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trinityvixenAs part of my on-going resolution to see a movie-a-week in the theater, I went to see I Am Number Four at a matinee yesterday morning. I'm glad I went to a matinee as this movie really is only about $6 worth of movie. That's not to say it's terrible, just that it's extremely average and does nothing whatsoever that's really clever or new. The plot is, basically, Roswell: the Movie, with a little bit of Twilight-esque emo and a bit of Michael Bay-esque excess. (Bay had a hand on this movie somehow, so it's not surprising.) As I said on Twitter, it's neither so bad as Twilight nor so good as Harry Potter. Since I'm not the hugest fan of the Harry Potter movies, that puts it somewhere on the sliding scale of okay-to-meh.
What's funny to me, seeing more movies more frequently in the theater, is seeing how the theater or whoever chooses which trailers to run before a given movie. In front of I Am Number Four, I saw a preview for Beastly, a movie starring the male lead of I Am Number Four. Okay, that makes sense--if you're here to see bland 20-something Star of the Month, why won't you be back next month? (Because there'll be another one of him?) Then they had no less than three aliens-among-us movie trailers, with Battle: LA being expected, Cowboys & Aliens being awesome, and Apollo 18 being extremely unexpected. I think I'm forgetting something.
I just felt vaguely insulted to be being sold these movies. (Except Cowboys & Aliens. That remains awesome.) The people around me? Loved 'em. Not Cowboys & Aliens, alas, but the girls (who made up half the rather large audience) all swooned over Beastly. I could tell, too, based on the audience, that they were either fans of the book or fans of the face. The one belonging to the lead, I mean. Me? I'm a fan of the face, but I prefer the one on Timothy Olyphant. (God, has he got sexier with age.) Hilariously, so does the reviewer at The New York Times:
"Alighting in a small Ohio town with his protector, Henri, (Timothy Olyphant, whose hotness is a sweet distraction from the general twaddle), John swiftly acquires a shutterbug girlfriend (Dianna Agron, bland as butter) and a slew of super-abilities."
It's like I'm writing for the NYT!
What's funny to me, seeing more movies more frequently in the theater, is seeing how the theater or whoever chooses which trailers to run before a given movie. In front of I Am Number Four, I saw a preview for Beastly, a movie starring the male lead of I Am Number Four. Okay, that makes sense--if you're here to see bland 20-something Star of the Month, why won't you be back next month? (Because there'll be another one of him?) Then they had no less than three aliens-among-us movie trailers, with Battle: LA being expected, Cowboys & Aliens being awesome, and Apollo 18 being extremely unexpected. I think I'm forgetting something.
I just felt vaguely insulted to be being sold these movies. (Except Cowboys & Aliens. That remains awesome.) The people around me? Loved 'em. Not Cowboys & Aliens, alas, but the girls (who made up half the rather large audience) all swooned over Beastly. I could tell, too, based on the audience, that they were either fans of the book or fans of the face. The one belonging to the lead, I mean. Me? I'm a fan of the face, but I prefer the one on Timothy Olyphant. (God, has he got sexier with age.) Hilariously, so does the reviewer at The New York Times:
"Alighting in a small Ohio town with his protector, Henri, (Timothy Olyphant, whose hotness is a sweet distraction from the general twaddle), John swiftly acquires a shutterbug girlfriend (Dianna Agron, bland as butter) and a slew of super-abilities."
It's like I'm writing for the NYT!
