Some dumb movies

I'm always on about movies I love, to the point of distraction in other people I think, but I've seen some recently that I thought were aweful.

Fat Albert - I just don't think that the 'concept' of Fat Albert is enough to justify a movie. I watched the cartoon series when I was a kid, and it worked very well on the small screen, but there just isn't enough to warrant a feature film.

The Ring 2 - The inevitable sequel. If you are going to make a scary film...then make it scary. This wasn't scary.

Mask 2 - Another dumb sequel. This one was made here in Australia and was kinda painful to watch. Whereas the first one had life, energy and vitality, this kind of just laid there.

Bondi Tsunami - A woeful film hyped as the first Australian 'cult' film of the 21st century. It had no story, no characterization, nothing, just a bunch of Asians travelling around Australia and surfing. Looked like nothing more than a home movie.

There's more but I'm getting dizzy just thinking about them. Hollywood is so cowardly these days, churning out sole-les sequels and brain-dead blockbusters that one is almost forced to turn to the independant cinema. Indie cinema is where it is happening. I just watched 'Napolean Dynamite' again tonight. A rather inexpensive but brilliantly imaginative film about a guy who is out to prove that he's got nothing to prove.