This is very good! The critics were wrong! We should be happy an A-lister took such a big creative swing! More movies like this deserve to be made, and be seen, and given an honest chance!
I’ll get a couple things out of the way: No, this movie isn’t particularly well-written; the writing feels very slapdash at times. And no, I haven’t seen Chinatown, so I’m not qualified to weigh in on the whining that this is a Chinatown ripoff.…
Not nearly as poorly aged as you’d expect from an early 2000s R-rated comedy about cops, Super Troopers proved to be a solidly funny way to kill a couple hours with the assistance of certain substances that are legal where I live. This starts as, essentially, a series of sketches about Vermont highway patrolmen doing silly, reckless, and/or dangerous stunts to casually mess with speeding or otherwise lawbreaking motorists, and/or interfere with the local police. I fucking hate cops, but…
I feel like I watched a different movie from everyone else....
I was told I would love this movie and, indeed, many of its ingredients are not unlike some films I love. But, to extend that cooking metaphor, a good recipe is about how you mix the ingredients together; In Bruges is an inconsistent, flavorless mess.
Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes are A+ in this movie, and are responsible for most of what I did like/find funny. This film manages…
The weirdest adaptation of A Christmas Carol that I have ever seen
