Sunday, December 19, 2010

Pace Yourself

Ever noticed box quotes on movies that mention how “fast paced” the film is? It’s supposed to be the kind of flick that sweeps you up in the action and moves right along. Usually, even a bad movie benefits from fast pacing. The suckage moves along quickly and you have less time to get pissed off. The Haunting of Molly Hartley



is the only movie I’ve ever seen that was too fast paced. This flick would have greatly benefited from a whole lot of slow the fuck down. Also, this is the only movie that’s been so bad that I had to remark about how bad it was to myself. There I was, all by my lonesome, in the hotel room and as the credits rolled I found myself saying aloud “wow, that was terrible.”

The movie begins with a dad murdering his daughter. Yep, it just jumps right the fuck in. All you gather from the opening sequence was that the girl was about to turn 18 and her dad wasn’t having it. Then we jump to the title character. Molly Hartley has moved to a new school to make a new start after her mom tried to kill her. She is immediately sought after by a religious nut, the hottest boy in school, (Chase Crawford is really good at that smoldering thing. Not much else but at least he’s got that.) and the school badass. Molly seems to be cracking up. She’s hearing some shit, she’s seeing some shit, and then she goes and breaks the class bully’s arm at a party. Oh, shit she has a tumor! And then she finds out mom and dad sold her soul to the devil! Bam, bam, bam…. all the eloquence of a machine gun. The only good part of the movie was the end when the viewer finds Molly decided since she couldn’t beat ‘em, she’d join ‘em.

This movie ended where it should have began. Molly fighting for her soul made for a lame story. Molly embracing the dark side (feel free to make a Vader reference here) would have made for some watching pleasure.

There was nothing redeeming about this flick. Can I get my money back?

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