Not such a good week for movies

I'm so sad, it has been a week fun of not very good movies. First off, my boyfriend talked me into seeing "Wild Things" from the 90s for the first time. Gee, don't know how I missed such a classic gem (insert sarcasm here). 

So, the first movie worth reviewing we DVRed off Showtime, which was "Tweleve," starring Chace Crawford. He's too pretty for me in "Gossip Girl" but in this movie he's a lot scruffier so he's pretty attractive. Rory Culkin, who usually makes pretty good indie movies is also in this, along with up-and-comer Emma Roberts, who I really like. Oh, and the big drug dealer role is played by 50 Cent.... which is interesting. Basically this movie follows Crawford's character, White Mike. White Mike use to be a wealthy kid from the Upper East Side but his mom died and now he deals drugs to his former classmates. Overall it was okay. There were no breakout roles or moments, but the narration from Keifer Sutherland saves the movie by offering interesting details about the inner workings of every character. I don't think you're missing anything if you don't see this but if you're really bored and its on cable, it's not a horrible way to spend two hours.

 

The second movie I saw this week was HORRIBLE. Like How Did This Get Made awful. It was "Knowing," which stars Nicolas Cage, which is a bad sign right off the bat. Has that man made a decent movie in years? I liked his role in "Kick Ass," but otherwise he hasn't made a good movie since the underrated "The Weather Man" in 2005. This movie was a sci-fi alien apocalyptic flick with underlying religious meaning. The acting was so over-done. The movie used the typical plot cop-out, aliens, which is my pet peeve. It's like, let's make a movie that gets so complicated that the only way we can explain ourselves out of it is to have aliens show up at the end and blame all the weird things on them. And it had Rose Byrne in it, who I've totally become a fan of. This was a disappointing move by her. Anyway, don't ever see this movie. Ever. You will wish for those two hours of your life back.