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A strange mess of a movie, that tries to play the idea of people farting out parasitic aliens completely straight, and only Jason Lee seems to have been told they’re in a comedy. The classic Stephen King “childhood friends reunite in adult life” stuff is really well done by director Lawrence Kasdan, but the rest falls off a cliff spectacularly. Morgan Freeman and Tom Sizemore as military grunts feels like a different movie entirely, the CGI is weak and the tone is completely unbalanced. Lean into the humour and this could have worked; playing it serious was a mistake.
I think your enjoyment of Lawrence Kasdan’s The Accidental Tourist will depend on your tolerance for Geena Davis’ character Muriel. For me, she stayed the right side of quirky, but I could see others finding her hard work. William Hurt is very good in the lead role, as a very emotionally-repressed man, marriage on life support, grieving the loss of his son; she provides the spark of electricity his static life needs. When he finally cracks a smile in the…
Arnold Schwarzanegger's bad parenting made Jake Lloyd grow up to be Darth Vader
The first film ever made and exhibited to a paying audience, the historical importance of The Lumiere Brother's Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory cannot be overstated. If we didn't have this film, then we wouldn't have Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen! Actually, fuck the Lumiere Brothers! No I don't mean that. Thank you boys.