re:mote voices

Title: Cherry Falls
Cast: Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, Michael Biehn, Jesse Bradford, Candy Clark, Amanda Anka, Joe Inscoe
Director: Geoffrey Wright

i am notoriously bad for taping things from TV and never getting round to watching them. eventually i lose track of what i've taped where, and it defeats the whole purpose. but it doesn't stop me. conscious of the chances of me watching cherry falls i taped it from the TV anyway. hell you never know, i might watch it, it might be worth watching. ha. fat chance.

so then this cough i've had since berlin is just not going away. and generally i'm feeling like shit. so i take a few days off work. and i'm looking for something to watch. and the only tape kicking about, thanks to some recent reorganisation is the one i just tape cherry falls on. so yeah, i watched it.

wow.

for me this screams (oh dear, unconscious pun alert) that it is a vehicle for the rising "star" of britney murphy. and yeah ok, she is kind of cute, especially with that hat, but she is also kind of a caricature really. as a film it clearly riffs off of the scream/i know what you did ethic, in a lets cash on on the success kind of format.
which is to say, kids get killed, lots of panic, death, yadda, yadda, very little that might masquerade as originality. the end.

there is kind of a twist, though it did make me laugh more than anything else, and it is so obviously a gimmik that you can just imagine that the person that came up with thought was brilliant. the killer is killing school kids who are virgins, this gets out - what are they all going to do? yup, you got it, they are all gonna fuck. congratulations. cue much silliness.

the end allows for the potential of a sequel. obviously. i suspect the chances of there being one are low. please - don't let there be a sequel!

x-men - the first x-men film was also on the TV during this period, so i sat and watched that as well. it has been a while since i first saw it. yeah, it doesn't really hold up. especially with the second one taken into account, the result is disappointing. the x-men themselves seem a little too namby pamby - i mean the first "fight" they get into and toad takes on three of them easily! given the mythos (and yes i know i'm getting into geek territory, but i am one, so i can deal with it) behind sabertooth and wolverine, the portrayal of sabertooth was piss poor. at least they didn't kill him, so there is the chance that they can redeem the character in the future! the mystique character was kind of cool, though not how i would have pictured her from the comics at all. aye, well, i'm not going to get into all that in too much detail - the point, on reflection the first x-men film wasn't all that, it could have done better, but at least it was better than nothing and could have been a lot worse. damn, it gets frustrating sometimes that i can accept it could have been a lot worse as being a reasonable outcome...