and here with some commentary is a grumpy old man

[rone]

You know, there was this dumb gorefest film in a claustrophic setting that counted Samuel L. Jackson among its stars and scary animals as the nemesis.  It was called "Deep Blue Sea".  It sucked and it did poorly.  Now we have "Pacific Air 121", with all the same core qualities, except this time it's been hyped to death, given a stupid yet catchy title, and somehow you people think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.  It isn't.  It's still a stupid movie.  The whole "so dumb it's fun" thing has been done to death by pro wrestling, Norm McDonald, and the Bush Administration.  So if that's what you like, sure, go watch the movie.  But let's not pretend that somehow this dumb movie is better than other dumb movies.  I didn't see you people lining up to go watch "Dungeons & Dragons", after all.

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

What's even scarier is they made a sequel...

...and it managed to suck less than the first one.

[nyar.livejournal.com]

Wow... I haven't managed to make myself watch the first one, even though TOM BAKER is in it... but I fell asleep to the Sci-Fi channel sequel a week or so ago. It was bad... so the original must be truly awful.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I watched both of them one day when I was very very ill, feverish, and stoned out of my head on NyQuil.

There are not enough drugs in the world, I fear, to overcome the suckage of the first one.

The second was just a sort of generic Bad Fantasy Movie in comparison, really. Not good by a longshot, but not a freakin' TRAINWRECK either.