An exercise in film flop-watching turns nasty,as cross-dimensional sneezing leads to haunting by computer downloadAs a general rule, I avoid horror movies because I like movies with film stars, or horror movies tend to have actors who never became film stars because they have faces that look like they belong in horror movies. But a couple of weeks ago,I went to see all five movies that had flopped the previous weekend to see whether they had anything in common. And two of them were horror movies.
The movies included Rock the Kasbah (washed-up California-based rock manager tries to get his career back up and running by discovering a feisty young female singer), Jem and the Holograms (washed-up California-based rock manager tries to get career back up and running by discovering a feisty young female singer), and Steve Jobs (washed-up California computer whiz tries to get career back up and running by introducing a feisty unique computer called the iMac),and Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension (California family with feisty young kid tries to hold back the forces of Satan.) The fifth film was Vin Diesel’s The final Witch Hunter. I am not saying this to be mean, but asking the cataleptic Vin Diesel to share the screen with Michael Caine is like asking a lump of coal to share the screen with Daniel Day-Lewis. Diesel is not so much an inert actor as an inert gas.
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Source: theguardian.com