Posted by Hal Phillips at 199.79.168.252 on March 16, 2002 at 13:42:37:
In Reply to: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? posted by BrianLynch on March 16, 2002 at 02:32:14:
That's the only film I can think of which was so... trite, and simplistic, and full of godawful cliches, that I felt like it was sucking my brain out and turning me into a drooling retard. Maybe it's not the WORST film so much as my LEAST FAVOURITE film, if there's a difference... but it was just so... BAD. The worthless attempts at subtext were what really sent it over the edge for me. "Look, a burning bush, like in the Bible! And they hate 'colored' people, like with racism!" And none of these little references really MEANT anything; they were just tossed in there so people could trainspot. It's like the writer just went out of his way to make surface-level references to as many things as possible, in order to look "deep".
: You're mad.
Damn straight. It's like you said somewhere about DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR?: this is the only comedy film which makes me angry.
: And stupid.
I may never get back the brain cells which PLEASANTVILLE destroyed.
: And smelly.
That's 'cause of the vomit.