I got dragged to this cheesy movie on Saturday night. Wife told me to take a nap after I had been up since 7:00am. From her mouth, we were going to go at 9:30pm, so she says sleep until 6:00pm. I woke up at 5:50pm, she was asleep too. I figured I'd stay in bed until she made a move, which she did. Suddenly at 7:15 she comes in and starts on about we are watching the movie at 8:00pm in Kyle at EVO. There was a lot of confusion whether Boy and his gal were going to join us, They got there with seconds to spare.
The movie was about as cheesy as it gets. There is an exploratory team and they have found that the deepest part of the ocean is actually deeper, as a cloud of something has acted as the floor, but it is able to be punched through. They go down there in a probe ship and of course, they are right. Almost immediately, the probe ship is attacked and within a few minutes after that, enter Jason Statham. This movie is equal parts shark week and a Jason Statham thriller. He looks good saving the world, I guess male heroes look good bald.
I get so annoyed when the eye candy tries to act like a hero, this Bingbing Li girl, lead marine biologist and lead pain in the ass, again and again jumps out as the wanna be hero, only to be saved by the Jason character, twice. The Meg refers to a megalodon, which is a super big shark, Wife or Javalina joked that it was a reject from the Jurassic World, maybe it had a big enough publicist to get its own movie.
The cast was likable enough, I liked Rainn Wilson as the douch-y billionaire investor, and some of the other familiar faces. The acting was very predictable and you could figure what was fixing to happen. For example, once they were on the surface, they wanted to stop the Meg from reaching the shore, so they attempted to kill it from a boat. The one big fat guy insists on standing on the back deck. I kept saying "he's going to fall!" Sure enough, next scene, he falls over and chomp, the shark gets him in one bite.
Rainn Wilson attempts to take care of it once and for all with some henchmen. They manage to kill a whale instead. Of course, we know who the hero has to be, but I won't give away the ending.
The movie did turn out to be fun with a whole lot of stupid. I would be bothered by the killings of so many of the crew, but it was so stupid and predictable that all one could do is say "really?" I don't like slashers and other movies where the kills stack up, but this was hard to take serious, it was too much of a B movie. The EVO theater was nice. We could have hung out and let the kids play video games or even sat and ate next door, they have a restaurant connected, so I wouldn't mind going back. The price of $8.50 per person was a lot nicer compared to tickets at Alamo Drafthouse at about $13.50.
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