What’s Sure to Suck This Weekend
It’s the weekend. We’re already two weeks into the summer movie season and the sound of the gas reflex can be heard from coast to coast. If you’re heading off to enjoy a flick during your Memorial Day weekend or if you’re one of those kids who has the summer off (first off, every adult in the world would like to say screw you), here’s what you should avoid at a theater near you.
We only have one movie on our “Sure to Suck” radar for this weekend because quite frankly, it looks good for once. We’ve got “War Inc.,” a satirical action flick that reunites the “Grosse Pointe Blank” cast and style of death humor that made it great. Of course, we’ve got the new “Indiana Jones” flick that’s destined to kick more ass than a two legged man in a one legged man’s ass kicking contest.
That would be Uwe Boll’s latest dud to date, “Postal,” another overblown film that aims to recreate the video game experience for the big screen without giving the audience the option to pause the damn thing midway through it.
It’s being called Boll’s most ambitious, clever and satirical film to date, which for Boll’s films is like naming your favorite type of cancerous tumor. According to early interviews and previews of the film, Boll aims to wound the P.C. movement by making jokes out of 9/11, terrorism, anthrax, Al-Qaida, George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, killing babies and worldwide tyranny. We can’t help but champion Boll’s cause, but he’s probably the last person we would want to lead such a cause other than Osama Bin Laden and George W. Bush. At least when Bin Laden knows how to produce and release an entertaining film every few months.
