First of all, this is not a documentary of the musical abilities of Eminem. I need to clear that up first thing. Second of all, the movie stars Michael Keaton and I cannot for the life of me think of the movie he was in before this. His best work, in my opinion, is "Batman" and "Beetlejuice"
Anyway onto the movie--- I had never even heard of this movie. A friend came over last night to play NCAA football 2005 and asked if I wanted to catch a late movie. Our choices were either "Electra" or "White Noise" He wanted to see the latter because he knew his wife wouldn't go with him so I was game.
The movie is about a man whose wife passes away in a car accident. He begins to hear from her via his cell phone, alarm clock radio, CD player, etc. He discovers he is being followed by a man and confronts the man. The man tells him that his wife has made contact with him. Michael Keaton goes to the man's house and discovers state of the art technological equipment that allows him to communicate with the dead and sometimes even see them.
Well, eventually the owner of the high tech gadgets is murdered and Keaton is left to work on communicating with the dead on his own. His wife contacts him about people who are about to die and Keaton does his best to prevent those people from dying.
That is basically the movie in a nutshell. The ending is like something M. Night Shamalyan would write. I love how with the success of "The Ring" we are now graced with movie thrillers after movie thrillers that are basically the same movie.
Would I recommend seeing this movie. Well, I would wait and rent it. Rent it only if you go to Blockbuster and they are all out of "Cops and Robberson" and then you are left with this cinematic masterpiece. I mentioned earlier I couldn't remember Keaton's last movie before this one. Well, hopefully I will be saying the same about his next movie.
Remember-- this is my opinion. If you disagree, it's cool. If you agree, it's even better.
Monday, January 17, 2005
"White Noise"- movie review- some spoilers
2 comments:
I saw the trailer for this over the holidays. Noticing the tag "based on a real phenomenon" and the website address for it (can't remember, don't care) I saw that it's some bullshit paranormal hooey about being able to record the voices of the dead using special equipment. As usual, it's more imagination on the part of the "believer" than actual evidence and rational conclusion. Every review or mention of the movie I've seen says it sucks and I'm in no hurry to see it.
BTW - you don't have to keep telling us these are just your opinions, as this isn't SF and no one is going to start a flame war because they can't come up with actual arguments when they disagree.
Good point about that. I forget that the guys that go on this blog can actually be adult and discuss things without having to be put on trial for what you say. I am glad you are on board. Nate has come up with a good thing here and it is my first choice over Southernfried.
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