March movies

3/9 - Law Abiding Citizen
3/10 - Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation
3/13 - The Stepfather (1987) | Truth or Consequences, N.M. | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Bright Lights, Big City
3/14 - Steelyard Blues
3/18 - Renaissance: Paris 2054
3/20 - Up in the Air | Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
3/23 - Rush (1983)
3/28 - Green Zone

• As is so often the case with bad movies, one death scene made all of the very silly Law Abiding Citizen worthwhile. By the way, don’t go to Phildelphia. They apparently respond to terrorist threats by assigning a lone district attorney to the case.
• Sick Boy’s unifying theory of life is confirmed when you consider that the same people wrote and directed Bachelor Party 2 as the original. This made all the more depressing by the fact that the original is such a low point from which to start your decline.
• Terry O’Quinn was a badass long before he played John Locke. (The Stepfather)
• I suppose I was foolish to expect more of Kiefer Sutherland in his directorial debut. I mean … he’s Kiefer Sutherland. (Truth or Consequences, N.M.)
• I’d never watched Hellraiser II all the way through, but the experience of watching it all the way through is almost identical to watching random scenes without context.
• Michael J. Fox as a coke addict and struggling writer is about as convincing as a five year old putting on his father’s business suit. Sutherland movie no. 2 for the month. (Bright Lights, Big City)
• To tell a tale of freedom-loving misfits, you shouldn’t free yourself from having a coherent script. Sutherland no. 3, this time Donald! (Steelyard Blues)
• Renaissance: Paris 2054 provided solid sci-fi and an interesting animation gimmick, but it doesn’t hold up to further thought.
• Tack an unsatisfying ending onto an otherwise unremarkable romantic comedy, and you got yourself a best-picture nominee. (Up in the Air)
• Sunkist soda is the implied villain of Precious.
• Rush was one of nine movies in the Sybil Danning Adventure Video series that I bought on VHS this month. My love for this kind of thing is why I will never be taken seriously by anyone ever.
• If Green Zone has been a little more interesting, it might’ve stirred up some “Why do you hate America!!?!?!?” controversy.