bad movie, bad bad bad!!

[laurainlimbo]

I really need to stop ordering bad movies from Netflix. Last night I watched (or should I say I tried to watch) the remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth . so you're asking, why on earth did I rent that silly mess? Good question... I can't even remember why I put it on my queue.
I guess the trailer made it look Jurassic park-like and fun... I didn't even get to the fun part, if there was any. I turned it off after about 40 minutes, after it started resembling the second Indiana Jones movie (and not a good resemblance). Brendan Fraser really needs to start making good movies again - he's starting to get typecast as the nerdy professor-action hero type after all the Mummy movies. In this movie he was so uninspired, and the actress playing the Icelandic guide was horribly annoying. and the special effects were just a joke. I felt like I was watching a movie made by a teenager!

I think it's really time to put my Netflix membership on hold. I just can't find anything worth renting anymore...

and speaking of movies, I'm not sure if I'll even watch the Academy Awards this year. (I think I might have said the same thing last year, and ended up watching only half of the awards then)... Honestly I don't care anymore, and that makes me so sad. I might watch simply to see Hugh Jackman as the host(*melt*), and to see the beautiful dresses and the gorgeous men. This is the second year that I haven't seen ANY of the movies up for best picture - and I only care about a few of them. I guess everyone's saying that Benjamin Button is good, but I am not interested. I'm not interested in The Reader. I might see Slumdog Millionaire once it's on DVD. And Frost/Nixon too. of course I really want to see Milk, but it won't win. It's so easy to predict the winners every year - it's all political after all. Ever since Brokeback Mountain lost to Crash a few years back, I just gave up on caring. It's so disappointing.

Comments

[winterdahlia.livejournal.com]

Ah, I feel your pain re: the Academy Awards! Like you, I enjoy watching for the beautiful gowns and the beautiful men (yum) :-) but I'm just not excited about them at all. I haven't seen any of the nominated films either, and just as you said, I don't really want to see them, except Milk and possibly The Reader (only because of Kate!) And Crash winning over Brokeback Mountain? Ugh. The Oscars were kind of dead to me after that. I couldn't believe it when that happened!

You might want to give the Indie Spirit Awards a shot (if you get the Independent Film Channel.) They are usually quite fun to watch even if you haven't seen all the films. I think they're on the night before the Oscars.

[laurainlimbo.livejournal.com]

I do want to watch the Independent Spirit awards - I missed it the last few years since I didn't have that channel, but this year I can see it!
you know, I did like the movie Crash, but I felt it shouldn't have taken the award from Brokeback - it was a really political move, and disappointing. this year, we know it's going to be Slumdog Millionaire for the best picture award, and I guess that's a good thing. But there's no more mystery and surprise with the Oscars anymore.

[phantomsgyrl.livejournal.com]

Don't be sorry. I loved reading your response.

I have checked out bits and pieces of the ISA since 2006 but I just can't sit through any award show anymore.

Go see 'The Reader.' I will tell you that it is a tearjerker but very good.