Of Blockbusters and Corny Lines
SL and me went on a self-declared holiday today. We watched two shows back-to-back:
The Day After Tomorrow and
Shrek 2, with a half an hour break in between. The first movie actually scared me... well, after all the worst part of the movie was knowing that global warming IS a very real problem that we're all facing, and what happened to the characters in the show could very well happen to us!
Notice the storms we're having these days? I'm sure they're worse than they ever were, and every year the winter (in places where they have winter) seems to be worse than the last. Or the heatwaves seems to be worse than the previous... oh well, maybe I'm exagerrating... but the movie is kinda scary... although there were many corny lines lah. Stuff like the US president saying, 'We were wrong, I was wrong.'
Now that's just one thing I don't get about blockbusters. That thing about CORNY lines. There's this scene in the show where Tamyln Tomita tells Dennis Quaid that she can help him with something, and Quaid just goes, 'Walk with me.'
I was like... 'Oh no... there it comes... the corny lines...'
Corny lines are just ... so maize-y you know? They make everything sooooooo predictable, like those rows and rows of yellow stubs down the cob, corny lines just make a good movie BAD. Oh yeah, if you thought the CGI in the show was good, well, yeah it was good, except the opening scene... I thought it was so blatantly CGI... but it probably its difficult to make an Antartic scene look impressive with all that white.
Anyway,
The Day After Tomorrow could have been a good movie... it sure had very noble intentions (I'm already more environmental conscious already), BUT unfortunately... the corny lines.... oh the corny lines...
Well,
Shrek 2 WAS good, and I'm not going to repeat what the others have said... but my favourite parody was the Mission Impossible one, though the trip that Shrek and Fiona took on that little onion coach that really resembled travelling scenes from LOTR were really hilarious.
And yeah. At least
Shrek 2 didn't have corny lines... or where the lines were meant to be corny, they sounded GOOD. That's only because the movie did make a parody of the corny lines from other movies, I guess.
