wittynickname

My last flick was All Eyes. What a profound squandering of a promising start.

45 minutes in I was confident I was watching a really well-observed mismatched-buddy flick where two polar opposites find some common ground and learn to respect their differences, amongst an is-it-real-or-isn't-it supernatural B-story.

Then it just... goes to shit, in ways I guess I won't spoil for the curious. The tone just flies right out of the nearest window, the basic plausibility of ANYTHING evaporates, and it becomes clear that everything I liked about the movie's first half was just the obligatory chaff that the filmmakers felt they had to toss in to justify "the REAL fun" of dumb effects and gore.

2 out of 5.

I went to the Projekt Revolution tour in 2004. The order of acts throughout the day were: Less Than Jake, The Used, Snoop Dogg, Linkin Park, Korn.

So you can imagine how early in the day the lineup began.

There were so few people gathered in the pit and the surrounding amphitheater grass at noon-ish that the lead singer of Less Than Jake made direct eye contact with me easily a dozen times during their set, for lack of audience members to do that with. I felt kinda bad for him, and at one point just shrugged and grimaced when he looked at me, as if to say "sorry I'm not a pretty girl, man."

It filled in during The Used, and was jampacked from then through midnight or whenever it ended.

Psychonauts 2!