Dinner and a movie = bad idea

[changeyourstars8]

Because of the movie, anyway, dinner was fine.

Chris and I have been talking for a few weeks about doing dinner-and-a-movie nights with our friends on Friday; yesterday we actually followed through. We'd planned on inviting a bunch of people over, but since the weather was starting to get nasty it ended up being just my brother and Eric. We rented Crank.

Biiig mistake.

For those who haven't seen/don't remember the ads, the premise is that a guy is injected with some kind of poison, and the only way to delay its effects is to keep up a constant adrenalin rush. So, car chases, fighting, getting revenge . . . standard fun mindless action movie fare.

Until the point where he decides that another good way to get a 'rush' is to start tearing at his girlfriend's clothes in public and demanding that she have sex with him right there, even though she's protesting and struggling to get away from him. A crowd looks on, at first startled and then laughing, as he persists and she eventually of course decides that sure, this is fun after all because everybody knows that shouting 'no' and trying to run doesn't actually mean anything.

And that was the point where I went from not really caring what happened to the main character (since he wasn't all that sympathetic in the first place) to actively hoping he'd get murdered in a horribly gruesome way. Thoughts about smacking the writer also featured heavily, especially after the aforementioned girlfriend stops while running away from assassins with the exclamation that she forgot to take her birth control pill today. I wish I was making this up.

After the movie I went upstairs, hoping that surely none of that was meant to be taken the least bit seriously; we'd rented an action movie parody without realizing it. Checked imdb.com-- Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller. Also, 7/10 stars.

If a miner somewhere happens to dig deep enough to find my faith in humanity, please email me and I'll tell you where to send it.

Comments

[arabella-hope.livejournal.com]

AHA.

I LOVE Jason, but I didn't even get thru half that movie. INSANITY.

I did catch him chopping off the guy's hand then shooting him that way. That made me giggle.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I was rather fond of riding the car up the escalator. :-) If they'd just stuck with stuff like that, I would've enjoyed the movie. Instead they put in the public assault scene, and one with him hauling a cab driver out onto the sidewalk and yelling "Al Qaeda!" which results in a couple of people getting up to beat the guy as Jason's character steals the cab. As he drives off, I'm pretty sure I heard one of the cabbie's bones breaking. :-P

I liked Transporter, and then Chris borrowed The Italian Job and since I liked that, too, I was looking forward to this one.

[gloncristo.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a disgusting movie. Its definitely one that I will NOT be renting.

I can't believe some of the stuff they are putting out these days.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

It was disgusting. And I definitely wasn't expecting it . . . I mean, in a movie like that I know to expect some over-the-top violence and quite a bit of cussing, and possibly an ill-timed sex scene with bad music played over it.

Not that. Especially not played for laughs.

I mean, I haven't been able to bring myself to watch The Baby of Macon or Titus even though I'm a big fan of the actors in them (Ralph Fiennes and Anthony Hopkins, respectively) because I've heard that there are rape scenes in those movies, and I don't really deal with watching those well.

I don't know. It just surprised me, and then to go to imdb.com and see so many people giving it a good rating or actually calling the scene 'sexy' just . . . it's one of those things that makes me want to wrap myself in a fuzzy blanket and hide.

[gloncristo.livejournal.com]

I may grab my own fuzzy blanket and hide. That kind of stuff just shouldn't be shown on any screen for any reason. I hate the movies that use the "F" word all the time too. My nephew wanted us to watch "Bad Boys" and we had to turn it off. I couldn't concentrate on the movie when every other word was the "F" word. It was awful and I like Will Smith.