Movie: "Charlie Bartlett"
Review: 1 bill-star

OK, roll the adjectives: gawd-awful, formulaic, boring, un-funny.
I credit the film-makers here with scrunching as many movie formulas into 90 minutes as they possibly could: smart teens and idiot adults, one charismatic teen (who happens to get the faux quirky girl, who is in actuality incredibly nubile), plenty of consequence-free teen drugs and sex... even the misunderstood bully, the misunderstood nerd, then misunderstood promiscuous cheerleader... all this wrapped in the inevitable happy ending. Sigh.

"Nubile"... he he.

Halfway through the movie, I realized I was watching a bad version of "Pump up the Volume" with Christian Slater. That movie waspretty much the same deal, but 1) it had Christian Slater, and 2) it had a nice little hook (the underground radio show thingie) and was at least entertaining.

Or, you could forget both these movies and watch "True Romance" again... which is now 15 years old. Gulp.

QOTD
"The world needs this renewal. In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading, an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair."
- The Pope, July 2008

Very nice quote there, Popey. It almost sounds like he's taking lessons from Al Gore.
I am going to go way out on a limb here and guess that the Pope's solution to renewal might, just might, involve people sending him gobs of cash. Again, just a crazy-ass guess on my part.

alabama... yow, bill

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