Is it just me or has Hollywood become quite lazy the past few years? There are some really good movies out there. But I feel like most of them are the ones directed or produced by credible actors. The most prominent examples of Hollywood's laziness is August Rush and Awake.
While I do feel August Rush was a magical movies that gives you some strong emotions, it just didn't tie it all up in the end. It left you hanging at the most pivotal point. And I dunno about you but how easy was it to get Felicity into bed...on the roof of a party no less? I mean people have done it in less time and skankier places...I really shouldn't be that judgmental. There are probably a lot of girls who would give it up to Jon Rhys-Meyers in parking lots and dark alleys. (Spoilers, do not continue reading if you haven't seen this movie.) And what a rotten asshole her father was for not telling her the kid was still alive. That was one of the most deceitful things I've ever seen a parent do. But at the end of the movie after all this forward motion, after we are waiting for the entire family to be reunited, we get the parents side-by-side and the kid on stage and then blank. That's it. The end. No wedding pictures. No flash forward to him teaching a music class. None of the magic we had been getting throughout the entire movie. Rudeness right?
And Awake(Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, & Terrence Howard) ...Who has seen Awake? It would have been a better movie if _____. Fill in the blank with pretty much anything. For one thing Jessica Alba is so fortunate the lord blessed her with being as Gorgeous as she is. Because if she wasn't as perfectly sculpted she would be out of a job and profession. She might actually have to go to school and learn something. I honestly don't get it though. She was going to acting school for a long time. She's done so many movies. She was mentored by Felicity Huffman for God's sake who played a transvestite pretty damn convincingly. Jessica Alba should know how to act by now! Damn it !!! The only role I ever really liked her in was Dark Angel. And that is almost a fluke, because in that show the character is suppose to be mechanical and dry. I think she just takes herself too seriously, like she's always trying to act, rather than have it come to her naturally. The last time she was believable in a movie was Never Been Kissed, and we know her character had like one line almost, "Nah Uh, I'm Malibu Barbie." Anyway I went off on a tangent. The movie awake. The set up is ok, but I hated it. I don't know about you but I didn't trust Terrence Howard for a second. I still don't know what ladies find sexy about him. It damn sure isn't his hair.(I have a thing about hair) Maybe the eyes...but IDK... he ain't all that. My mother and cousin love him, but I have to get them psychologically check out because...??? You know he does kinda look like my Daddy. Nevermind, let's not go there. Lol. Of course Jessica looked flawless in the movie, she can at least do that right. The other nurse was pretty cute. Hayden I feel could have looked better. The skinnyness wasn't unusual because he had a weak heart. But as rich as he was in the movie his eyebrows did not need to be that bushy. When you have nice masculine eyebrows you can leave them alone. But when they get too bushy, do us all a favor and just trim them, pluck them, do something metrosexual with them. You're in a movie for God's sake. It's going to be shown countless times for the rest of your life. Have somebody hook you the hell up is all I'm saying.
(Spoiler)
So then at the end of the movie when he gets his life saved....what happens? Nothing. We see everybody getting arrested. We hear Terrence narrating the future a little. And sure it was dramatice when he said Awake and Hayden opened his eyes, but that was expected. Duh he was gonna be Awake. But fast forward into the future. Show us him visiting Jessica in jail with his new chick. Show us the money. Show us anything about how the story ties. up. What do you think there will be a sequel? No. Just finish the damn movie. You think it's artsy to just end on that note. We people who paid 9 bucks(At theaters) to see the movie has to fill in the end? I don't know about you, but I was hella pissed.
Point is: FINISH THE DAMN MOVIE. I DON"T CARE IF IT"S LAME OF WHATEVER...JUST FINISH IT. This isn't a book you wrote. It's not something that's going to be critically analyzed by historians. It's a dumb movie that should have just had a complete ending and stopped trying to be so damn dramatic when you have Jessica Alba in there trying to act her way out of a paper bag. Get serious. I don't know why, but I still like miss "Don't Call me Latina." I feel like one day she'll embrace her hispanic roots and it'll make her feel so much more comfortable as an actress, maybe even a person. I know I can't run from being brown, so I just surrender to it. Mostly in my blog or around my friends. I don't consider my work behavior as "White" behavior... just proper. I speak clearly with a higher caliber of vocabulary because I am not on the street. Street talk is best used on the street. It does not translate well to the office when someone says, "Get me ten a dem pay-pa' clips." It's just awky to me.
So that was just my opinion. Thoughts and comments are welcome.
-Doc Mc Valentine.
