A Short Critique
Tonight I am here to do what I believe I do best. Analyze films. Since my roommate is the queen of bad taste in movies (I love her but she rented My Super Ex-Girlfriend, The Covenant, and Lady in the Water one after another.) While I didn't happen to catch the first two, I had nothing to do tonight, and as such, decided I would sit through Lady in the Water . Now the preview for that movie was good. The first preview, where all you saw was Paul Giamatti and the rest was left to your imagination. It's when they started revealing weird dogs and other half-assed mythological creatures that I knew I wouldn't see it in the theatre. So without giving too much away for whoever is actually gonna want to see it, I will say a few words. One--it is way too pretentious. Some movies are pretentious and get away with it, mostly historical films like The Passion... because well, it's F-ing JESUS. I don't mind that. I do mind when the pretentiousness has no follow-through...