Eight women and one dead man. They don’t seem too concerned with the murder compared to getting to know each other.
It’s a French comedy/murder mystery. There are eight women who are stuck in a house in the French countryside for the night due to the snow. The man of the house (father to some, husband to one, brother to another, lover to some more….) that ends up dead. They have to figure out who did it since the phone lines are dead and no police are coming anytime soon. Everyone has secrets and they slowly come out.
That would have been all fine and dandy, but then singing happened! And it wasn’t Ewan McGregor singing in Moulin Rouge so it was just bad. Very very cheesy 60’s-style songs since it is set in the 60’s as well. Oh god. And stupid dancing to go along with it.
Just bad bad bad bad. We fast forwarded through most of it and I slept through the middle part.
Rating: F
Harrison Ford is the old cop having to train Josh Hartnett, the new cop, in a ploy to get every woman in America into theaters at once.
This was another movie on my family's Worst Movies to Watch on Thanksgiving. For those that don't know, my family has a Thanksgiving tradition of trying to find the perfect bad movie. It started out whatever year Bad Girls came out on video. Ok, that was 1994. We actually used to just watch movies on Thanksgiving. Anything to get my dad not to watch football. Then that year came and we decided that was the worst movie we had ever seen. The next year, my dad said "Do you think we can find a worse movie than Bad Girls?" so we try to top it each year.
This was your typical buddy cop movie except they didn't really interact with each other all that much. They spent more time on their cell phones. This movie does not improve my opinion of Josh Hartnett. I think he's a horrible actor and is not attractive at all. He was also laughable as a yoga instructor that looks like he is about to fall over teaching it. What a dork.
I thought it was funny that his love scene was about five seconds and Harrison Ford had two love scenes. Half of the movie was the big chase scene at the end. If that was cut out of the movie it would have been barely an hour. The case they were working on only seemed an afterthought to whatever else they had going on. It was all quite silly.
It wasn't horrible but a total fluff movie. I would say catch it on cable if you come across it but don't go out of your way to see it. At least Harrison Ford had good hair in this movie instead of that stupid buzz cut he has had lately.
Rating: C+
An update on Ten Little Indians that takes place in a Bates-like motel with ten strangers, one of them being John Cusack.
It was a pretty enjoyable breezy type movie. I was told I couldn't guess the ending, but I thought I had the movie figured out from the beginning. I was feeling pretty smart SMRT about the whole thing and then I really didn't know the ending! What I thought was happening was happening, but there was something else happening that I did not see coming. Very good twist at the end!
And John Cusack is good in every movie he is in. I need to have a John Cusack film festival one of these days, but I think it would take an entire weekend, maybe even a week. Maybe I'll just go watch Better Off Dead instead.
Rating: B
