Okay, here’s how I occasionally find myself watching movies. Sometimes I have other things to do. I have this thing that I’m pretty sure that if a movie is actually brilliant it will grab my attention whether I’m entirely focussed on it or not but the fact is, I always prefer to be entirely focussed on it to start with if possible which is why I’m pretty hopeless at getting round to actually watching the damn things sometimes.

So what happened here was new to me. I read the synopsis – ah, lovely, simple “Wrong Turn” type thriller, probably awful but possibly quite gripping like “Breakdown” or whatever. Perfect kinda movie to half-watch. About 10 minutes in, I found my gaze drawn to the screen. Because it was getting interesting? HELL no. Because I suddenly had to check if it was actually as bad as it suddenly struck me lol.

It raises itself back up almost to the level of all other entirely missable teen thrillers in the end, if that’s any consolation … but really, when the best I can say for this is that it incremented my viewcount? Make of it what you will, lol. BTW the second time I looked up in the way I would if my interest had been piqued was to basically say, “WTF, is that it?” over the ending, lol. It’s really almost enough to put me off watching these kinds of movies even as background crap ever again; that the silly announcer man voice over the end credits chose to recommend The Number 23 for next Saturday night’s viewing simultaneously says all that needs to be said about the target audience here and makes me almost glad I’ll be at work when it’s on lol.

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