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Contact (1997)
This movie is more frustrating, more of a waste of time.
Based extremely loosely on Neuromancer and Lawnmower Man and similarities to Johnny Mnemonic's out of body experience, nearly half the film is made up of protesters, file footage of Bill Clinton news conferences, and television media coverage. To use so much 'ambient' filler is a sure sign of a plot too weak to carry its own weight. Watching the movie made me check four or five times that I hadn't changed the channel to Nova or Discovery, or the Indie Film Channel like District 9 or some other poorly written documentary. It may have gotten nominations, but to have your religious beliefs shoved down my throat isn't a reason to see a movie. It's not very often that you watch a film and near the end you just want the lead character to die. This is one of those movies - they should have cut the film at 20 minutes and removed all the heart throbbing flash backs. Pure drivel, is what this film is.
Crazy on the Outside (2010)
Not as bad as Adaptation, but not worth watching either.
90 minutes with three chuckles, this film fails to provide much entertainment. JK Simmons is actually the best actor in the film and he gets a bunch of one-liners. This movie's target audience is one who requires all their thinking to be done for them - the 1:20 is simply wishy washy everything goes my way type of thing for Allen, then he gets a very minor problem at 80 minutes in, and has 10 minutes to make it right. Just in case you weren't paying attention we get a zoom in up close and personal with writing on the screen to tell us to pay attention to this problem - it is stuck in your face so deep you can't miss it. You will come away from this movie remembering 3 things and that's all - it could have been a 10 minute infomercial rather than this POS.