Tue Apr 14 1998 12:00:
Yesterday the
Kris-Adam-Leonard entity went to see Very Bad Things. Kris didn't like
it. I didn't like it either. The best thing I can say about that
movie is that it gave life to my fear of death by impalement on one of
those towel rack things. But the Jewish characters were written by
someone who either knew nothing about Judaism or who didn't care. Not
only did the Daniel Stern character believe in hell, but he actually
yelled out "Christ!" at one point. Yeesh. And he wasn't a
nonpracticing Jew, either, because he did all these dinky Jewish
things that a nonpracticing Jew wouldn't care about. I think that's a
good summary of the movie, actually. It was written by someone who
didn't care. It wasn't funny. It tried and it failed miserably. And
the ending was the lamest thing in the world. Oh well. I don't need to
see it again. And Kris, there was no time lapse in the sequence where
they were holding the bathroom door shut. I think you just mentally
inserted a time lapse because that scene dragged on for so long. Also,
the nudity in The Big Lebowski was pretty gratuitous.
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