Thursday, June 6, 2013
Since I started my movie blog earlier this year, I’ve had a lot of ideas on recurring segments that I could do that would involve talking about things other than brand new movies that I was reviewing. One of my ideas was to re-watch movies that I had seen a while ago and remembered really hating. I thought it would be interesting to see if I had the same feeling about these movies, of which there are many. I intend to do this every few weeks with movies like: Donnie Darko, Boondock Saints, Tree of Life and many others.
For the first installment of what I’m calling “Second Chance,” I decided to re-watch Empire Records.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the film, Empire Records is a 1995 movie about the employees of an independent music store and how their lives change when they find out that their store might be absorbed into a larger music store chain.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the film, Empire Records is a 1995 movie about the employees of an independent music store and how their lives change when they find out that their store might be absorbed into a larger music store chain.
I think my biggest qualm with this movie was the first half. All of the characters were set up to be either really unlikeable, or really inept. When I found out that they might all lose their jobs, I was actually kind of happy because they were so stupid. I understand that they were trying to show that flawed people are still people too, or whatever, but I think it could have been handled in a better way. And I say that for a reason, because in the second half of the movie they do exactly that.
Sadly, I think that the excellent execution in the end of the movie cannot make up for the poorly handled introduction to the film and the characters.
Overall, I can see why some people might like it, but it is definitely not my cup of tea. The best I can say for this was that I didn’t hate it...which I definitely couldn’t say 10 years ago.
First Viewing: 1.0/10
Second Viewing: 5.0/10
