with red hair, eating a pear

Finally finished watching this film which I started Wednesday. You know the film isn’t worth anything really if it takes almost a week to finish it. Seeing a few minutes there, a couple of scenes then… but most of the times just turning it off again to do something else. Not that it’s one of the worst films made or anything like that. It just didn’t interest me on any level. It’s trying to be scary and it’s trying to be tricksy-smart. It’s neither. It’s trying to be dark and it’s trying to be moody. It’s cliché. And how Hally Berry could agree to star in this B-movie is beyond me. Not that I usually like her films – I think she’s kind of a mediocre actress – but at least she’s a big star and Academy Award winner.

He character is the psychologist working in a mental institution who one day wakes up one day locked away in that same institution after having murdered her husband. She goes on a quest to find the trust and cross paths with ghosts and serial killers on her way.

Not alone…

The “not alone” phrase is a recurring quote from this film, but all I keep thinking is: I’m NOT ALONE thinking this film should have never been made. I’m NOT ALONE thinking this is crap!

Got around to see The Aristocrats yesterday. For those of you not familiar with what it is check out the trailer here. It’s basically a documentary on a joke which is supposed to be told in the most disgustingly filthy and disturbing way possible.

A man walks into a talant agent’s office…

I won’t even try to type down a version of it that I heard yesterday, nor will I try to make one on my own. I’d be banned from this blog before anyone have time to read it anyway. The filmmakers though, haven’t spared us anything when they show some of the biggest American comedians telling their own versions. Whoopi Goldberg’s version was great. A mime guy acted it which made me laugh so hard I cried. Billy Connelly, I couldn’t hear what he said with that crazy accent of his. Robin Williams and Chris Rock was surprisingly underused in the film. Eddie Izzard hadn’t heard the joke. Kevin Pollak does the best Christopher Walken imitation I’ve ever seen. Cartman of South Park even gets to tell the joke to his friends, but best of all… Bob Saget. He was the one with the longest and dirtiest Aristocrats.

The film doesn’t only show comedians tell the joke, it’s a documentary and has most of them commenting on how they think it should be performed and where they’ve heard it before etc. While it’s crazy-fun at some points and you laugh hysterically, it doens’t deliver as a documentary. Frankly, it’s a complete mess, with the only thread you can follow through the film is that the jokes keep getting more explicit. It never reaches any conclusions, which is probably because it never explores. I guess it’s not really the right format for something like this. But what is? The best parts are the stand-up episodes when I find myself folded double in my seat, but if it was only that, nothing more than jokes on top of each other, I could see the whole thing fall flat, and I would tire of it. Maybe this was the right way to handle it, after all… tough, I’m still not completely satisfied with the result!