secret window should have stayed closed

sorry for the silence, folks. i just haven't had time to write here. between school and participating in national novel writing month (www.nanowrimo.org) i just have had no time for writing on my blog, let alone watching films. well that's not true. i just haven't watched anything worth writing about.

and this one, 'secret window', isn't really, because it was really stupid. starring johnny depp and based on a stephen king novella, this story was utterly predictable (aren't all stephen king stories these days?) and utterly boring.

even johnny depp wasn't that nice to look at in this film, and i usually just can watch any piece of crap he is in (pirates of the carribean, anyone?) to see him. usually though he picks interesting roles and is very intelligent in the characters he plays.

but this film was so forced, no wonder he didn't do any good to it. it was about a writer (big surprise) who wrote a short story back in '95. called 'secret window' (although what the story was about was never told, except we saw the supposed secret window it was based on, which, obviously, if you can see it isn't that secret). anyway, one day this guy, played quite nicely i must admit by john turturro, shows up and claims that depp's character plagiarized the story.

well if you have every read a stephen king novel lately or seen a film based on his recent work, you can guess what happens. and to spare you all the torture of perhaps renting this dreck, i will tell you...

big surprise!!! the john turturro character is just a manifestation of a slowly going insane depp, and he starts doing things that show he's insane. of course we are supposed to believe he is still being stalked by turturro, who supposedly burns down his estranged wife's house and kills the one man who could have told the police that turturro exists. ah. what a piece of crap.

the ending just gets so ridiculous. i can't even talk about it, it is just too horrid. i might get nightmares just thinking about it...

all i will tell you is that you know the film is over when the camera pans over to the secret window and dollies in for a close up. please, close the blinds on this piece of shit!!!

i am in the process of trying to find time to watch baz luhrmann's version of 'la boheme,' and as soon as i do i will fill you in on it. i'm not much of an opera fan but i've heard such great things about this, and i am, as you all know, a big luhrmann fan. so until then, i close the window on my post...