Movies Everywhere, Nothing to Watch

March 7, 2008

[photo by jazzlawyer]

I love going to the movies as much now as when I was a kid. For me, as wound up in childhood memories as it is, the big screen experience can’t be duplicated at home for any amount of money.

But the punishment I get for living in essentially a one-horse town is that there is only one local theater with 16 screens (I remember all too well  when there were only two screens) filled with the most mainstream releases. Fortunately I rarely have time to go and NetFlix remains my cinematic close companion. So I shouldn’t be surprised that, confronted with enough time to actually go to a movie, there’s hardly anything worth watching. Choices include:

• 10,000 BC (wooly mammoths, pyramids, and saber-tooth tigers as large as carnivorous dinosaurs? I don’t think so)
• Semi-Pro (Will Ferrell playing a lovable but ridiculous character? Never seen that before)
• The Eye (Jessica Alba as a musician is more believable than her turn as a scientist, but if I’m going to watch her “acting” she better be shaking it like she was in that Honey movie)
• Fool’s Gold (I’d rather cut off and eat my own legs than sit through a romantic comedy right now)
• Witless Protection (can’t that “comedian” who keeps saying “git ‘er done” just have the heart-attack he’s so clearly destined for already?)

The only promising title seems to be The Bank Job (getting good reviews… plus I’ll watch anything with Saffron Burrows in it). Maybe I’ll just go watch Juno again.

Tags: cinema, film