Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by blueerica

I agree with iSm's House of Sand and Fog sentiments. It was a really wonderful film.

I am too lazy to see if anyone else saw The Number 23. Me like.

I refuse to see it. Not because I think numerology's a load of crap. I can still enjoy a good story based on numerology despite that. But the trailers keep showing "2/3=.666". It most certainly does not. It's .667 if you're going to 3 decimal places. Picky? Yes, but the whole point of numerology is being picky and if they're using something as blatantly wrong with that, there's no way I can enjoy it.

[Alex]

My desire to see The Number 23 is a perverse one. I don't really have any interest in it natively but the fact that a movie where the intent was to make a good one (as opposed to something like Norbit where the intent is to make a successful bad one) but ends up with a 9% RottenTomatoes rating has me curious. Curious about just what went wrong with it (assuming I won't like it either) or what the critics are missing (assuming I would like it).

I'm guessing the former, though, since one of its rare positive reviews is from the San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle. We disagree a lot.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Yes, but the whole point of numerology is being picky

The whole point of numerology is to be selectively picky.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

The whole point of numerology is to be selectively picky.

Well, yes. But they could have at least made it a challenge to pick it apart.