"Let's have some new clichés."
- Samuel Goldwyn
The flight back to San Francisco wasn't nearly as stimulating as the flight to New Zealand. I tried watching Lord of the Rings on the plane but I couldn't stand it. So I watched The World's Fastest Indian instead, which I wasn't too crazy about either. Anthony Hopkins was good, as always, but what a god-awful script. I don't think I've ever seen so many clichés in a single two hour period.
Afterwards, to cleanse my palate, I watched Perfect Strangers, another film from New Zealand (I wanted to watch as many New Zealand films as possible before my current fascination with all things New Zealand fades completely). "Perfect Strangers" is about a woman who is kidnapped by a man she doesn't know (but who claims to be in love with her), and whom she eventually kills in self-defense (before falling in love with him retroactively after his death). In any case, it was a lot less clichéd than "The World's Fastest Indian."
posted by Caveh Zahedi at
11:56 PM
