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Collision Course (2012)
Utterly dumb
This may be the single worst movie I have ever seen. Crippled by a deadly solar flare, an airplane continues to fly on autopilot after the captain is electrocuted and the co-pilot is incapacitated. Far-fetched but at least plausible. However, the writing, acting and visual look and effects are on the level of the sophomore class play. It's all so bad that it borders on the classic level of "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Clichés are elevated to an art form, the characters are stunningly one- dimensional and the story is fully disconnected from facts and reality. How this movie was ever funded is beyond me. How people get paid to create drivel like this is astounding. I feel especially bad for Dee Wallace, a good actress who gamely gave it her all in a secondary role. The best thing about this movie is that eventually it ended.
Big Night (1996)
Big Night Will Stick to Your Ribs
I adored this movie. It was a wonderful story of two brothers trying so valiantly to do something magnificent together. They're incapable of succeeding without one another's respective gifts; yet, they're so incompatible that success is impossible. A favorite memory is Stanley Tucci decrying "the rape of cuisine" because a customer decided to add condiments to her risotto.
But the best of all is the final scene in the kitchen the morning after the Big Night. One long shot with a single locked down camera. It captured the underlying love the two brothers shared; a love that --despite their inability to collaborate in the kitchen -- bound them together as blood relatives. And, naturally, it is food that provides the backdrop. I cry every time I watch this scene. It is emotional and it is set up and shot with a powerful simplicity.
Virus (1999)
May be the worst movie I've ever seen.
Where do I begin? Bad plot, bad characters, bad acting, horrendous writing. Donald Sutherland and Jamie Leigh Curtis are two of my favorite actors but they must be in severe debt for them to have taken roles in this preposterous action flick. I won't reveal any details so as not to spoil the film for the relatives and friends of cast and crew (who must be the only people who would pay to see this vapid mess). I'll just say there is never any real tension, there is no reason to even care about the characters because the screenwriter never introduces them to us, and all of the expensive special effects are so poorly used that my wife and I actually laughed out loud in the near-empty theater.