Late posting of last week’s movies: ‘Premonition,’ ‘Dead Silence,’ ‘I Think I Love My Wife’
Your reviews of last Friday’s new releases are finally up: “Premonition,” “Dead Silence,” and “I Think I Love My Wife.” Surprisingly, “Dead Silence” is the best of them. It wasn’t screened for critics, and certainly many of the late reviews have not been kind. But I think if you take it for what it is — an old-fashioned goofy ghost story — you’ll find it more than a little creepy and a fair amount of fun to watch.
“Dead Silence” and “Premonition” are both thrillers of sorts, and I compare them both to “The Twilight Zone” in my reviews — favorably in one case, unfavorably in the other. “Dead Silence” uses a specific “Twilight Zone” device (remember the episode called “The Dummy”? CREEPY!) and expands on it. “Premonition,” meanwhile, uses a “TZ”-style plot and simply drags it out for 90 minutes.
(Both films also feature actress Amber Valletta in supporting roles. Weird coincidence for Ms. Valletta!)
I saw all three films in a mini-marathon on Monday at the Edwards Greenway 24 in Houston. I was in town visiting friends for a few days after SXSW, and I had figured I wouldn’t see the movies until I got back to Portland, but then my host had to work for several hours on Monday and I had to kill time anyway. And what better way to occupy oneself for seven hours than by paying for one movie and watching three?
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
You were in Houston? I live in Spring, on the north side. In fact on Monday there was no school and my boys and I finally listened to the rest of Pirates and Monkeys (which you apparently mailed right before you left for Austin), after which I had to explain to the 9 &11 year olds what “you can still swig ‘em cuz there’s no Brigham” meant, which they now think means you can drink Coca-cola in Provo but not on campus. Funny that we were listening to you, and you were just down the road. Why, it’s almost like we were connected somehow!!
Not that you’re accustomed to eating with total strangers (much less strangers that are Fans who think they know you because they read you everyday and say things to themselves like “that is so Eric” when they wouldn’t know you from Adam Ondi on the street), but I would have loved to have met you and plyed (sp? maybe plied?) you with Tex-Mex food cooked by Mexicans even, all for a chance to converse live and in person with a member that not only actually has a sense of humor but a wicked one at that.
I meant wicked in a good way of course.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Weezy, do you know any Bakers in Spring? If you know the ones I am talking about, you are more connected to Eric than you know … [cue creepy music...]
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:43 am
Why does everyone always use me as an example of a completely generic person? Just because no one would know you from me on the street doesn’t mean that I don’t have feelings.
March 27th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Are you telling me that Eric was actually AT THE BAKERS Monday a week ago?!?!! Are you KIDDING ME?? (actually, I don’t know the Bakers. In fact, there aren’t even any Bakers in my ward (Klein Oak ). *SIGH* A missed connection.
Oh AdamO, should I give you A Formal Apology?