A movie review.

[xiphias]

First off, you have to understand -- for folding laundry, I look for the absolute worst, dumbest movies I can find; usually direct-to-DVD action flicks filmed somewhere in Eastern Europe. That level of quality.

Like, I just got two movies. One is about a former cop who becomes a zombie and then eats criminals.

The other one is Lockout. About a man who was wrongly convicted of treason, who is offered his freedom if he can go into a maximum security prison that the inmates have taken over and rescue the President's daughter, and the prison is IN SPACE!!!

I just turned it off for being too dumb. I turned it on ready to watch a movie about a wrongly-convicted man who is the only man who can get the President's daughter out of the maximum-security prison in space, and WANTING that level of dumb, and yet, on THAT standard, it is dumb enough to be painful.

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

... ouch.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Gosh. I didn't even know there WERE movies about outer-space prisons.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Well, ALIEN III is an okay movie about an outer space prison. . .

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

Review coming soon, but personally I LOVED Lockout. Just saying...

Also, what's the movie about a zombie policeman?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Well, I misread the description -- it's THE REVENANT, and the zombie/revenant isn't a policeman; he's a soldier who was killed in Iraq, and comes back to life after his funeral in his hometown.

And it was surprisingly good -- it actually had some sort of degree of emotional depth, humor that actually made me laugh, and even a small bit of philosophical/ethical consideration.

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

Yep, LOVED that one too! ;)

http://fatpie42.livejournal.com/168865.html

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I liked it quite a bit, but I don't think I liked it quite as much as you did. I'm not sure how I felt about all the emotional shifts -- the movie actually careened through a couple different genres before crash-landing at the absolutely insane last scene. But, like you said, it actually EARNED it.