Corinne and I like to watch movies. Every now and again we will go to the local supermarket and check out a movie from Redbox. The concept behind Redbox is simple, you look through the selection of available movies within what looks like a vending machine, choose the movie or movies you want to watch, and pay one dollar to rent a movie. In theory this is how it works, but the reality is far different. Every time we go to rent a movie from Redbox I think to myself “I am so smart, I only pay $1 for a movie that people at Blockbuster are paying $5 dollars for.” The trick is that I get charged $1 for every day (24 hours) I have the movie rented out for. So even though I tell myself I am paying only $1, we always end up taking at least three days to return the movie, and subsequently end up paying more than that $1.
That is what made this past weekend so amazing. We finally did it; we finally returned a movie within 24 hours of renting it. It only took a good thirty plus tries, but we did it. The movie we ended up watching was Yes Man! I intentionally choose not to see this movie in the theatre because the concept behind it reminded me to much of another Jim Carey movie Liar Liar. (With movie production companies making sequels to movies I thought were bad the first time; i.e., Transformers, Fast and the Furious, the Hulk, I thought it was my duty as a consumer to not support such reckless production of unoriginal movies aimed to appease the mass market.) With a lack of alternative movies to rent from Redbox, I finally succumbed to the inevitable and rented it. After watching the movie I would give it a solid B. I see it this way, the movie, while funny, was unoriginal and uninspiring. Jim Carey is getting old, and to see him dating a girl twenty years younger than himself just seems a little to unrealistic and creepy for me. On the plus side, it had Jim Carey in it. As crazy and bizarre as he is in his movies, he has a way of making the most unnatural behavior seem within the bounds of reality. His attractive co-star Zooey Deschanel, also in 500 Days of Summer, a movie I would give an A, did a great job. Her voice was great as usual, a notable characteristic of every movie I have seen her in, and she continued to play a character that I would consider somewhere in-between indie and hipster. All in all, I would say it was a dollar well spent.
That is what made this past weekend so amazing. We finally did it; we finally returned a movie within 24 hours of renting it. It only took a good thirty plus tries, but we did it. The movie we ended up watching was Yes Man! I intentionally choose not to see this movie in the theatre because the concept behind it reminded me to much of another Jim Carey movie Liar Liar. (With movie production companies making sequels to movies I thought were bad the first time; i.e., Transformers, Fast and the Furious, the Hulk, I thought it was my duty as a consumer to not support such reckless production of unoriginal movies aimed to appease the mass market.) With a lack of alternative movies to rent from Redbox, I finally succumbed to the inevitable and rented it. After watching the movie I would give it a solid B. I see it this way, the movie, while funny, was unoriginal and uninspiring. Jim Carey is getting old, and to see him dating a girl twenty years younger than himself just seems a little to unrealistic and creepy for me. On the plus side, it had Jim Carey in it. As crazy and bizarre as he is in his movies, he has a way of making the most unnatural behavior seem within the bounds of reality. His attractive co-star Zooey Deschanel, also in 500 Days of Summer, a movie I would give an A, did a great job. Her voice was great as usual, a notable characteristic of every movie I have seen her in, and she continued to play a character that I would consider somewhere in-between indie and hipster. All in all, I would say it was a dollar well spent.
5 comments:
I really liked that movie, except for the old lady neighbor. I still have nightmares about that. I think that teeth in a jar would always have given me nightmares... but now...
I think you have found your second career - movie critic. Maybe I'll have to give 'YesMan' a try - although I don't really like Jim Carrey moview in general. You sold me.
I agree with your father ... this was a great review. That said, I am probably still not going to see this movie. I don't want anything to ruin the Ace Ventura legacy ... ANYTHING!!!
On another note, the Redbox is such a great tool for movie night. Congrats on keeping it at $1.
You have now officially jinxed me... we have used coupons for the last two weekends for "a free movie rental" from Redbox... and forgotten to return them on time both times. I give up!
I think sneakly little Redbox somehow planned on that happening!
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