A Tale of Two Movies: The Hangover & S.Darko

The Hangover

Very funny movie. The humor comes out of rich, odd characters dealing with the outrageous situations they find themselves in after a blowout of a bachelor party. If you want to see a good adult comedy, go see it. Really very funny. (I will admit that seeing it with Rachel and her friend was slightly uncomfortable.)

S. Darko

Rachel and I watched Donnie Darko last year. It was odd, but beautifully filmed and we really enjoyed it. When we saw S. Darko, the straight-to-video sequel, at Blockbuster, we rented it.

Now, I've known this movie was coming out for some time but I didn't expect a straight-to-video version (which is not a good sign). And of course there's the problem of even trying to do a sequel to a unique and unusual cult movie. As a rule, it's almost never a good idea. Turns out, in this case . . . that's still the rule.

This movie was pointless. Really, really pointless. I mean, it's as if they were trying to make this movie as pointless as possible but got sidetracked by all the pointlessness and accidentally made it even more pointless. If this movie was in the Olympics in the Pointless Movie event, they'd have to invent a new medal way better than Gold for them to win. The medal would have to be made out of some new metal (hey, a homonym!) which is the epitome of pointless (maybe pointlessite), and electro-plate it with a covering of pure pointlessness.

Anyway, we thought it was pointless. And also it had Elizabeth Berkley from Saved by the Bell and Showgirls.