MOVIE REVIEW IN THE FORM OF A VOICEMAIL MESSAGE TO MY BROTHER

“You loser. You incredible loser. You don’t have a single cell of taste in your whole body. Not a cell, not a mitochondria, not even a virus. You should get out of the movie business tonight and go work at a 99 cent store where they sell cheap-ass rejects, because the movie you recommended to me tonight was the worst castoff reject-laden piece of shit I’ve seen since “Supertroopers”, and my FIFTEEN YEAR OLD SON even apologized for making me see that. This move had the stupidest script I’ve seen in years, most of the acting was phoned in, except for the lead, who appears to have gone to the Al Pacino School For Cheap Overemoting for this film. The writer/director didn’t miss a cheap or obvious opportunity in the script, and the producer…the same guy, coincidentally, who forgot to spend more than the 99 cents – like the stuff you should be selling instead of working on movies – on special effects WHICH WERE CRUCIAL TO THE FILM.
Not only do you owe me the $18 I spent on tickets, but I want the $400 I would have billed for the time, as well. What a god-damn unbelievable loser you are for recommending this film, and so are all the stupid loser people who are making it the biggest film in the country right now…
What are you doing for dinner Tuesday? Want to come over?”
As you may guess, we saw ‘Signs’ last night.
I did manage to crack up a few people in the lobby as I was calling my brother and leaving this message as we walked out. And the group of teenagers who walked out in front of us has the classic comment ”Jeez, we should have seen XXX”. No s**t, kids, you should have.

4 thoughts on “MOVIE REVIEW IN THE FORM OF A VOICEMAIL MESSAGE TO MY BROTHER”

  1. Date: 09/02/2002 00:00:00 AM
    Actually, I liked the film, though nowhere near as much as the directors two previous ones. It did, however, require too much suspension of disbelief. Aliens who travel light-years, but can’t escape a pantry?Who don’t understand the concept of “raincoat?”A rural farmer in America who doesn’t own at least a shotgun?It was an interesting examination of human faith, but it was far weaker than it could have been. Loved the voicemail message, though.

  2. I was more disturbed that the aliens could travel light years and cloak their ships from direct observation and radar, but they couldn’t think of a better way to mark their targets than huge signs in crops? I can use a GPS unit from Wal-Mart and beam my direct location to another person.
    And what would the aliens have done if they went into a yard when an automatic sprinkler went off? I find it hard to be afraid of aliens which can be soundly defeated by a kind with a supersoaker.

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