9.17.07

Category: dribblings

mr. fleegan and i saw The Brave One last night. it was…well, it was a movie. and i hate movies. but it had jodie foster in it. so it couldn’t be too bad, right?

well. it depends if you like movies that make sense. it just wasn’t very believable.

women typically don’t become serial killers after a tragedy, y’know? and vigilante justice? we’re just not wired that way. especially older women. and let’s face it, jodie foster is getting older. that her fiance gets killed by some punks is really sad and terrible and life changing sure, but no way she’s going to go out and buy a gun and start patrolling the streets at night and killing bad guys. it doesn’t happen. now a guy? sure. guys are like that. kill someone they love and something snaps in guys.

and i get it, someone wants to remake Death Wish only with a chick instead. okay sure. go with that. but don’t cast jodie foster for that. you need a crazy badass for that. get angelina jolie or uma thurman. jodie foster is Nell for crying outs, not charles effin’ bronson.

also, i think some of the dialogue was written by 8th grade boys. nothing against 8th grade boys, mind. i’m just saying. at one point i looked over at mr. fleegan and said, “did she just say, “who’s the bitch now?””

the title makes no sense. who is the Brave One? i don’t know. bad title. a better title would be No Way, or maybe Things Not Likely To Happen.

and has something happened to jodie foster’s voice? why is she whispering everything? that is super annoying. unless of course she’s got a voice problem, then it’s sad. but if it’s being done for dramatice purposes…or to hide her accent…it’s lame.

it’s sad to me because i generally like her movies. i’m probably the only person who liked Flightplan. i thought she was a very clever choice for the evil Madeline White in Inside Man. i mean, JF as a bad guy? no way! but she WAS a bad guy. a really bad guy. and it worked! but this movie? with the shooting and the whispering and the worthless dialogue? feh. i expected better.

still, there are a couple parts worth seeing. so rent it. or wait for it to show on LifetimeTelevisionforWomen. but they’ll edit out the swear words. and that’s no fun.

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