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So Aaron and Amy came over bringing over 2 movies for a sleepover this weekend. We watched GOJOE, and RAT RACE. Having said that, I think the name really spells it out. Stare at it long enough and you might get something like, "lame" and "shit". If you haven't got the gist of the movie yet, i'll just give you a review of it.
Let's start with Rat Race:
You can name this movie Rat Turd, or Tar race and you'd still get the same old piece of shit. The cast is one of interesting mix filled with well known, hasbeen actors. You have Whoopi Goldberg who hasn't made a funny comedy or interesting movie since Sister Act and should stay on Tic Tac Squares. Then there is Cuba Gooding Jr. who usually signifies "this is going to be a lame movie". He has never been known as a funny actor which is surprising that he gets the role. Cuba was "perfect" as a supporting actor to Tom Cruise in Jerry Mcguire which required an overacting, loud, obnoxious idiot football player. You have John Cleese, as a supporting cast, who was silly in his British ways, but unfortunately had his name dragged through this mud-of-a-movie. Perhaps he should have left this movie to die another day (har har me funny). Then they have Mr. Bean, who was made out to be a faggish, narcoleptic guy who had a bad russian accent and worser lines. Then you have some mediocre no-namer actors, who had similar bad roles. So those were the list of bad actors. Onto the plot.
The rat race as the name denotes, is a contest devised by the Billionaire character played by John Cleese, to race seven contestants to silver city, new mexico. Whoever crosses the finish line first and gets to a gym locker wins 2 million dollars in cash. Sounds like a TV show? Well yes its very similar. But fitting a 6 week TV show in a cramped up 2 hour time frame while attempting to follow 7 different people, you get a great skipping effect. The movie kept skipping to different characters. Each scene would only be 2 to 5 minutes. So effectively you get this little 2-5 minute skit (about 40-50 total) attempting to make you laugh. I'd say 95% of the mini skits failed to produce a slight chuckle. Plot you ask? What plot? I want my 2 hours life back. Stay away from this movie. F------
GOJOE:
No, not GI Joe. This movie is a japanese film with english subtitles. It story was about a demon that supposedly had to claim 1000 souls by killing them. The japanese people are aware of this demon, and many heros samurais quest to go slay it. They get their heads chopped off and strung up in trees. This is kindof like predator.
After watching a lame movie like Rat Race, I was pretty tired. It was 11:30, so i fell asleep after watching about 10-15 minutes of this movie. It might have been good. but from what I was seeing, it was nothing to brag about. C
The rest of the weekend was cool. We played some fun Settlers of Cataan, a bit of boggle, and a game of FLUXX. Overall, not bad. No PBI.
jael