At the risk of editorializing.....
Ok, today is a completely random post, because a couple nights ago I went to see 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' at the movie theater. Before you say anything, I'm not exactly spoiled for choice here, since the cinema shows only two movies a day, and we needed to escape the County College Extrav that was going on. Anyway, if you haven't seen the movie, I would say don't waste your time, but if you're planning on going, don't read on, because I will totally ruin the ending for you. Just a warning.
Ok, so the basic premise sounded interesting-married couple, both spies for different government organizations, sent to kill each other. Well, it didn't live up to expectations. I still think the writing just isn't there. There were a couple lines I enjoyed, such as when Brad Pitt went and killed a guy called Lucky, then when his wife asked him how he did at the casino, he said, "I got Lucky." And then after the two of them tried to blow each other up and it didn't work, they came home and said, "I missed you." "I missed you, too." Ha, ha. Anyway, those were the best lines in the movie, if that tells you anything.
I think my biggest problem was the unbelievablity of the plot lines. I mean, first of all, two spy agencies, both run by the CIA, and they don't notice that their two top operatives are married to each other? Also, if you are a top operative, I think you'd notice the millions of guns they kept stashed around the house. They weren't exactly inconspicuous. And then, the coup de grace of the whole thing was the fight scenes, which deserve their own paragraph.
Ok, the fight scenes. Now, I have seen some pretty unbelievable fight scenes in my time of watching Buffy and Angel, but this movie took the cake. First, Brad Pitt fires a widowmaker into the hut where Angelina Jolie is keeping watch. The hut blows up, but she manages to escape on a motorcycle without a scratch on her. At one point, she throws a knife into his thigh, and after pulling it out, he doesn't even limp, or bleed, for that matter. There's one scene where they're in their house, fighting each other. They completely demolish their decor...broken glass everywhere, holes from bullets....but neither of them has a scratch yet again. They throw each other into things, over things, they punch each other up, but no one gets hurt. Amazing resiliency, huh? The next morning, Angelina manages to walk over broken glass in her bare feet with no damage whatsoever. The worst one, however, was the last fight scene of the movie. They're trapped in a home and garden center. It's the two of them versus the combined strengths of their respective agencies, at least 25-30 guys, on two different levels of the store. And yet, despite the fact that all 30 of these guys are government-trained assassins, the two of them somehow manage to kill them all. Now, someone explain to me how this happened. It's not even like they had any cover. They were standing in the middle of the showroom. And this whole dancing around, switching places, spinning, blah blah blah....in a real fight, I think that would leave you open to some bullets. It looks good, but it's completely impractical.
Ok, deep breath. I think I'm done now. I just have a hard time suspending my disbelief in these movies, you know? I have many friends who refuse to go see things with me because of it, but I can't help it- I think literal-mindedness is a disease. I blame my mother. She's the one who started it all. :-)
I'm going home in 3 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!