Weekend Movie Letdown

The last couple of weeks we have been blessed with two amazing film releases with Inglorious Basterds and District 9 , these films completely saved the summer movie season from being a complete bust.  However, it seems that the streak is going to be coming to an end because the prospects for this week’s releases are a little bit disappointing to me.  Coming out this week Halloween II, The Final Destination, Taking Woodstock.

I don’t see myself seeing Halloween II or The Final Destination this week (or ever for that matter!). I am generally not that much into horror/thriller movies because I often have the reaction to laugh at the extremely violent/scary points rather than become completely scared as intended. This films are often thin on interesting plot and heavy on grotesque violence. If they get good reviews, I would consider checking it out on DVD, or On Demand, but that’s about as far as I can go.

With respect to Taking Woodstock, the plot surrounding Woodstock – particularly the story of Elliot Tiber, a young man how helped the Woodstock organizers after the plug was pulled on their event, is on the surface interesting to me.  I think that in light of the recent media attention of Woodstock’s 40th anniversary I have just heard/seen my share about it for the next little while. It’s interesting to hear about how much an iconic and historic event came together, however this is simply a case of too much of a good thing. I don’t think that I’m alone in this respect and I can’t help but think that this movie should have been released ahead of the Woodstock saturation

Looks like I’m going to have to find something else to do with the weekend…