I had no desire to see this when it came out and the same holds true for the DVD. It's on the bottom of my list. Actually, it's not even on my list.

My problem with MIB3 was my same problem with JJ's Star Trek and any other movie where time travel is a conceit-- namely that the characters have one predetermined thing they have to do and a set of instructions they need to follow in order to get to that final part.  And since they're always told in advance what to do, they just follow instructions.  There's really no room for plot twists or turns or to let the characters dictate the action.  The whole structure makes the story feel unsurprising, it's plot driven and not character driven.  Now I keep hearing that people don't care about plot, they care about characters, but I don't think that's an absolute truth, I KNOW people want to be surprised by the story and not know about what happens next.  When the plot is so connect-the-dots, it all comes down to the characters and most movies can't and don't have strong enough characters to compensate for that.

I was really hoping when Will Arnett popped up that it would be the first of a parade of wild and silly cameos.  No such luck.

I also felt that the 60s B-movie tech was severely underused.  So much wasted potential there.

V/H/S

Huge letdown in every respect. This movie was and still is getting a lot of buzz. It's been played up for awhile about the newest kind of horror to come out in awhile. V/H/S is montage of 5 stories, laced together by a the central story of thugs raiding a house to steal some V/H/S tapes.

Let me say the shaky cam, which I knew about, was going to taint my expectations. And boy did it ever. Not only is it shaky cam but they seemed to over do it. This is probably the worst I've ever seen. So I could barely stomach that, but the real problem I STILL have is the justification of filming something either when it's so pointless like filming less than ordinary conversations like someone brushing their teeth and talking or even worse, you are about to die and you continue to hold onto a camera and film it. It's not only ridiculous, but takes so much away from the point of the movie.

The five stories vary in some degrees from boring to WTF, over the top paranormal. None of them ever caught my attention. I felt V/H/S was a complete waste of time. I hope it does not 'inspire' others, despite they are already going to make a sequel.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaSUZnIztuY

Finally watching Mommy Dearest.  Insane F'ed up stuff, as I had hoped.

It plays better of you scatter a bunch of wire hangers on the floor and roll around on top of them as you watch the movie.