Monday, January 12, 2009

2008 - GHOST TOWN / 1999 - GO



Ghost Town-a sort of rehash/remake of that Demi Moore movie (whose name escapes me) except it's not as corny and sappy this time. Ricky Gervais plays a dentist who has the personality of an asshole. He is chased around by Greg Kinner the dead husband of Tea Leoni, because the spirit of the dead husband is not at rest etc etc. It's a decent movie, made by professionals. Tea Leoni is typecast as the wife of a guy who likes to screw around on her. Ricky Gervais obviously added a lot of jokes to the final screenplay. I enjoyed it.




Go-I'm not the first to mention this, but Quentin Tarentino is the influence all over this one as we follow multiple stories around the sale of some ecstasy tablets. Everything gets very screwy. The actors are all pretty good, the stories are fairly interesting. The movie sort of runs out of steam towards the end, but I enjoyed it.

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