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Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
Beyond Ghastly
Very possibly the single very worst piece of crap i have ever ever seen. No plot, no sense, no reason for anything, no acting (Hayden Christensen is in it), no rhyme or reason, no logic. An absolute piece of junk. And pretentious??!! Just skip it and save 90 minutes out of your life. These people did not make a movie. They vomited one. Very possibly the single very worst piece of crap i have ever ever seen. No plot, no sense, no reason for anything, no acting (Hayden Christensen is in it), no rhyme or reason, no logic. An absolute piece of junk. And pretentious??!! Just skip it and save 90 minutes out of your life. These people did not make a movie. They vomited one.
The Deep End (2001)
Absolutely dismal
This is a movie about how murders, ransom notes etc. can get in the way of car-pooling.
It also involves blackmailers who demands $50M from a wife/mother within 24 hours with no apparent reason for the unreasonable deadline; the same mother who "hides" a body in water six feet deep (which is convenient, however, when she has to retrieve the car keys from the corpse); a teenager who shows no his abusive relationship with a mustachioed sleaze-ball; the father-in-law who predictably has a heart attack toting enormous jugs of mineral water; a blackmailer who abruptly turns gooder than grits and suddenly falls in love with the blackmailee, etc.
This inane activity is regularly interrupted by the need to bring someone to water polo, someone else to trumpet lessons, etc. Tilda Swinton is understandably completely strung out between her car-pooling chores and her incompetence at dealing with a laughably complicated series of dilemmas.
Perfectly pathetic. Nice scenery though.
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Hilarious and then suddenly......
Amusing story, very well acted, likable characters, fast paced, great dialogue and some hilarious lines. Things clipped along really merrily until, well, until they simply and abruptly stopped. Dead in the water. No champagne was ever so flat nor any empty balloon so limp as the ending to this film.
And finishing the storyline with Leo "getting" Sally was so implausible as to be surreal. This "resolution" will only lead to some serious unhappiness for these two. At least we won't have to watch that.
It was interesting to see Hugo Weaving in a role wildly different from his "Matrix" appearances. Kevin McKidd and James Purefoy apparently teamed up at least once before appearing in the recent HBO series, "Rome". Here they are, shall we say, on better terms.