i saw two movies tonight. perfect storm and final destination. those are the two i expected to be not that great. i got two more, which i expect to be good. spinal tap and way of the gun.

i actually came away with something after watching final destination. not from the actual movie itself, because it was bad. but just from ideas that it TRIED to convey. it did a really bad job of it though. it COULD have been good. but they fucked it up. it WAS pretty suspenseful, if that's worth anything. but they never had a clear vision of what the movie was supposed to be. is it a suspense teen thriller? or is it a message about death? the makers of this film had no idea, and that's what makes it bad.

in the end they decided to kill the "bad guy" (who really wasn't that bad of a guy at all) and left you wondering whether everyone in the movie died or not. for some reason they felt they needed to keep going on and on, when they could have just cut out a whole scene at the end. they tried to give more closure, but only ended with more questions.

they inserted a documentary about test screening the movie into the dvd which only served to prove that the movie was designed to be a cash cow and nothing more.

oh yea, they also had a questionaire that you can fill out on the dvd. it 'calculates' when you're going to die. i'm dying on march 12, 2019 @ 12:00. just for kicks, i went through the questionaire again with my eyes closed, randomly pushing the arrow and enter buttons... and i got THE SAME ANSWER. isn't that creepy? my dvd player is fucking PSYCHIC.

even in it's lameness, i'd still recommend you see it. it's a movie. someone put SOME sort of effort into it. it won't kill you to watch it.

oh, and perfect storm was good. i don't know who said it was bad, or why, but i think they were wrong.

spinal tap and way of the gun tomorrow.