Let’s be honest: you either love Rush, or you totally hate them. I have never met anyone who thought they were ‘okay’, and if I did, I would kick them in the butthole for lying to my face. Thomas Dolby is ‘okay’. Molly Hatchet is ‘okay’. And Wings will always be superior to the Beatles.
Me? I love Rush SO HARD. I also love music documentaries. This movie is basically Jewish Christmas for me.
I don’t know what that means.
When we went to see the Sex and the City movie, I hated on Carrie Bradshaw so hard – and I mean, I was the chairman and MC of the Hater’s Ball – that Diana expressed a concern that I might hate women or something. We have since agreed that I just dislike the character. I always have.
This has also made me not terribly fond of stuff with Sarah Jessica Parker in it because she is usually just playing some variant of Carrie. This is true in Did You Hear About The Morgans? and so I should, by all rights, have hated it.
I didn’t. I blame Hugh Grant and a script carrying some decent jokes.
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Public Enemies is not a good movie, even though it ought to be.
Michael Mann has made movies I very much enjoy. He made Heat. Heat is an awesome movie, and it runs parallel to Public Enemies in a number of ways: each had a good cast, plenty of budget, interesting subject matter, and were beautifully shot and edited. Hell, even the costume design was good.
Despite being a Kentucky Colonel, Colonel Depp failed to make anything useful of this film.
Heat, however, was somehow far less ponderous, than Public Enemies. The dialog wasn’t nearly as clunky. The score to Heat was very good, but the music in Public Enemy was a heavy-handed beating.
I wanted to like Public Enemy, but we couldn’t even finish it because it was so boring. It was so boring, my wife started idly studying Arabic and I ended up installing wordpress plugins and making cookies. We skipped to the last chapter, saw that it ended in a moderately historically accurate fashion, and then turned it off.
Also, Universal Studios has terrible Blu-Ray production. Just because my player connects to the Internet doesn’t mean you have to make it do something with that. Also, do you need to advertise for the Blu-Ray format and try to convince me that I need to watch Blu-Rays on a new Blu-Ray player when I am already watching a Blu-Ray?
Score
On the High Five Scale, Public Enemies (Blu-Ray) gets a 2 out of 5.
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