Sunday, June 29, 2008

Cinema Idiots

Why do idiots still insist on going to the cinema and spoiling it for people around them?

I was at the cinema last night watching Get Smart and sat next to this particularly large-sized man. As soon as I sat, there was this strong smell of hair gel that came through from this guy. So I thought I would have to sit through this. Anyway, as the movie started, he started to narrate the movie for the benefit of people around him, which included, whom I presumed, his friends. He must have probably watched this movie. He even remembered some lines in the movie, especially the funny ones. At one point during the movie, I could hear him snoring quite loudly. When eventually he woke up, he proceeded to tell his friends about his snoozing and he seemed to be quite proud about it. He also accepted some phone calls and spoke loudly. At the half-point mark, he left the cinema. It was peaceful and quiet until he came back towards the end of the movie, to continue talking to his friends and on the phone. The man's behaviour totally spoilt the cinematic experience for me. People like this should be forever banned from cinemas.

Anyway, Get Smart was based on the 60's series of the same name. The movie is about this secret government agent, called CONTROL (thought it was capitalised, CONTROL was not an acronym and did not stand for anything), which was looking at any incredible terror threats to the United States. Max Smart was an analyst who aspired to become a field agent. After the revelation that the identities of all field agents had been compromised, Smart was thrusted to the limelight, where he partnered another agent for an assignment to capture an arms trader. Steve Carell was as straight forward as he could get and Anne Hathaway could not be any hotter; but sadly, the same cannot be said about their chemistry. Do you know that the Rock used his real name in the credit of the movie? The movie's humour was mostly slapstick and can be quite dry at times. It was a good movie to watch if you need to wind down after a tiring and stressful week at work. It does not require much of the brain's grey matter to think.


There were some funny bits, but they lost their humour as they had been shown in the trailers. Why do movie distributors put all the funny bits into the trailers?

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