ihavebeenfloated

Perhaps this exposes my skewed outlook on life, but when presented with a situation in which an obviously dangerous man was telling me to make one phone call in order to spare my father from a potentially brutal murder… you know what I would do? I would make the fucking phone call, regardless of how many people died because of it.

You know what I wouldn’t do? I wouldn’t try repeatedly to thwart the evil plans of whatever maniac was threatening my family’s life. I wouldn’t. I would just make the call and then bask in the glory of getting through such a situation without doing something ridiculously stupid. If they killed my dad anyway, well, at least I did all I could do without superhuman acts.

I guess that’s why I can say that the first 3/4ths of Red Eye kind of left me wanting. The first 20 minutes or so were torture, due to just comically bad filmmaking as far as I’m concerned. Then, watching Rachel McAdams’ character do stupid thing after stupid thing trying to get her father killed was, well, just painful to me. The last 1/4th, however, was pretty enjoyable just because it was all “omg run from the bad man” and Cillian Murphy is genuinely creepy in his role.

That’s about it. This isn’t a good movie, but at least the last bit is fun. Had I know, though, I probably wouldn’t have watched it.