2005-07-06 - 3:14 p.m. Discussing the Movies I�m miffed. In 1994 Billy Bob Thorton made a movie called �Some Folks call it a Sling Blade. � with Molly Ringwald. You might remember this because he played a retarded killer who is released from jail and kills someone. It won a ton of awards. You didn�t see this movie. Awards (for SOME FOLKS CALL IT A SLING BLADE) You didn�t see this movie because it was remade by Billy Bob Thornton in 1996, 2 years later, and called �Sling Blade.� This is the movie that won an Oscar. Color me annoyed. Annoyed at the fact that Billy Bob made a good movie, and then 2 years later remade it with FILLER! Listen the first movie was 45 minutes and it was a best film. Then, two years later, its two and half hours long and the same damn story! Both movies end the same way. If the first was good�why was the second needed? Marketability is all. Both movies were good not because the plot was that interesting. What was interesting was that he killed people that we didn�t like. But it left us with the question, �does not liking someone who is awful, mean killing them is okay?� Did we need two movies for that? And incidentally, when is it okay to give away the end of a movie? Like, I was sitting in a restaurant the other day, and these kids just start talking about war of the worlds and what happens and the ending. Now I know the ending to the original versions, but I want to see this version. I didn�t appreciate it. But at the same time, if someone told me how Terminator 2 ended, and I had never seen it, I wouldn�t feel so bad. It�s been long enough. And to people who say that �you should never discuss the ending of a movie,� shut up. It happens. Rosebud is a sled, the shark dies, he is the one, Vader is his father, and King Kong beats Godzilla. (Incidentally, I just cannot believe an ape could defeat a nuclear fire breathing lizard.) I say one year after the DVD was released. Now, there is the asshole rule, where if someone says �I really want to see �The Girl Next Door,� and I go on to ruin the plot twists�that�s ass. But if I am talking about how Nemo dies of the ick that he got from being in a human tank, and you get pissed cause you missed Finding Nemo, or �its coming on my netflicks� well too bad. | |||||||||||
