Saturday afternoon, I asked Daryl if he'd like to go and see Starsky and Hutch that night. He was lukewarm on the idea so I tossed in that I'd buy the tickets to clinch the deal. I was bored and wanted to get out during the evening and thought the movie would be a light puffball of entertainment. So we went to the mall and I bought our tickets.
You know it's a bad sign when you check your watch 20 minutes into the movie. It had to be one of the worst movies that I've seen in my life. The movie managed to eek two half-hearted smiles out of me throughout the first painful 60 minutes. Finally I reached my breaking point and asked Daryl if we could just leave. He was more than happy to leave the movie behind and we walked out, a good 50 minutes before the ending. This is only the second movie I've ever walked out of. I'm thinking it was Will Farrell playing a perverted gay guy that pushed me over the edge.
I should have seen this coming with the Oscars. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson did their schtick of Ben being the overly earnest and foolish looking one with Owen being the golden boy. It outlived it's usefulness about a minute after they came up with it.
I'll never get that $20 back. But what's even worse is that we will never get that hour of our lives back. That will haunt me until the day I die.
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I went with Corey, LisaB and Mary Anne, and we all had a good laugh. I thought it was perfectly campy 70s fun. It was one of my fave action shows when I was in elementary school. I thought they did it justice, and played it seriously not spoofy. Just my opinion! Posted by: muskrat on March 9, 2004 02:52 PMMmmm, Owen Wilson. (I know) Posted by: becky on March 8, 2004 11:25 PMYou only wasted $20. I'm thinking about the $20 million or so wasted to make a film like this. They have a good cast, top professionals, and yet they blow it. John O'Brien, one of the "writers" of Starsky and Hutch, has also written a script for a movie based on Dukes of Hazzard -- starring guest who -- that is in preproduction and scheduled for a 2005 release. This guy's only other screenplay is 2003's Jet Li action film Cradle 2 Grave. He can't write. Why does he keep getting gigs? They just did a spot on my local news about the guy who wrote "Joe Dirt" and "Dickie Roberts" -- Fred Wolf. In the interview, he said, "I'm really just trailer trash. I can't believe I get paid to do what I do." I can't either! Posted by: Fritz on March 8, 2004 01:17 PMThanks for the heads up. Friends and I were thinking of going this week. I think I'll pass. Posted by: mark on March 8, 2004 10:18 AMSorry Todd, I gotta tell you I havne't got much sympathy for you, your time spent and your twenty bucks (doubtful that included popcorn too!!!). Post a comment
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