April 07, 2008

Flightplan, Starring Jodie Foster

Not a good movie. It's sort of half psychological thriller and half heist movie. But the psychology wasn't interesting, and the plan to steal $50 million was so outrageously stupid that I can't understand why anyone would have thought it would work. I wonder if the first draft had a plan that made sense, but it gradually morphed over dozens of script revisions until no one realized how stupid it had become?

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April 06, 2008

Myth-Told Tales by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye

I thought I had reviewed this book some time ago, but I couldn't find evidence of that. So I'll summarize. The Myth series used to be brilliant comedy. Now, it's just painful. The original author has forgotten how the characters sound and act, and the new coauthor comes from a different comedy tradition, making it painfully obvious who wrote which of the disjointed scenes.

Don't waste your time.

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