Sh*t - I cannot read, obviously, nevermind...

Watched Crank last night. I was prepared for a stupid popcorn movie. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it much more than that.

Someone set out to make a live action video game, and they nailed it. This is an absolutely archetypal video game plot from beginning to end. They committed to it 100%.

Unfortunately it does suffer from a really poorly written love interest with an even worse actress. It wouldn't have been so bad, but there's a huge chunk of movie that gets completely dragged down by her. It definitely hurts the overall movie.

But if you're in the mood for highly stylized, ultra-cartoony action, it's a good ride.

Apparently I mostly agree. Though two years on all I remember is the premise of the movie and the public sex scene in front of the tour bus.

What's really bizarre is that one of the DVD "extras" is a "Family Friendly Audio" track. :confused: The audio is the most family friendly part of the movie. No amount of bleeping is going to cover the murders, boobs, drug use, consensual public rape, and blatant disregard for the law.

I say it loudly and proudly: I LOVED CRANK! A friend dragged me into the theater practically kicking and screaming. "Really, Colleen? Really?!" I think I laughed the entire movie, not at it...with it. So much fun.

I didn't mind the love interest. I minded even less one of the most balls out hilarious sex scenes I've ever seen on film. Sweet mercy, it was funny.

Convinced. Queued.

Finally got around to watching Cloverfield. I can say with a certain amount of certainty that I would have hated the movie if I'd seen it in theaters because it would have made me stick to my stomach. I am very glad that I watched it on TV, because I really loved how it was made. A nice contemporary homage to H.P. Lovecraft told from the victims perspective. I was expecting it to be a montage of various video footage taken during the time of the attack, so the continuity was unexpected but not disappointing. It's different but in the same class of film as The Host, I think. And as was the filmmakers' intent, I'm glad we have a monster of our own here in the States. Fun, fun.

The sex scene certainly helped soften the blow, so to speak, but the first few scenes with her sucked the air right out of the movie. Other than that, I was completely onboard.

And to bounce back and forth, one of my favorite things about seeing Cloverfield in a theater was the huge, headless Statue of Liberty set up in the Chinese Theater forecourt ... which, from the far northwest corner, you could line-up perfectly with the giant movie billboard atop a building across the street.


TeeHee.

The funniest sex scene I ever saw was in the Jeff Goldblum movie The Tall Guy. He and Emma Thompson wreak havoc on that bedroom!