It occurs to me now that I forgot to tell everyone about a movie that I saw a few weeks ago. I don't know how I forgot...It was a very memorable experience. So, is everyone ready to hear about the most spectacular display of cinematography ever created?!?! I hope not, because that is not what I got, so it's not what you are going to get either.
My roommate Mels and I decided to go and see "When a Stranger Calls." We had seen some previews and it looked like it was a good movie...Boy were we wrong! From start to finish, that had to be the worst movie EVER!! Bethany, this may even beat out "The Man Who Knew Too Little" for the title! The whole film was filled with "scary music" even when nothing suspensful was happening. Oooh, the girl is running laps at her high school...Scary! ;) There was very little character development, I didn't feel like I could relate to anyone in the movie at all.
We quickly learn that the main character has to skip her high school party and babysit because she went over the minutes on her cell phone. She gets to the house. It is huge, has a ton of weird artwork (one statue in particular made me mad, because they didn't end up breaking it...Even though they showed it a half a dozen times!), there were also these weird lights that didn't turn on until someone entered the room. So the girl gets there, the parents leave, the girl discovers that she can't watch TV because the remote control is too complicated for her, then she proceeds to go to the parent's bedroom. Up until this point I am still in shock because this girl, wonderful babysitter that she is, has not even bothered to go and see the children yet! I mean the mother did say that they were sleeping, but when I babysat the first thing I do is go and see the kids! But no!! This girl decides to go to the parent's bedroom and try on all of the mother's jewelry and clothing!
All through this the "scary music" is playing. Finally, the phone starts ringing. It took them long enough to get to that point!! Yet now, looking back, I almost wish that the stupid phone had never started ringing. For the first few rings it was okay...Just some guy saying things like "have you checked the children"...Which makes her go and check on them. Then the phone calls get annoying...They never stop! Usually the gut doesn't even say anything...He just breaths.
Without ruining the pointless ending for you I will just sum it up. Too many phone calls, no character development, dumb subplots, a couple people die, the phone is still ringing, she calls the cops, they trace the call, oh no the call is coming from inside the house, where did that stupid housekeeper go?, check the children again, they are not there, find them in some sort of toy chest, finally see the bad guy (good, at least that means he is not going to call anymore!), running, running with kids, hide kids hide, ewwww she's wet and surrounded by fish!, yeah! We trapped him, run kids run, oh no! I see birds! That means he got out, kids go outside...blah, blah, blah...I won't ruin the ending for you. But the only good thing that came of this film was the world's longest run-on sentence that I managed to create!
In other news, I have a couple tests I need to be studying for. I am going to Salt Lake in April. I can't wait for the semester to be over. I hope I can find a good job when I get home! Oh, and my old high school swim Coach passed away on Wednesday. I just found out yesterday. His name was Coach Doug Fair, and I hope his family is coping alright. R.I.P. That's all for now. I hope everyone has a great week! As for the rating I was going to give the movie I saw, I don't even think it's worth rating.
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