Sometimes I see a movie and it makes me feel different (Requiem for a Dream), or a movie makes me laugh out loud (Spinal Tap), or I absolutely hated it (Matrix 2), or I was pleasantly surprised at how bad it wasn’t (Sex and the City), or I was pissed that I wasted my time on it (Palindromes).
I very rarely see a movie that does absolutely nothing for me.
The other night I watched a movie that left me feeling nothing afterwards. Confetti was the movie. Perhaps if I didn’t like the other work of most of the cast - Robert Webb, Olivia Coleman, Martin Freeman, Jimmy Carr - I would have hated it, or would have been pissed that I wasted my time.
But when it was over I was all “meh” and that was that. I didn’t even feel any better or worse for having seen Robert Webb’s willy. A lot.
I almost felt that way about a similar movie, called For Your Consideration but at least that introduced me to Nina Conti, who is teh awesome. The movie is similar because it’s also a “non-scripted” mocumentary.
Anyone else ever see a movie that really did not sway you in any way, good or bad?
I felt that way about For Your Consideration also but I felt weird because I wanted to like it. I really liked Best in Show, but this one…meh. Nothing.
I don’t remember the name of the movie (no wonder), but I went to one once that was so unremarkable that when I was asked my opinion, the best I could come up with was, “It appeared to be in focus.”
I don’t get the attraction for Zombie or Vampire movies at all. Zero. Nada. And this is coming from a person that admits that I kind of like Independence Day and Armageddon.
I have to admit that Children of Men did nothing for me. It had been recommended to me as a deeply moving both intellectually and spiritually, and I was all psyched up for that (with Clive Owen as an added bonus), and…pfffft My reaction, come end credits was, “…That was it?”
I grant you that the future world was really, really well-done – great production design, great acting, great cinematography. I don’t know what it was exactly that was lacking. Maybe the plot was too simple and linear? I don’t know. I just know it left me flat.
Yep. After Best in Show (Where is Busy Bee?!) and Waiting for Guffman (I only saw the first half) I was really looking forward to it. Not glad I saw it, not disappointed, just ambivalence.
Casablanca was like that for me; just kind of meh, and don’t care if I never see it again.
I’d forgotten about Children of Men, which is another one that left me flat. While I was watching it, I remember thinking it was pretentious and overblown (we actually went to see it accidentally; friend: “there’s a new Julianne Moore movie out; let’s go see it!” me: “okay!” In the middle of the movie, she leaned over and whispered, “this isn’t the new Julianne Moore movie I was thinking of!”)