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I watched this over the weekend. The only reason why : because Devo & Jon G actually paid money to see this film. They told me they had a great time laughing at this turkey so I tried to sit through it. I think I put in 60% of my concentration into this, the other 40% was spent doing laundry, surfing youtube and wikipedia.
It is a dreadful film. The film has zero sex appeal and I guess the target audience is 10-12 year olds. So it's the most wholesome, bland, wonderbread Spring Break movie I've ever seen. [wonderbread= Lori's favorite description]
The actors were ok, they're not bad really. Although the only guy to pull off a Fraggle Rock afro and still look sexy is Gary Dourdan from CSI. Not Justin.
I wish the wardrobe and makeup did more with Kelly. She has two other girlfriends with her in the film and they were way more glamourous. Justin is supposed to be the hot stud on the prowl and I had a hard time thinking he really wanted Kelly when her trashy blond gal pal was after him during the movie. Well actually I had a hardtime believing that Kelly and Justin fell in love. Their first scene is when Justin's friends are showing off in front of her friends.The whole scene is in wide group camera shots. Then later on , Kelly's friend tells her that Justin was checking her out and I'm thinking "he was?" How can anyone tell when they're a bunch of people on screen goofing off. I felt like I was back in sophomore year film class. There should have been close ups! Close ups of their smiling faces.Maybe their eyes? Cut to Justin. Cut to Kelly. Eyes locked. It's love. Nobody's confused.
So unfortunately I didn't laugh like I wanted to. At least it didn't make me angry like Jurassic Park II or Van Helsing. But it was almost as bad as the Star Wars Christmas Special because I was waiting and waiting for something interesting to happen. I got the feeling that everything was censored and tamed, like my eight grade Catholic school dances.
[Actually I think nothing will ever top the Star Wars Christmas special re: badness]
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posted by kegn_15 at
9:35 PM
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I've passed this by on TV a couple of times and admit to having watched some of it out of curiosity. It's definitely feels like eating an entire loaf of Wonder bread in one sitting, doesn't it? I just remember the scene where they're riding around in some boat that Justin's supposedly driving, while Kelly sits in the front gazing at the sunset and they both belt out some annoyingly loud, sappy-ass duet. YOW.
But you're right...it's not the kind of flick that's SO bad that it pisses you off. Bad...but not quite THAT bad.
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Lori, at 1:06 PM
Definitely a good review of a bad movie, Keegs. You might want to check out the review of this piece o' turd at SomethingAwful.com though. It's probably the best review that this flick ever got... and it's not a kind one, either.
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TheOneTrueGuy, at 12:11 PM
that was good. My favorites:
"magical shit filled world" [ I love that!]
"makes "Battlefield Earth" look like a sci-fi epic for the ages."
[ aah, Battlefield Earth. Now that was a great Bad Movie]
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kegn_15, at 1:29 PM
yeah dave & i went with them and also paid full price for this "winner" sadly, it appeared that there were 2 other people ther ewho hated us since they actually appeared to be enjoying it ;)
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Unknown, at 6:18 PM
You should've gone with all of us that night. Not the "Battlefield Earth" night, but still fun.
And yes, the film's a turd.
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JOHN DVI-VARDHANA, at 8:57 AM
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