleep with memories of THE BOX).
Technically not a rookie, but still someone starting anew in a different space, MovieMan wonders aloud why children’s films feel so much sadder (Though nothing is as sad as the two hours of my life wasted watching THE BOX).
And LuckyCricket over at The MovieGhoul-Undead Movie Blog dissects just what is needed to make for a truly creepy movie scene (I promise you, no moment from THE BOX is on this list).
Enjoy!
a) your link to LuckyCricket's post is missing
b) Are you calling out that The Box will mean RIP to the career of Richard Kelly. He needs The Box to be a big hit after the multi-million floptastic Southland Tales (which I thought was so laughably bad I enjoyed it).
I follow a few of the "rookies" – lots of great posters. Shall have to check out the other ones 🙂
Thanks for the shout-out; too bad about the box. I think Kelly has a lot of talent, but I'm not sure how much discipline he has. Out of curiosity, where do you fall on Donnie Darko? I thought it was something of a mess, but an utterly fascinating one – few filmmakers are able to evoke a mood as acutely as Kelly, though he tends to throw too much into the caludron. I have not seen Southland Tales which somehow managed to rank highly on the They Shoot Pictures Don't They list of most acclaimed 21st century films, even while some seem to feel it's the worst movie ever made.
Although I'd probably never watch it, I was hoping that it'd be okay at least. But oh well. There goes that thought.
I saw it last night and also found it to be a disaster of epic proportions.
@ Univarn… Nice catch – thanks for that. I don't know what to make of Kelly, but there isn't a snowball's chance that this film becomes a hit.
@ Movieman… You're welcome! As for DARKO, I really dug it. Sure it was weird, and takes about five viewings to completely understand, but there's a surrealness to it that felt/still feels original.
None of that creativity can be found anywhere in THE BOX.
@ Andrew… There it goes indeed! Gone like a heartbreaking Matsui homerun.
@ Daniel… Good to hear I'm not the only one!
I have already checked out your blog 🙂 Did an internship at a film magazine once and had to watch all sorts of movies I wouldn't watch otherwise…it made me not want to go into the professional movie critic business so I can understand your pain of watching this film 😉
Thanks for The link. Who knows maybe The Fourth Kind was responsible for softening me up for The Box.