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Paparazzi (2004)
60th of a second would've been too long to watch this rubbish!
This weak, dire thriller has received a lot of hype - and weirdly a lot of praise. Not sure why. Maybe the power of Mel Gibson as a producer, or an action packed trailer (definitely 2mins that are better than the 90mins on offer here!). Cole Hauser, son of Wings, is celebrity 'Bo' - a sort of meat head celebrity in the mold of, well, Wings actually. He is set upon by a gang of bloodthirsty paparazzis who provoke him to react for their cameras. Thus follows a persecuted and put upon celeb who gets no privacy (yawn) a TV movie car chase, all flashing bulbs and squealing wheels, and a predictable Princess Diana scenario, a crash caused by those zealots with cameras. Bo wants to get even and goes after them in a Charlie Bronson kind of way. What rubbish! And it also includes the odd stomach churning celebrities-playing-themselves-cameos which are truly cringe-worthy. Why Hollywood why? Directed with all the flair of a hamburger commercial, this one to avoid faster than a 60th second!
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
shape of things to come
Is this really what we want our movies to become? What might be a technologically cute idea is frankly a tragic indictment of the way cinema is going. And be sure a-list actors will soon be replaced by a-list computer-generated lookalikes to match the non-existent blue-screen sets. Directors will no longer be needed and the films will be credited to the design studio that conjured all the wizardry on a laptop in high-rise office. Jude Law brings new density to the term wooden acting in this overblown overbearing and over-not-soon-enough mockery of what cinema should be about.
I hated everything it stands for.