I Don’t Care What You Did Last Summer
November 12, 2007It has been raining all this week, perfect writing weather, but starting the motor this week was like trying to start a VW that has sat in Aunt May’s lawn since 1973 like a giant garden feature.
So alas, I slumped on the couch and watched cable. Namely, the movie channels.
One particular channel this week had a feature on the “I know what you did last summer” films. Yes, films. The little ’s’ tacked on the end makes it plural.
It was a painful nine hours.
I really don’t know why they decide to spend millions of dollars to make a sequel based on a mediocre blueprint. To me it’s like trying to build an empire out of Play Doh. That’s not to say the first movie was a dud, it wasn’t, aimed at the teen demographic it grossed $125 million worldwide and held top position for three consecutive weekends in the US, it was just a little bleh.
Sure it had monetary success, which would have kept studio types happy, but that didn’t change the fact the movie was soft and far from a solid foundation to start rattling off extensions of it.
The first sequel made Play Doh resemble concrete. It too made a fair amount of pocket change but was hit pretty hard with a batch of ordinary reviews, which basically says the team that cut the trailer earned their coins on this one.
And again, they made another. The mind boggles.
I guess what I am trying to say, in short is, we all know what you did last summer but we really don’t give a shit what you did there after.
Posted by: The Kid
If you thing that’s painful, try watching a Rob Zombie movie.
I haven’t seen any of the “I Know What You Did..” movies.
You watched “I Know What You Did Last Summer”s for nine hours? Wow! I’m impressed. You really are brave. I only watched the first one, which should be what, an hour and a half? and I thought it was the longest hour and a half I had to stay seated in one armchair. And the fact that I remember almost nothing of that movie tells all about it. You should be decorated. Really.