Smart People – the movie

September 20, 2008 at 5:44 PMRampidByter

I wanted to like this movie. It had the girl from Juno, and it had a pretty decent cast (minus sarah parker.) I really wanted to like the movie, did I mention that? It turned out the movie was like listening to a musical note that is very flat, and I meant very flat like when my firewall wasn’t sealed correctly driving 65mph with it deflating.

I watched the whole thing while programming for a client I’m working on. I kind of listen to things instead of watch them anymore because I can’t afford to not pay attention to what I’m doing. Anyway, it was a bad movie. It was dry it was not droll in any sense and the conversations in the movie you couldn’t tell whether they were trying to piss you off or just bore you. The title of the professor’s book was called ‘you can’t read’ and I think that would have been a fine title for the movie, but with the correction of ‘you can’t watch.’ I didn’t want to watch, I wish I hadn’t, but I did.

I appreciate things that are prophetic, and I encourage movies to be a little on the border of what I’m used to. I don’t, however, appreciate movies that have no plot. I guess the plot was not to educate yourself because you’ll end up drunkenly kissing your adopted uncle in an incestuous lustful disassociation of emotions. I felt like the two plots were just too far varied to make any sense, the story left me lagging behind where it wanted me to go, and really with the mellow down trodden tempo of the story I could have fallen asleep pooping with more excitement that I had with the run up to the ending. I suppose I can take one thing away from the movie. Don’t do something you’re not even remotely interested in because you think you should, do the things that inspire you to want or do more and be dammed the consequences. I wish I had been more inspired to turn the movie off.

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