aWalrus's Journal: Movie Review: s1m0ne

Went to see s1m0ne (what the hell? is l33t sp34k now considered cool??). It's bad. Not your run-of-the-mill bad. It stinks with that oh, this movie could have been much better stench. You know it. You got it after Episode I, Episode II and will get it after Episode III.

Anyway, this movie tried to be a lot of things and got none of them right. It got off to a nice, stupid comedy start (which isn't wrong in my book), but then, out of the blue it decided to somehow incorporate a romantic interest for Pacino's character (that guy was so a schizophrenic) and no, it's not the cgi character, which would have made more sense than him trying to shag his ex. Then we're treated to a pseudo-serious treatment on how real is not so or whatever. Trust me, everyone has stopped caring by that point. That and the incredibly unlikely dialogue the supporting cast have to deliver make this piece of crap really unbearable for the last 40 minutes.

A friend of mine (Alan) has a category for this kind of movie: Redemption movies. In which hollywood people accept that they are a bunch of self-obsessed assholes on an ego-trip and think that self-awareness somehow makes everything right. Hey, we're stupid, but we know it! so that's cool, right?. God. Avoid this thing like the plague.
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