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Elvis Has Left the Building (2004)
The food wasn't the only bad thing on this flight
I saw this movie on a westbound American Airlines flight. It was so bad it actually made the flight seem longer. The plot had potential (who wouldn't love a movie about a woman who accidentally kills every Elvis impersonator she meets?) but it got screwed up a million different times by really poor writing. Towards the end is an embarrassingly bad scene where a gang of Elvis impersonators is on the roof of a casino reshipping the sky thinking he's going to return, then a group of stars moves together to form an "Elvis" constellation, which promptly shoots a bolt of lightning at the impersonators, sending them crashing through the roof. Bad...REALLY bad. Which is the theme for the whole movie. I'd avoid this one at all costs.
Deadwood (2004)
What are they saying?
This would be a really great show- if I could only understand what they're saying! Whoever writes this show tries way too hard to be Shakespeare...i.e. gets overly creative with the characters' choices of words and in the end just confuses the viewer. Your typical line from this show: "Nor the sort'd shrink from a lie, or more than one, to advance his purpose, or be ignorant how to circulate his falsehoods without others knowing their source." What? Who the hell talks like that? Would it have killed the writer to just say, "This guy lies and cheats to get his way?" When I express this concern to Deadwood fans, they say, "That's how people talked back then." No they did not. I doubt illiterate backwoods gold miners like the character Ellsworth (who uttered the line above) spoke like that in daily conversation. They might have written letters to their loved ones in language like that after spending three days carefully planning their words. But in daily conversation, I'm sure when they needed to use the john in 1870 they said, "Where's the crapper?" not, "Pardon sir, might you direct me to a venue where I may take nature's leave?" (or something like that) I watch the show when it first airs on Sundays and by the time it's over I know nothing about what happened (except a couple people get shot and no one likes Al Swearingen) because I can't understand a word. I watch the Monday encore and get a little better understanding. I watch it again on Tuesday and finally I can piece together what's going on. I'm sorry, but I have too little time in my life for a show I have to watch three times before I finally understand what's been said. As Billy Joel would say, "I never want to work that hard."