Lately I've been watching movies without knowing anything about them. Well that's not true. I've seen the movie posters, but I haven't seen any trailers or commercials and up until today I've been pleasantly surprised. Maybe it's been my lowered expectations that have made movies like "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" enjoyable. I knew they would be shit, but I was pleasantly surprised that they were slightly more than shit. Certainly that wasn't the case with "Mirror Mask", "Jarhead" and "Hostel". I expected those to be good and they were.
Which brings me to the last movie I watched, which I was totally unprepared for, "Match Point". Having only seen the movie poster and totally forgetting who was in it I had the expectation I was going to be watching a romantic comedy, or maybe a dramatic romance film, what I got was something a little closer to "American Psycho". I feel like I need to bath in milk and sawdust to cleanse the moral taint from my body. What a disgusting film.
At first the story takes the turn of a taboo love story, but shys away. A unexpected turn I was grateful for. Then it turns into a love vs lust love story where the guy has a wife and a mistress. Having had the story spend no time develop the love for the mans wife I expected that his choice would be easy, but instead the man choses his lifestyle over his mistress, knowing that if he divorces his wife he'd lose his job, home etc. Again another turn I didn't expect, even when he gets a shotgun and contemplates killing his mistress who is carrying his own child I didn't expect him to follow through, but he did. Prick! So then I fully expected that the police would come down on him, and they did , to end with a tragic story about a man who loses everything because he made a wrong choice. Fuckers! The man gets away with it, because of an incredible stroke or luck right at the end of the movie.
Normally having luck play a part at the end of a film is a bad idea, but here they did a good job. I bought it, but I hated it. Not because I thought it was cheap, it wasn't, but because I wanted him to get caught and pay for what he had done. Unlike American Psycho however where he gets away but it's societies fault and the story is about the rediculousness of life, this was just gut-wrenchingly bad. I want to be sick.
Which brings me to the last movie I watched, which I was totally unprepared for, "Match Point". Having only seen the movie poster and totally forgetting who was in it I had the expectation I was going to be watching a romantic comedy, or maybe a dramatic romance film, what I got was something a little closer to "American Psycho". I feel like I need to bath in milk and sawdust to cleanse the moral taint from my body. What a disgusting film.
At first the story takes the turn of a taboo love story, but shys away. A unexpected turn I was grateful for. Then it turns into a love vs lust love story where the guy has a wife and a mistress. Having had the story spend no time develop the love for the mans wife I expected that his choice would be easy, but instead the man choses his lifestyle over his mistress, knowing that if he divorces his wife he'd lose his job, home etc. Again another turn I didn't expect, even when he gets a shotgun and contemplates killing his mistress who is carrying his own child I didn't expect him to follow through, but he did. Prick! So then I fully expected that the police would come down on him, and they did , to end with a tragic story about a man who loses everything because he made a wrong choice. Fuckers! The man gets away with it, because of an incredible stroke or luck right at the end of the movie.
Normally having luck play a part at the end of a film is a bad idea, but here they did a good job. I bought it, but I hated it. Not because I thought it was cheap, it wasn't, but because I wanted him to get caught and pay for what he had done. Unlike American Psycho however where he gets away but it's societies fault and the story is about the rediculousness of life, this was just gut-wrenchingly bad. I want to be sick.
Taint.
heh.