Before we get to tonight's movie, I have a little personal background to share, that will explain a part of my later entry. I try to keep about a month's worth of movies on hand, in case of emergencies (financial, physical, etc). I also have an online wishlist/que of about 250 movies. I was looking at the 4 wishlists I maintain (online rental company, DeepDiscountDVD, Amazon, and a spreadsheet of titles not yet released) and realized that I have over 850 movie titles I wanted to watch.
Because I have so many movies I want to see, I'm actually pretty selective about what goes on my lists nowdays. Nothing but SF and Horror (not even Gallilo). No TV movies (unless starring one of my favorite people, like Bruce Campbell or Jeffery Combs). Very few mainstream "blockbuster" movies (for instance, my wife bought the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds. I still have not watched it) I also have a set rule that I watch movies in the order that I recieve them, so everything I watch I got a while ago. This prevents me from slipping a disc back and back forever, because newer, "Cooler" stuff has come in.
The downside of the combination of the above two facts is that sometimes I watch a movie that I cannot for the life of me remember why I added it to any list. This is the case for today's movie. I don't remember ever reading anything about it, seeing a preview for it, ANYTHING. It just appeared from my online rental service some time ago, and tonight I watch it. And as I watch it, I wonder "Why the hell did I rent THIS?" Such is case with tonight's movie:
Scarred - 2005
You know you've rented a hurter when the commentary is more interesting than the movie. Scarred is such a formulistic, potboiller that you have seen absolutely every element in this movie somewhere else. Even for a low budget movie, this is poorly done. Lighting is non-existant (I thought we left those "so dark you can't tell what the hell is happening" scenes back in the 70's), continuity errors out the yahoo (if you do a drinking game during the commentary of taking a drink every time they point out an error, you will pass out before the end, I guaruntee), and dialog that sounds like it was written by a third grade class. No breasts (how can you have a movie with 5 pretty girls and not show any breasts? It makes one wonder about the sexual orientation of the director and producer), no squibbs (they admit this in the commentary), and the gore is exactly the same in each scene (only the final "rip" is shown with any detail, and is probably the high point of the movie).
One beer out of five
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