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Films I Stopped Watching Half Way Through: 02 - Halloween (2007)
Rob. Look. I like House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects. I think you have talent as a film maker but you just fucked with something that was long dead and well fucked (like a dead slutty horse, or something).
Some interesting things going on but I found myself falling asleep and generally not interested. It’s probably because I don’t care for the originals (aside from the very first one). Plus that fat sack of a child who played young Michael kind of annoyed me.
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Films I Stopped Watching Half Way Through: 01 -Ghost Town
Sometimes when watching a film a freak occurrence might force me away from the film (eg. the house is on fire, death of first born, etc.) which results in me missing the ending. More often than not I’ll come back to the film and watch the rest of it. But sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I honestly don’t care how the movie will end. Sometimes I care so little about how a movie will end that I turn it off of my own volition and do something else. This was the fate of Ghost Town.
I’m cool with Gervais, he is not the problem. In fact he was my favourite part about the film, in the beginning. He was misanthropic and miserable and it made for another well-paced awkward (oxymoron?) character in the long line touched by one Ricky Gervais. It’s just the rest of the movie that sucks. Nothing about this film really made me want to watch it - Gervais’ colonoscopy being the only moment where I was curious of what would come next.
The biggest problem that I saw with this film was that they were trying to fit Ricky Gervais into a standard romantic comedy. The supposed paranormal aspects and premise of the film (i.e. he can see ghosts) do nothing to dissent from the point that this is a by the numbers shit film. All the ghosts act and are treated like normal people aside from the fact that only Gervais can see them (and apparently needs to help them). The film follows the genre formula of (romance + comedy + A*) x PG13. Ricky Gervais cannot survive in such a format as it’s the antithesis of his comedy style. Some good could have come from this but once the plot started to follow what appeared to be a climax where the man and the woman find love in each other after a wild event that would surely involve police if it happened in the real world. Then again maybe it didn’t. I don’t know, I never saw the ending. Either way I don’t care.
I turned off the film right around the part when he was trying to explain the “Ghost” thing to a his love interest and I realized that I had never read The Great War For Civilization by Robert Fisk in one sitting and thought that it might be a more worthwhile venture.
*A = something stupid. Always.
