August 11, 2005
Waste of Time
I had some time to kill this evening (and kill it I did) since SG had other plans. I got Boogeyman from my Blockbuster Online account a couple days ago. Now, I don't remember putting it in my queue, but I imagine I must have seen it in the "Coming Soon" section and just clicked it - I like creepy movies.
Anyway, I have a friend I haven't seen for a while and she was up for it so after I ate dinner I went to her house and we watched it. All of it - which was no easy feat! To say this movie sucked would be an insult to all other things which have ever sucked. It wasn't even in the realm of funny bad - just boring bad. She kept trying to get me to turn it off, suggesting other thing that might be on, rattling off the movies in her collection.
No way, I'm no quitter - and surely they had to put something interesting in there, right? Wrong...so, so wrong. So predictable all the way through, so snooze-worthy.
I have an excuse, I wasn't warned. You, on the other hand, have been warned. Don't come whining to me if you take it upon yourselves to try and sit through it. I did my part.
UPDATE: I forgot to include my Word of Mouth scale rating. I designed it to reflect how likely I am to recommend a movie to my family and friends. I will definitely tell any of them I think likely to be curious about this movie - advising them strongly to stay away. Unfortunately, I didn't design it to allow negative numbers, so zero out of five will have to do.... 
Thanks for the warning!
Posted by: yayaempress at August 12, 2005 07:06 AMOh, BTW, stay away from Birth. I've never felt so compelled to turn off a movie. I'm like you - I'm no quitter so I stuck through it. I wished I hadn't. I somehow felt dummer for having watched it.
Posted by: yayaempress at August 12, 2005 07:07 AMThe movie was no great tale. It was predictibly spooky, but I like that kind, that way I have a chance to cover up my eyes. And none of my questions were answered, did they all come back? But I don't know if I'd give it a negative on the word of mouth scale...? But it was a waste of time, luckly it was only 90 minuets!!
Posted by: wickld at August 12, 2005 10:55 AMI think the little ghost girl said "you can't help me. You can only help yourself" so I don't think they come back. The movie was so trying to rip off other movies, and not necessarily good ones, but it failed to get what actually made them creepy.
I didn't get any cover my eyes moments out of it. And those jump-out-and-surprise-you moments were soooo predictable I couldn't believe it. And what was the point of the meeting the famly scene - just a lazy way to ste up the story, having her snap at her father and tell him (and us) the back story....? Ugh!
Posted by: Vox at August 12, 2005 11:30 AM