The countdown and stuff.

Friday, October 01, 2010

Hey all, Skinde here (for those who miss my delicious avatar at the beginning of my rants) just stopping in to impart some tired blatherings upon our faithful readers.

It's about 10:20PM on a Friday night and look where I am, in front of my computer basking in it's eerie whitish glow thinking about how to entertain and inform everyone as I listen to a local light rock radio station. Well here I go!

I realized today that It's only 15 days until we head out to Texas. We've got plenty of drinkin', shootin', ridin' and eatin' lined up, so pretty much like going to Utah but way cheaper and we get to carry guns. WOO!

I also wanted to take a little moment out of my day to give an honest-to-goodness movie review, if for nothing else but to save others from being bored to the point of taking a handful of Oxy's and hoping that death comes quickly and peacefully.

Fat and I checked out Never Let You Go at the Telluride By The Sea film festival. Fortunately for us we stopped at a local bar and got good and liquored up before the screening, because this movie could only be described as nothing short of fucking-kill-yourself terrible. No, really, I'm listening to Elton John's That's Why They Call It The Blues right now and I'm more entertained by it than I was this movie.

The premise is this - A bunch of people raised to be nothing but organ donors for genetically matched people. They are bred, schooled and raised in these lockdowns where they are constantly monitored. Well during the course of time two of them fall in love, because no one saw that coming. Here's the part I didn't see coming however. You would think that if two people in love knew that they were going to lose each other by the time they hit their 20's because they were going to have their organs harvested would, I dunno, maybe try to escape? Form a rebellion? Shank the nearest guard and run like a raped gorilla?

You'd be wrong.

No, instead they just lay down and let things happen. No conflict, no resistance. Overall, very U.K. feeling. I half expected them to be French instead of English.

I'll spare you the trip to the movies in case this ever actually makes it to a screen. The main characters die needlessly, and no one gives a fuck. My only enjoyment in the entire movie was watching everyone scramble to the exits so they wouldn't have to sit around for the Q&A and listen to the writer or the producer try to explain this abortion of a film.

I'm going to give this movie 0.5 sheep. Yes, my lowest rating EVER. Why? At least Nasa A Volta had some interesting imagery. Not even Keira Knightley could save this film, and she's pretty hot. I am fairly certain if I had watched this movie sober I would have stood up about half way through it and screamed "FUCKING BOO!" and walked out, but I was too shitty to stand.

Come back soon and I'll give a review on some other movie that didn't suck as bad as this one, which would be just about any other film I will watch for the rest of my life. Seriously.

Is it the 15th yet?