i was flipping between these medicore movies the other night. They were both very annoying.

Snake eyes opens with a long long "scene" where "everything happens." It's so obviously a gimmick as the director is attempting to throw everything out there in an overwhelming fashion. Then, the rest of the movie is meant to piece everything together. I didn't notice if they never cut away from the camera. if they did, i'll give props to the actors for goign through 15 minutes w/o breaking. but i doubt they did that.

everything else about the scene was just terrible. I don't understand how nicholas cage is considered a good actor. he's terrible in this (and con air). His character is so over the top annoying / obnoxious that it's actually painful to watch this scene. I'll never understand why movies/shows go out of their way to make annoying characters. SNL is the absolute worst at this. there are times where, even though i'm not even watching the show, i will have to put the tv on mute because i can't stomache the sound coming out of the actors. painful.

so we get about 15 minutes of cage playing "obnoxious" way over the top. we could have gotten the point in 2 minutes, but whatever. The rest of the movie, the "plot" if you will, is so unrealistic. A girl is walkign around in a white dress COVERED IN BLOOD and nobody notices. Cage figures out the fight is fixed b/c the guy goes down on a phantom punch (how could nobody else notice this? why didn't the guy just lean in and get hit by the punch?)

The ending is really disgusting though. Girl is locked in a room, cage is going to unlock her, bad guy is following cage to find out where girl is. now, i'll need to look this up, but somehow the door magically changed right at the end, so the bad guy had to try and convince the girl to unlock the door herself. uh, i THOUGHT she was locked in there. Then, apparently, there was another door in this little room of hers that led to the outside. again, if such a door existed, why didn't she just leave? are you telling me that a door that connects the outside world to a casino/arena is going to be locked from the inside?

and THEN, at the perfect moment, a big round metal globe crashes into a truck that crashes into the wall and allows the girl to escape. and somehow, the guys in the truck (cops or emergency workers, i can't remember), KNOW that the bad guy (who was a decorated good guy and leading the investigation), was actually bad and that the girl was good. yeah, b/c i know that if i came onto a scene where the lead investigator is chasing after a random girl, and he has a gun pointed at her and saying "freeze", that the guy is really bad and secretly working to sabatage the investigation. ugh. you have to just accept EVERYTHING this movie throws at you, b/c if you start questioning ANYTHING it all falls apart. Did vince russo direct this?

and as for Back to the future III, i've had this problem for years, but i'll rerant. 1950's emmit brown sends marty into old west to save himself (emmit) from being shot. now, the emmit that was in the old west was the one who left from 1985 who himself was obviously the older version of 1950's emmit. got that?

emmmit lives in the 50's, lives until 1985 and then gets sent back to old west. well, if marty goes back to 1950's and explains to emmit what is going down, then everything should change. this trilogy is ENTIRELY about the space time continumum and how things shouldn't be messed up. But, as soon as 1950's emmit learns of his fate in teh old west, that knowledge should have stayed with him until the 1980's and then gone back with him until the old west. Litterally, just by telling him hte info in 1950, all danger could have been averted.

Not only does that point get screwed up, but when emmit finds marty in the old west he 1) wasn't expecting him and 2) doesn't remember dressing him up in that weird cowboy outfit.

my head hurts.