But this movie is supposed to be a semi-accurate portrayal of a true story. And it wasn't semi-accurate at all! The movie takes so many liberties in making monsters out of heroes, and the other way around, that I have to judge this effort as being wildly irresponsible, and not at all fair. If Ben Affleck wanted something more exciting than the real life story, that took place in that place, in that era, he should've found a good historical fiction novel fitting the bill. Or, he could've written such a purely fictional story himself. I'm not trying to show a huge level of disrespect here - I admire most of the people involved with this for doing great work with other movies. I just think this one was a very bad idea.
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Devour
(2005 Video)
88 minutes of my life wasted.
27 July 2005
I watched this movie, pay per view, with my wife. She fell asleep halfway through it. Later, after it was over, and she had woken up, she asked me what had happened during the last half of the movie. After some hemming and hawing, as I couldn't quite think yet how to summarize the way the story unfolded, I came up with an answer, the perfect answer. The most truthful and honest way to sum up what happened in this movie.
I said "It doesn't matter."
My wife didn't believe me. She pressed me for something more enlightening. Eventually I convinced her. The energy I would have spent remembering and summarizing just wasn't worth it. This movie might just as well have been 88 minutes of television static.
I said "It doesn't matter."
My wife didn't believe me. She pressed me for something more enlightening. Eventually I convinced her. The energy I would have spent remembering and summarizing just wasn't worth it. This movie might just as well have been 88 minutes of television static.
The Rachel Papers
(1989)
Absolutely horrible.
6 September 2004
This has to be the worst movie I've ever seen. Thankfully I didn't watch all of it. I think this Dexter Fletcher retard was looking up to the teen-aged Anthony Michael Hall as his role model of studliness in this embarrassing train-wreck of a movie (and in the process, making the teen-aged Anthony Michael Hall look like Brad Pitt). The incessant 80s music soundtrack was only a little more tolerable than the sound of fingernails scraping a chalkboard. The little asides to the audience - that only worked for Ferris. With *this* movie, Dexter Dipshit's asides just made me want to beat the crap out of him. I mean, here he was, confiding in me, the audience, all his stupid-ass thoughts, as though we were the best of friends. I wanted to make sure he understood we were *not* the best of friends by beating him to a bloody pulp.
Seeing Ione naked should've helped, but it didn't. In fact, watching her writhe around with this little asshole made me never want to have sex again.
This movie is on my list of things to erase from history if ever I get hold of a time machine.
Seriously, this movie sucks major ass. Don't see it. I think I have a brain tumor now.
Seeing Ione naked should've helped, but it didn't. In fact, watching her writhe around with this little asshole made me never want to have sex again.
This movie is on my list of things to erase from history if ever I get hold of a time machine.
Seriously, this movie sucks major ass. Don't see it. I think I have a brain tumor now.
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