The subtitle basically says it all for this post. Feeling like prolonging the lazy tone that my Sunday was taking I decided to take in a movie at the cheap theater. My friend Annie wasn't really in the mood for a chick flick, though I do admit that mood has struck me on occasion, but we decided to see Paycheck...or should I say....endure.
Seriously this movie only cost us $2 a pop, but it was barely worth that. They really couldn't decide what they wanted to do. Make a sci-fi film about time, an action movie, a romance, or whatever. It would more appropriately be called Minority report 2.....a very similar premise to the original.
My favorite scene is where Ben Affleck can't seem to shake a bunch of guys driving lincoln town cars while he is on a BMW crotch rocket. I've never driven a crotch rocket, BMW or otherwise, but I do believe that my towncar could not keep up with the manuverability and speed of such a vehicle. Usually the illogical portions of movies don't bother me too much, but this was just too rediculous.
I've also got a lot of beef with the 20 items he leaves himself as clues to the memory that was being taken from him. Why the hairspray and lighter. Everything thing else had a specific purpose, but he could've provided himself with any number of items to use as self-defense.
As for his love interest in Uma Thurman, the whole point of staying with her is that he's not in it for the money...he's in it because of her, yet at the end the last item he leaves himself is a winning lottery ticket worth 90 million dollars.
Oh well, I suppose if Ben Afleck hadn't taken away those two hours of my life I wouldn't have found much better use for them...and at least it gives me something random to rant about here.
