lindsaymariefitzgerald Reviews

2012: Ice Age (2011 Video)

If I could give it a -10....

[12 October 2011]

You may ask why I bother watching movies like this. It's kind of fun, actually. I didn't expect it to be good, but it's laughable. The creepy looking son who spends the whole movie saying "Dad, get us out of here!" The wife who spends the whole movie saying "Honey, get us out of here!" or the stupid questions they ask each other like "Is the iceberg moving fast?" and "do you see the iceberg? Is it gone?" I've never seen worse acting in my life, and my two year-old niece could have written better dialogue. OK, one of the worst scenes so far because I couldn't stand to finish watching it all in one sitting... Husband goes to find his wife at her job working for a senator. She has just walked out of the room after speaking with her boss and has a two minute conversation with her husband. Senator walks out of his office and they come face to face with him. "Oh, hello Senator!" she says. Who acts like that? Why do you say hello to someone as if you never expected to see them when you know they're in the next room and could walk out any time? It makes no sense. None of this movie makes sense. An iceberg moving 200 miles an hour? That is completely impossible. This goes down as one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It's one where you sit there wondering why they made it. Why did they spend money making this piece of garbage and why did they pick such bad actors and... you get the picture. If you like to make fun of really really bad movies, this is a winner. :-)

Lying (2006)

It wasn't THAT bad

[11 October 2011]

It was bad, I agree. Some of the scenes could even be called ludicrous, especially the ghostly opera singer scene where the women all run around the house for ten minutes to try to find the singer. One moment they seem afraid and another they are laughing. I actually fast-forwarded that scene. The worst scene in the movie was the Semiphore Flag Signaling scene. Whahuu???? How about Megan saying to her brother "you said, 'I want pizza'" and insisting he'd said it. For what purpose? It made no sense. Maybe the movie should have been called 'Non Sequitur.' But there were some redeeming things: The scene where the neighbor Sarah comes to visit and its so obvious that Megan is trying to get her away from her guests and then Sarah asks Megan about her parents; you suddenly realize the deception. You're wondering why would this girl do this? And yet there are people out there (I've known at least one) who would say anything to get attention. It was good enough to watch all the way through with a little fast forwarding. The actors were very interesting in their performances.

Here are two movies that are much worse: Sarah's Child and Isaac Asimov's "Darkness Falls" made into a movie in 1988 or something.... You couldn't give either of those a 1 out of 10.