This week's batch o' links features my first zero-star review in some time, for the unnecessary and - worse - monumentally incompetent remake of 1980's Prom Night. And to compound that negativity, may I present my write-up of the largely intolerable Smart People as well.
Still, the week wasn't a total loss, as evidenced by my more positive feelings toward Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Young@Heart, and well, yeah, that's about it.
Out Today:
Prom Night (2008) (Slant magazine)
Smart People (Slant magazine)
Young@Heart (Slant magazine)
Out on Future Todays:
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Slant magazine)
The Forbidden Kingdom (Slant magazine)
Anamorph (Slant magazine)
That must have been an interesting ride back from the city having just seen that one. I gotta say, now I want to see it more than I possibly could have imagined, though I won't touch it until I've seen the original it's aping after.
Posted by: rob | April 12, 2008 at 12:03 AM
Actually, I saw it near home, though that doesn't mean I wasn't fuming. What garbage. And, unfortunately, it's not the type of garbage you'll really have fun sitting through, even if you expect the worse....
Posted by: Nick | April 14, 2008 at 09:34 AM
I went into "In the Name of the King" with that kind of enjoyable badness in mind, only to find something too redundant and punctual to even enjoy for camp value. At least it was something I was able to turn off; kudos for sitting through all of "Prom Night". I may end up seeing it after all, if I go through with my planned original/remake horror film project later this year. Wish me luck...
Posted by: rob | April 14, 2008 at 09:42 PM