An okay
flick. If I were having a big party and wanted to keep something
showing on the TV so that guests could wander by, watch a bit and
then wander off, it'd be good for that. The FX and scenery are
certainly good and the plot sufficiently long and drawn-out that no
one would miss much if they were to get distracted. Certainly an
attractive cast, with Matthew McConaughey as the hero, Anne Hathaway
as the lone female among all the males in most of it and Jessica
Chastain as the hero's grown-up daughter, certainly makes for plenty
of eye candy.
My initial idea was
to see Ouija
as that has Bianca Santos in it, who is the star of Happyland,
a series on MTV. But Ouija is only showing once per evening, after
10:00, so I figured I wouldn't see the horror flick after all. No
biggie, I saw a few horror movies as a teenager but haven't seen any
for many, many years. So I saw no need to break the pattern.
Happyland is pretty cool though, a behind-the-scenes look at a
Disney-ish amusement park.