Twelve and Holding

[jimpage363]

OK, two comments on this movie. One: Jeremy Renner and the rest of the cast did a stellar job; Two: WTF was with that ending?!?!?!?
You know your movie pick for the evening has perplexed you when you turn to your umpteenth rewatching of "Aliens" with real emotional relief.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Huh. I don't remember. I watched the movie, but it's been a long time. I did think Renner was fabulous in it.

SPOILERS

[jimpage363]

The remaining twin Jacob, slowly becomes friendly with the kid who threw the molotov cocktail while visiting him in prison (he originally went just for revenge and taunting). When the kid gets out, they make plans to run away because Jacob's parents have adopted another boy. J's mother is still hatefully angry and talks about wanting to murder the kid who threw the firebomb. So Jacob sneaks out, looking as if he will be running away with the boy, shoots him and then buries him in the construction site where the treehouse was. The next morning, Renner's character unknowingly pours cement over the grave.

THIS is redemption?! It was moving in a pretty good way, a little cliche but well-done. Then this...! Aiyee.

But, yeah, Renner did a hell of a job considering that they had him crying a lot and being messed up all over the landscape.

Re: SPOILERS

[wpadmirer]

Yeah, that's weird. I vaguely remember that. I pretty much fast-forwarded through everything that wasn't Renner. (grin) Have you seen NEO NED? I really liked that one a lot.

Re: SPOILERS

[jimpage363]

Not yet... Seriously, wasn't it just last month that I thought he looked a little too much like a melancholic weasel for my tastes?

[epknight363]

This begs the question of why you did this to yourself. My prescription: Go see another uplifting film like Avatar (again) or the Avengers (again). Good guys win, bad guys vanquished; The women are hot and heroic, the men hunky and heroic, God is in his kingdom, and all is right with the world.

My $.02

[jimpage363]

Well, Jeremy Renner topless sounded like a good enough reason to me. Understand me, it's not a bad movie at all. Just terribly perplexing.

[irishkate]

Worth knowing - I once watched a movie late at night to see Nick Lea - when the movie started it was bad. I commented that the ONLY reason I was watching was for Nick and that therefore the film could only be made worse if he came on screen with, I don't know, a mustache.

Moments later the Nick's first appearance on screen was proof that God has a sense of humour. Sure enough he had a mustache - a really dodgy mustache. The film was terrible. I now try to get films screened by some process - any process - before watching for glorious moments of shirtless actor.

[jimpage363]

I was once forced to watch Mark Harmon's movie "Tuareg" in fast-forward for that very same reason. (MH in shoe-polish black face as a Tuareg- PUHLEEZ). At 19 minutes, it was still about 17 wasted minutes, alas.
We won't even talk about Adrian Paul as a gay sub commander in "Tides of War (The Phantom Below)". With apologies to Devo, the ONLY watchable part of the movie is the first 3 minutes (nekkid AP and a hot as hell pool love-making scene). Apparently, that used up their entire budget because they forgot to pay for a script AND it falls into the "gay=dead" and "gay=retired" categories of film. Bleh.

[irishkate]

If I must watch a film now on DVD but the film looks like It's going to suck, I turn on the subtitles and watch at fast forward. If something is actually interesting or worth watching I can then slow it down to watch at normal speed.

Someday we should get a vid together of 'shots of our favourites' from all the dreadful movies.

[jimpage363]

Nick Lea is surprisingly unsickening in "The Impossible Elephant". Odd, but true.