Being in a mindless mood, I've been trying to rent
Submitted by jim on Sat, 03/04/2000 - 05:47
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Being in a mindless mood, I've been trying to rent Lake Placid. But it has proven itself to be a surprisingly popular rental (and my local video store only has two copies). After my first failed attempt, my mindless mood muscled me into picking up The Faculty instead, and I'm embarrassed to report that I failed to hate it. During my second Placidless attempt, I thwarted the mindless mood and rented Run Lola Run, which I'm happy to say deserves its popularity.
Jim, when you get to see LAKE PLACID will you advise me as to whether it belongs on this list?
Don't worry too much about having failed to hate THE FACULTY, I suffered the same failure. But, to get to the point...'fraid I've not seen RLR:-)
I will happily give my report if it's ever not rented out. But you still owe me a viewing of Deep Blue Sea. :)
Run Lola Run was interesting. After I finished it, I thought "good but not great, but I expect I'll like it better tomorrow." Tomorrow came and I felt the same way, so I wasn't going to add it to a list. But as the day wore on, I kept having images of it flash through my mind. Now days later, I'm still having flashbacks, and I'm coming to like it even more. Definitely worth watching.
Yes, I know. I've piled up debts like that all over TL. As I said to sk somewhere, I'm going to have to round them all up and really do something about them if I want to be taken seriously around here. So, to get to the point...I won't promise to see RLR.
Well, you can take Lake Placid off your list. Some of the dialog was entertaining, and there were a couple (at the most) suspenseful moments, but the movie was far too uneven and poorly paced to maintain interest. But I think the biggest problem was that the crocodile [a] wasn't exceptional in any way, and [b] never really *hunted* our heros. You never have a sense that the croc is on the offensive; it's just a dumb animal. It was a mindless movie that should have been more mindless. Like if the croc was mutated by toxic waste, or at least off the charts in terms of size and smarts. On the bright side, I liked the sheriff.
What a crock! How disappointing. But thanks for the report. And I'll try to see DBS asap.