NUMBER 23, Your Table is Ready!

Originally posted by bruin_522 Check this out. Here's one of the many reasons why this film's titled The Number 23: This is the 23rd project Joel Schumacher has directed (counting both his film and television work). I've even made a list of all of the 23 films Schumacher did starting with his first and ending with his last: 1-The Virginia Hill Story (1974) (TV), 2-Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill (1979) (TV), 3-The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), 4-D.C. Cab (1983), 5-St. Elmo's Fire (1985), 6-The Lost Boys (1987), 7-Cousins (1989), 8-Flatliners (1990), 9-Dying Young (1991), 10-"2000 Malibu Road" (1992) TV Series (unknown episodes), 11-Falling Down (1993), 12-The Client (1994), 13-Batman Forever (1995), 14-A Time to Kill (1996), 15-Batman & Robin (1997), 16-8MM (1999), 17-Flawless (1999), 18-Tigerland (2000), 19-Bad Company (2002), 20-Phone Booth (2002), 21-Veronica Guerin (2003), 22-The Phantom of the Opera (2004), and 23-The Number 23 (2007). Which makes a total of...23. Response from Head RAZZberry: Schumacher's responsible for all that tripe and has still never "won" a RAZZIE? The only title in there I'd even call close to being "good" is LOST BOYS. I'd say Ol' Joel may be due for a second Worst Director RAZZIE nod (he was previously nominated for BATMAN & ROBIN in 1997) come next awards season...

                                                                                       I loved "The Lost Boys", even if it was directed by the worst director ever. I, also, liked "Falling Down", "The Client", "Batman Forever", "Tigerland", and "Phone Booth". The others however were godawful. My bottom five of his are 5.) Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera, 4.) The movie currently in discussion, 3.) Bad Company, 2.) 8MM, and #1: "Batman & Robin".

moviewizguy, why have you seen "Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie"? I admit, I have seen it, but I have an excuse: I was only 12 at the time. Also, kudos (thought I'd never use that in terms with moviewizguy) for hating "Jaws: The Revenge!"

Originally posted by moviewizguy Oh, I just don't like it how they nominate movies for just attracting people to it. It's true. Other movie sites said it like nominating The Blaire Witch Project for Worst Picture just for the fact almost every movie critic loved it and the Matrix Reloaded some nominations to with the fact some critics thought it was even better or just good like the first one. It's just me that I hate them doing that to attract people. House of Wax? They just nominated it for Paris Hilton! What other reason would they do it for? If she wasn't in it, HOW would be one of the best horror movies ever. Trust me, IMDb users on the board complained the fact that that movie got a low rating. Oh, and the movies I TRULY HATE are these: 1) Darkness 2) Mortal Kombat: Annihilation 3) Halloween: H2O 4) Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment 5) Police Academy 3: Back in Training 6) Jaws: The Revenge 7) Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie 8) White Noise 9) Saw II 10) Silent Hill 11) Doom 12) Failure to Launch 13) Cabin Fever 14) Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

                                                                                          

I just saw the movie, and it was garbage. There seems to be a lot of so-called thrillers this past year that are anything but. It was particularly flabby around the middle, but in this case, the first two acts are flabby. That takes talent to make the beginning lousy. Pretty much, the movie saved all the real plot twists for the final act, and this is not the least of it's problems.

It's sad, thought, a movie about the main character getting obsessed with something like the number 23 could, no... SHOULD work. It just doesn't. Yes, it's silly to go bonkers over a number, but that's kind of the point. Usually I like to play a mental game of how would I have improved the movie, and like a lot of movies lately, I'm stymied for an easy answer as this script isn't a fixer-upper but a total tear down. But one major flaw is that as Carey's character starts to read the book and falls into the paranoid delusion, he never questions or tries to escape it. Something like seeing the number 23 everywhere seems to be the sort of thing that would be easy to force yourself to ignore, the way a recovering gambler might take a deep breath and tell the clerk no, I don't wish to buy a lottery ticket. The idea being he would try to brush it off as the silly coincidence that everyone else tells him it is, until something else drags him back into the whole thing.

But nothing like this happens, so it become like the old horror movies where the audience asks why the hero is going upstairs to see where the monster is, or why they don't just call the cops, or get out of the house like the nice, ghostly voice says. Why doesn't Jim Carey just put the book down and try to put the number 23 out of his mind so his life can get back to normal? Well, for one, everyone who tells him he's taking things too far with this number business also tell him to finish reading the book, like the pack of nitwits they are.

The Number 23 is a movie that could have been a good study of paranoid fantasy, but the audience is left behind for the first two acts and when it finally come back to us in act 3, it's too little, too late.

The odd thing is, when the movie ended, the clock read 6:17.

Eerie.

Originally posted by tomsmobr Not really odd considering if add  6 to 17 it comes out to be 23

It DOES?!?

Oh.

My.

GOD!

It's true! No one told me this movie was NONfiction. Oh, endless magnitude! What does this number MEAN?!?

Seriously, though. I'm not making it up about the clock, which is what makes it funny. Would have been funnier if I had started the movie at 4:19, but you can't have everything.

Actually, the message is not "if you think a number is special", it's more "mind over matter". If you think something is special and you live your life by it, you may eventually convince yourself that your life is controled by that special something.

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