Bumped into the worst blurbs of 2007 as picked out by Gelf Magazine. You know, the annoying and overly-entusiastic texts you find on movie posters and dvd boxes. You can find the worst of last year’s batch… here.
My favorite one is about the newest Die Hard movie. Jack Mathews of the New York Daily News writes: “Hysterically overproduced and surprisingly entertaining”. The blurb says: “Hysterically entertaining”. Nice.
But it’s not like anyone ever trusted a blurb, right? Makes me think. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be this way. Blurbs could actully help people pick out movies.
Moving on to a brighter subject: I treated myself to a movie today and checked out “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”. The mood and the costumes in the film were awesome, and I think I got a little crush on the very sleek actor Paul Schneider.
Other than that, the movie was dark and creaky and slow and moody, and it left me pretty much speechless as I walked out of the theater. Also made me think about my own reasons for attempting greatness.
