Nothing to Crow About...

ESCAPING a WORST ACTRESS NOMINATION for LAST YEAR's TIME-TRAVEL TRAVESTY THE LAKE HOUSE, SANDRA BULLOCK IS BACK ONCE AGAIN to TEMPT OUR VOTERS in THIS SIMILAR (THOUGH EVEN DOOFIER-LOOKING) EXERCISE, WHICH HAS HER BOUNCING THROUGH TIME, TRYING to PREVENT the AUTO ACCIDENT THAT WILL TAKE HER HUSBAND's LIFE. AT ONE POINT, IN a CLIP WE MAY BE SHOWING at NEXT SPRING's 28th ANNUAL RAZZIE CEREMONIES, SHE WAKENS (ala DALLAS) to FIND HER DEAD HUBBY TAKING a SHOWER...

SOUNDS ALL WET to US, BUT FEEL FREE to WORK YOURSELF INTO a LATHER DISCUSSING IT BELOW...

SANDRA: "Okay, so my agent can't read the future...But is it too much to ask that he at least read the script before signing me up to make any more movies like this??" 

THIS JUST IN: PREMONITION IS NOW RANKED #82 on ROTTEN TOMATOES' "WORST REVIEWED MOVIES of ALL TIME" LIST (LINK) ...WHICH ONLY SERVES to MAKE the LIST ALL the MORE SUSPECT...

Some cricits are comparing this to The Sixth Sense. Not sure about The Crow, but yea, the premise has a guy coming back from the dead...

It looks silly. There is one scene where Bullock actually marks her husbands death on a calender. Hey, she has evidently lived this experience a dozen times (we are ripping off Lake House and Groundhog Day) and she still needs to mark it on her calender so she won't forget it this time?

I found out that on RT, I Think I Love My Wife is at 40%. Not sure about Dead Silence (none of The Critics have reviewed yet). I mostly see Silence as paying Homage to Magic & The Puppet Master. LINKS:

http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Anthony-Hopkins/dp/B000CR76U8/re f=pd_bbs_1/103-1643906-5715851?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=117 3807298&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Puppet-Master-Paul-Mat/dp/B0001XLWD0/r ef=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1643906-5715851?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid =1173807241&sr=1-1 

More reviews should post Thursday, the day before the movie opens in theaters.

Response from Head RAZZberry: With 11 reviews posted at RT, PREMONITION still has only ONE favorable one, giving it a current 9% Approval . I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE now stands at about 30% Approval, putting it just outside the usual RAZZIE Contender Range of 25% or lower.  And DEAD SILENCE (which is not even being shown to critics before it opens) may well stink to high heaven, but picking bad horror movies week after week is way too easy, and gets old. Besides, of the three titles, PREMONITION is both the highest profile release and the most critically reviled at this point -- which, given all our criteria for RAZZIE consideration, makes it the logical choice as Worst of the Weak...

HeadRAZZ, do you have a general dislike of Sandra Bullock? You are implying that she was Razzie worthy in THE LAKE HOUSE (I didn't think she was, Keanau was much worse), and you seem to be implying that if this movie is bad, she is the one who should be punished with a Razzie. If this movie is terrible, she will probably be the best part of it. I am generally a fan of Sandra Bullock (though she was terrible in DEMOLITION MAN).

Response from Head RAZZberry: I have actually liked Bullock in a few films (WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING and the first MISS CONGENIALITY among them) but she seems to have lost her way of late. SPEED 2 was a major mis-step, MISS CONGENIALITY 2 was un-necessary and nowhere near as charming as the original, LAKE HOUSE seemed to genuinely please almost no one, and now PREMONITION looks poised to tank as well. Whether or not Bullock should get the bulk of the blame when one of her films blows, the bottom line is: She presumably read the script before signing on for the film, and should have known better...

Originally posted by jb razz I am generally a fan of Sandra Bullock, though she was terrible in DEMOLITION MAN.

She is very lick-able... er... likeable, she also seems very genuine compared to 98% of the "talent" working these days, plus the camera loves her... but you're right, Demolition Man was brutal.

RT reads 89 bad reviews and 8 positive reviews for "Premonition." I think I'll pass on this one.

Originally posted by Razzilla I predict a worst screenplay winner...

The problem with "time loop" screenplays is if the lead does the same thing every time, (merely playing out their role in history), the time loop could simply replay itself endlessly. If the lead does anything different, (see: "free will" vs. determinism), the future outcome would be altered, and therefore time should not reset, or loop, a new timeline would have been created....

But alas then there would be no movie if time didn't loop regardless what the lead did.