Cinema Genius

Even if you have nothing else to do I would still not recommend you to go and watch The Bounty Hunter. It is one of the most boring and stupid films I ‘ve seen for the last year. The major heroes are played by swiftly looking her youthful looks Jennifer Aniston and the guy nobody heard about several years ago – Gerard Butler.

One would think that this kind of movie should be filled with actions. But, in fact, all the creators can offer are some crude immature games between two heroes who used to be a husband and a wife not so long ago.  Authors also heavily borrow from all other flopped bounty hunter movies that ever appeared on Hollywood screens.  Really, if I go back in my memory I recall only one movie from this genre that was worth watching –  Midnight Run with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin.  It was not a masterpiece either but, at least, it was entertaining and had some good jokes in it.

Another thing that makes me wonder – who appointed Jennifer Anniston to be an “American sweetheart”.  So-called actress plays one and the same person in all her movies.  If you watch one by one several of her movies you will see what I mean.  Come on, Friends TV series ended awhile ago, get over it.  Two more bombs like The Bounty Hunter and she will join the fate of Meg Ryan,  Halle Berry and the like.

I was reading some professional critic reviews who were singing praises to Jennifer and Gerard in this movie,  shifting the blame to producers, scriptwriter and director.  I wish I knew what critics are smoking these days.  Even 2002 bombshell like Serving Sara with Matthew Perry (a colleague from Friends) and Elizabeth Hurley looked hilarious comparing to The Bounty Hunter.

Corey Haim is gone. Should I sympathize? Probably. Is it a tragedy for the cinema world? Certainly, not.

Younger generations don’t even know who he was. This Canadian boy, a teen idol of the eighties, comes to mind only with one movie “Lost Boys”  that, let’s say,  was not really a masterpiece.  And since that time a guy consumed so much drugs and alcohol that no director wanted him at his movie. Even Cory Feldman did not want to go on with him on a TV screen.

So another actor died of overdose joining a huge list of similar girls and boys before him. He was only 38 years old but already had a drug-induced stroke.  We are living in the times of our own tragedy: people lose jobs and homes, not because they were shooting heroin or sniffing cocaine.  All these middle class fellows busting their butts to bring something to their families.  I do sympathize them very much.

Kind of getting tired of a media circus when has-been actors and not so good “starlets” overdose or jump out of the windows or just shoot their brains off.  Blow their chances off. RIP Corey Haim…