I saw a number of movies recently on DVD. Unfortunately, a lot have been pretty bad.
Kissing Jessica Stein: awful. I’ve seen movies before where I couldn’t much care about the main character. This one topped them. Wow. I wouldn’t even want this girl around much less as a friend! Bo-ring. Avoid.
Planet of the Apes: sheesh. When I first heard about this movie being re-made, I asked WHY. Ok, I actually screamed it out. Now, after having finally seen it, I still wonder. It was pretty bad. The original, even after all these years, is still light-years better than this pile of dirt. Oh lordie did I ever cringe at the end, totally seeing that “CMOS second-coming”. Avoid.
The Scorpion King: Not bad. Not at all what I expected coming out of the Mummy movies, with enough of a “cringing” feeling at the “idiot sidekick” routine. But, having Marcellus Wallace/ Kingpin play Baltazahar helped 🙂 Not much of a story to it, and what there is is quite easy to guess at, but enjoyable nonetheless. (BTW, Francisco, you’ve gotta take it back. The box says WIDESCREEN but the DVD is actually PAN/SCAN)
Thanks to Francisco for generously lending these to me 🙂