May 13, 2005
[playlist / netflix review THE GRUDGE] 7:14 PM
Guess who just got Netflix? Yeah, that's me.
Yesterday we discussed the poor, poor case of Blade Trinity, and today we'll talk very briefly about The Grudge. I may have found the film's storytelling device to be more innovative if I hadn't seen Pulp Fiction or been watching Lost for the past 7 months. Jason Behr was nice scenery with not much to do but look cute in his underwear, and SMG did a good job playing this "Karen" person — even if she was essentially wearing the same sweater she wore in "The Yoko Factor" on Buffy.
Wow, that was a nerd moment.
Basically the film, which had a refreshingly non-heroic ending, simply reaffirmed my feelings that waterlogged japanese girls make the scariest corpses.
I think the real meat of the film existed with the ghost of the boy who died with his pet cat, and their spirits merged into a fucking creepy hybrid...
Playlist
Speed of Sound Coldplay
This Life Martha Wainwright
The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine Spoon
Singing In The Rain Remix Mint Royale
Battle Of The Heroes John Williams
Bleed Like Me Garbage
Feel Good Inc (Single Edit) Gorillaz
Speak Low (Bent Remix) Bent & Billie Holiday
One Evening Feist
Back to Me Kathleen Edwards
Lovin' You Kylie Minogue
Drop [Kings of Convenience RMX] Erlend Øye
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own U2
I See Girls (Radio Edit) Studio B
Do It 2 Nite (Olav Basoski remix) Rockefeller
The Frozen World Emilie Simon
Painting and Kissing Interstellar
Run Snow Patrol
Twin Cinema The New Pornographers
Everything Is Everything Phoenix
Focus Komeda
I think the Grudge was just horrid. There were so many plot mythology holes that ruined the whole thing.
The whole thing reeked of the same sewage Ring Two was fished from.
Posted by: Rob at May 13, 2005 9:25 PMGreat song: Jennifer Saunder's cover of Frou Frou's Holding Out for a Hero.
Posted by: Sam at May 18, 2005 7:45 PM
