Saturday, May 19, 2007

Can I get a Witness?

Ok.My Grammar skills are abysmal(I'll work on it.). Now that that's over with, it's time for the first film:

Witness(1985)

This here is one crazy mash-up. Harrison Ford,Cop Drama, and Amish People. What a wild mix, and it gets very convoluted at times. It seems like the full intent of this movie was to squish the plot of a cop drama, and add a Amish love story on the side. Not a good combination at all.

Here Harrison Ford plays a cop solving a mystery about another murdered cop, and the only witness was an Amish boy(Lukas Haas). Here's the real twist though:You find out who the killer is about thirty minutes into the film. Now, why would I want to see the rest of this film? To see Harrison Ford's interaction's with the Amish, of course!

Although he spends almost an hour with the Amish people, The plot plods along at a slow pace and Harrison Ford falling an Amish woman(Kelly McGillis) does not make the most intriguing plot.His few interactions with the Amish people are not very compelling either, and apart from breaking many of there rules they do not reprehend him. Sounds like a reasonable Amish farm.

The movie as a whole was just forced into it's time. If more time were used in the investigation process perhaps I would care,But alas I don't.Overall,a good waste of two hours, But popcorn fluff overall. Then again, it's Harrison Ford and the Amish people. What was I expecting?

Re-Watchability:
Maybe if I'm bored and it's on Television, But otherwise probably not. It just doesn't have enough in it to warrant a re-watch and it seems like everything is just squeezed into the movie.

Alright,enough if that.It's time for a brand new concept called "Where was this taped?".Here I will give out a few of the commercials that were on the tape and you, the fine readers at home, will have to determine what channel it was taped on and what year it was taped.First to guess gets an invisible box of popcorn sent via invisamail(It's like a no-prize.)

Here goes:
Perfect Crime:A commercial for an original program called Perfect Crime
Snapple Island:A commercial about a Snapple island,where the incredibly annoying
Snapple lady is queen.
Sunday Night Heat TV Block:Featuring The Big Easy, and La Femme Nikita
Sprint Red Yellow Pages:A commercial with monks chanting and hitting themselves with Sprint's red yellow pages.

Now,get to work on figuring it out.

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