Who Really Cares?

One thing has been on my mind since I saw Good Luck Chuck last Friday night. Okay so it hasn't been on my mind, but I needed something to write about and I thought this would cover it.

So I went to see Good Luck Chuck last Friday with a junior girl and some other guys. Us seniors got in with no trouble at all but the junior couldn't get in by herself. Luckily some old lady was going to see the same movie and told the usher that was checking I.D's, the junior was with her.



I told you this story because the people who work at the movie theaters can be a huge pain in the ass. The usher knew she was only 16( 4 days away form 17) but told her to find somebody at least 21 to get her in. First of all, if that's the case she going to see the movie anyway. And secondly, who really cares? The movie theater shouldn't care because it's their loss if she doesn't but a ticket.



When I went up to buy my ticket, the cashier asked to see my identification because it was an R rated film. I put my wallet back and within 45 seconds I had to take out my wallet again. That can drive you nuts if you went out to eat and had to take out your wallet, let's say 5 times, because the waitress was new and didn't know what she was doing.



Anyways, I guess where I'm going with this is that it's unnecessary to have the theater check somebody's I.D 2 or 3 times. Plus it's pointless to check I.D's if somebody is just going to sneak in anyway. Oh and the ushers don't really care either but they have to do this because if they don't, they might get fired. Well, I'm going to tell the manager at the Southdale theaters that Jim let in a 16 year old junior to an R rated film. That might show 'em.

Another Sad Excuse

I actually have never talked about or critiqued a movie or movie critic before, but this sounds like a fun challenge. The latest movie I have seen is Balls Of Fury (Robert Ben Garant), the maker of such movies Taxi, Night at the Museum, the Reno 911 movie and the show itself. All though I can't live without Reno 911, I was disappointed with Night at the Museum and Balls of Fury itself. Bell puts it that it turned out to be just as bad if not worse than the other movies made by Garant.

I read a review by Josh Bell of the Las Vegas Weekly. Like me, he too wasn't very impressed with Garant's previous projects and that led to an upsetting Balls of Fury staring Dan Fogler, a retired ping-pong champion, Randy. Randy saw his father beaten and killed due to betting on the ping-pong match. Years later, an overweight and out of shape Randy is picked up by an FBI agent, George Lopez, in order to catch a murderer, Master Feng (Christopher Walken).

I'm surprised I didn't read "I walked out half way through" by Bell because he wasn't very fond of the stupid jokes of ping-pong being a killing art.

All of this is really just an excuse for lots of jokes that treat ping-pong with the seriousness of an ancient killing art, a gimmick that gets old quickly.

And I totally agree this statement because it truly did get old. There is not much to go off of with the joke of an ancient killing art that is ping-pong. Bell also says that in the movie there is way too much time opening the plot of catching the killer (Walken). Randy has to enter a tournament in order to get an invitation to Feng's secret tournament which is really a cover for a mass production of weapons. Then he goes through training with an old master. I think that this takes way too much time up. But really, what else would have gone in that spot?

Well nothing really. And that is way I don't think it is that good of a movie. It has no depth. And besides, a ping-pong killer isn't good of a plot anyway. And like I said it got old fast.

Bell states that there was an attempt to be funny but those were ruined by:

pointless digressions for unfunny gay jokes and rivalries
that never pan out. The movie is packed with clever cameos from the likes of
David Koechner and Patton Oswalt, but the funniest isolated bits don’t add up to
a satisfying whole.

I once again agree with Bell and that he thinks that the wanna be comedy could have at least been creditable but loses all hope due to the ending. I thought the ending was too fast and didn't bring the plot to a smooth landing. I think Bell wants to tell us that movies like this come around once in awhile; but don't see them. They are just a sad excuse to go to the movies.