"What you lookin at you fag???"
"That thing between your legs. It's like a penis. Only smaller."
From The Covenant. Maybe it's just me but I found that part hilarious.
Review time.
First I should give you guys a quick overview of what it is about [without spoiling anything of course]. So I won't. Go imdb it or something.
Well like I said last night, I felt this movie had a lot of potential, but left a bit more to be desired. The movie is about 4 guys, who are called "The Sons of Ipswitch" [sp?], but throughout this whole movie, you barely see much about the sons. Just one, Caleb. He is the main character [duh.] of this movie. The whole movie just focuses on him too much. So what about the 3 other guys? Well they show up often enough to not be just side characters, but barely anything happens with them throughout the movie. They are caught in a limbo between supporting roles and extras. There is absolutely no character development with them. Well with anyone really for that matter. They spent so much time during the first half of the movie showing the guys and some little scuffles between them. Nothing more than a "Ha, he totally got the girl and you didn't. Here's some Kleenex's, and they aren't for your tears." So what was this time spent doing? Some plot development. Key word being some. So how slowly does the plot develop? You don't really find out the real conflict and antagonist until the second half of the movie. Sure, that seems alright, you don't find out the true mastermind until the very end right? Wrong. There isn't much of a feeling of their being a "mastermind" at all in the first half of the movie. Just this girl getting some freaky hunches. Which they don't really even elaborate on. Well anyways. They dragged things on too long. The second half is where it starts getting exciting. Maybe a bit too exciting. So excited the ending just came quickly. Ha. Did ya catch the sexual innuendo? In maybe 30 minutes or less, the bad guy reveals himself, his true goal, and totally owns one of the sons of Ipsbitch, while the protaganist, Caleb, gets owned kind of, devises a plan, gets in an epic battle, gets saved, and defeats the evil sonofabitch. O yea, and did I also mention he gets the girl and all is well with everyone? Well almost everyone... Sure, it was all good. Just too short. They dragged out things that shouldn't have been dragged out, then compressed all the important stuff in a short time. Maybe there were time constraints. Maybe this is just one of those movies that doesn't have much plot. Maybe it was just because I was dissapointed by the lack of action. There were some intense parts with some action-packed music at the beginning, this made me want more. More didn't really come until the final battle at the end :\. They could have over-dramatisized some parts. I can't believe I actually even suggested that. I am serious though. Could have made it more intense with the self sacrificing and stuff. Well anyways. It was a good movie though. It was kinda like a blend between the movies I don't like, which is just filled with "omg H4w7 GuR1z" and "*squeee* hot guys!!!!!" and lots of nothing, and Underworld [which kicked ass]. Maybe they were trying to stray away from it being to overdramatic. Overall, it was good. 4 out of 5. 4 being "Wow, I would seriously consider watching this again." instead of a 5, being "Dude, I just came in my pants." "Same here man. Same here."
Annnnyways. Racism in the theater!!!
Alex Ma [Eric Ma's younger brother] and I sat in the 2nd row from the front. Five [insert race here] girls sat in front of us. O. My. God. I wanted to just teach them a lesson so badly. So did everyone else in the theater. I was seriously considering my "Accidentally spill large soda on douchebag" tactic. Serious. Just, they don't make a soda large enough to span 5 seats. Too bad there wasn't a 7-Eleven around. Well they were so loud during the movie. When something happened, like maybe a spider crawled out of someone's forhead, they would laugh. The WHOLE THEATER would be consumed by their sound. I couldn't hear the couple next to me talking cute to each other. Then during this one part, where a girl in the movie screams, a girl in the front screamed a long [not out of fright, just for the hell of it]. She was LOUDER THAN THE SOUNDTRACK. They were giggling and talking and everything. They were so f-ing loud. Then the guy next to me [1/2 of that aforementioned couple] told them to shut the hell up. I wish they would have too. Well then they said something which I didn't quite catch. Basically a "no." Then they started saying stupid stuff about the mall being Lynnhaven and [insert their race here] and stuff like "This ain't Pembrooke" or whatever mall they said. Man, you could tell that guy was pissed. They kept saying stuff and he was just making sounds to mock them. Like you know when you are trying to piss someone off and you make a weird face and make like "Nyeh" sounds. Yea. That. Well then this lady in the back of the theater was like "You guys need to be quiet in the front." Well anyways. I bet everyone in the theater just wanted to say the same thing. Not because of the guy, but because of those girls. Well anyways, our savior came in later. Security guard! Well he looked more policeman like. They were talking still and he just stood next to their row [they were on the edge]. Then they slowly got quieter, then he told them how they had to stfu before he pwn3d their asses out of the theater. Well then he left to stand at the entrance of the theater. Was it over? To an extent. They were softer. For a while. The guy left. They got louder again at times, but not as constant. What they did do though was throw something behind them and hit Alex in the face. Then they threw gum onto the screen. Seriously. right on the movie.
So how racist are you really? Everyone has some racism in them. Prejudice is human nature. So what race were they? You tell me. What do you think? I bet you $20 that you thought they were of African American descent.
It's just the way we are. We are all a bit racist.
Wow. What a long post.
