I have definitely been enjoying Hollywood’s recent endeavour to intentionally put out movies with very thin plots. They don’t try and convince themselves or their audience that the movie is anything more than 90 minutes of blowing stuff up. I like being able to go to a theater and completely veg out for a little while watching bullets fly and bombs explode.

In terms of veg-factor Smokin’ Aces was up there. The plot was effectively crap, but it wasn’t marketed as being “deep”. The star-studded cast was all right. I like the fact that Common had a role which I think suited his persona extremely well. Alicia Keys however needs to stay away from Hollywood and get back behind a piano in some New York lounge. It didn’t try to take itself to seriously so it was exceedingly humorous. Overall, it was a good time.
A movie that I saw when it was still in the theaters, that was a plotless manfest, was Crank. Considering that there was essentially no plot at all, it was an awesome movie with exception of the ending. I can suspend disbelief only so far before I just get annoyed. I found it somewhat odd that they used Google Maps as scene transitions. I can see that they were trying to be “topical”, but I felt that it was completely unnecessary to toss the Google logo in the corner like they did. Aside from those little annoyances, it was a total veg-out film.

Disclaimer: I don’t just watch veg-out movies. I like movies with deep emotional content. Requiem for a Dream & American Psycho are some of my favorite movies.

Till next time…

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