From the Sofa
Everything about this movie, with the exception of Drew Barrymore, screams for me to hate it. First, it was co-produced by and stars (if you'll allow me to use that word loosely) Adam Sandler, whose contributions to cinema are astoundingly forgettable. I find Sandler funniest when he's doing his humorous songs like the Chanukah Song and allows himself to laugh. His movie characters are always latently furious losers which you wouldn't expect to be a big box office draw, and yet there he is. Sandler is who he is; love him or hate him. I think I'm clear on which camp I fall in.
I love dystopia films. As a closet misanthrope, I get a small thrill seeing new and fresh ways for humanity to consume itself. The best of these movies were made decades ago, in the forties and fifties, but one from the past few years deserves to join their ranks.
So I have these two DVDs right? These two versions of the same movie that, with three for four edits, somehow become completely different flicks. One enjoyable the other...not so much.
With the imminent release of the Extended Edition of The Return of the King, I recently went back and watched the first two movies in the series for the first time in several months. I therefore encountered anew the only thing about the entire Lord of the Rings series that I really, really disagreed with. I’m sure this has been flogged to death elsewhere, and I’m probably going to come off as a Tolkien fanboy, but seeing these movies again brought it home all over again: it just kills me what Peter Jackson and his band of marauders did to poor Faramir at the end of The Two Towers.
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