Have you ever been the only person (or only people, if you went together) in a movie theater? Julia and I were the sole audience for last night's 10 p.m. Jack London Square showing of Leatherheads.
Previews: Al Pacino has a couple of cop/legal thrillers coming out. Mama Mia! should have stuck to the stage.
The Hulk franchise has conspicuously airbrushed Ang Lee out of its cultural history. Not that I blame them -- this film was a crime against humanity -- but wow, what a slap in the face to an otherwise good director. (Along those lines I can only wait and hope and pray for someone to finally bury this piece of garbage and do saturation marketing for "the Hitchhiker's Guide movie you've always wanted to see.")
The movie itself: The first 3/4 of it were fantastic! Like a sports movie, only better; like an "old movie" (say, Cary Grant's finest) but recent.
Then all it took was one ridiculously stupid, anti-historical, incomprehensibly slapdash plot development for me to lose interest almost instantly. The plot twist in question may have set a record for being just wrong on so many levels at the same time.
Then again, sports movies are surprisingly bad about sporting veracity, and from what we know of George Clooney in real life it's probably too much to expect civic veracity from him. (For a quick 10 points, which constitutional amendment would effectively prevent an athletic commissioner -- regardless of how he was appointed -- from punishing a reporter who had no business connection to the league in question?)
(Wikipedia doesn't shed much light, but I did read a little bit about this guy and this guy. (This guy needs no introduction.))
Oh, while we're here: Is John Krasinski going to make an entire career out of characters who look crestfallen because everything went to hell because they didn't speak up? If only he'd just admitted he wasn't a real war hero, why, he could be dating Pam!
Posted by Matt Bruce at April 18, 2008 01:56 PMThe only time I was ever alone in a theater was when I saw the "piece of garbage" you linked.
The sparse crowd was not so much due to the quality of the film as to the fact that I was an 11 am show on a Tuesday.
Posted by: Brian at April 20, 2008 06:39 AMA former girlfriend and I were the only ones to see a 1p showing of the alleged comedy "Just Visiting" (a U.S. remake of the far superior French farce "Les Visiteurs") at a theatre in Des Moines, Iowa, back in April 2001.
Posted by: James Dinan at April 21, 2008 08:44 AM